How We Can Help
… there are five main area’s were we can help you:
1. Help you navigate through the maze of choices and challenges you face when trying to organise supported services for adults 18+ with Learning difficulties / Disabilities, Challenging Behaviour, Mental Health and/or Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
2. We can help you with support services, as we work closely with social care and health professionals who have a wide range of specialisms including; community nursing, speech and language therapy, behavioural nursing, psychology and psychiatry. Call our friendly and helpful support team on 0121-358-8150 with your questions.
Across Skills Tank there is extensive knowledge of the care system, social service provision and the facilities that are available to you. Within Skills Tank we’ve over 20 years experience and a track record second to none when it comes to improving the life of adults with Learning Difficulties/Disabilities, Challenging Behaviour, Mental Health and/or Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
3. Direct Funding – If you are receiving funding for the adult(s) you care for we can provide you with everything you need to ensure a safe and productive provision from a pick-up and drop off escort service to support staff and the daily learning activities (see examples below) to improve the life of the adult(s) you care for.
4. We take away all the stress and make it easy for you to manage your direct funding provision. If you have funding in place call Glenys on 0121 358 8150 to discuss your needs, if you wish to find out more about funding please click here.
5. Help improve your life by enriching the life of the individual you care for – how? Through our range of tailor-made activities. Tailor-made to ensure there suitability matches the individual needs of each person and encourages their enjoyment for learning. They are all designed to engage the individual and enhance their ‘skills for life’.
Examples of these activities include:
At Skills Tank our students enjoy a wide variety of activities, and it’s through these activities they learn new skills, and maintain existing ones. Our activity programme ranges from communication sessions to community participation, from creative and cultural activities to social skills and social enterprise.
Many skills are taught or maintained in each activity the student takes part in for example - a cookery session. With students, who enjoy cooking and experimenting with recipes – we start with a particular recipe chosen by a student or a dish for a cultural or social occasion. The student is encouraged to undertake the whole process, from deciding upon the recipe, costing and sourcing the ingredients, creating the dish, and then presenting it to, and enjoying it with, fellow students.
The skills taught or maintained in this activity include communication, making choices, community inclusion, road safety awareness, health and safety awareness, food hygiene, culinary skills, social skills and confidence building. This is an example of how just one activity can start to teach so much when done in a fun, exciting way.
Everything the students do at Skills Tank builds on maintaining, creating and enhancing skills, activities are built on a framework of enjoyable and meaningful activity.
Music Therapy in Action
Social enterprise includes a car washing and valeting service run by the students, which is very popular with the public. Furniture restoration and woodworking are developing enterprises, and there are always new activities in the pipeline.
Students are encouraged to follow interests which they are particularly keen on, cultural and social activities from all sectors of society are explored and valued. Mediums used to further these cultural and social activities include accessing the internet for research into the chosen activity, visiting places of interest connected to them, trialing musical exploration of melodies connected to the activity with a musician who works on a sessional basis with our students at Skills Tank.
The environment and our impact on it, is another area of interest and activity for our students. Recycling, ground maintenance and horticulture are all incorporated into the curriculum our students follow.
Students are encouraged to be creative, and this can take many forms from traditional arts and crafts to sensory work and relaxation techniques, to drama and writing. Again many skills are learned, maintained and enhanced through these activities.
To find out how we can help you call us: 0121 358 8150
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