Can Julia's House help you?
The aim of Julia's House is to maximise and enrich the quality of life for Dorset children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, and by providing support from diagnosis to death and beyond for the family, providing care in our hospice building or in the family home and multi-disciplinary end of life care.
Our objectives are:
- To work in partnership with the child, family and relevant statutory and voluntary agencies, to provide child centred, family led care in the setting most suitable to their needs which improves the quality of life of the child/young person and their family.
- To provide continuity of care which can be flexible to meet the changing needs of the child and family, by ensuring that the child has an identified, named care team.
- To provide high quality care by ensuring a multi –disciplinary approach to care and ensuring that all staff are appropriately trained and have relevant experience, whilst recognising everyone’s individual abilities and training requirements.
- To comply with and work to the National Minimum Standards in all areas of care and administration throughout the Julia’s House Care Team.
- To encourage all children to reach their full potential by protecting them from abuse and bullying in compliance with Julia’s House policies.
- To ensure that service delivery is sustainable, the agency will maintain close working relationships with all aspects of the Charity, particularly the domiciliary care and nursing agency in order that sound forward financial planning and budgeting is achieved
Nature of Services Provided
All services are free of charge to all families. Direct Payments are not accepted.
Julia's House provides:
* Respite services both in the hospice and in the community to provide short respite sits.This service is staffed by qualified children's nurses, nursery nurses, staff with (or working towards) NVQ Level 3 in Care, and staff with appropriate play/developmental training. The staff are supported by a Medical practitioner and Pharmacist.
The respite takes the form of:
* Day care in within the hospice for up to eight children per session (subject to the nature of the session and the children included)
* Limited overnight accommodation for a maixmum of four children (subject to the specific needs for the individual children) and registration pending. The service to commence following registration.
* Community based respite in the child's own environment.
* Mutli-disciplinaryend of life care for children on exitsing client base in the setting most suitable to the needs of the child and fmaily, hospice or community based.
* Specialist activities eg IT, music and Play Facilitated by approrpiately trained and insured staff.
* Bereavement and post bereavement support as appropriate to the individual and family group, working with associated agencies.
* Siblng support for yound people aged up to fourteen years.Developing a programme of workshops and facilitating group work, staffed by designated sibling workers.
* Complimentary therapies as appropriate for individual children and their families using appropriately trained and insured therapists
* Support and advice for family members as appropriate including signposting to advocacy services.
