Established in 1975, the Hesley Group provides specialist support through its schools, colleges and adult residential services with a highly experienced and expert multidisciplinary educational, care and therapeutic staff resource, in high quality purpose built settings. We’re focused on positive outcomes and progress towards sustainable independence for young people and adults, often with autism, who have a learning disability and complex needs with behaviour that may challenge.

HELPWorks – Hesley Enhancing Lives Programme

The care and well-being of the people we support is paramount and everything we do is centred on ensuring their best interests are met. We help them stay safe and calm enough in the short term to learn the skills that will improve their quality of life in the long term.

All Hesley Group staff attend the Hesley Enhancing Lives Programme (HELP), a behaviour support approach based on Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), which is accredited by the British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD). TCI is an internationally recognised, crisis prevention and management system that reduces the need to rely on high-risk interventions. TCI recognises that it is the actions and reactions of those around people that strongly shape and influence behaviour, as well as social and emotional development. The emphasis is on empathy and proactive support.

HELPWorks encompasses a number of key components which all inter-link. They include:

• The Hesley Enhancing Lives Programme (HELP) – a modern, ethical approach to positive behavioural support, based on the principles of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) and Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA). HELP teaches us to recognise that our actions and reactions powerfully shape the emotional well-being and development of those
we support.

• The Values of the group – of being person-centred, outcome focused and quality driven – and of being intent on keeping those who live in our services safe – and happy.

• The belief that the collective, positive efforts of ALL our staff, at every level and in every department of every service, are vital in enabling the positive progress of those we support – AND of each member of staff too.  EVERYBODY is important – those who live in services and staff.

• A commitment to ensuring that each person who lives in services has their own individual pathway to facilitate their ongoing sustainable positive progress.

• An emphasis on meaningful person-centred educational, vocational and other activities.

• The provision of high quality, purpose-built, evolving therapeutic environments and of extensive therapeutic green space.

• Experienced, highly trained staff in every service, supported by a workforce development team who ensure ongoing training of staff matches the evolving needs of those they support.

• An experienced and expert multidisciplinary therapeutic team, including occupational and speech therapists, psychologists and applied behavioural analysts, psychiatrists and therapy assistants, working directly with people in services; and with staff teams to inform and support their work.

• A belief in close and respectful partnership working, with those who live in services and their families, with care managers and commissioners and with regulatory agencies and all others key to supporting those with complex needs.

To find out more about our services or watch our online videos visit www.hesleygroup.co.uk or call freephone 0800 055 6789.