Background to this inspection
Updated
20 January 2022
We carried out this inspection under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was planned to check whether the provider is meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
As part of CQC’s response to care homes with outbreaks of COVID-19, we are conducting reviews to ensure that the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practice is safe and that services are compliant with IPC measures. This was a targeted inspection looking at the IPC practices the provider has in place. We also asked the provider about any staffing pressures the service was experiencing and whether this was having an impact on the service.
This inspection took place on 12 January 2022 and was announced. We gave the service two days’ notice of the inspection.
Updated
20 January 2022
About the service
The Villas Care Home is a care home providing personal and nursing care for up to 16 people. There were 14 people living at the home at the time of our inspection. The service provides support to people with a learning disability, autistic spectrum disorder and mental health.
The service did not have a manager, the deputy was acting as manager at the time of our inspection.
We looked at infection prevention and control measures under the Safe key question. We look at this in all care home inspections even if no concerns or risks have been identified. This is to provide assurance that the service can respond to coronavirus and other infection outbreaks effectively.
People’s experience of using this service:
We expect health and social care providers to guarantee autistic people and people with a learning disability the choices, dignity, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. Right support, right care, right culture is the guidance CQC follows to make assessments and judgements about services providing support to people with a learning disability and/or autistic people.
The service was able to demonstrate how they were meeting the underpinning principles of Right support, right care, right culture. People were given choice and control and supported to live a full life and engage in activities that they enjoyed.
People were kept safe by staff who had received training in how to safeguard people from abuse and the actions they needed to take to protect people from the risk of harm. People were supported by staff who had undergone a robust recruitment process and had the training to enable them to meet people’s needs. Enough staffing numbers were in place to meet the individual needs of people, this enabled people to take part in activities of their choice. People’s medicines were managed safely.
People were treated with dignity and respect and staff engaged well and understood the needs of people who they were supporting. Robust systems were in place to monitor the quality of the service and there was a focus on continuous development to improve quality outcomes for people.
Rating at last inspection:
The last report for The Villas Care Home was published on 26 July 2018 and the service was rated good.
Why we inspected:
The inspection was brought forward due to concerns received about staff not wearing adequate PPE or social distancing. A decision was made for us to inspect and examine those risks. We undertook a focused inspection to review the key questions of safe and well-led only.
Follow up
We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service until we return to visit as per our reinspection programme. If we receive any concerning information we may inspect sooner.
You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for The Villas Care Homes Ltd on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.