Blossom House

Blossom House is a 'care home'. People in care homes receive accommodation and nursing or personal care as a single package under one contractual agreement. CQC regulates both the premises and the care provided, and both were looked at during this inspection.

The service is registered to provide residential accommodation and personal care for up two people living with a learning disability. At the time of our inspection two people were living at the home.

We have written this inspection report in a shorter format because our overall rating of the service as Good has not changed since our last inspection.

People felt safe at the service and staff understood how to safeguard people and knew what to do if they had any concerns.

People told us staff were kind to them. People were involved in a range of activities outside of the home and friendships were encouraged and supported.

People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible; but the service could not evidence they had all the relevant paperwork in place to support this practice. There was a focus of person centred care within the service, which staff followed in practice to ensure people led a full and varied life.

Staff were safely recruited and were trained and supervised so they could support people effectively. Care records were up to date and risk assessments were in place. This meant that care staff were provided with guidance on how to minimise the identified risk to keep people safe and free from harm.

Medicines were safely managed.

People were encouraged to be as independent as possible and told us they were responsible for tasks about the house and for caring for themselves.

The registered manager carried out audits to check the quality of the service.

Maintenance checks of gas, electricity and fire equipment took place to make sure the house was safe to live in. Regular fire drills took place.

Further information is in the detailed findings below.

The five questions we ask about services and what we found