The Turner Home
We’re Turner and we provide specialist, complex nursing and residential care for men with mental health, challenges, memory loss and acquired brain injuries. This support is delivered from our unique 59-person home in South Liverpool.
As a Registered Charity we have delivered support to men with complex needs and behaviours for over two centuries, continually developing our understanding of need and our unique offer of person-centred support.
We support those who, through illness or injury, have altered perceptions of the world, helping them to respond differently to their thoughts and feelings, to stay safe, be happy and to have hope.
Our Ways Of Working
Every day feels different
Central to our approach is ensuring residents have full control over what their days look like. We adapt and mould our plans dependent on what a person feels like on a given day. This approach to person centred planning means flexibility is at the heart of our offer, and mean no two days at Turner ever look the same.
Bringing people in and getting out and about
Our community partnerships allow us to invite other organisations into the home, where they can deliver activities and events but also encourages external visits and connections for the men we support. Either when someone joins us, or at one of their regular care plan reviews, we work to find the best way to increase social connection. We work with each person to build their confidence and understand more about the types of people and places they want to build relationships with.
Learning and developing new skills
We have links with a range of educational, training and employment settings. At the time they're staying with us many of the men we work with are either not well enough to work or they are of retirement age. We strongly believe this should not stop them from finding new interests, developing new skills and potentially preparing themselves for work or volunteering in the future. Learning opportunities such as digital skills, food preparation, budgeting and creative activities such as music or art are all offered as part of our core package.
Designing our physical environment together
As a listed building with expansive grounds, Turner Home is a beautiful setting, a place in which our residents can relax and work on their own rehabilitation. Of course, this 250-year old house does require investment and regular rethinking on how it can be used effectively. During 2022 we started work with a team of architects to look at the format of the home, and how we can work with the men we support to adapt certain areas of the building to their own needs – quiet rooms, activity rooms, private spaces etc. Alongside this core upgrades to the building were started in the same year to modernise the internal environment with the desire to create areas that match the personalities of the residents and the spaces they want to spend their time in.
Teams that feel like family
When someone is receiving support around challenging behaviour or complex needs it can be very easy for a care home to develop a transactional approach to their care. This is absolutely the opposite of what we work hard to achieve at Turner. As you will see from our staff interviews, we pride ourselves on a homely, family feel that places our residents, staff and senior management as equals. All residents have keyworkers who work with them on their individual goals, supported by their Team Leader to coordinate key additional support, including specialist professionals.