A full package of support, not just accommodation.
Every young person placed with Guided Heights Care receives a comprehensive, tailored support package. We do not offer housing alone. We provide the structure, relationships and skills development that young people need to move confidently towards adulthood.
Supported Living Accommodation
Safe, suitable and well maintained accommodation for young people aged 16 to 18, provided as a self-contained unit or as a ring-fenced shared arrangement. Every young person has their own private bedroom, and communal areas are sized to support daily living and independence skills.
Life Skills and Independence Support
Practical, hands-on support with budgeting for food, bills and clothing, shopping and meal preparation, laundry and household tasks, personal hygiene, and kitchen, food and fire safety. A personalised life and social skills checklist is built with each young person.
Education and Employment Support
Help to access apprenticeships, training and education, including identifying colleges and courses, completing applications, preparing CVs and practising for interviews. We contribute to Personal Education Plans and work with local colleges, employers and Jobcentre Plus.
Health and Wellbeing Support
Registration with a local GP, dentist and optician, information on nearby health services, help to arrange and attend appointments, supervision of prescribed medication, and access to specialist counselling services where they are needed.
Key Working and Ongoing Mentoring
Every young person is allocated a Key Worker who coordinates their support, builds a positive relationship, monitors progress and acts as a consistent point of contact for the young person and the professionals involved in their care.
Floating Support
Floating support sits alongside shared accommodation and self-contained studios or flats in the range of supported accommodation services we deliver. Support planning, key working, health, education and independence support apply in the same way, with the arrangement agreed with the placing authority.
Preparation for Adulthood
A structured independence programme covering budgeting, cooking, tenancy management, banking, shopping, laundry, independent travel, managing appointments, and employment. This is the thread that runs through a placement from the first week to the move on.
Emotional Wellbeing
A Personal Health Plan covering physical, emotional and sexual health, support with stress and anxiety, guidance on healthy relationships and safe decision making, and space to explore identity, including racial, cultural, gender, sexual and religious aspects.
Family and Community
Support to maintain contact with family, friends and significant others where it is safe and appropriate, advocacy to help young people access the services they need, and encouragement to take part in leisure, sport, cultural and community activities.
The part of a placement that outlasts it.
A placement ends. What a young person can do on the day it ends is the thing that carries forward. So preparation for adulthood is not a module bolted on near the end of a placement. It starts with a personalised life and social skills checklist built with the young person, runs through key working sessions, and is reviewed in the monthly case review alongside everything else.
The pace is set by the young person, not by a timetable. Some arrive already cooking for themselves and needing help with a tenancy. Others start with a bank account.
Money and budgeting
- Budgeting for food, bills, clothing and recreation
- Opening a bank account and basic financial management
- Welfare benefits, forms and handling bills
- Weekly allowance supervised in agreement with the placing authority
Home and tenancy
- Managing accommodation and day to day responsibilities
- Cleaning, laundry, ironing and looking after a bedroom
- Reporting damage and maintenance
- Understanding what living independently will ask of them
Food, health and hygiene
- Shopping lists, shopping and cooking meals
- Cooking classes and cook-offs
- Nutrition, personal hygiene and a clean living environment
- Kitchen safety, food hygiene and safe storage
Getting around and appointments
- Independent travel
- Arranging and attending medical appointments
- Registering with a GP, dentist and optician
- Knowing where local services are and how to use them
Work and learning
- Apprenticeships, training, college courses and employment
- Applications, CVs and interview practice
- Goal setting around education, training and work
- Alternative routes where school has not worked out
Community and relationships
- Leisure, sport and cultural activities
- Continuing existing clubs, hobbies and interests
- Building healthy friendships and social networks
- Advocacy to access the services a young person needs
Comprehensive support as standard
Pricing varies depending on the individual placement and the level of support required. Contact us to discuss a specific case.
- Safe, furnished accommodation with a private bedroom
- Initial Assessment and Support Plan aligned to the Pathway Plan
- A named Key Worker
- 24/7 on-call support
- Structured independence programme
- Education, training and employment guidance
- Health registration, appointments and wellbeing support
- Monthly case reviews and reports to the placing authority
Expanding our services across more locations.
We are continuously working to increase our accommodation capacity and enhance our support offerings to meet a wider range of needs.