When recruiting new members we look for something special. Yes I am sure every employer says that so let me explain. We look for people who can become Enablers, competent managers and leaders who possess the very special qualities of “mindfulness, selflessness and compassion”. Qualities not just relating to the people we serve but equally…
Don’t you love it when you take a trip to your local swimming pool and have a good splash, submerge yourself in the sea when you’re on holiday or even whizz down the slides at the water park. Well I don’t, because I don’t know how to swim. That’s what I used to say before…
I’m often asked what it means to have an ‘outcome’. It’s a term rather widely used these days in health and social care to describe any achievement by vulnerable individuals. In my experience recording ‘outcomes’ from this perspective can easily become an exercise which simply ticks boxes. So often an ‘outcome’ accepts and promotes very…
I’m often asked what it means to have an ‘outcome’. It’s a term rather widely used these days in health and social care to describe any achievement by vulnerable individuals. In my experience recording ‘outcomes’ from this perspective can easily become an exercise which simply ticks boxes. So often an ‘outcome’ accepts and promotes very…
ubu has long been a champion of encouraging each other, as team members, to achieve a ‘work-life balance’ and that has to include “switching off” when our working day is over. Achieving a balance means ensuring that team members are supported to respect themselves and those they serve by making sure that they are feeling…
ubu has long been a champion of encouraging each other, as team members, to achieve a ‘work-life balance’ and that has to include “switching off” when our working day is over. Achieving a balance means ensuring that team members are supported to respect themselves and those they serve by making sure that they are feeling…
Hearing is having the luxury of understanding the worlds vast and unique vibrations, listening is interpreting those vibrations into a voice that needs to be heard, I want my voice to be heard. Some time ago when I first moved into my home with ubu I was going through a very dark patch in my…
How often do we say or hear the phrase “I can’t believe where the time has gone” or “This year has flown by”? Well I have recently become very aware of how often I hear people who are ill, or don’t work, especially those more mature in years, express how they wished they had something…
How often do we say or hear the phrase “I can’t believe where the time has gone” or “This year has flown by”? Well I have recently become very aware of how often I hear people who are ill, or don’t work, especially those more mature in years, express how they wished they had something…
Have you ever woken up in your home wondering where you are or who you are, forgot how to make a cup of tea even though you have been doing it for years? Well that’s what Dementia does and I can tell you all about it because I have it. I spent many years living…
I’m Richard and I’m enabled to live in a fantastic flat with my partner Barbara by ubu in Harrogate. Our uStep support was opened in 2013 by the Mayor. Many of my friends live here with independence supported by ubu in the group of flats that are in my building. Because my home is right…
Things in life don’t always turn out quite as we expected them to. It’s easy to become disappointed, even shocked when events don’t end up as we were sure they would and when people don’t react or respond as we wish they did. To find a reliable basis to make decisions, we need accurate and…