We all enjoy meeting and welcoming new team members who are joining ubu. They are carefully recruited from every generation and all walks of life and they each come with new skills, interests and abilities which bring fresh approaches, enthusiasm and ideas. ubu provides one of the most comprehensive and practical induction courses for new…
We all enjoy meeting and welcoming new team members who are joining ubu. They are carefully recruited from every generation and all walks of life and they each come with new skills, interests and abilities which bring fresh approaches, enthusiasm and ideas. ubu provides one of the most comprehensive and practical induction courses for new…
There’s a social hum, a constant clatter of superficial chit-chat that the ‘neuro-typical’ among us rarely notice. For many people who live with Asperger’s or have been diagnosed as Autistic it is an annoying, intrusive and sometimes bafflingly repetitive din above which they cannot be heard. The logic and reasoning of the ‘outside’ world can…
A few years ago life was very tough for me, I struggled dealing with problems that were important to me but no-one seemed to care, I was tired of having to plead for the support that was right for me. They couldn’t see that the way I acted was because I wasn’t being listened to,…
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…
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…