Crossroads Care Bridgend County

Welcome

Crossroads Care is a national organisation, with schemes all over Wales and England. Our scheme is the only Crossroads Care scheme in the borough of Bridgend and therefore our registered name has been changed to:- CROSSROADS CARE BRIDGEND COUNTY, to reflect the fact that we now aim to provide care services across the borough. We provide short respite care breaks for young and adult carers, who care for members of their family or friends who are over the age of 18.
We are a registered charity (1090534) and a company limited by guarantee (4241382). We have been in existence since 1993.
We are registered with the Care & Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW).

As a carer, you may wish to have a break from your caring role to enable you to continue working, during the day, evening or night and/or have some time for yourself for social activities, going shopping, attending classes, having a full nights sleep etc. 
A trained and paid member of our staff would come to the home of the person you care for, to look after them there or take them out for an outing (if this is appropriate) and give you peace of mind, whilst you have a break, or whilst you are working.

Our staff also run a small social club, providing activities for people with dementia
on Saturdays, between 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., for up to 10 people in Minerva Street,Bridgend. Members enjoy each others company, plus the hot lunch and activities on offer, plus you receive a break for a few hours as their Carer.
Families can self refer for Minerva Street and this service is free of charge, apart from a £5 cost for lunch and refreshments and a contribution for petrol if a lift is required.
If you are interested in receiving a service for the person you care for, please contact us.
YOU ARE WELCOME TO USE THIS SERVICE WEEKLY, FORTNIGHTLY OR MONTHLY, AS YOU CHOOSE.

RECRUITMENT:-
We are NOT currently recruiting Care Support Workers, but if you wish to contact us, we will take your name and contact details and let you know when we next recruit staff.


Our Scheme aims to:-
- Relieve family/carer stress;
- To help avoid the admission to hospital or residential care of the carer or the person they care for;
- To improve lives of carers and the persons they care for, by providing a quality care service that is tailored to your particular needs;
- To enable carers to stay in employment if they so wish.
- To recruit and train carer support staff to provide practical help and support.
- To work closely with other care organisations, to improve the provision of help and support for Carers.

We aim to provide our services across the Bridgend County Borough. Please contact us directly to find out more about our care services and how we can tailor these to your particular needs.

Referrals for our care services can come directly to us for our private fee paying services, or via Social Services, Health professionals and the Alzheimers Society. We can also sign post you to other organisations for information and support, e.g. the Bridgend Carers Centre, Bridgend Care & Repair, Age Concern Morgannwg and condition specific organisations, e.g. the Alzheimers Society, Trinity Care & Support, the Stroke Association, the Parkinsons Disease Society, Hafal for mental health issues, Tenovus charity, Young Carers projects in Bridgend etc...

We receive funding from Adult Social Care department of Bridgend County Council, the Bridgend Local Health Board (ABMU Health Board)and the Alzheimers Society.

Please contact the office for more information and we will send you a leaflet setting out what we do. See contact details below.

We welcome donations to provide more care hours within the community.

If you are in receipt of DIRECT PAYMENTS, we are on the Councils list of approved providers and can provide you a personal assistant and deal with their tax and national insurance details, plus holiday and sick leave cover, so that you do not have to! Please contact us for further details.

WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WHO LIVE OR WORK WITHIN THE BRIDGEND BOROUGH TO JOIN OUR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE - which meets monthly.
IF YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN CARERS ISSUES, YOU MAY BE A PRESENT OR PAST CARER YOURSELF, OR YOU MAY HAVE OTHER SKILLS TO OFFER, FOR EXAMPLE IN LEGAL, FINANCE OR BUSINESS, WE WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTACT US FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON!
Please phone us on 01656 784100 and ask to speak to Jane Questle, our Scheme Manager. 


Page 1 - About Us
Page 2 - Our History
Page 3 - Our cafe
Page 4 - How can you help?
Page 5 - Contact Us

E-mail Crossroads Care Bridgend County on bridgend.county@crossroads.org.uk

Web Address www.crossroads.org.uk/bridgend

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Last Updated:2012-02-03