Ravenscroft Homelink provides a number of specialist services into the community, which are called “intermediate care services”. Intermediate care focuses on an individuals needs with the purpose of avoiding an inappropriate placement into a residential setting i.e. the aim is to keep people in their own homes within their community....longer.

The three main strands of intermediate care are;

•  Crisis Support Services

•  Domiciliary Rehabilitation services

•  Extracare Supported Housing Services

Homelink provides crisis support services in partnership with Social services and the Health Authorities to clients in their own homes. This service is managed from our Head office in Whitestake by our Head of Care services. A specific care plan is drawn up in relation to the needs of the individual client and is delivered by a team of Key Support Workers supervised by Co-ordinators on a continuous basis for upto 72 hours. This service is delivered exclusively by Ravenscroft Homelink for the Preston and South Ribble districts.

Homelink provides highly effective domiciliary rehabilitation services in partnership with Social Services and the Health Authority to clients in their own homes. This service is also managed from our Head Office in Whitestake. The clients receive an intensive re-enablement programme of rehabilitation for upto 8 weeks via our team of Key Support Workers. This service is delivered exclusively by Ravenscroft Homelink for the Chorley, West Lancashire, Preston and South Ribble districts.

Homelink provides extracare supported housing services in partnership with Social Services, the Health Authority and Housing associations to clients in their own tenancies within sheltered housing schemes. The service is aimed at ensuring that clients are able to maintain their own tenancies by providing a more intensive homecare service. This service is provided exclusively by Ravenscroft Homelink for the Preston and South Ribble districts.