About Us
Calm Futures support people over the age of 18 across Essex, Southend, Thurrock, Suffolk and Surrounding areas who are either funded via social services ,through direct payments, Individual Service Fund (ISF) or independently.
Everyone at Calm Futures dedicates themselves to making a real difference to the people we support, offering quality services to be proud of and providing career opportunities in the local area.
All services provided by Calm Futures enable the people we support to live ‘as independently as possible and to enjoy a good and meaningful life’. Our support has a ‘Meaningful Lives Matter’ approach – with a clear focus on supporting daily living that is no way shaped by what we can’t achieve but more importantly asking the question “what’s missing” that would enable me to reach my goals. We support this by
- Having a keen emphasis on teaching new skills, enabling people to better communicate their individual needs and become more independent
- By developing a person’s strengths, skills, knowledge, assets and aspirations alongside them using person-centred planning tools we can maximise both what an individual can do for themselves and what they can access from others to live a meaningful life.
- Support is linked to specific outcomes that are most relevant to the person, including their health employment, connection to their community, aspects of recovery and wellbeing and relationships.
Adopting the principles of Positive Behaviour Support and Person-Centred Active Support we use a person-centred approach to design and implement care and support for people in their own environments. Our aim is to always support a journey towards independence and better outcomes for people leading to a meaningful life, based on four key values: Creative Aspirational Limitless Meaningful
Why work with us?
At Calm Futures we recognise that our colleagues make a difference to people’s lives every day and perform vital roles in our supported living services. We value our colleagues and realise they are our most important asset. We want our colleagues to feel rewarded for the contribution they make to living our value and delivery support to people that really makes a difference.
We are a small care organisation with strong family values at the heart of everything we do. We passionately believe that everyone can achieve their aspirations, if given the right opportunities and the right support. The senior management team at Calm Futures have worked in the social care professional since leaving school, starting as support workers themselves and are committed to supporting employees with their career progression, offering mentoring and coaching at all levels and developing emerging talent to become our future managers.
As well as joining a great team with huge job satisfaction, other benefits of working for Calm Futures include:
- Competitive pay rates with clear pay progression
- Paid DBS check if role requires one (terms apply)
- Guaranteed permanent hours or bank hours if this is your preference
- Full induction and funded training programmes – including NVQs/ QCFs
- Career progression to management levels
- Flexible hours – daytime, evenings, weekends, we have hours to suit all circumstances
- Staff benefits scheme which gives you access to discounts from a wide range of high street stores
- Annual pay and performance review
Refer a friend scheme for each successful referral
Apprenticeship, graduate and work experience programmes
In the next 6 months we will look to develop an annual apprenticeship scheme where we take on 5 apprentices on a rolling 12-month programme.
As well as undertaking their formal HSC qualifications, they will develop the broader knowledge and skills required to support people through a bespoke package; including the values base that underpins all of our work. The skills that they develop are enhanced by the diverse practical work that they experience as well as through shadowing other professionals.
We have forged links with external health and social care professions to enable apprentices to gather experience in different settings to enhance learning. This “rotational” style programme sees the apprentice shadowing a Social Worker, OT, Specialist Behavioural Team and Health professions, such as a Community Nurse or GP Practices.
These opportunities mean that apprentices gain a more rounded view of both Health and Social Care, understanding the holistic nature of support as well as the broader integration agenda
We also support local colleges where potential students are “exiting learning” by providing career talks and “bite size” sector experience opportunities to seek possible apprentices to sector
We are committed to offering several apprenticeships per year and work closely with the Essex Apprenticeship Team and NEET Teams to support young people into employment.
We are linked to the DWP Kickstart programme as part of the COVID Recovery agenda, providing apprenticeships and job opportunities to recruits, new to sector
We are also developing bespoke recruitment initiatives, partnering with the Princes Trust (Get into Programme” and Reed in Partnership targeting “hard to reach” and NEET individuals as these have been successful in the past.
We will be working with our local education partners in terms of traineeships, work-based academies and “intro to sector” days to further support our apprenticeship offer.
