Supported living offers adults with a learning disability the option to live in their own home, with support provided by skilled staff, to promote independence and community inclusion.
Each person’s specific goals and needs are assessed, and trained staff provide assistance with daily living tasks, life skills, and healthcare as required.
Supported living aims to empower individuals as tenants, to make choices about their lives and live as independently as possible within their community.
Within the Northern Trust, this may be arranged in:
- Purpose-built supported accommodation with features including communal areas and staff accommodation. This can include bungalows, apartments and shared housing.
- Shared housing where a small group of individuals live together with shared communal spaces but have their own rooms with skilled staff supporting all tenants as required following their individual assessments.
- Individual private housing where an individual lives alone or with a few others in a house or apartment with individual support provided by skilled staff as required following assessment.
The Northern Trust works closely with independent and voluntary organisations to provide safe housing for tenants.
How to contact us
Ellis Grove Supported Living Service
4 Ellis Grove, Ellis Street, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 8ZP.
- Telephone: 028 9331 5113
Clogrennan Supported Living Service
302 Old Glenarm Road, Larne, BT40 1TU.
- Telephone: 028 9331 5113
Abbots Court Supported Living Service
22 Abbots Rd, Newtownabbey, BT37 9RB.
- Telephone: 028 9331 5113
Hollybank Supported Living Service
13 Union Road, Magherafelt, Co. Derry, BT45 5DF.
- Telephone: 028 7963 3369
Residential and nursing care
We work closely with the private sector who provide nursing and residential accommodation services to adults with a learning disability. These facilities meet a wide range of needs – for those who require a low level of support to those with highly complex medical needs and behaviours that challenge.
Each individual will have a person-centred care plan with involvement from our professionals, to ensure their individual needs are met.