Putting Children first

Putting Children first

Enlightery

Enlightery

We provide caring, safe homes for
looked-after children, with a focus
on high-quality, child-centred care.

We provide caring, safe homes for
looked-after children, with a focus
on high-quality, child-centred care.

What We Do

Enlightery was founded in early 2024 to take over the operation of four residential children’s homes in Surrey, Buckinghamshire and Slough.  Our team has worked with young people in care for many years and understand the challenges that exist with providing high-quality, sustainable care in a sector where placement shortages and high costs

Our aim is to increase the provision of high quality in-county homes to help local authorities lower their costs over the long-term whilst working our young people to give them the best possible future prospects.

We specialise in providing solo and dual placement homes for 11 to 17-year-olds at the higher end of the risk spectrum, and pride ourselves on operating with a child-focused approach.  Our homes are presented and organised to be as close as a possible to a normal family home environment and this ethos drives our day-to-day decision making.

We are a limited company to allow for access to capital, however we operate as a social enterprise; Our objective is to provide quality care rather than generating financial returns.

What We Care About – our Children and our Staff

What We Do

Let’s keep it simple – we are child-focused!

For Enlightery, being child-focused means making tangible commitments in the day-to-day running of our homes that positively impact the young people in our care.  It means putting our young people first when dealing with other stakeholders such as educators, carers, mentors and other institutions.  It means carefully matching staff with children and providing a continuity of care that our children can rely on.  It means encouraging positive relationship building so that our children can build confidence and equip themselves for the future, when they move on as adults.

Our teams plan regular and one-off activities including weekly sports events, local club memberships as a well as ‘big’ events like Birthdays, Christmas and holidays and, most importantly, those specific events which are the important ones for each young person.

We also have team members that focus on nutrition and food sourcing, as we believe that home-cooked meals are better for our young people and our team and provide an opportunity for re-enforcing the close family-like atmosphere that we strive to achieve in our homes.

Life skills education is often missed from residential care provision. We aim to empower the Young People in their life skills as much as possible, supporting them to learn and develop their independence during their time with us.

Our Staff

Our staff are the life-blood of our homes and we recruit very carefully to achieve balance and diversity with our homes.  Whilst we have a core staff team in each home prior to receiving a referral, we will then pay special attention to the chemistry and skills mix need to make the young person settle in and thrive.

Each team member has a personal development plan that provides for future career progression and the training and personal development to achieve that progression.

We understand that care home shift patterns can be challenging when it comes to work-life balance, especially with children or other care responsibilities at home.  We purposefully operate our homes on a mixture of shift patterns to be able to accommodate staff needs for shifts that fit into their home life responsibilities.

Jason Downes

Executive Chairman

Alison Platt

Head of HR

Simon Moules

Responsible Individual

Steve

Registered Manager

Our Homes

Enlightery has two clusters of homes, one in Surrey and one in Buckinghamshire/Slough. We aim to present our homes as normal family homes, with a high standard of decoration, quality furniture and always with sufficient outdoor garden space to allow our children and staff to enjoy so time outside of the home.

We try to minimise the impact of signage and technical requirements to make the home as much of a normal home as possible.

Our young people are encouraged to personalise their homes and we often incentivise our children with the opportunity to move bedrooms over the course of their stay with us, if that is an option for that home.

Spring House

Spring House is a duel placement provision semi-detached house set in a village location but near to the many and varied amenities, such as youth groups, leisure centres and other activity centres in and around Godalming and Guildford, Surrey. Spring House is a available for two young people who may need additional staffing to ensure their safety and the safety of the community.

Spring house is a four-bedroomed house which presents as a comfortable family home, decorated to a high standard with a secluded garden.

Downstairs there is an entrance hall which leads into a living room. As well as the kitchen and dining area towards the back of the building. In addition, on the ground floor is a staff toilet, alongside a utility room. On the first floor there are three good sized bedrooms (two for young people and one for staff) and a bathroom for our resident young people. Finally, on the second floor there is a fourth good sized bedroom (for staff). The young person’s bedrooms have a TV in them.

The layout of Spring House is spacious and lends itself to enjoyable group gatherings, mealtimes, etc. It offers a safe and secure environment with room for communal interaction and areas of privacy and quiet spaces. There is a pleasant garden.

Summer House

Summer House is a solo placement provision semidetached house set in a village location but near to the many and varied amenities, such as youth groups, leisure centres and other activity centres of Guildford, Surrey. Summer House is available for one young people who may need additional staffing to ensure their safety and the safety of the community.

Summer house is a three-bedroomed house which presents as a comfortable family home, decorated to a high standard with a secluded garden.

Downstairs there is an entrance hall which leads into a living room. As well as the kitchen and dining area off the kitchen. In addition, on the ground floor is a staff toilet and shower room, alongside a utility room. On the first floor there are three good sized bedrooms (one for a young person and two for staff) and a bathroom for our resident young person. The young person’s bedroom has a TV. The largest staff bedroom doubles up currently as an office, although there are plans for an external manager’s office.

The layout of Summer House is comfortable and cozy and benefited by a large enclosed rear garden. The home lends itself to small group gatherings and offers a safe and secure environment with areas of privacy and quiet spaces. There is a pleasant garden space outside, reachable through patio doors, which offers a pleasant location for al fresco dining during the summer months. There is also space for parking for three cars on the driveway.

Autumn House

Autumn House is a large four-bedroom house for solo or dual placements in South Buckinghamshire.  The home is spacious, calm, and is walking distance from local services. The home has a large kitchen-dining room to encourage relationship building around family meals.  It also has a large two-part living room giving space for both interaction and personal space. The large garden has plenty of space for sports as well as picnics.

Further homes

New homes are being renovated now for both for solo or dual placements. Our Autumn house in Stoke Poges is a large, detached property and will be suitable for high-risk placements.

Safeguarding

At Enlightery we take the Safeguarding of our young people and staff very seriously. The Responsible Individual is the organisations designated safeguarding lead, with the support of the Service Manager as the Designated Safeguarding Officer. As general practice, these two roles manage all the safeguarding requirements. In addition to this, every house manager and deputy at our homes also receive the same safeguarding lead training, this means should the need arise, each of our homes is able to handle its own safeguarding matters independently when required.

Careers

We are always looking for the best staff to join us and as it’s our mission to expand to provide more and more accommodation places, we are always hiring!

Our current vacancies are listed on Indeed.

Indeed

The typical roles we hire for are:

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Residential Home Manager

Plays the key leadership and management role in running the Home.  Needs experience team-building skills to develop a team to provide care to our children.  The Manager runs all aspects of the home, provides leadership and is responsible to Ofsted for our compliance with regulations.  Ultimately the Manager ensures that we provide the right environment for our young people to thrive.

Support Worker and Senior Support Worker

Providing day to day care for our young people, working in shifts to provide 24 hour coverage.  Our care workers are central to providing care, life-skills and building a home-from-home.

Bank Staff

We often need temporary staff to cover when our full-time staff are not available.  If you are an experienced care worker but your needs don’t match with a full-time role, please get in touch.

Contact Us

Contact us

Call Simon Moules, Responsible Individual on:
+44 (0) 7475 149 813

Email us:
info@enlightery.co.uk

Note: We don’t publish the addresses for any of our homes

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