Iris Care Group

Providing specialist pathways of care with a focus on people with complex needs and behaviours that challenge.

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Iris Care Group is proud to announce that our organisation has been shortlisted for the Best Provider of Digital Healthcare Services Award at the HSJ Independent Healthcare Provider Awards 🎉⬇️

#healthcare #hsjihpawards

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Join us at our next Recruitment Open Day in Swindon! 🎉

📅Tuesday 24th March
🕙10:00am – 4:00pm
📍The Shaftesbury Centre, 27a Percy Street, Rodbourne, Swindon SN2 2AZ

Register:
https://t.co/qSqRG2HMy7

#SocialCare #SupportedLiving #ResidentialCare #Recruiting #Jobs #Hiring

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For our final session of #ICGConf25, we are honoured to welcome an individual that we support to speak alongside some of our team, who will be sharing her lived experience of transitioning from one of our specialist hospitals to our community residential services.

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Next we welcome Angela Munley, Head of Team at the Ministry of Justice. Angela is presenting ‘Supervised Discharge – The Power to Discharge Capacitous Restricted Patients with Conditions that Amount to a Deprivation of Liberty’.

https://t.co/KPI5Up698J

#ICGConf25

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Our next speaker is Dr Nutmeg Hallett, Associate Professor of Mental Health Nursing at the University of Birmingham. Dr Hallett is presenting ‘From Restrictive Interventions to Wider Harms: What Patients’ Experiences Tell Us’.

https://t.co/KPI5Up698J

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Next up we have Janine Strange, our Chief Commercial Officer, and Nick Todd, our Capital Projects Director. Janine and Nick are exploring bespoke service design in their presentation ‘Creating Bespoke Environments for Complex Needs’.

https://t.co/KPI5Up698J

#ICGConf25

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For our next #ICGConf25 speaker we welcome Sarah Leitch, Director of Development at Bild and Restraint Reduction Network. Sarah is exploring the work and impact of the #RRN through her presentation ‘Working Together to Reduce Restrictive Practices’.

https://t.co/KPI5Up698J

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Our first speaker is Dr Andrew Hider, Iris Care Group’s Clinical Director. Dr Hider is presenting ‘Safe Thinking: The Potential Role of Artificial Intelligence in Improving Patient Safety in Complex Mental Health Care.’

https://t.co/KPI5Up698J

#MentalHealth #AI

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Episode 1 of the Leading Through Crisis #podcast explores the role of leadership in #crisismanagement, including the crucial 48-hours after a serious incident, and effective and respectful communication ⬇️

Listen here: https://t.co/B8YhJds2Ci

#SocialCare #Leadership

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Come and meet our team at the #RCPsych International Congress today on stand 28 ⬇️

Visit our stand to learn more about Iris Care Group and our specialist health and social care services throughout South Wales and the South West of England.

#RCPsych #RCPsychIC #Neuropsychiatry

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Next week we’re exhibiting at the #RCPsych International Congress – come and find us at Stand 28 ⬇️

Professionals from the Clinical Teams across our three specialist hospitals will be exhibiting alongside our Referrals Team from the 23rd to the 26th.

#RCPsychIC #Neuropsychiatry

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Iris Care Group Expands Specialist Supported Living Services into Wales with the Acquisition of ALP Supported Living Services ⬇️

For more information, visit: https://t.co/hH5SJMPNx4

#SupportedLiving #SocialCare #Wales #IrisCareGroup

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“Reflections on setting up a psychological service to support individuals living and working within supported living homes.” - Emily Gwatkin and Dr Hayley Thomas ⬇️

Read their full presentation: https://t.co/IM0bB6yea7

#FacIDConf2025 #Psychology #SupportedLiving #PBS

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The team at Caerau Manor have finished working on their latest mural to celebrate the changing seasons, and this time they decided to include some Welsh spirit with this vibrant dragon!

#MentalHealth #SocialCare

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This Spring patients at Pinetree Court teamed up with Coed Caerdydd to plant a series of new trees at the hospital ⬇️

Coed Caerdydd is a 10-year community programme aimed at increasing the number of trees in Cardiff and supporting the city’s One Planet climate change strategy.

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Today is World Autism Awareness Day, a global event to raise awareness about autism, promote learning, understanding, and education, and drive positive societal change for autistic individuals around the world.

#Autism #WorldAutismAcceptanceMonth #WAAM25 #SocialCare #Healthcare

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This year the individuals that we support at Conway House decided to work together to start their own allotment in the community, and the progress that they have made in just a few weeks has been nothing short of incredible.

#MentalHealth #Wales #SocialCare

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This month individuals at Pirton Grange came together for World Plant a Plant Day to plant new seeds, and everyone was delighted to see the seeds sprout this week as a result of the exceptional care the people we support have provided to help them grow.

#Worcester #ABI

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The people we support at Hunters Moon have been enjoying animal therapy sessions with visiting therapy ponies this Spring, and it has been fantastic to see everyone happy and having fun together whilst engaging with the therapy.

#SupportedLiving #AnimalTherapy #Swindon

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Today we are excited to be opening the nominations for our 2025 People’s Awards!

The People's Awards were created to recognise the incredible achievements of the people that we support across Iris Care Group.

#SocialCare #Healthcare

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Please join us in wishing the best of luck to two of our team members – Olalekan Babalola and Steve Barber – who will be attending the finals of the Great British Care Awards tonight 🎉

All of us at Iris Care Group have got our fingers crossed!

#GBCA #GBCAFinals #SocialCare