Nursing Care at Gibraltar Road

Gibraltar Road is a specialist learning disability nursing facility that provides a home for 10 people. The property comprises of the main building offering 8 rooms (2 with on suite facilities) and a generously sized 2 bed ‘self-contained’ bungalow as an extension to the property. The bungalow independent from the main service having a theme of supported living, with clinical safeguards.

The home, garden and local community facilities are accessible for people with physical disabilities. Opportunities are encouraged for ‘community ‘experiences’ with shared, or 1to1 provision utilising the homes own dual wheelchair accessible vehicle.

The property has a beautiful roadside aesthetic, with the inside having a modern newly developed feel. The generous garden fully immerses the property from any neighbouring properties enabling a quiet and private area for people to ensure the outdoors within a therapeutic setting.

Gibraltar Road has been part of the community for decades, having originally being developed by the NHS, to provide nursing care in the community as the institutions closed; its use before then is unknown.

Our accommodation is for people of all genders diagnosed with a learning disability, physical disability, or secondary neurological condition, including mental illness / disorder, brain injury and dementia. 

Nurse provision is available 24 hours a day enabling high quality clinical intervention for people having multiple and complex needs; the service is equipped with a hydraulic bath, tracking and mobile hoists, multi-position beds and air flow mattresses. We are proud to support people with communication difficulties and behaviours that challenge; our interventions range from behaviour analysis, intensive interaction methods and positive behaviour support interventions. Additionally, Gibraltar Road Nursing Home has achieved the Gold Standards Framework for palliative care award ‘helping people to live well until the end of life’.  

Nursing care can be provided from the age of 18 with no upper age limit. All people referred to the service, and any subsequent placement offer will be determined following an ‘holistic assessment’ and our capability to meet the person’s needs. It is also essential that those already residing within the service, and the person referred are compatible; staged introductions, phased transition and choice are essential within shared services.