Cosgrove » Summary
Cosgrove currently supports around 120 children and adults with an age range of 3 to 83 years. Cosgrove Care provides services to a wide range of users usually on a contracted basis with various Local Authority Social Work Departments.
Services have also been developed via the “Supporting People” fund where partnerships are now established with local authorities to provide A Registered Housing Support Service in line with the Care Commissions National Care Standards for Housing Support Services.
This has dramatically increased Cosgrove Care’s ability to deliver quality support to a wide range of service users and their families.
As a charity with a history of providing Culturally Sensitive Services, Cosgrove encourages and provides a culturally diverse way of Life for all its service users by honouring Customs, practices and faiths particular to individual’s expressed religious/spiritual/cultural wishes.
As a charity, Cosgrove will never turn anyone in need away, and will always ensure that it responds in some way to that call for help.
Although Cosgrove was initially established as a provision for the Jewish community, it now supports around 40% of people from out with the Jewish community. This move into the wider community has helped cement good relations with the local authorities and partner organisations and has allowed Cosgrove to increase its expertise within the disability arena.
Cosgrove Values
Cosgrove Care is Committed to:
Delivering high quality support services with sensitivity, respect and a commitment to uphold its longstanding charitable ethos.
Cosgrove Care Supports All its people to:
- Be independent
- Have greater choices
- Have a better way of life
- Realise their own potential
- Be valued for their ethnic background, language, culture and faith
Cosgrove Care Respects:
- People's own values
- People's own privacy
- People's own culture and beliefs
- People’s own individual characteristics
- People’s own personal lifestyle
- The importance of age in people’s own lifestyle
- The importance of people’s own dignity
Mission Statement
Cosgrove Care empowers all our people to fulfil their potential in the journey of life.
Cosgrove Care is committed to the following principles:
- People with learning disabilities and/or mental health issues should have the same rights responsibilities and choices without prejudice as any other citizen.
- People with learning disabilities and/or mental health issues have the right to experience the same pattern of daily life as the rest of the community.
- People with whom we work have the right to be respected as individuals and will be encouraged to take as active a part as possible in the decisions affecting their lives.
Cosgrove Music Group 2007
Cosgrove Vision
In order to fulfil the mission statement, our vision is to:
- Continue to improve the quality of our services within a changing environment
- Move towards a broad range of options for living for our present and future service users
- Facilitate empowerment by consulting and involving users
- Actively seek out and develop new strategies
Who's Who?
Chief Executive - Walter Hecht
whecht@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Director of Services - Gordon Findlay
gfindlay@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Finance Manager - Harvey Livingston
hlivingston@cosgrovecare.org.uk
HR Manager - Morven Fairweather
mfairweather@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Operations Manager - Fieldwork Services - Kate Mackie
kmackie@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Operations Manager - Residential Services - Margaret Ann Caldwell
mcaldwell@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Child Services Manager - Liz Robertson
lrobertson@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Service Manager, Arnside - Mary Nilsen
mnilsen@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Service Manager, Burnfield - Kirsty Fergusson
kfergusson@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Service Coordinator, Braidholm - Karen Mccluskey
kmccluskey@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Acting Service Coordinator, Mckay Court - Alex Esslemont
mckay@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Supported Employment Service Coordinator - Derek Brown
dbrown@cosgrovecare.org.uk
Jmind Manager - Linda Walker
lwalker@jmind.org.uk
