Learning disability services
Corbett Centre, Inverness
Coronation Park
Inverness
IV3 8AD
Phone: 01463 704040
Fax: 01463 715993
Resource Manager: Ian Clayton
The Corbett Centre is a resource centre in Inverness. It offers a day service to adults with a learning disability.
Our users are aged from 18 years and have a range of abilities and special needs. The centre aims to:
- Provide a service which is open Monday to Friday all year round except for public holidays, staff training or extremely bad weather conditions
- Provide a welcoming atmosphere
- Provide an appropriately trained and qualified staff team
- Provide a key worker for each service user
- Produce individual person-centred support plans
- Provide opportunities to encourage each service user to develop and to make choices
- Meet basic needs for warmth, cleanliness, personal hygiene and support with eating, if required
- Ensure the safety of service users
- Promote and encourage appropriate social behaviour
- Arrange an annual review for each service user
- Listen to the views of parents, carers and service users
- Include people irrespective of race, sex, colour, background, religion or reputation
The Corbett Centre does not
- Provide a nursing or medical service
- Have facilities to cater for service users who are ill. You may be asked to return home if it is felt that you are a risk to yourself or others
- Accept violent or aggressive behaviour which endangers other service users or staff
- Allow alcohol or drugs, other than prescribed medication, to be brought into the centre
Advice and complaints
We are always open to any suggestions or complaints that you may have about the service we offer and will do our best to put things right. Speak to your key worker who will tell you how to put your complaint to the manager or Care Inspectorate if necessary.
The service we provide is informed by the principles and values laid down by the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Government publications "The Same As You" (2000) and "Make My Day" (2006).