Brain Injury

Superior Healthcare is regulated by the Care Quality Commission to provide care exclusively in England. We support both adults and children throughout the country.

If your care package is commissioned by an NHS ICB, a county council, or a Case Manager or Financial Deputy, we can talk to them about moving to us today.

The commissioning decision depends on the arrangements with the ICB or local authority providing your care.

When transferring a care package, we conduct a transfer of undertakings (TUPE) assessment. Typically, employees can transfer while retaining their existing benefits and employment terms, ensuring a smooth transition.

Superior Healthcare employs a team of trained carers, support workers, and nurses – including children’s nurses – who are recruited to meet our clients’ individual needs.

We complete stringent pre-employment checks and provide comprehensive induction, ongoing training, and wellbeing support:

• We apply for Enhanced DBS checks for all members of our care team and complete annual update checks via the DBS Update Service.
• We verify employees’ complete career history and obtain employer references covering at least the past three years’ employment.
• Superior Healthcare provides comprehensive induction programmes which are delivered in our classroom locations and facilitated by our team of experienced and qualified trainers.
• Our team members take part in ongoing training and continuing professional development opportunities, including Level 2/3 Diplomas in Health and Social Care.
• We proactively support our employees – every member of the Superior Healthcare team has access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, with additional wellbeing support offered by our in-house wellbeing team.
• We offer our team members the opportunity to be employed on either a flexible or permanent basis, which this helps us to build contingency and resilience for our clients.

As an employer, we support our care professionals as much as we possibly can, to retain experienced care professionals and build successful, resilient teams.

Our carers and nurses enjoy the work they do and often become long-standing members of our clients’ teams.

A brain injury occurs from an incident or accident that has damaged one or more areas of the brain being damaged, resulting in learning disabilities or loss of cognition. This in turn can have an impact on a person’s physical movement and daily living skills.

Care required may include assisting with personal care or prompting and assisting with daily tasks that they could independently do before the injury. Some of our clients may have a specific daily routine or therapy programme that they need to follow.

Types of brain injury

There are many causes of brain injury which Headway – the brain injury association, lists:

• Acquired brain injury (ABI) – an injury caused to the brain since birth that is not caused by a congenital defect or a degenerative disease and is not hereditary in nature
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI) – an injury to the brain caused by a trauma to the head (head injury); possible causes include road traffic accidents, assaults, falls, and accidents at home or at work
• Brain aneurysm
• Brain haemorrhage
• Brain tumour
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Encephalitis
• Hydrocephalus
• Hypoxic and anoxic brain injury
• Meningitis
• Stroke

• Headway: https://www.headway.org.uk
• Carers UK: https://www.carersuk.org/