Headway House

Introduction

Headway North Staffordshire provides a safe and caring environment offering specialist rehabilitation and respite for people 18 plus with acquired, traumatic or stroke brain injury.

Headway House in Stoke-on-Trent provides superb facilities for improving, physical, emotional, social domestic and educational skills.

We also aim to provide support and daily respite for relatives.

Headway House Facilities

Headway House has several large open spaces and numerous smaller rooms for specific activities – all set out on two floors with full disabled access, including toilets and lift.

A two-course lunch is served daily and refreshments are available throughout the day.

The centre is staffed by our friendly, well-trained and supportive team.

Activities

We deliver a wide range of activities designed to help people with acquired brain injury with:

  • providing rehabilitation and developing living skills
  • social interaction
  • education
  • leisure
  • employment preparation
  • community and communication skills .

Activities and Facilities available to all Service Users include:

  • IT Facilities
  • Woodwork Room
  • Communal Areas
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Quizzes
  • Bingo
  • Cooking in our well equipped training kitchen
  • Life Skills
  • Gardening (seasonal)
  • Games Room (including pool, table tennis, darts, etc)

Woodwork

The centre includes a well equipped woodworking workshop where volunteers help service users to relearn or learn new skills.

The workshop is a powerful way of developing these skills. Items made include planters, furniture, gifts and other items that are then sold to raise funds for the charity.

Our woodwork shop is ideal for brain injury rehabilitation. When creating objects a wide range of skills are used, learned or relearned: planning, manual manipulation, measuring, calculating and artistic.

We help each other, sharing skills, and work together to overcome any difficulties that come from an acquired brain injury.

Gym

The upper floor at Headway House houses a superbly equipped gym, using professional equipment and staffed by our trained, qualified physiotherapists.

The gym is a key part of our offering to service users and a crucial part of most post-injury rehabilitation programmes.

Guidelines for service users

Headway North Staffordshire provides rehabilitation and support services, for adults 18 plus with acquired, traumatic, or stroke related brain injury living in North Staffordshire. At Headway House, we provide opportunities to participate in woodwork, computing, daily living skills, educational, leisure and social activities.

Headway promotes healthy living by encouraging members to use the gymnasium and take advantage of the services offered by therapy staff.

Referrals will be considered within the limits of numbers that can be accommodated. Referrals to our service can come from , self, relatives, therapists, doctors, social workers and so on. A referral form is available to download from the referral section on the website. All  information is treated in the strictest confidence.

Each person attending, with or without a carer as appropriate, will be seen by one of our trained staff for assessment.

Experienced staff and volunteers work together with attending members to promote social inclusion, seek to address areas of difficulty and help people develop or re-discover skills and abilities.

Therapies

Please see our separate page about the various therapies available at Headway House for people affected by acquired brain injury.

  • Physiotherapy, using our excellent gym facilities and equipment
  • Occupational therapy, improving prospects for return to employment
  • Speech and language therapy, building communication skills and ability
  • Counselling, helping patients and carers cope at difficult times
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