Our Values
We want peoples experience with our service to be a positive one. We will support people to have as much control and empowerment over their lives and their service as possible. We will encourage all people we support to maintain their independence and well-being and develop skills to their full potential. We will respect people’s privacy and their right to a private life. We want people to have a valued and meaningful life both within their service provision and within their community. Our overriding aim is to promote positive outcomes for people.
How it all started
Malachy James McElherron 1949-2014
Malachy founded Healey Care Ltd during 1996, with Healey House in Whitworth. Staying true to his personal values, he promoted high standards of care and support for people with learning disabilities and helped to change their expectations for the future .
Through his undaunting positive approach and depth of personality, Malachy generated a great sense of ownership and loyalty within the support and management teams. He inspired people, if you can dream it, you can do it. He encouraged us to ‘look out for each other’.
Malachy was diagnosed with cancer in 2003 and over the following 11 years, he underwent 5 rounds of intensive treatment. He faced this with an amazing positive attitude and with a dignity and sense of humour that was admired by all those who knew him. In Malachy’s own words “Never give up". Malachy sadly passed away in September 2014 after almost 20 years of providing high quality care and support to many people during those years.
Malachy was the captain of our ship, always a rainbow in other people’s clouds. He made things happen. We can’t change the direction of the wind but we can adjust our sails to always reach our destination. Nothing was impossible, the word itself says I’m possible!
For all the people who met and knew him, we’re sure you’ll agree he was a great man –once met, never to be forgotten.
Philosophy of care
Our philosophy is based on principles that show a commitment to the rights and opportunities which are available to all people in our communities.
We believe that every person has equal value, rights, and potential, regardless of disability or complexity of need. Our service exists to support people to live meaningful, self‑directed lives, where they are respected, understood, and empowered to be active members of their communities.
We want everything we do to be driven the people we provide a service to; we recognise that this focus can slip and we will remain vigilant to ensure that the service, its policies and its activities, remain service user led.
We have embraced both the Personalisation and Co – Production Agenda, which aims to the people we support and their families in control of current and future service provision.
We want everybody we support to be safe and well and will provide an open and transparent service and listen to people’s concerns