Dear Visitor,

Avondalecare Ltd. has been providing mental health care for over 25 years and is keen to use up to date practice in the both residential and community based services. Avondalecare Ltd. is a fast growing enterprise headed by Les Jeffs. Les has been a social worker for over 30 years and many of them for Kent County Council. Les now runs Avondalecare Ltd. which provides residential care and community support programmes for persons recovering from mental health problems. 

How is Avondalecare different?

Avondalecare Ltd. prides itself on offering a service which is ethical and professional. That is, staff exhibit a genuine care for people, going the extra mile, developing good working relationships with services users, empowering them wherever possible, and most important of all showing kindness. We acknowledge the great usefulness of compliance with pharmaceutical support and the advice of the psychiatric services but also recognise the need to work collaboratively with the service user, viewing them as central to our activity, striving to make best use of the individual's own understanding of their distress and taking full note of their experiences and aspirations. We recognise the importance of the service users' wider environment and seek to address physical and social needs.  This approach seeks to diminish pressures on service users wherever possible by improving the domestic experience and the socioeconomic environment in which they have to live. We offer therapeutic support and psychological monitoring based upon goals identified collaboratively with the service user and his/her care manager. Avondalecare staff are encouraged to adopt a Solution Focused approach to working with service users; this does not, of course, mean that Avondalecare staff are all therapists but that we attempt to address service user needs using the same disciplined orientation as best we can without losing a genuinely humane and personal touch.

Avondalecare provides residential care and community support packages. Both have the goal of developing a persons life skills and coping mechanisms which can lead to increased mental stability and a reduction in reliance on Avondalecare and its partners. For those who are receiving residential support and would like to 'move on' into independent living, we offer encouragement and support to make this step.

If you have a client who needs residential care, or someone who needs a level of support to avoid hospital admission so that they can build up a stable home life, then please feel free to contact us.    

Kind Regards

Thomas Jeffs 

Residential Registered Manager, Community Support Manager & Director