Pūkeko Blue Ltd has 22 fully staffed community group residential houses, across two services - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability.
Management and staff at Pūkeko Blue Ltd are committed to delivering the highest possible quality of care by working together with our residents, families and key services to support each individual to attain an optimum state of wellness, autonomy, stimulation, comfort and happiness.
Staff
All of our community residential houses have a Support Lead who is supported by our highly skilled Clinical Team of Registered and Enrolled Nurses. All houses are visited by one of the Clinical Team on duty within each service (Mental Health and Intellectual Disability) as well as having a Nurse on call 24 hours/7 days per week.
Hours
Mon – Fri
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
All houses are awake staffed 24 hours, 7 days a week (including public holidays).
Public Holidays: Closed Waitangi Day (6 Feb), Good Friday (3 Apr), Easter Sunday (5 Apr), Easter Monday (6 Apr), ANZAC Day (observed) (27 Apr), King's Birthday (1 Jun), Matariki (10 Jul), Labour Day (26 Oct), Canterbury Anniversary (13 Nov). Christmas: Open 22 Dec — 24 Dec. Closed 25 Dec — 28 Dec. Open 29 Dec — 31 Dec. Closed 1 Jan — 4 Jan. Open 5 Jan — 9 Jan.
Languages Spoken
English
Programmes
Residential Houses
Pūkeko Blue has 22 fully staffed community group residential houses tailored for Mental Health, Intellectual Disability and Dual Diagnosis Residents. We strive to achieve an optimum state of wellness, recovery, stimulation, independence, interdependence, comfort and happiness for each resident in our care. We provide a wide and varied programme of activities which can be tailored to enhance the health and wellbeing of each resident under our care. We aim to provide a good balance of group activities which build confidence and social skills as well as one-to-one activities which promote a therapeutic relationship between staff and residents.
Programme Areas
Mental health
Programme Type
Supported housing
Regions
Canterbury
Age Groups
Adult / Pakeke
Referral Types
DHB clinical services
Referral Process
Referrals to Pūkeko Blue come through the Canterbury DHB Residential Options Group.
Description
Pūkeko Blue has 22 fully staffed community group residential houses tailored for Mental Health, Intellectual Disability and Dual Diagnosis Residents.
We strive to achieve an optimum state of wellness, recovery, stimulation, independence, interdependence, comfort and happiness for each resident in our care.
We provide a wide and varied programme of activities which can be tailored to enhance the health and wellbeing of each resident under our care.
We aim to provide a good balance of group activities which build confidence and social skills as well as one-to-one activities which promote a therapeutic relationship between staff and residents.