
Specialist nursing care in Kirkdale, Liverpool
Kavanagh Place is a specialist care home in Kirkdale, Liverpool for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.
Kavanagh Place complex needs care home specialises in supporting adults living with complex mental health needs, complex dementia and physical disabilities. The home's Abbey Unit is exclusively for people who identify as male.
Our Nurse-led team has the skills and expertise to support people with complex needs including prolonged disorders of consciousness and behaviours of concern, and those who require tracheostomies, ventilators and PEG feeding tubes.
We support people on their rehabilitation journey from hospital or living in a secure setting to community-based living. We also provide long term support for people living with degenerative or life-limiting illnesses.

About Kavanagh Place
We provide a supportive environment at Kavanagh Place. People get the specialist nursing care they need, and are able to stay closer to their loved ones.
The home has 40 large bedrooms, each with an en-suite, across four units. The home has communal dining and living spaces, an activities hub and a large accessible garden.
Kavanagh Place also has a OneCare service which provides complex care in a domestic environment, ideal for those whose needs require that they live alone. Our OneCare service is based in a two-bedroom house across the road from the main care home.
- Strawberry Fields Unit
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- Matthew Street Unit
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Matthew Street Unit supports up to ten adults living with complex mental health needs.
- Penny Lane Unit
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Penny Lane Unit supports up to ten adults living with physical disabilities and complex health needs.
- Abbey Road Unit
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Abbey Road Unit supports up to ten adults living with complex mental health needs. The unit is exclusively for people who identify as male.
- OneCare service
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Our OneCare service is based in a two bedroom house that’s across the road from the main care home. It’s ideal for adults with complex needs that require they live alone or in a low stimulus environment. Read more about OneCare.
The home is close to local amenities and transport links so that people can maintain their community connections.
Download our brochure to read more about Kavanagh Place care home, or watch a video tour of the home.

OneCare at Kavanagh Place
The OneCare service at Kavanagh Place provides specialist nursing care for adults living with complex needs, in a domestic environment. It's ideal for those with complex diagnoses and high acuity needs which cannot be met in a group living environment.
The service is based in a two-bedroom house across the road from the main care home. The house has twe en-suite bedrooms, a stair lift, a large shared kitchen, a dining room and a lounge.
Its location means that people can be as independent from, or integrated with, the main care home as they wish. Our OneCare residents always have the support of an experienced multidisciplinary team of professionals just a few steps away.
Providing a pathway of care at Exemplar Health Care allows commissioners to fund a journey for service users – starting as a comprehensive service, but reducing over time without the need to move the person to another provider. For my client, the OneCare service provides a genuine opportunity for him to develop.
NHS Commissioner

Complex care at Kavanagh Place
As a specialist care home, Kavanagh Place has an excellent track record of supporting adults whose placements have previously failed. Our high staffing levels allow us to build trust and work at the pace of the individual, which leads to improved person-centred and longer-term outcomes.
Many of the people we support at Kavanagh Place are deemed to display behaviours that are ‘too complex’ for mainstream nursing and care providers. Our Nurse-led team has the skills and expertise to support people who display extreme behaviours of concern, including aggressive and sexualized behaviours.
For many of our service users, we’re successful in achieving a significant reduction in behaviours of concern and use of observations within 12 weeks of stay.
My family and I cannot express the gratitude we feel for all the staff who look after my husband, who has dementia. They treat him like a friend and he loves them all so much. He is so happy and is treated with so much love and kindness.
Relative of resident
Careers at Kavanagh Place
We’re recruiting Registered Nurses, Health Care Assistants and other care home job roles at Kavanagh Place care home in Liverpool.
Find our home
Address:
1 Rumney Road,
Kirkdale,
Liverpool,
L4 1UB