Accomodation
The home is set in a semi-rural location and benefits from peaceful, quiet surroundings and a friendly community. The buildings are spacious and well maintained and offer a high quality environment with a good degree of privacy, spread over two floors.
The grounds are spacious and are fully accessible to residents to enjoy. It is our mission to offer our Service Users an excellent standard of living in comfortable, homely conditions and we make every effort to ensure a friendly, welcoming atmosphere in a home which is maintained in good order, comfortably furnished and attractively decorated.
Communal Areas
While the home provides a range of activities and facilities for people to join together, the home also respects the rights of individuals to have their ‘own space’, particularly when family and friends are visiting. To support this, we have a number of different communal areas including 3 television rooms and 2 ‘quieter’ rooms where residents can sit and chat or read or enjoy the garden views. We also have a conservatory, patio area and several ‘quiet spots’ in the garden.
The dining room is tastefully laid out to accommodate all of our residents plus guests and helpers.
In addition, the home has a games room, a conservatory and a small hair salon.
The home has disabled toilets by the entrance and another set close to the dining room and lounge. All of these have enough turning space for large, self-propelled wheelchairs and call facilities should a Service User require help.
Bedrooms, Bath & Shower Facilities
Currently, 11 of our 44 bedrooms are en suite single rooms. All rooms have washing facilities. We encourage residents to decorate, furnish and equip their rooms in their own style and use them as much as they wish for leisure, meals and entertaining. All bedrooms have locks on the doors.
Access
All parts of the home are accessible for those with limited mobility, for wheelchair users and for those with disabilities. All doorways in the house are wide enough to be accessible by wheelchairs.
We have replaced steps and level changes with easy to navigate slopes with grab rails. All parts of the home are well signposted using signs that are highly visible to help those with visual disabilities.
Passenger Lift
The home has a shaft lift to take two persons, or one person and a wheelchair.
Valuables
A lockable cabinet is available on request for every bedroom for Service Users’ personal possessions and a safe is also available in the main office where residents can store valuable items. A full record of money and valuables is maintained by the home for auditing purposes. Unfortunately, although insurance provisions are in place (see Service User Guide), the home cannot take responsibility for any valuable items brought to the home.
The Grounds
The care home has well-kept and well planned gardens which are designed to provide a restful and attractive setting for the home. Considerable improvements have been made to the gardens over recent years to open them up and allow in more sunlight, as well as making them more accessible for Service Users. A number of level paths, all of them useable for wheelchairs, offer access to all parts of the grounds and there is ample lighting to ensure that people can move safely around in the dark.
We have two pleasant patio areas. There are a range of covered seating areas and parasols for shelter from the sun.