Lifestyle, staffing and diet
We aim to offer our service users the opportunity to enhance their quality of life, to maintain their activities of daily living skills and to maintain their intellectual and social capacities.
We aim to protect the service users rights to:
- Choice, dignity, privacy, civil rights, fulfillment, religious and cultural beliefs
- Freedom from all kinds of abuse, have a range of options open to them
- Calculated risk taking
Lifestyle
- Entertainment and activities are offered, participation is purely optional
- A residents committee meets at least once a month to discuss the various running and routines of the home including menus, and activities
- We are a non-smoking home
- Telephones can be installed in your room alternatively a mobile phone is available in the quiet room
- Clergy, GP’s and hairdressers visit the home on request
- Chiropodists, physiotherapists. opticians, district nurses can also visit via the GP and subject to an assessment of need
Staffing
The home is run by a care manger who is also a registered nurse. In her absence the home is managed by a range of qualified nurses, and care staff many have NVQ 2 and 3 qualifications. All new staff receive an induction to TOPPS specification and throughout the year attend foundation training.
Diet
- Meals and refreshments can be taken in your own room
- Including breakfast
- There is no pressure to get up or go to bed the choice is yours
- Food is prepared on the premises and there is a choice at all meal times
- Tea making in your own room can be facilitated subject to a valid assessment of risk.
