Station House receives glowing feedback from parents

Working in the care sector has been extremely difficult over the past few years due to Covid and the Nationwide staffing shortages that present challenges every day.  But the Registered manager and his team of amazing support workers at Station House have really gone above and beyond recently in the levels of care they provide. We recently sent out feedback forms to the service user’s parents and the comments received back from them are an example of the hard work the staff have been putting in. 

·      Our Daughter is treated with such care and compassion by the wonderful members of staff that look after her.

·      The manager and his staff genuinely have the welfare of our daughter and other adults first and foremost. A truly lovely home, which we feel we have been extremely lucky to find for our daughter. 

·      Station House has done an awful lot of work these last few weeks to enable the home to grow from strength to strength. It has put a lot of plans in fruition to keep the home and everyone in it safe.

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Supported Living Scheme

A key part of what we do to empower individuals that we support is to help with the development of independent daily living skills that would allow them to move onto more independent settings. With this aim in mind, we are delighted to announce that we have purchased our first home that we will soon start working on to convert into a shared supported living home. 

Supported living is an alternative to residential care homes, where individuals will be provided the same high levels of support but in a more independent setting. 

This means that some of the individuals that currently live in residential settings will be able to move into more independent settings when they are ready, and be assured to receive the same high quality of support that they have become used to with us, but in a more independent environment. 

To head up this new offering we are delighted to welcome Kerrie Lightwood to the management team at Godfrey Barnes Care. Kerrie come’s with a wealth of experience and knowledge of the sector having headed up a substantial portfolio of successful supported living schemes across the region in previous roles. 

In addition to this we are very proud to have partnered up with a reputable Housing Association that will ensure the needs of individual’s placed within this home are met to the highest standards and that any support requirements that they may have are always picked up.  

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Smiles at Christmas

2020 has been challenging for many of us to say the least, but none more so than the nations care homes. At Godfrey Care, we have tried to maintain some normality as much as we can, whilst trying to ensure the safety of the service users and our teams. We appreciate that the lock downs have been really difficult for service users and families alike, particularly with the run up to Christmas and not being able to enjoy the simple things such as seeing loved ones. We are over the moon to share with you our brand new purpose built, indoor private pods within our care homes. The creation of the pods allows residents and their families to meet in a safe space without entering the care home and helps to keep the bond of families and service users. After every visit, the pods are deep cleaned to minimise the chance of infection and ensure the safety of our services users. 

Sarah Lycett – Service Manager for Ashby House  said “The pod at Ashby House looks fantastic! I am really looking forward to seeing the positive impact it will have on our residents and the smiles on not only their faces, but their loved ones as well. We couldn’t ask for a better Christmas present this year at Ashby House.

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Sowing seeds of hope!

As part of the Easter celebrations service users across all sites have taken part in planting sunflowers in their homes gardens. This will form part of a competition across sites to see which home can grow the tallest sunflower. Additionally there have been several garden parties, Easter egg hunts and lots more outdoor activities making the best of the amazing weather that we have been having and giving the service users a safe opportunity to get out and about whilst still under the lockdown.

Other activities have included creating a McDonalds themed dinner after a few of the service users mentioned that they would like to go. Due to lockdown we couldn’t, so the teams took this as an opportunity to make an activity with the service users and helped them make their very own home-made McDonalds meals! 

We always say that we are immensely proud of the teams we have and the amazing work and dedication they show, but in light of the challenges that we all face during this hard time words struggle to describe the immense feeling of pride that we have to work with such amazing teams and service users!

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Rising to the challenge

In these challenging times we’ve been taking the governments advice around social distancing to protect our service users and teams health as much as possible. to try and minimise the impact on everyone’s lives we’re trying to keep a sense of normality for all service users as much as possible, whilst working around the challenges that we all face as a society with things such as shortages in the shops and not being able to get out to do the normal day to day activities that are intrinsic parts of what we all do.

Instead we have set up alternatives within the homes such as setting up a tuck shop to get the service users to still take part in buying their weekly treats, changing the weekly menus to accommodate the changes with food items being available within shops and doing outside activities in the homes garden areas to ensure that everyone still gets the chance to get some fresh air daily and the chance to walk in the outdoors. 

To say that we are proud our all our staff would be an understatement!  The selfless approach that they have all taken to ensure that we maintain as much a sense of normality as possible in for all service users in these unprecedented times goes far beyond what would be expected – we’re lucky and proud to work with you all! 

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