Working at Gifford House Care Home

Managers have unclear roles and weak quality checks, so they might miss issues affecting your work.

roles and responsibilities in the management team were not always clear and the planning of quality checks needed improving to ensure consistency.

Just one overstretched activities coordinator means your day is mostly routine personal care with little variety.

There was 1 activity coordinator, supported occasionally by care staff. They were thinly stretched across the large service.

Safeguarding is not a big focus or discussed much, so less emphasis on keeping people protected.

systems in place around safeguarding; however, it was not a prominent theme across the service. We looked at multiple minutes from different meetings and noted safeguarding was not directly discussed at the meetings.