Working at Highfield Care Home

Activities include a coordinator running events, hairdressing, and virtual reality games, but nothing specialist or innovative to vary the workday much.

Per 2018 inspection: An activity coordinator was employed... organised a variety of events... virtual reality projector... hairdresser chatting with people.

Some risk plans and care notes lack full details staff need to manage health issues, and a few high-risk meds missed proper checks initially.

Care plans and risk assessments sometimes lacked the necessary detail to support staff with managing specific healthcare needs. Some medicines with known additional risks had not been appropriately risk assessed or recorded.

Training covers basics like first aid, catheter care, and e-learning with some shadowing, but no funded specialist courses or career development programmes.

we do medicine rounds, we get training such as first aid training, catheter care... I shadow the nurses; I shadow team leaders. I also do e-learning.