Working at Leeming Bar Grange Care Home

Only basic activities like arts, crafts, quizzes, games and entertainers, so the role involves mostly routine personal care.

They did arts and crafts, quizzes, board games and entertainers came into the service offering exercise sessions and musical afternoons.

Just standard mandatory training and some dementia courses, no funded qualifications or career development.

Staff were up to date with training that the provider deemed as mandatory. Specialist training based on people's specific needs had been completed. For example, dementia care.

Staffing is adequate after recent improvements from previously being too low, but no info on retention or agency use.

One staff member said, "There has been a massive improvement to the service. Staffing levels had gone up." ... "They used to be a bit thin on the ground, but they have employed one or two more recently."