Last updated: 9 February 2026
"Excellent leadership, innovative activities and proactive safety culture, although slower night responses and busier teatimes need attention."
Proactive safety culture with openness; effective risk reduction model led to significant measurable fall reductions; incidents investigated thoroughly, lessons learnt.
Proactive culture of honesty, openness, learning; staff felt supported, valued, worked well as team, confident to raise concerns and be listened to.
Enough qualified skilled staff using dependency tool; staff felt supported and worked well as team; mostly positive feedback but some noted slower night responses and more needed at teatime.
Staff received training, induction, shadowing, regular supervision, appraisals; encouraged to be champions in dignity, nutrition, end of life, medicines, safeguarding.
Management team consisted of excellent leaders who had skills to deliver exceptional support; relatives said 'manager always available, approachable, down to earth, door always open'.
Creative personalisation like family singing recordings to reduce distress, audio-described pantomime, RNIB partnership reducing hallucinations/falls, football club player visit in local press.
Staffing is good overall but some relatives said responses took longer at night and more staff would help at teatime, so shifts might feel busy then.
They went on to say that in the daytime staff responded quickly but it took longer at night. Another relative felt people would benefit from having more staff to support them at teatime.
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Last inspected: May 2025
Management Quality
Well-led: Outstanding
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