Working at Sandbeck House Residential Home

The activities are too few and too short, so the job is mostly routine care with little to make it varied.

no activities at all recorded in the 27 days between 5 and 31 October... only 12 activities recorded [in September]... morning craft activity lasted around 20 minutes and involved only 4 of the 21 people

Staff numbers are enough to get by without rushing, but they had to adjust the rota during the inspection.

Reflecting feedback from our inspectors on the first day... the provider took immediate action to reorganise the rota to ensure additional staffing in the evening

Some staff do not always use their training right, like on safely moving people or infection control.

some isolated instances when staff had failed to put their training into practice, in the areas of moving and handling and infection prevention and control