Working at Southgarth Care Home

The role is mostly routine care with basic group activities like bingo and crafts, no specialist programmes to make work more creative or varied.

There was a range of activities people could participate in. The activity staff put together a monthly activity plan... gardening club, bingo, animal care, flower arranging, craft projects and a weekly exercise class. There is a Southgarth singers choir.

There was a big staff turnover when the new manager arrived, even though things have improved since.

Since the registered manager took up post there had been a significant turnover in staff.

Medication record errors happened 15 times over the past year, even with retraining.

In the last 12 months there had been 15 medicine recording errors. The registered manager had addressed each of these incidents with staff supervision and re-training.