Working at Sutton Manor Care Home

Activities include games, pet therapy and school visits with a coordinator, but no specialist programmes or innovative approaches to make the role more varied.

The weekly programme for the week we visited included skittles, visits from a therapy dog, film shows and board games and a visit from the local nursery schoolchildren.

Staffing is sufficient with reduced agency use after addressing turnover concerns, but no long-serving team or exceptional stability mentioned.

Where people had also commented about 'slower staff turnover would improve the service' actions had been taken. Additional staff had already been appointed and the home was significantly less reliant on agency staff.