Working at Whittingham House

Training covers basics like medicines handling and equality but no specialist courses or funded qualifications mentioned.

Staff had received training in managing medicines and had their competency checked. Staff had received training in equality and diversity.

Some staff are unsure if they feel valued according to the survey results.

there were some staff members who commented on a staff survey stating they neither agreed nor disagreed if they felt valued in the service.

Bathrooms had dirty toilet brushes, open bins, and rusty bits that could spread germs, and medicine trolley had unused medicines not cleared.

we found bins in the bathrooms did not have lids on them and dirty toilet brushes in people’s ensuites... rusty chair frame in a person’s bathroom. Rust can harbour bacteria... multiple boxes of additional medicines kept in the medication trolley which had not been removed