Nursing Home in Gloucestershire - Northleach Court
Northleach Court, our nursing home Gloucestershire, is family-owned and run so we avoid the focus of corporately run homes simply on clinical matters. We look to maximise each resident’s overall well-being, so in addition to fantastic clinical care, we also focus on each individual and their holistic needs and aspirations, be they related to hobbies, activities, nutrition, spirituality etc.
What is a nursing care home?
A nursing care home simply provides regular, daily nursing care – rather than having district nurses visit the home, which the majority of care homes can offer.
Nursing homes Gloucestershire are needed if a resident requires care that cannot be provided at home or in a residential care environment. With a focus and many years of experience, we provide nursing care for people with complex long-term conditions, including mental and physical disabilities.
What type of nursing care does Northleach offer?
Our nursing home in Northleach provides a wide range of nursing care services, including private dementia care with nursing and Alzheimer’s nursing care. We can provide permanent residential nursing care or short-term respite nursing care.
At Northleach Court Care Home, a nursing home Gloucestershire, our highly trained team provides residents with the best nursing care available in a friendly and non-clinical environment. Our high-quality care and comfortable ‘home from home’ environment make us a popular choice for nursing homes in Gloucestershire and nursing homes in The Cotswolds. Northleach Nursing Care Home does not look or feel at all like most people’s perceptions of a ‘nursing home’ and is certainly a world away from a newly built ultra-modern home. Instead, it is often complimented for feeling homely and a ‘home away from home’.
How is nursing care provided?
Nursing care is provided under the ever-watchful eye of the Registered Manager and our Clinical Lead by our in-house nurses (RGNs), who are available to our residents 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Unlike many other residential nursing homes, we absolutely will not use agency nurses. A fantastic team of senior carers and care assistants supports the nurses at our nursing home in Northleach.
Unlike many residential nursing homes, ‘mandatory training’ is simply the minimum for us. We invest significantly in supporting and encouraging all our staff to undertake a wide range of additional training and to develop their own areas of interest to encourage career progression.
For example, the Northleach team is very experienced in understanding why someone living with dementia may become upset, distressed, or angry. Not only do they know exactly how to comfort people individually, but they will also implement strategies and interventions to help reduce or prevent any such recurrence.
We also benefit from the weekly input from our very experienced Head of Care Quality and Governance, who constantly introduces new ideas and industry best practices to everything we do.
What also makes us stand out against other nursing homes in Gloucestershire is our team’s use of a ‘next generation’ electronic care planning and monitoring system which massively reduces the time they otherwise would have to spend on writing care records and allows them to spend more time with residents. Additionally, the system generates alerts in real-time, so if specific care tasks have not been completed on time, alerts are sent to care staff, nurses, and the manager (even if she is at home). They are subsequently automatically escalated to the Directors’ smartphones. This system helps ensure that we are incredibly responsive to residents’ minute-by-minute needs and wishes and are also proactive in making changes to optimise their long-term well-being. It makes us an ideal choice if you are searching for a nursing home Gloucestershire.
What are the benefits of choosing privately owned residential nursing homes?
These days, all care homes are privately owned, so if you want to avoid the corporate feel, it is best to look for somewhere family-owned and run like our homes. This allows us freedom over the homes, so private nursing care can be tailored to the individuals’ holistic needs, not just their medical ones.
At our private residential nursing homes Gloucestershire, we believe that all residents should lead happy, healthy and fulfilled lives regardless of the level of care required. Northleach Court Private Care Home has a dedicated Wellbeing Coordinator who works with the entire care team to ensure our residents are happy and engaged in things which interest and fulfil their specific wishes and entertained by one of our wide range of high-quality activities, including specialist Dementia activities. Examples of these activities include meeting various animals, silent discos and gardening. We ensure that residents who may be bed-bound or wish to remain in their bedrooms have frequent visits by care staff during the day to spend quality time with them, talking or providing a manicure, playing a game, reading or another activity of their choice.
As part of our residential nursing care provision, we create a detailed care package for each resident specific to their needs and requirements. Care packages are regularly reviewed and updated, and we work closely with GPs and specialist healthcare professionals to ensure that changing requirements from complex needs or illnesses are met. Our staff are passionate about providing the highest quality of nursing care to all residents, and we aim to be one of the best nursing homes in Gloucestershire.
