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Amanda Rae Head of Quality and Compliance, Canford Healthcare

19.12.2024

Amanda’s pioneering tech journey

Amanda Rae, our Head of Quality and Compliance, has continued to pioneer the use of technology to provide the best possible person-centred care. Earlier this year, she was honoured with the Digita...

Caron Sanders-Crook, operations manager, Canford Healthcare and East of England SCNAC

05.12.2024

Caron chairs new East of England SCNAC

Our operations manager Caron Sanders-Crook has been appointed as chair of the East of England Social Care Nurse Advisory Council (SCNAC). Caron was previously chair of the Mid and South Essex (MSE...

Ashridge Court Care Centre resident Maureen Hall

05.12.2024

The story of Maureen’s life: war, family and love

Born in August 1940 amidst the chaos and conflict of World War II, Maureen Hall grew up with her older brother Michael in a close-knit family in Sussex. Her milkman father rose before dawn every da...

Pam McFall, Deputy Manager, Ashridge Court Care Centre

29.11.2024

From Manila to Bexhill: Pam’s dementia care journey

Our deputy manager Pam McFall began her dementia care journey in the bustling suburbs of Manila, Philippines, growing up within a large family of nurses and engineers! Inspired by her mother, a ps...

20.09.2024

Tony Wallis-Yeo is our new regional trainer

As our new regional trainer, Tony works alongside colleagues Sandra Rogers and Roy Langstaffe in the team headed up by Sarita Baxter, Learning & Development Manager. Tony grew up in Romford, Es...

Rebecca Listed-Hince, Canford Healthcare's new Quality Support Manager

29.04.2024

Meet Rebecca Histed-Lince – Quality Support Manager

Quality support manager Rebecca Histed-Lince is the newest addition to Canford Healthcare’s quality team. Led by Amanda Rae, head of quality & compliance, the quality team is responsible for e...

Hanne Primrose, nurse, Ashridge Court Care Centre

22.04.2024

Nurse Hanne’s 25 years’ long service

Nurse Hanne Primrose has just achieved a huge milestone – 25 years at Ashridge! Originally from Denmark, Hanne came to the UK as an au pair and decided to stay. After completing her trainin...

Charles Wrightson, Financial Controller at Canford Healthcare

22.04.2024

Introducing Charles Wrightson

Charles Wrightson has become Canford Healthcare’s new financial controller. He manages the finance team, which is based in the company’s Bournemouth office, supported by finance manager Amparo Folg...

Sarita Baxter, Canford Healthcare's new Learning & Development Manager

18.04.2024

Sarita becomes Learning & Development Manager

Sarita joined Canford Healthcare in 2022 as a regional trainer and has recently been promoted to head up the training team. She brings huge experience to the organisation, having been a support wo...

08.04.2024

Introducing Emma Seamons – our new Head of HR

Emma Seamons has become Canford Healthcare’s new Head of Human Resources (HR). Emma knows the organisation (and our homes well), having joined our HR team in 2017 as HR business partner. In this bu...

Brian Cooney and Amanda Rae - Champions of Care

05.04.2024

Amanda Rae – digital innovation winner!

Amanda Rae, our Head of Quality and Compliance, has won Person Centred Software’s Digital Innovation Award at the company’s annual Champions of Care Awards 2024. The awards celebrate the achievemen...

18.01.2024

Caron appointed as a Social Care Nursing Advisory Council chair

Caron Sanders-Crook, our operations manager, has recently been appointed as chair of one of the newly established Social Care Nursing Advisory Councils (SCNACs)…

17.01.2024

Canford Healthcare supports Ukrainian relief charity

Canford Healthcare has recently donated medical/care equipment and supplies to the Tunbridge Wells-based Ukrainian Relief Group (URG) for use by the medical services in war-torn Ukraine, as well as refugees arriving in the UK…

17.01.2024

Meet Roy, our new regional trainer

Roy Langstaffe has joined our regional training team to deliver face-to-face and virtual group training as well as 1:1 coaching to staff across our 11 homes. Before coming to Canford Healthcare, Ro...

17.01.2024

We’re off to the Care Home Awards final!

June is shaping up to be a very busy month for us. Not only are we and our sister homes up for trophies at the HealthInvestor Awards on 7 June at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, but here at As...

17.01.2024

Considering care as a career?

There are so many good reasons for anyone to think seriously about a career in care. For one, it’s incredibly fulfilling and enjoyable, with a high level of job satisfaction and the chance to wo...

17.01.2024

MyCanford – enhanced staff reward & wellbeing

We’re delighted to announce the launch of MyCanford, a revamped and enhanced reward and wellbeing programme for our employees. This offers a wide range of discounts, offers and cashback from over ...

17.01.2024

Canford Healthcare industry award wins

Canford Healthcare’s very own Amanda Rae and Donna Barks have won awards and high commendations at the Women Achieving Greatness in Social Care (WAGS) recently. Donna Barks, manager of our Tunbr...

17.01.2024

Meet our new regional trainers – Sarita and Sandra

We’re delighted to welcome Sarita Baxter and Sandra Rogers to our Learning & Development team. Their appointment comes as part of a strengthening and streamlining of the training and developme...

17.01.2024

Amanda Rae becomes a Queen’s Nurse

We are delighted to announce that Amanda Rae, our quality & compliance manager, has been awarded the title of Queen’s Nurse by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI). The QNI is the U...

17.01.2024

What an amazing achievement!

Last year, one of our longest-serving nurses, Kate Watkins, was due to cycle from Eastbourne to Paris, with her niece Hannah, to raise money for an amazing cause – St Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbour...

17.01.2024

Chief nursing gold award for Caron!

We are delighted to announce that our operations manager, Caron Sanders-Crook, has been awarded the Chief Nursing Officer for Adult Social Care Gold Award in recognition of her outstanding service...

17.01.2024

Debbie Inkersole, our Operations Manager, wins industry award

Debbie Inkersole, our Operations Manager, has triumphed over many other entrants to win the Care Operations/Area Manager Award at the 2021 National Care Awards recently. Organised by Caring Time...

17.01.2024

Spreading cheer to our elderly on World Kindness Day

As World Kindness Day approaches (13 November), Ashridge Court Care Centre is reaching out to the community to ask people to write to our residents. Within just 24 hours of a recent Facebook app...

17.01.2024

Canford Healthcare scoops two trophies at Care Home Awards

Canford Healthcare is delighted to announce that we have won two awards at the 2021 Care Home Awards. Beating off stiff competition, we were named Best for Communication and Best for Non-Clinica...

17.01.2024

Meet our senior care assistant – Joanne Stephens!

Born and raised in London, Jo moved out to the coast at 14 where she attended collage to study I.T Studies. This was a good programme for Jo as she could easily transfer to many different areas of...

17.01.2024

Meet our resident – Alan

Our resident, Alan, is relatively new to the Ashridge family! For one year, he has had time to settle into his new home and has done so with great enthusiasm. For forty years, Alan was a butcher...

17.01.2024

Meet Chloe, a member of our Activities Team!

Chloe lives in Eastbourne and has been a part of the Activities Team for one year, although she has been a part of the Canford family for 5. She loves her job because she finds working with elde...

17.01.2024

Meet our lovely resident Joyce

Joyce has been living at the home for three years and is loving it! She joins in many of the activities, and she’s especially fond of exercise, which reminds her of happy days in school when she w...

17.01.2024

Relatives’ survey – thank you!

We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our relatives who completed our recent relatives’ survey. We are so grateful to you for taking the time to give us your views and provide feedback, which i...

17.01.2024

Introducing Gemma – our Head of Activities

We are delighted to introduce Gemma Carey, our new Head of Activities who joins Carol and Chloe in our busy activities team. Gemma, who has lived in Bexhill-on-Sea all her life, is an experience...

17.01.2024

Introducing our resident Sheila

Sheila has been at Ashridge Court Care Centre for four years. She may already be familiar to many as she has featured in several publications, including our brochure and the Residents’ Guide! Sh...

17.01.2024

Meet Senior Care Assistant Rakcshya

Rakcshya has been at Ashridge since August 2009, and was always told that Ashridge Court was the best home in the area and she loves it, and doesn’t want to work anywhere else. She says ̶...

17.01.2024

Care Assistant Steven Bulgin gives moving speech

Ashridge Court carer, Steven Bulgin, was asked to speak at the 5th annual celebration of the inspirational Sussex-based project, Little Gate Farm. This project, supported by Sussex Community Found...

17.01.2024

Opening of re-designed dementia facilities

We are to proud to announce the opening of an additional six rooms in our Hazel Unit. We have re-designed this area specifically for residents with dementia. At Ashridge Court, we already provide ...

17.01.2024

Our Brexit preparations

The UK is due to leave the European Union (EU) by or on Thursday 31 October 2019. Canford Healthcare is working with suppliers and co-operating fully with Government contingency planning to mini...

17.01.2024

Beryl the Bard of Bexhill goes home

Beryl Billenness, aka the Bard of Bexhill, has returned to her seafront home after three happy months with us at Ashridge. Having been hospitalized with severe dehydration over the summer, Beryl...

17.01.2024

Meet Home Manager Shelley Rabbitt

It’s been four months since Shelley Rabbitt arrived here as our new Home Manager. But Ashridge Court is actually home from home to Shelley who’s lived locally for many years. Having started her ca...

17.01.2024

Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice and guidance

In the light of the Prime Minister’s address yesterday evening and the government’s much tighter restrictions on people leaving their homes, we regret that we must now close our doors to all visit...

17.01.2024

Behind the Smiles: Caron’s moving account of PTSD

Caron Sanders-Crook, our operations manager, is the author of the newly published Behind The Smiles, a no-holds barred exploration of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its devastating impa...

17.01.2024

Manager of our sister care home gives evidence before Joint Select Committee

Theresa Steed, manager of our sister care home, has given evidence at the Coronavirus: Lessons Learnt Inquiry organised jointly by the Science and Technology and the Health and Social Care Committ...

17.01.2024

Canford Healthcare appoints green energy supplier Ecotricity

As part of our drive to conserve resources and reduce our carbon footprint, we have appointed renewable energy expert Ecotricity as the electricity supplier across our 11 homes. Ecotricity’s com...

17.01.2024

Meet our resident, John Plumb!

We’re pleased to introduce our resident John Plumb, who came to live with us at Ashridge Court 14 months ago with Helen, his wife of 67 years. Before coming to Ashridge, the couple enjoyed a ful...

17.01.2024

Initiatives to help people coming into our care home

Tablet for all new long-term residents Making the decision to move into care is never easy at the best of times. Whether this is for you or on behalf of a loved one, you may have concerns about ...

17.01.2024

John’s poetic tribute to carers everywhere

John Plumb, our resident poet here at Ashridge has been busy again. His new poem – a follow-up to his recent Oh Virus! – is a heartfelt tribute to NHS and care staff all over the country. It’s ...

17.01.2024

Introducing our Relatives’ Gateway

Just imagine the scene: it’s the middle of the afternoon, you are sitting in your lounge or at the office and you wonder what sort of a day your loved one is having here at Ashridge Court. You g...

17.01.2024

Good CQC rating for Ashridge

We are delighted to announce that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has assessed Ashridge Court Care Centre as ‘Good’ following a short unannounced inspection on 11 January. The inspectors focusse...

17.01.2024

On yer bike! Kate’s charity ride

Kate Watkins, one of our longest-serving nurses, will be getting on her bike this autumn to raise money for St Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbourne. She and niece Hannah Williams, a contact officer f...

17.01.2024

Save the Date!

Our annual Summer Fete is back on Saturday 14th July. We are looking for donations towards the bottle tombola and the raffle – so if you have contacts with any local businesses who may wish t...

17.01.2024

‘The Haven’ has opened!

We are excited to launch our new outside space, named ‘The Haven’! ‘The Haven’ is a safe, secure and comfortable environment for our residents to enjoy, but most importantly it has been...

17.01.2024

Save the Date!

Come and join us for an afternoon of gin cocktails, canapes and smooth jazz from Helen Sharpe and bluesette on Saturday 25th August. We are limited to 50 people, so if you would like to spot please...

17.01.2024

Meet Resident Alan

From its lofty vantage point amid the rolling downs above Bexhill-on-Sea, Ashridge Court affords its residents and staff stunning long-distance views of the Sussex coastline and the sparkling water...

17.01.2024

Summer Fete

Ashridge Court Care Centre, in Bexhill on Sea, held their annual Summer Fair on Saturday 14th July and with the sun on our side, it was a roaring success. We were joined by Mayor Abul Azad who pro...

17.01.2024

Forget Me Knot

Loving someone who has dementia can, at times, be a challenging and very emotional experience that can be very difficult to know how to understand and cope with. Dave Williams, our Registered Ment...

17.01.2024

Pimp My Zimmer!

We have been showing off our creative talents decorating the residents zimmer frames. Research suggests that residents, especially those living with Dementia, struggle to identify their own frames ...

17.01.2024

Hawkhurst Fish Farm

What a day we had! With our friends from Oomph Wellness we all got on the bus and headed out to Hawkhurst Fish Farm. We all indulged in a spot of lunch at their Waterside Cafe, looking out across t...

17.01.2024

Raystede Animal Sanctuary

We love getting out in the local area, and with our friends from Oomph Wellness, we all hopped on the bus and headed out to Raystede Animal Sanctuary. Raystede is a registered charity, and believes...

17.01.2024

Pottery

We have a lot of residents that are keen artists and are always willing to get stuck into our craft days, so this week we gave pottery a go! With lots of creativity, the residents produced some gre...

17.01.2024

Mad Hatters Tea Party

Talking about memories is one of the many things we love to do with our residents, and when talking about films they love ‘Alice in Wonderland’ came into conversation. They expressed ju...

17.01.2024

Ashridge gets some Oomph!

We’re excited to be partnering with Oomph Wellness, the UK’s leading wellbeing business for older adults, to enhance mental, physical and emotional wellbeing. Our staff at Ashridge have been traine...

17.01.2024

Meet Senior Care Assistant Lisa

Lisa has been at the home for nearly a year and a half and says “We are all one big family here and we look after our residents as we would a member of our own family. I like to buy them thin...

23.11.2023

Gail meets His Majesty the King

It’s not every day that you go to Buckingham Palace to meet His Majesty King Charles III, but that’s exactly what Willows’ clinical manager Gail St Juste-Alcide (pictured second from the left) did recently. Gail had received a surprise invitation to…

09.03.2023

HealthInvestor Awards 2023

We are delighted to have reached the final of the HealthInvestor Awards 2023 in not just one but two categories…

08.09.2022

Queen Elizabeth II, 1926–2022

We mark the sad passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II after 70 extraordinary years on the throne. She was Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, having celebrated her platinum jubilee only two sh...

17.01.1105

Meet the Manager

Caroline Braime joined the Ashridge Court team as the Registered Manager in October 2016, and her experience and dedication in the care sector are evident when you become part of the Ashridge famil...

17.01.0801

Introducing our colleague Natalie

Natalie, also known to family and colleagues as ‘Princess’, has been a member of the Ashridge care team for just over a year, having worked for the previous three over at our sister home in Eastbo...

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