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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...
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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...
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Another end-of-life care triumph for Cedars
Debbie Day and Cedars Care Home have won the East of England Great British Care Awards’ Palliative/End-of-Life Care Award this year.
Home manager Victor Zingoni, end-of-life lead Debbie, deputy ma...
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Cedars‘ gold standard palliative care reconfirmed
Cedars has been re-accredited as part of the Gold Standards Framework (GSF), and we have also received GSF’s Quality Hallmark Award in recognition of our excellent end-of-life care.
Our home manag...
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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...
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Cedars brings home prestigious palliative care award
Here at Cedars we’re delighted to be making space for a new award in our reception area – the extremely handsome Support for Family Carers Award – which we won at the Palliative and End-of-Life Aw...
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Cedars hosts DHSC visit
We were delighted to welcome several representatives from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) at Cedars Care Home recently.
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Cedars team helps shape the future of palliative care
Our deputy manager Anna Holdstock and Debbie Day, the home’s head end-of-life lead, participated in a prestigious, high-level industry discussion on palliative and end-of-life care recently.
Anna ...
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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...
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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)…
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...
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BBC Radio Essex cake donation celebrates Southend’s city status
Sunny it most certainly wasn’t, but the day on which Southend-on-Sea became a city represented a dream come true for its inhabitants, and the culmination of many years of campaigning by their late...
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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...
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Happy 10th birthday, Cedars!
Cedars Care Home is celebrating its tenth birthday this year – an amazing decade filled with fantastic residents with all sorts of interesting backgrounds, cared for by brilliant professionals who...
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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...
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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...
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Canford Healthcare award industry 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...
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Another Success for Cedars
Cedars Care Home has just aced another internal mock inspection, scoring an outstanding 96% and setting a high bar for other homes within the Canford Healthcare umbrella.
Every quarter, each hom...
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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 ...
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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...
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Residents uplifted by Caron’s gong bath session
Although yoga and meditation have been a feature of life here at Cedars for several years, we started to mix it up during the pandemic by offering yoga with tai chi. It went down really well with r...
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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 Cedars.
You grab your...
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Operations Manager Debbie Inkersole 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...
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Cedars wins industry awards – and achieves palliative care excellence
Cedars Care Home has triumphed over hundreds of other entrants to win several prestigious awards at this year’s East of England regional final of the Great British Care awards. We have also been r...
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Meet our determined deputy manager – Anna Holdstock
From elderly people with dementia to young people with learning disabilities, Anna has cared for them all at some point in her 15+ year career in care. She was originally in dementia care however ...
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Doris’ amazing untold secret!
There are many stories to be told from the past that are forgotten in time, but sometimes they are discovered, and they are often stories of older generations. In this case, our lovely resident Do...
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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...
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Radio 4 show up at Cedars!
On Friday 18 June we were visited by reporter JP Devlin from BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, who was keen to hear about how our home coped during the pandemic.
JP interviewed several people at th...
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Our gingerbread house creation
Our staff and residents have had a lot of fun creating a gingerbread house recently, for another competition against our other 10 sister Canford Healthcare homes.
Here at Cedars we didn’t just m...
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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...
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Lisa, our colleague and friend – we’ll remember you with great fondness and love
It is with tremendous regret that we are announcing the sad loss of Lisa Harris, a shift coordinator and key member of our team here at Cedars Care Home.
Lisa had been part of the Cedars family ...
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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...
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Manager of our sister care home gives evidence before Joint Select Committee
Theresa Steed, manager of our sister care home Tunbridge Wells Care Centre, has given evidence at the Coronavirus: Lessons Learnt Inquiry organised jointly by the Science and Technology and the He...
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Spreading a little cheer on World Kindness Day
As World Kindness Day approaches (13 November) and with the country in the midst of another national lockdown, we’re inviting our local community to send in letters, postcards, drawings and ...
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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 ...
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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...
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Cedar’s Debbie Day wins prestigious care award
Debbie Day from Cedars Care Home has won the coveted National Palliative Care/End of Life Award at this year’s Great British Care Awards.
These awards celebrate excellence across the sector, pr...
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Colourful Post-It montage graces our reception area
Visitors to Cedars can’t fail to notice a colourful montage featuring figures holding hands – all made entirely out of post-it notes – that’s currently taking pride of place in reception!
In cas...
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Prittlewell Priory Visit
We always love to get out in the local area and many of our residents grew up in the area, so it brings back many fond memories.
Prittlewell Priory was founded in the 12th century, by monks fro...
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Southend Pier Trip
The recent sunny weather makes a trip to Southend Pier a must!
And as part of our local history month, we all enjoyed sharing childhood stories of living by the pier and spotted a few historical po...
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Wallasea Island
What a lovely day it was!
We visited the Wallasea Island Wild Coast project which is an RSPB Reserve.
With our very own tour guide of the reserve, we had great fun bird spotting and enjoyed a tasty...
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Green Fingers!
We’ve been super busy in the garden, working on our very own vegetable patch.
We have lettuce, radishes, garlic cucumber, tomatoes, and peas growing!
We can’t wait to try out these for ...
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Priory Park Visit
The sun was on our side when we headed out to Priory Park for a wonderful afternoon.
We all enjoyed a walk around the grounds, the beautiful house and a chance for a spot of afternoon tea too.
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Ice Cream Parlour
As part of our local history month, we headed out to Rossi’s ice cream parlour!
They have been serving award-winning ice cream since 1932 – and what better excuse than to enjoy some del...
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Banjo Time!
What a wonderful morning we had, enjoying some great music from Andrew playing his banjo in the garden!
We all clapped, toe-tapped and sang along in the glorious sunshine.
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Meet our Deputy Manager
Nicky Short has been the Deputy Care Home Manager at Cedars for almost two years, although she has spent her entire working life helping others. She is a familiar face to staff, residents and visit...
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Reminiscence
We enjoyed an afternoon of reminiscence, looking through old newspapers, postcards and photos. Sparking lots of conversation between the residents.
Why are these activities important for our resid...
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Busy Crates!
The wellbeing of our residents is paramount to us and is something that every member of staff has an input into. Our Nurses stations at Cedars is the hub of the home, and a lot of our residents con...
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Cedars flying club!
This week we introduced our residents to the world of virtual Flight simulators!
After a brief introduction on what they would be doing by Stephen our Activites Assistant, our residents used the co...
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Wild Science comes to Cedars!
“I think I will have one of these at home!” and “ooo we are not going to eat him are we?” were just a few of the comments from our residents when Wild Science joined us at Cedars!...
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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 min...
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Brave Nicky – ‘The hair’s got to go!’
For most of us, our hair is our crowning glory. The average British woman spends £756 on her locks if you include haircuts, products and treatments. But Deputy Home Manager Nicky Williamson has – ...
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Ray Palmer – Antiques Roadshow star
Our very own Ray Palmer recently appeared on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow to share his memories of being evacuated from home and of serving in Burma during the Second World War.
Now
aged 95, 15-...
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Debbie wins palliative care award
Our own Debbie Day triumphed over hundreds of other entrants to win The Palliative Care/End of Life Award at this year’s Great East of England Care Awards recently – and she wasn’t eve...
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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…
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...
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HealthInvestor Awards 2023
We are delighted to have reached the final of the HealthInvestor Awards 2023 in not just one but two categories…
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...
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Flower Arranging
Our hairdresser Leigh is a big part of our home, and as well as hairdressing she is also a very talented florist!
So, with boxes full of beautiful flowers Leigh held a fantastic flower arranging m...
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