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Dementia author Sam visits Mayflower
Residents, families and staff were delighted to welcome Sam Dondi-Smith to Mayflower Care Home earlier this week for a reading of his new book, Waiting for the Bus. Sam’s visit also formed part of...
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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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Claudia Ramsamy – an inspirational and courageous leader
Claudia Ramsamy, manager of Mayflower Care Home and employee of our parent company Canford Healthcare since 2014, has so far had an inspiring journey in the care sector. This is a testament to her...
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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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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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What a cracking result!
Many congratulations to our intrepid team who completed the Walk for a Cure in Kensington Gardens recently, raising an impressive £1,047 for Alzheimer’s Research UK. That, plus an extra £209.25 in...
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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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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)…
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 Ma...
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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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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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Mayflower Recruitment Day 26 April 2023
Mayflower Care Home is excited to announce a drop-in style Recruitment Day on Wednesday, 26 April from 10am to 5pm. We’d love to meet established carers, nurses, and domestic staff looking fo...
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Come to our Recruitment Day 26 April 2023
Mayflower Care Home is excited to announce our drop-in style Recruitment Day on Wednesday, 26 April from 10am to 5pm. We’d love to meet established carers, nurses, and domestic staff looking ...
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New manager for Mayflower
We’re delighted to announce that Claudia Ramsamy has become manager here at Mayflower Care Home, while former manager Nicola Bundock has moved over to manage one of our sister homes, Maples Care Ho...
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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 Mayflower.
You grab y...
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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...
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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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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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We are recruiting now!
Are you an established carer or nurse in the Gravesend area who is looking for a fresh challenge? The best carers have good communication skills, patience, empathy and the ability to remain calm u...
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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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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...
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Mayflower and ellenor Hospice – a great team!
Mayflower Care Home was delighted to be used as a case study for ellenor Hospice’s website recently. The two organisations often collaborate and ellenor wanted to focus on the home’s dementia care...
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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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Anyone for gingerbread?
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 Mayflower we didn’t jus...
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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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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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Manager of our sister home gives evidence before Joint Select Committee
Theresa Steed, manager of our sister home Tunbridge Wells Care Centre, has given evidence at the Coronavirus: Lessons Learnt Inquiry organised jointly by the Science and Technology and the Health ...
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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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Catherine Roe visits Mayflower
We were delighted to welcome Catherine Roe, Chief Executive of Elior UK, who popped over recently to see the company’s snacks and textured modified foods in use at the home.
One of the biggest c...
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Nutrition & Hydration Week
Nutrition and Hydration
week took place this year from 11th – 17th March, and
encourages organisations to highlight and promote the importance of nutrition
and hydration within our diets.
When ...
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Nightingale Dogs
Every month we look forward to a visit from Nightingale Dogs and their adorable four-legged friends!
This time we were greeted with a new face, Norman, who is a cross Tibetan Spaniel x Chihuahua. I...
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Zoo Lab Visit
We had a great session when Zoo Lab came to visit us at Mayflower Care Home.
Although a little unsure at first, residents got to a meet a very friendly giant land snail, which some of them held the...
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Staff Awards
Our staff are our biggest asset, and we do everything we can to make sure they are supported and rewarded when they do great work!
So, to celebrate our amazing staff, we hosted the ‘Mayflower...
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Life Size board games!
We always love to get everyone involved in the activities, so our life-size board games always entice a few extra friendly faces to join in.
We played snakes and ladders and quiots, with a change f...
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Care Home Open Day
This year’s National Care Home Open Day also coincided with the Queen’s birthday, so at Mayflower Care Home we had our very own royal party – with delicious sandwiches and tempting cupc...
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Wild Science
Animal therapy sessions are proven to provide a wide range of benefits to residents, it is much more than just a rabbit sitting on your lap, it becomes a social and interactive session that can spa...
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Meet our Deputy Manager, Wendy
Wendy has worked in the care sector for nearly 28 years, but when she was 16 and having just left school she was unsure about what she wanted to do as a career. She initially wanted to be a police ...
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Caroline’s Scottish themed Birthday!
Resident Caroline was born and spent most of her childhood in Edinburgh, she then moved to Norfolk when she became a Nurse. However, her Scottish roots are always with her and when she turned 80 ye...
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Mayflower 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 Mayflower have been train...
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Residents do Ruxley!
We always love to get out into the local area, and share happy memories when our residents were growing up in and around Gravesend.
With our friends from Oomph Wellness we headed out to Ruxley Mano...
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Happy Anniversary Joan & Ray!
We would like to wish Resident Joan and her husband Ray a very happy 65th Wedding Anniversary!
They were thoroughly spoilt with flowers and lots of love on the day. And when asking Ray, whatR...
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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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Oodles of Spoodles!
There was a lot of excitement in all three dining rooms at Mayflower yesterday, thanks to the launch of Caterplus’ new initiative that provides consistent and nutritionally balanced porti...
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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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What a lovely surprise!
We were surprised and totally delighted to receive five beautiful bunches of spring flowers yesterday from the Bluewater branch of M&S.
It was an
extremely kind gesture and the flowers are b...
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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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Good CQC rating for Mayflower
We are delighted to announce that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has given Mayflower Care Home an ‘Outstanding’ rating in the well-led category following an unannounced inspection in September....
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