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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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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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Meet Karen Norris, our clinical manager
We’d like to introduce you to Karen Norris, who recently joined the Maples management team as clinical manager.
Karen has had an interesting and varied career so far. After working for the Metropol...
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Introducing Amy Chandler
Amy Chandler has recently joined Maples as our new administrator. Multi-talented Amy is not only an experienced receptionist and administrator, but she’s also a qualified hairdresser and a nail/la...
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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)…
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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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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Meet our new clinical manager – Debbie Hopkins!
Before becoming the new clinical manager at Maples in January 2022, Debbie has had quite a journey. Her love for looking after others showed itself at an early age and, as soon as she finished sch...
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Maples’ Magic Table 360s are a hit with residents!
We have been fortunate enough to be supplied with not one but two magic table 360s, courtesy of Social Ability’s Happiness Programme. We’d like to thank Bexley Council, which funds the project and...
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Meet Our Resident: Former Opera Singer Jackie
Our lovely resident, Jackie, has a wonderfully interesting story which includes travelling to exotic countries and singing real opera!
Her story begins in a roundabout way when, as the you...
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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 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...
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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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Maples’ feathered friends
Residents of Maples have been admiring their lovely new roomies over the past couple of weeks. We are talking about, of course, the amazing lovebird and budgies which were very recently adopted int...
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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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Jo gets shortlisted for important care award
Jo Palmer, Maples Care Home’s very own Clinical Manager, has been shortlisted for The Palliative Care/End of Life Award at this year’s Great British Care Awards.
Jo, who joined Maples Care Home ...
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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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Introducing Jean – our new resident ambassador
We’re delighted to introduce Jean Mizzie, our new resident ambassador here at Maples.
Born in 1935 at Lewisham Hospital, Jean really is just 85 years young! She spent her first four years in Bla...
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The cinema comes to Maples!
After days of build-up and anticipation, with original copies of cinema posters dotted all over the residence, our residents were able to watch a movie in cinema settings, and they did so with glo...
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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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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 Maples.
You grab your...
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Good CQC rating for Maples
We are delighted to announce that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has assessed Maples Care Home as ‘Good’ overall following a two-day inspection in November. The inspectors looked at five key ar...
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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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Thank you, Oomph!
Oomph! has released its 2019 Impact Report giving details of how its work impacts on both residents and care home staff who receive regular training and support.
Oomph’s Jack is a familiar figur...
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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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Thank you, TK Maxx!
We’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to our local Bexleyheath branch of TK Maxx for an incredibly generous and completely out-of-the-blue donation.
Imagine our surprise when two members of the stor...
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Positive CQC assessment for Maples
Although the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has not been visiting care homes over the last three months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has remained in close contact with providers such as our...
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Meet Beryl, our resident ambassador
We’re delighted to introduce Beryl Sharpe, our first resident ambassador here at Maples. Beryl, who joined us in October 2019, is effectively the voice of her fellow residents in meetings with the...
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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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Kind donation of PPE
Here at Maples we’re the delighted recipients of a generous donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) from the Desaguliers Lodge 8324. They meet at the Masonic Lodge in nearby Welling.
Con...
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Manager of our sister care 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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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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Meet our Admin Assistant, Libby
Libby has been at the home for just over a year and a half,
initially starting as a temporary member of staff. Libby really enjoyed her
first three months at the home, so when a permanent position...
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Animal World
We were lucky enough to have a visit from Amazing Animal Encounters. We got to meet an array of animals from sweet spring lambs, a giant rabbit and “squirt” the skunk!
A thoroughly enjoyable aftern...
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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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Incredible Eggs Experience
We became the guardians of a few very precious eggs, so it was our job to keep a close eye on them, to ensure we are there for when they hatch!
They were only with us for 10 days, so it was a daily...
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Showing off our Moves!
Residents, staff, and families were dancing away when new entertainer Jamie Steen, came to visit us at Maples Care Home!
With new costumes throughout the performance, and songs from Frank Sinatra, ...
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Maples Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance
The annual Memorial Service at Maples celebrating the lives of those residents sadly lost over the past year took place on Sunday 29th July 2018. The plan was for the service to take place bathed i...
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Maples 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 Maples have been trained ...
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Shopping Trip!
With our friends from Oomph Wellness we headed out to Bexleyheath for a spot of Christmas shopping, as requested from our residents.
Joyce and Kitty put in a special request to make a trip to Prim...
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Our NEW furry friend!
Research suggests that interaction with pets/animals has a huge benefit on our wellbeing, reducing stress and anxiety but also improving self-esteem, mobility and happiness.
So, we have recently i...
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Fancy Afternoon Tea!
Maples residents enjoyed a wonderful afternoon at the vintage style Pantiles tearoom in Bexleyheath, with our friends from Oomph wellness it was only a short ride on the bus from the home.
As soon ...
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April Activities Programme
An active life is a healthier life, and can help to keep you more alert and mobile. Our activities co-ordinators are dedicated to making sure that your days are filled with interesting things to d...
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Music for Health
Marina from Music
for Health comes to Maples Care Home every fortnight, and it’s an activity that
all our residents look forward to. It’s immediately obvious that residents feel
at ease with Marin...
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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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Peter reaches care awards final
Peter Frost, Maples’ very own Activities
Organiser, has been shortlisted for the Dementia Carer Award at this year’s
Great British Care Awards.
Peter now faces a tough interview with
the judgin...
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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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