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Don becomes our new deputy manager
Don Morris, a well-known and much-loved figure at our sister home, Mayflower in Gravesend, has embarked on an exciting new chapter in his career by moving here to Tunbridge Wells Care Centre (TWCC...
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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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Alex Flori – highly commended!
Alex Flori, a nurse here at Tunbridge Wells Care Centre (TWCC), received a highly commended at the Great British Care Awards’ south-east regional final in Brighton recently.
One of 13 finalists in ...
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Rynagh’s splendid award win!
Rynagh Cornish, Tunbridge Wells Care Centre’s administration assistant, has won a prestigious award at the Great British Care Awards.
Having beaten off stiff competition to reach the star-studded s...
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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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TWCC hosts DHSC visit
We were delighted to welcome several representatives from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) at our home recently.
The group, which was drawn from across the DHSC’s Adult Social Care ...
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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)…
Raymond’s big Bentley birthday
Tunbridge Wells Care Centre resident Raymond King enjoyed a very special 104th birthday recently…. with the help of a fabulous Bentley Flying Spur!
Raymond, who moved into the home in December 2021...
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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 Resident – Norah Conlon
Norah, a much-loved member of our TWCC family since her arrival in 2021, was born in County Clare (Ireland) in July 1930. Along with her seven sisters and four brothers, she was brought up on a fa...
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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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Donna’s industry award win
Our home manager Donna Barks and our quality & compliance manager Amanda Rae have won awards and high commendations at the Women Achieving Greatness in Social Care (WAGS) recently.
Donna Bar...
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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 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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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 Tu...
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Meet our lovely resident, Mary
At 106 years young, Mary is a remarkable woman. She was born in Sheffield in April 1915 and enjoyed a “very happy childhood”. She had “lovely” parents – her dad worked as a morning paper deliverer...
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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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Theresa Steed appears on TV news
Theresa Steed, our home manager, appeared on ITV News Meridian on Tuesday 12 October, following the release of the Coronavirus: Lessons learned so far report, published by the Science and Technolo...
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Introducing Luke, our activities organiser
Born and raised in Turkey, Luke grew up in Bursa (north-west Turkey), then went on to study first mechanical engineering, then shipping management in Istanbul. After completing his national milita...
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Meet Charles Carey – our new clinical manager
Charles Carey, our new clinical manager, is not new to the Canford family. Having moved over from Maples recently, Charles was originally a nurse but quickly rose through the ranks there to Team L...
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Meet our resident Doreen!
Born in Pembury hospital in January 1929, Doreen really is a local girl!
Growing up in the High Brooms area, Doreen remembers her childhood during World War Two – the frightening shriek of doodl...
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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 Tunbridge Wells Care Ce...
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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 Tunbridge Wells Care Ce...
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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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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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Meet Nurse Aguida
Aguida has worked at Tunbridge Wells Care Centre for just over a year. Before that she worked as a community nurse and in wound care and before taking time out to have her son she worked at Guys ho...
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Bentley Museum Visit
When residents join Tunbridge Wells Care Centre, they are asked if they would like to do one thing, what would it be? This is then put up on the ‘wish’ board, and the Activities team at the home do...
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Music Session
A big thank you to Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys for a great musical session, showing us your many talents.
We all loved clapping along to some great tunes, and we can’t wait to see...
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Amazing Animal World!
We always love visits from Our Amazing Animal World, their mix of animals always amazes us, and it is safe to say the little hedgehog stole many hearts!
It’s well-known and scientifically proven th...
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Arts & Crafts
We have been showing off our artistic flair, making some beautiful tissue paper flowers for our Summer display board.
It was also our work experience student, Olivia’s, last day with us. She has be...
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Abra kadabra!
It was a magical afternoon of tricks, floating umbrellas, and white rabbits.
With oooos and ahhhs coming from the residents, we really were wowed by the fantastic magic show!
We can’t wait fo...
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We do like to be beside the seaside!
The beautiful summer weather called for a trip to the seaside.
We headed off to Bexhill-on-Sea for the day, to enjoy some sunshine by the seaside. With perfect blue skies, we had a wonderful day, i...
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Summer Fair
We held our annual Summer Fair on Saturday 18th August and with the sun on our side, it was a roaring success.
There were games for the young, and the old to get involved with, from the hook the du...
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Sissinghurst Castle
We have been blessed with some beautiful October sunshine this year, so it would be rude not to go out and enjoy it!
So, with our good friends from Oomph Wellness, we headed out to the stunning Sis...
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Inner Wheel
We felt incredibly lucky when we had a visit from five lovely ladies from The Inner Wheel, who have very kindly and painstakingly put together a beautiful quilt for our home. Whilst there, they tol...
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Penshurst Place
There are so many wonderful places to visit in and around Tunbridge Wells, and this week we headed out with our friends from Oomph Wellness to beautiful Penshurst Place in Tonbridge. With the build...
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Meet Healthcare Assistant Alice
Alice has worked at the home for two years, previously working with adults with learning disabilities and wanted a change. Her mother has always been in the care sector and encouraged her to give ...
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Westerham Brewery
Residents, staff and our friends from Oomph Wellness all hopped on the bus to go and visit the Westerham Brewery for the day – a trip we had all been looking forward to!
The Brewery was es...
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Kind donation of ‘twiddle muffs’
The Tunbridge Wells Inner Wheel has kindly given us 20 handmade ‘twiddle muffs’. These hand muffs have interesting items such as buttons and ribbons attached to them. They are great fo...
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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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Introducing Reefa
Admin assistant Reefa Le Clos is a friendly new face on
Reception here at the Tunbridge Wells Care Centre.
South African born Reefa (christened Aretha) moved to
the UK six months ago with husban...
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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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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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