Celebrating Life at St Anne’s Nursing Home
One of our residents recently left us and his memory is celebrated in the Bournemouth Echo. George Claxton, who lived in Southbourne, was one of a small number of Chindits still alive and was part of one of the most gruelling operations of the war. Known officially as...
New visiting policy in place 1st August 2020
We are constantly thriving to update and maintain the safety of our Residents and staff throughout the pandemic. Our new visiting protocol has been updated based on Public Health England and Government advice. Please view our "Staying in Touch" page on our website for...
New Unified Management Team
All of the WCN Care team, residents and their families are saddened to say goodbye to our manager at St Anne's, Jo Cole. Jo has selflessly dedicated herself to the residents and staff of St Anne’s Nursing Home for more than 21 years. She will be much missed. We are...
Happy despite these strange times
The residents at St Anne's Nursing Home received some cards from 2 little children who wanted to make them feel special. Melissa and Drew, 4 and 2, wrote cards for each and every resident as they wanted to make sure that they remained happy despite these strange...
Mexican Day – Arriba
Here is a story from Stour Road Care Home prior to the pandemic. In March the team at Stour Road Care Home put together a Mexican themed day for the residents to enjoy. In the lead up to the day, residents made decorations and rice shakers. Mexican day started with...
St Anne’s in the Sunshine
We would like to share with you some stories prior to the current COVID-19 outbreak. At the beginning of March our sister home, Stour Road Care Home, kindly invited us to visit the alpacas on their Mexican themed day. Lisa, one of our care team, kindly made this...
Celebrating Christmas and Investing in Activities at St Anne’s Nursing Home
Here at St Anne's Nursing Home, situated in a quiet residential area of Southbourne, we have had a fabulous Christmas and New Year period. At Christmas we celebrated with Christmas Carols and a festive meal for all our residents, families and team. Throughout 2020 we...
Chinese New Year
Last month we celebrated Chinese New Year, with various activities taking place in the lead up to the day. Activities included Chinese writing, making traditional Chinese coolie hats, coloring dragons and rats and making Chinese lanterns. Both the residents and staff...
Royalty at Stour Road Care Home
Kyla, one of the team, was kind enough to bring in Nagini the Royal Python into the home. The residents were asked if they were comfortable with her prior to bringing her out and we were really pleased that all residents wanted to see her, some were even brave enough...
Our year in review 2019
2019 has been a big year for the WCN Care Group. Stour Road Care Home became part of the family and St Anne's Nursing Home grew from strength to strength. We have produced an infographic to highlight some of the things that we think describe what we have done in 2019
RGN Night Nurse
St Anne's Nursing Home has a small cohesive team providing excellent care in a safe, warm, happy environment that is homely in scale. Why not come and be part of this team? We are looking for a Registered Nurse RGN for 24 to 48 hours a week of night work. The rate is...
We are looking for a Nurse to join our team
We are looking for a Nurse to join our small team at St Anne's Nursing Home. As a New Year's treat we are offering a joining bonus of £1000*. More information through this...
Night Nurse and Night HCA
We are looking for a night Nurse and night Carer to join our small cohesive team, providing excellent care in a safe, warm, happy environment that is homely in scale. We are offering a Christmas New Joiner Bonus for both roles, more details on the job advert. 17 bed...
Summer Party
St Anne's hosted its annual summer party in mid July. The event was well attended with residents, families, friends and staff attending, both young and old. This year we had bike rides for the more able residents around Christchurch and to the coast. There was food...
Registered Nurse – RGN – Full Time
We are looking for a Registered Nurse RGN to join our small cohesive team from July, providing excellent care in a safe, warm, happy environment that is homely in scale. 17 bed Nursing Home – really know your residents and have time to provide excellent compassionate...
WCN Care acquires Stour Road Care Home
WCN Care has acquired Stour Road Care Home from Reside Care Homes Limited and the Hadland Care Group Limited. We aim to continue to be passionate about the provision of excellent nursing and residential care in a safe, warm, happy environment that is homely in scale....
Reasonable Adjustments
Everyone comes with different needs. Here at St Anne's we try our best to make reasonable adjustments for all of our residents so that they feel like they are in a home from home. One of our care team has recently produce a list of common phrases for a Spanish...
External Reviews supporting Excellent Care
We are always happy to receive feedback, good or bad, on the care that we provide to residents at St Anne's Nursing Home. Our recent feedback really touched the hearts of all the staff at St Anne's. Here is an excerpt from the feedback from Carehome.co.uk My mum was...
Happy Valentines Day
Happy Valentines Day from everyone at St Anne's Nursing Home.
Activity Drive
It has been a cold couple of months but that has not stopped the team at St Anne's Nursing Home from putting in extra efforts to increase the number of activities that we offer for residents. "It is important that older people in care homes have the opportunity to...
Promoting Independence
At St Anne's we realise that leading a physically active lifestyle can have a significant impact on the wellbeing of people with dementia. As the Alzheimers Society states, we believe that with our residents in mind, physical activity plays an important part of the...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
It has been a fabulous Christmas period here at St Anne's. After Christmas Carols we then had a wonderful Christmas meal with relatives and friends. We are aware that Christmas, whilst a joyful time, can be lonely and distressing for those without close ones, or who...
Christmas Carols
We had the pleasure of hosting Christmas Carols at St Anne's recently. Volunteers from Our Lady Queen of Peace Church kindly came and sang carols with the residents, families, friends and staff at St Anne's. They sang throughout the home so that everyone could hear...
St Anne’s Remembers “The Fallen”
They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary...
🎉 Congratulations to Jo our manager, who is celebrating 20 years at St Anne’s👏
At the end of last month Jo Cole, St Anne's Manager, celebrated 20 years at St Anne's Nursing Home. So what was happening when Jo first walked through the doors to St Anne's on her first day as a nurse? In 1998: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets came out,...
Residents and Family Meeting
Residents and Family Meeting In early September there was a residents and family meeting to encourage discussion and feedback. It was well attended and allowed residents, and those close to them, to ask questions and feedback on the care given. In summary the...
St Anne’s has a 5 Star Rating
It is great to see that over the past 6 months we have managed to continue the great work at St Anne's. St Anne's Nursing Home is ranked in top 15 care homes in Bournemouth on Carehome.co.uk, and is the TOP non-sponsored listing. Well done to Jo and to all the team....
Listening to Ensure Patient Centred Care
We love feedback at St Anne's, good or bad. This month we heard from a relative of one of our residents. They wrote about us on carehome.co.uk and left us this feedback: My father has been a resident of St Anne's since January 2014. As a family, we are very glad that...
The Generation Game
Phyllis is one of our newer residents having moved into St Anne's recently. After breakfast, Jo asked Phyllis about her experience of St Anne's. Phyllis moved into St Anne's after a recent illness affected her mobility. She feels that it would have been difficult for...
Summer Garden Party
The residents, families, carers and staff at St Anne's Nursing Home had a Summer Garden Party the first weekend of August. Basking in the beautiful summer weather that was on offer everyone mingled together in a friendly, warm and accommodating environment. Jo Cole,...