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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Happy Valentines Day
Happy Valentines Day from everyone at St Anne's Nursing Home.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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🎉 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,...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Registered Nurse Vacancy
We are looking for a Registered Nurse to join our small cohesive team 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 care. Loyal...
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Upgrading St Anne’s
The team at St Anne's has been working hard to update the facilities so we can support our guiding goals of providing excellent care in a environment homely in scale. The signage at the front of St Anne's has been updated, in order to standardise our branding across...
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Innovating in Care Homes
Here at WCN Care we are using digital management systems to try and improve team working and task delegation more effective and efficient, freeing up time to spend with our residents. Our current trial is with Trello, a management board, used mainly by agile...
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Improvement Works Continue
It has been 4 months since WCN Care took over the running of St Anne's Nursing Home and we are continuing to push ahead with improvements so that we can offer excellent care in an environment that is homely in scale. Despite some setbacks, we have redecorated the...
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Summer arrives and Improvement works underway
Summer has arrived at St Anne's with the garden blooming and everyone enjoying the blue skies. We are also undergoing major improvement works to facilitate improved storage and updating some of the infrastructure to support the excellent care that we deliver.
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About the Owners: Dr Rob Conway
Rob is an anaesthetist. He has had a varied career. He works as an anaesthetist in the NHS with an interest in paediatrics. He founded a Medical Tech startup called Medberry and has worked as an expedition medic in Antarctica at the South Pole. Rob believes that you...
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About the owners: Dr Toby Williams
Dr Toby Williams Dr Williams, a South Wiltshire GP, is a dynamic, driven and dedicated healthcare leader with a background as a Doctor and Army Officer. He started working in care homes in Yorkshire as a boy nearly twenty years ago, before going on to train as a...
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WCN Care Acquires St Anne’s in Bournemouth
After 30 years at the helm of St Anne’s Nursing Home the current owners, Mr and Mrs Lingam-Willgoss, will handover to Dr Toby Williams and Dr Rob Conway at the end of February. With an excellent local reputation, St Anne’s offers a homely feel with a warm and caring...
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