Activities at Mount House and Severn View
Our Activities team is a dedicated group whom strive to ensure that the residents of Mount House have a broad range of meaningful activities daily which reflect the needs, wants and interests of all our residents. From our larger events including Garden Parties in our spectacular grounds to birthday celebrations with live musical entertainment we always have a broad range of events to suit all of our wonderful residents. We also go on a number of outings throughout the year in and around Shropshire, many of which are linked to community organisations whom cater specifically for interests of the people we support.
Something we have always been passionate about here at The Mount is Music therapy and we offer a diverse musical programme of live music and entertainers throughout the year to suit all tastes. Food theme days and tasting afternoons, as well as regular Cookery classes and chair yoga are on offer as well as beauty therapy and massage.
We aim to consistently provide a high quality activities programme for all of our residents and ensure that regardless of limitations and circumstances each individual has the best possible experience within our home, through both a physical and mentally stimulating person-centred approach.
Joyce Morgan
Hello I am Joyce the Activities Coordinator. I am new to the care sector having worked as a florist with my own business and I am loving this change of direction. I am committed to ensuring the residents have a varied activities programme as well celebrating events. I am following the Barchester Life Enrichment Programme of working with mind, body and soul. I do also love to dance with the residents when we have an entertainer in!
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Mount House and Severn View
We are now rated 'Good'!
We passed a recent Care Quality Commission inspection with an overall “Good” rating after being praised for a responsive, safe, effective, caring and well-led service.
The CQC inspected us on 3rd September 2019 (the report was released on 18th September 2019) and rated us as “Good” overall.
The report stated that “People received help and support from a kind and compassionate staff team with whom they had developed positive relationships.”
The report went on to say, “People received safe support with their medicines by trained and competent staff members”
Also highlighted in the report was “People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the policies and systems at The Mount & Severn View supported this practice.”
In celebration of the rating and to thank each member of the team for their contributions to the home, each team member was presented with £100 gift voucher in appreciation of their hard work.
Claire Cowper, General Manager, said: “We are delighted that our home was rated ‘Good’ overall following the CQC’s most recent inspection. The team at the Mount House & Severn View always strive to provide the best possible quality care for everyone who lives at the home.”
Autumn Newsletter
RAF Cosford
On 30th August 2019, Emma Darley, Jodie Driver from the Activities Team & Dave Pugh, Head of Maintenance visited RAF Cosford with our residents from the Mount House & Severn View.
During the visit, our residents enjoyed a lunch out, refreshments & touring around the museum.
This was also in aid of 'Make a Wish' for two of our gentlemen who wished to visit RAF Cosford again; one had never visited before and the other gentleman wanted to return after 30 years!
Name Day
At the begining of August we celebrated Magda's Name Day!
Various countries have this practice to celebrate name days, with methods differing over cultures and religions. The timing at which a name is assigned can vary from some days after birth to several months or many years.
The concept of name days is similar to the more common birthday, except that the association of a name to a day is entirely arbitrary.
Name days (in Hungarian: névnap) are very popular, often as much as a person’s actual birth date. Hungarians not only have a birthday, but a name day as well. While birthdays are usually celebrated just in immediate family, name days are widely known and celebrated.
To celebrate Magda’s name day, she was gifted with a cake and a bouquet of flowers from all of the staff and residents at the Mount House & Severn View.
Cake Decorating
Residents at Mount House & Severn View showed off their arty side in July! Throughout July, we spent a lot of time focusing on daily living activities. We held a cake decorating competition & our residents spent time decorating cakes with help from the wonderful Scarlett, who came in to work with her mum Jodie to help our residents!
Our Divisional Winner
Well done to Home Services Advisor, Becky Lewis, who has been crowned Customer Service Champion for Barchester’s Central Division in the 2019 Barchester Care Awards, and has made it through to the national finals.
The awards celebrate staff and volunteers who go the extra mile for the benefit of individuals living in Barchester care homes. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Maintenance Champion’ and ‘Team of the Year’.
More than 1,900 nominations were received from homes across the UK. All entries have been of a very high standard and Becky is thrilled to have been named top in the region.
As the winner for the central region, Becky has automatically gone through to the national Barchester Care Awards finals, where she will be interviewed by the judges for the last round of judging. In October.vBecky will join the other finalists from across the UK at a special awards luncheon to celebrate their achievements and discover if they have been crowned the national winner.
