Activities at Wilsmere House Care Home

Over the Christmas period, we thoroughly enjoyed a variety of activities, including flower arranging and bingo!

Residents joined in for Christmas flower arranging with staff and our activity team. Christmas songs were playing in the background, and we reminisced about favourite Christmas traditions.

Residents also enjoyed an afternoon playing Bingo and won some Christmas-themed prizes. There was lots of fun and laughter whilst enjoying a homemade slice of cake and a cup of coffee.

Deputy Manager Annette and Physiotherapist Raluca also visited Enderley Road Medical Centre. They popped into the Regional Hyper Acute Unit and the Discharge Support Team at Northwick Park Hospital, delivering Christmas gifts.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at Wilsmere House Care Centre!

Our residents love going out on our Mini bus, so last week we had the chance to enjoy a trip out to see the Peter Pan pantomime! 

It was a wonderful way to end the year and retain some for the festive excitement! 

Everybody loved every moment of this year's panto!

We were rockin' around the Christmas tree at Wilsmere House with our residents' Christmas party! 

Residents and staff got into the Christmas spirit, enjoying a delicious spread of food and drink served by our kitchen team, whilst listening to festive tunes!

We adorned Christmas jumpers and celebrated in our decked out home!

Wilsmere House was represented at the National Care Awards on Friday night by our Memory Lane, Unit Manager Carina Pereira, who was nominated for the Registered Nurse of the Year award at the prestigious National Care Awards! 

Carina has been working at Wilsmere House care home for just over 10 years. She is an experienced Registered Nurse who started working as a Senior Care Assistant and worked her way up to the Unit Manager position. 

Carina took all the learning opportunities, clinical and especially in dementia care, for which she developed a passion. 

Carina leads a team of 17 carers and over 5 nurses, making sure that the needs of the 20 residents diagnosed with Dementia living in our Memory Lane Community called Whitegate Community are met.

Carina is the soul of the community. She is loved by our residents and really appreciated by the families and staff. She is always looking forward to improving the lives of the residents in the home, promoting choice and independence and making sure the staff are delivering the best quality of person-centred care to our residents.

We are proud to announce that Carina reached the national finals. Her commitment to excellence truly shone through, and this achievement is a testament to her outstanding contributions to our care home.
Congratulations, Carina. Wilsmere is proud!

Our colleagues threw a surprise baby shower for our beloved Unit Manager, Carina. 

Congratulations Carina, we can’t wait to meet your baby girl!

We then celebrated our Employee of the month, Moshmiben. Moshmiben recently received her NMC pin and is now working as our Registered Nurse. 

She has been a great support during the enrolment of the new Enable system, well-deserved Moshmi. 

Staff were joined by Mike O'Reilly, General Counsel and Director of Quality, Risk and Compliance, Gemma PitmanMcGrath, National Clinical E-Care Implementer and Marcin Michalczewski, Implementation Lead-eCare to celebrate the launch of our new digital system Enable. 

We are also happy to announce that Enable is live in half of our Barchester Homes.

Well done to all of our transposers who did a great job and managed to meet the deadline for the launch of Enable. It was hard work and we are excited for this new chapter of electronic care planning which will ensure all care documentation and life enrichment activities are recorded digitally on tailor made handsets.

High quality, person-centred care is at the heart of everything we do at Barchester, and everyone deserves the best care possible.

This is where EnabLE (our new digital care system) comes in. It will help us plan, record, and co-ordinate person-centred care in the moment, using hand-held devices. Following our whole home approach, anyone who works within the home will be using EnabLE to record the important life enriching moments our residents truly value.

Diwali is known as the 'festival of lights' and houses, shops and public places are decorated with small oil lamps called 'diyas'.

We decorated some areas of our home, tasted a selection of homemade Indian dishes and listened to traditional music.

Some of our residents and staff dressed up for the occasion and we all had a wonderful time celebrating the day.

It is not everyday we get to celebrate someone's 106th birthday!

So we made sure we celebrated in style. 

Mrs Martin also received a card from the King wishing her Happy birthday.

Music, delicious cake and dancing were in order for the afternoon!

Here at Wilsmere House we got into the spooky Halloween spirit of things by creating an Autumnal display with painted and carved pumpkins, flowers and wreaths.

We hosted a fun-filled party in the afternoon with delicious Halloween inspired treats and music.

Our Deputy Manager, Annette also decorated the wellbeing trolley and went around to all staff members for a Treat or Treat.

We all had a spooktacular time.

Here at Wilsmere, we held our very own Talent Show. We had so much fun planning and organizing this show for all our staff and residents.

Thank you to all our participants and congratulations to Melisa Findlay who won 1st place, Raluca Rosculet who won 2nd place and Olasupo Komolafe a great 3rd place. 

A huge thank you to our Maintenance team who built the stage specifically for the event, massive thanks to our Chef and Kitchen team for the delicious Barbecue. The delicious food kept us all full whilst waiting for our Judges, Regional Director-Wayne Hughes, General Manager-Lili Cocue and our Resident ambassador-John Bakerto to make their decision.

Last but not least, thank you to our Clinical Deputy Manager, Laxmi Gurung who drove the idea for months encouraging our colleagues to participate and to our Life enrichment trainer, and Ben, for supporting us through the whole process.

Here at Wilsmere, we have been celebrating success. We would like to give a massive congratulations to our lovely nurse Carina who has been shortlisted as a finalist at the National Care Awards 2024 for Nurse of the Year!

Carina joined Wilsmere House in 2013 and has since become unit manager of our Memory Lane community and one of our Dementia Champions. We want to thank Carina for her hard work and the care she delivers to our residents.

We are hugely proud of her achievements and will be rooting for her at the awards on 29th November!

The talented tenor Harry Kersley - Classical Tenor, returned to Wilsmere today to share his incredible voice with us over Cheese and Prosecco. 

Our residents thoroughly enjoyed his performance! 

Thank you Harry, for bringing so much joy to our residents, we can't wait for your next visit!

Oh we do love to be beside the seaside!

Here at Wilsmere, we weren't able to get to the beach today so we brought the beach to us! 

Our residents enjoyed beach games, played with the sand and listened to sounds of the sea and what better way to end the day than with some good old seaside chips.

Big thanks to our Activities team for a lovely day, our residents had lots of fun!

A huge thank you as always to Performing Pets who bought along Scooby the pony, much to the delight of our residents. We also had budgies and our residents really enjoyed holding them.

Animal therapy has been shown to improve the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of others, stimulating memories and encouraging social interaction.

Our residents always enjoy their monthly visits and we are already looking forward to the next one!

Here at Wilsmere, we have a sensory trolley which is a portable cart that contains sensory equipment to create a multi-sensory environment for our residents, which they love.

Residents can enjoy smells and sounds of the garden, as well as aromatherapy and sounds of the sea.

The residents have soothing hand massages and have their nails painted, along with many other relaxing activities.

They love being pampered, and who wouldn't, they deserve it!