Welcome to Temple Ewell Nursing Home
Temple Ewell Nursing Home is situated in the quiet, picturesque village of Temple Ewell within a short distance to the coastal town of Dover, in the heart of the countryside. The Home is practically purpose built and has been tastefully extended over the years whilst retaining an underlying beautiful Georgian building. The Home stands in its own grounds and benefits from panoramic views across the surrounding valley. The Home is set over 3 floors with Communal areas including a Bar available to all residents and visitors.
The Home aims to provide high quality personalised nursing care to meet the needs of the individual whilst encouraging choice and independence in a friendly, relaxed and homely environment.
If you or your loved one is considering the need for nursing care, please feel free to contact the Home or visit to see what they can offer. Temple Ewell Nursing Home look forward to welcoming you.
Clinical Manager – Katharine Chapman
Kathy has been at Temple Ewell since December 2015 She joined Temple Ewell as a Staff Nurse and was promoted to Clinical Manager in April 2017. Kathy has been a qualified nurse for over 30 years, working in both community and hospital settings. She has been able to bring her vast experience to the Home, to enhance practice and help to enrich the lives of our staff and residents. Kathy is also our student nurse mentor, supporting two students during term times. Kathy is a passionate and empathetic nurse, who demonstrates a deep understanding of the needs of our residents.
Address
Temple Ewell Nursing Home
Wellington Road
Dover
Kent
CT16 3DB
Care Home Manager
Gillian Burnham ( Interim Home Manager ) Director of Care Services
Email: managertenh@crownwoodhealthcare.com
Telephone: 01304 822 206
Location
Services
Nursing
Temple Ewell Nursing Home is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide nursing and palliative care for 44 residents with varying levels of dependency. We are also able to provide continuing care and respite care. All our residents are assessed prior to admission to understand their individual and unique needs and offered a room accordingly within the Home. As such, we do not have designated areas for different categories of need.
When it is required, staff at the Home can and do access support from a wide multi-disciplinary team such as, but not limited to, the Community Matrons Team, the Intermediate Care Team, Occupational and Physiotherapy, the Hospice Team, Dieticians, Speech and Language Therapists, Tissue Viability Nurses, the Falls Clinic, Podiatrists and the Respiratory Team.
We have several local General Practitioners (GPs) that service and visit our Home regularly and are happy to register new residents but as a matter of positive choice, residents may remain within the care of their current doctor.
We are proud to be using technology to improve our quality of care. We have transitioned all of our care plans for our residents over to an electronic care plan and daily recording system called PCS. This is enabling our staff to record more accurate information regarding our residents’ care at the point of care delivery in a much quicker and more efficient manner, meaning our staff have more time in each shift to spend “on the floor” attending to our residents needs.
Catering
We partner and work with apetito to ensure our residents all benefit from delicious and nutritious meals every single day of the week.
We offer all of our residents three fulsome meals a day; breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as snacks and refreshments throughout the day. We are proud to provide a meal time offering whereby our lunch and dinner options are hot cooked meals. We offer a variety of dishes to choose from on our menu each day for each meal. The Home has a seasonal menu, which works on a 4-weekly cycle. By partnering with apetito we are helping to improve the health and wellbeing of our service users; we can ensure that all of our meals smell, look and taste fantastic as well as ensuring that the nutritional content of each meal is tailored to the dietary and health needs of each service user. Our food is served to our service users fresh and hot from our Bain Marie hot trolleys.
Activities & Social Inclusion
The Home offers a varied Activities & Social Inclusion timetable with something to suit most interests. We have Activities & Social Inclusion Co-Ordinators who, between them, work 6 days a week and lead in the preparation and delivery of these activities, which include bingo, arts and crafts, reminiscence and quizzes. Our Activities & Social Inclusion Co-Ordinators, also carry out bedside visits, small group and one to one activities. We also have external singers and musicians who attend our Home to entertain our residents and also external physical fitness instructors who deliver fun keep fit exercises for our residents.
Hairdressing, Chiropody and Newspapers
We have a hairdressing salon in the Home and a hairdresser who visits every 2 weeks for any resident who would like their hair done. We also have a chiropodist who visits on a regular basis and we can arrange for any resident to have newspapers delivered daily. Residents pay for these additional services if they would like them.
Facilities
Security access into premises
Nurse call system throughout Home
3-way and 4-way profiling beds and airflow mattresses for all resident bedrooms
Two bathrooms, both of which are equipped with Modern Parker baths
Two wet rooms, one of which has a variable height shower trolley
Four general hoists with numerous new slings and bath slings
Several communal areas – lounge, dining room and bar
A hairdressing salon
Accessible gardens and patio areas
Amazon Tablet with Alexa Hands-Free available in Lounge for all residents’ use during Activities
Two Bain Marie hot trolleys to ensure fresh and hot delivery of home cooked food
Upgraded and renovated internal lift
Staff using electronic care plan and daily recording system called PCS
Telephone points (available in most rooms)
Television points (available in most rooms)
Free WiFi available throughout the Home
Visiting
We have an open-door policy and welcome guests at any time that suits the resident. Relatives may also dine with residents by prior arrangement and we are happy to serve tea and coffee on request.
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Sample Menu
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