“If it’s not good enough for my mother, it’s not good enough for anyone.” Bernie Suresparan, Chief Executive Officer, We Care Group

About Brandon House 

Brandon House Nursing Home in Leeds offers Residential and Dementia care for the elderly. We aim to provide for every Resident a safe place to live that promotes:

  • Hospitality
  • Dignity
  • Comfort
  • Care

These are our core values and combined with our excellent facilities we ensure a comprehensive care service is delivered in a non-institutionalised setting.

Here at Brandon House, we are all fully trained in dementia.

We accept people with challenging behaviour and will work with family, friends and the individual to try to reduce this and provide a calming atmosphere to live in.

 

Types of Care

Nursing care is offered to residents who need 24-hour around the clock care. This will be set out in a residents’ individual care plan and includes the monitoring and assessment of potential clinical problems such as: pressure area management; nutritional balance; fluid balance; administration and management of medication and pain management.

Residential care is long-term care provided to adults who are staying in a residential setting rather than in their own home. Our homes provide accommodation, meals, daily activities and individual care such as personal hygiene and nutrition. Each of our residential care homes is unique, designed to make the most of the home environment and its surroundings and with a focus on making sure that residents lead a happy, fulfilling and healthy life whilst in our care, in a home they feel safe and secure in. We want our homes to be their homes.

We Care Group provides dementia care in both a residential and nursing setting. Each of our homes that support people living with dementia is uniquely designed to make residents feel comfortable in their homes. Corridors are filled with photos and murals to evoke fond memories from the past as well as memorabilia to encourage stimulation. Colours are used throughout the home to create positive associations and trigger the right response to a situation and the food and menus are designed to cater specifically for residents with dementia. Several of our homes even have a dementia garden creating a sensory experience in a beautiful setting.
Specialist teams are on hand day and night to provide emotional and practical support to our residents, making sure they feel completely at home in their environment. Each resident’s personalised care plan is designed to support them in living with dementia in a positive way and in addition to any medical requirements, covers everything from mealtimes, hobbies and habits to activities that will stimulate their senses and engage them in a way that is fulfilling whilst at all times respecting a resident’s privacy and independence.

Palliative care is provided predominantly in our nursing homes and is focused on managing pain and making your loved one as comfortable as possible, ensuring they receive the care they want, where and how they want it, with dignity and respect in their final moments.

Our caring and empathetic teams provide highly sensitive and compassionate end-of-life care within our nursing homes, working with your loved one and their family, as well as their GP and other health professionals, to plan their care.

Bariatric care is provided in both a residential and nursing setting depending on a resident’s needs. Our teams are trained to support bariatric residents with their mobility, provide the right type of care to meet individual needs (including for example, keeping wounds clean), as well as supporting bariatric residents with their daily tasks. Our chef teams make sure dietary requirements and plans are followed whilst also being considerate to any preferences our bariatric residents may have.

Facilities

  • Wi-fi available
  • En-suite rooms
  • Step-free access
  • Hairdressing
  • Activity classes
  • Conservatory
  • Day trips
  • Exercise classes
  • Flexible mealtimes
  • Laundry
  • Dementia garden
  • Night bite menu
  • Private dining
  • Relatives meal with residents
  • Special dietary requirements
  • TV lounge
  • Wheelchair access
  • Walk-in shower
  • Single Rooms
  • Double Rooms
  • Rooms with ensuite WC

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Brandon House Nursing Home is part of a group that runs successful Nursing and Residential Care Homes. The Home is registered and inspected by Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide outstanding care as follows:

  • People living with Dementia – over 60 years of age
  • Diagnostic and screening procedures
  • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury

The maximum number of Service Users allowed at any one time is 42.

Brandon House Nursing Home aims to continually provide its residents with a secure, relaxed, and homely environment in which their care, well-being and comfort is of prime importance.

Carers will always strive to preserve and maintain the dignity, individuality and privacy of all residents and in so doing will be sensitive to the residents’ ever-changing needs. Such needs may be medical / therapeutic (for physical and mental welfare), cultural, psychological, spiritual, emotional and social, and residents are encouraged to participate in the development of their individualised Care Plans in which the involvement of family and friends may be appropriate and is greatly valued.

All Care staff within the home will be appropriately qualified to deliver the highest standards of care. A continuous staff training programme is implemented to ensure that these high standards are maintained in line with the latest initiatives and developments in Care Practices as may be laid down in appropriate legislation, regulations and Care Standards.

Brandon House is situated in the beautiful countryside on the outskirts of Leeds. The Home has been converted from a Country House and buildings adjoining the original house have been added on more recently.

The Home has three large lounges, one dining room and a Dementia garden where Residents can participate in various activities. Our wheelchair accessible enclosed garden area strives to include all our Residents including those living with Dementia. There are 40 single rooms and 1 double room, the majority with an en-suite bathroom or toilet. Every room has central heating, a nurse call system, modern fire detection, telephone and television point.

The home is set on two floors, with one large EMI unit located on the ground floor and a smaller EMI unit next to the Nursing unit, which is also located on the ground floor. A large lounge and dining room is situated on the ground floor, and another lounge and dining area is situated within both EMI units. All areas are fitted with domestic furniture and lighting. The well-manicured garden at the front of Brandon House gives a calm and serene ambience. For the exclusive use of our Residents, a 1950s style village has been created which includes a Post Office, a sweet shop and a greengrocer. 25 of our rooms have en-suite facilities and there are ample toilet facilities and bathing areas provided, within close proximity to all residents. For those residents who need help with bathing, we have bathrooms that are easily accessible for staff and service users.

Specialist equipment, which includes hoists, grab rails and aids, have all been provided to maximise the independence of our service users. Doorways that require wheelchair access all have the required opening width.

Our main lounge is equipped with a flat-screen colour television and our garden provides a relaxing and quiet environment for residents to rest or meet relatives. The EMI lounges are also equipped with flat-screen colour television. The dining rooms are well laid out with wooden dining tables and part upholstered chairs.

Our ground floor area has been adapted to suit the needs of all Service Users living with Dementia. There are 2 secure units comprising 15 bedrooms, two lounges and one dining area. Also, our corridors are filled with Memory Lane photos, reading corners and other interesting features to help our Residents living with Dementia to stay stimulated.

Our chef teams use great ingredients to provide freshly prepared, nutritionally balanced meals based on regularly changing, seasonal menus. We make mealtimes an occasion for our residents, enabling them to enjoy their food in welcoming surroundings and catered for by our care teams. Residents always have multiple options to choose from at all meal times and can opt for something different if they change their minds when the food arrives.

We make sure our residents start the day right with a filling breakfast including cereals, fruit, toast and porridge, plus a daily changing choice of hot options. Our Residents are welcome to have breakfast any time they desire, and we are happy to accommodate their morning schedule. Between Breakfast and Lunch, we offer mid-morning cake and coffee.

Lunch is the main meal of the day in our homes – enabling residents to dine together in a restaurant-style environment and providing a choice of hot meals and the option of soup or a sandwich for those that don’t want something quite as filling. Lunch is finished with delicious desserts, all prepared on-site by our chef teams.

And then, between lunch and supper, it’s mid-afternoon tea time with mouth-watering freshly baked cakes that our residents and team members enjoy together, making afternoon tea an activity in itself. After supper, during the night, lighter meal options are provided in the evening, and fresh fruit and snacks are available throughout the day to keep resident’s nourished, energised and satisfied.

Management Team

Donna has worked in the care sector for over 20 years. She started initially as a carer then progressed to become a Registered Manager. She has managed multiple sites, which have included caring for people mental health, learning disability, elderly care and dementia care needs. She brings a wealth of experience and new ideas. She is looking forward to supporting the team at Brandon House to progress and develop for the benefit of all our residents.

Care Team

Brandon House has 31 members of staff: 25 of whom are directly involved with providing care for our residents. Of the 25 Care Staff, over 72% hold an NVQ Level 2 or above in Health and Social Care and others are working towards it.

Support Team

The Admin and Head Office team are responsible for dealing with fees and clients personal allowance, suppliers’ invoices and payroll.

Domestic and Maintenance staff ensure the home is a safe and clean environment at all times, following the regulations set by COSHH, HSE and IPC.

Our cooks work on preparing and providing meals to our residents to meet each individual’s dietary need.

Brandon House invests in a wide range of training for all our staff members, not only do we complete the mandatory training, we also complete additional training courses such as Catheter Care, Challenging Behaviour, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, Dysphasia, Common Health Problems, End of Life Care and much more. All our staff re-train every year in dementia to keep our knowledge up to date to ensure we provide the best care.

Therapeutic activities are available for all our residents including those living with dementia; these include the normal recreational events. Activities are planned and actioned through our Activities Co-ordinator; a 4 weekly plan is available.

Here at Brandon House Nursing Home, we have a dedicated activities coordinator responsible for creating a monthly activities calendar. We Care Group provides the activities coordinators with all the tools necessary to enhance the well-being of our Residents. Each Home is a NAPA (National Activities Provider Association) member, which means each month, we receive a variety of activities and ideas; our activities coordinators can also get trained and develop their skills as well-being coordinators.

As we have residents with dementia, it is crucial to have daily activities that help keep their minds sharp. We focus on the sensory stimulation for our residents, which means we have activities that stimulate their senses (taste, smell, vision, hearing and touch)

Besides the wide range of sensory stimulation and activities, each Home has a 40 inch interactive table. In the past year, WCG invested in getting a Sharp Interactive table to each Home to aid the activities coordinators to provide a more person-centered and one-on-one session to low mobility Residents or Residents who prefer not to socialise. 

At Brandon, we believe in helping enrich the lives of people with dementia to ensure they are happy and fulfilled.

What are the Interactive Tables?

We Care Group believe in the importance of technology for the betterment of life, and that is why we invested in the Interactive Tables in the past year. The interactive table is a 40 inch, scratch resistance, durable pad with an integrated Android operating system. It has up to 10 touchpoints, which means two residents and one carer simultaneously can use it.

Research on the neuropathology of dementia and the science of play establishes that people in the later stages of dementia can still experience three primary outcomes of the game:

  • Sensation
  • Relaxation
  • Reminiscence

All three outcomes can be achieved through residents interaction with the table and the carer guidance.

As the interactive digital tables have an android operating system, our activities coordinators and home managers can download multiple applications. From brain training, memory to puzzle apps.

How the Interactive Tables an

  • Dementia and Brain training apps and games
  • Collaborative games (multi-user)
  • Listening to music
  • Keep fit lessons, sing along & quizzes
  • Watching films and documentaries
  • Viewing the internet
  • Skype calling
  • Staff training
  • Memory learning
  • Cognitive improvement
  • Aid sensory impairment
  • Working as a group
  • Encourage general rehabilitation
  • Adding a video camera to talk remotely to residents family and friends

 This technology adds to our well-being, and the activities mix helps us keep our Residents sharp, happy and entertained.

Weekly Charges per Person

Self-Funded prices starting from £1,007 (excluding FNC for Nursing Residents)

(These prices are only a guideline, please contact Brandon House to find out the exact price for your requirements.)

For information about local authority financial support available, please check the care cost calculator

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