A warm welcome to our home
Avonbourne Care Centre offers compassionate, individualised residential, dementia and respite care for up to 120 residents.
- Long Term Dementia
- Dementia Respite
- Long Term Residential
- Residential Respite
Avonbourne Care Centre offers a home environment that allows our residents to thrive. Every resident has access to a comfortable and homely household living area, including a beautifully furnished lounge and sitting room, kitchen and dining room. From spacious bedrooms with stylish en-suite ‘wet room’ bathrooms to the tranquil and fully accessible, landscaped gardens.
Residents can enjoy the social activities going on every day in the central communal area including a hairdressing salon, coffee shop, and cinema/entertainment room. The comfortable coffee shop on the first floor is a perfect place to meet family and friends. For those that would like a little more privacy, each bedroom features a comfortable armchair for those moments.
We try to learn as much as possible about each person who lives with us, so that we can provide them with care and support tailored to their individual needs and preferences.
Avonbourne is located in a quiet residential area, close to Old Sarum, a mighty Iron Age hill fort that was the original home to Salisbury Cathedral. The homes location is full of history and is home to Salisbury Cathedral and a short drive to Stonehenge.
Services & Facilities
The team
Food
Activities
Events
About the team
Our friendly, professionally trained team are on hand around the clock to support our residents, ensuring they spend their day how they wish and enabling them to enjoy a fulfilling and independent lifestyle.
The attentive care team focus on the individual needs of the residents, with a tailored care plan for each person. Their aim is to improve the quality of life for our residents by creating lovely, comfortable, homely surroundings and by providing care, activities and other services designed around each resident’s needs and wishes.
Meet the team
Food
The talented chef and kitchen team prepare tasty, home-cooked meals on site daily from our own kitchens. We source quality produce for our excellent breakfast, lunch and dinner menus. All-day dining is available for lighter meals and snacks and all dishes are carefully balanced to get the best nutritional value and cater for individual dietary requirements and preferences.
Seasonal produce is chosen whenever possible and of course, relatives and friends are always welcome to join us. The menus change daily, and the kettle is always on. Our chef bakes every day so there is always a fresh cake to enjoy.
Residents are also encouraged to help prepare their own food and to make snacks whenever they choose.
Activities
Whether it’s wet or dry outside, we at OSJCT feel that activities are essential in providing the best caring environment to live in.
Hobbies don’t simply stop when living with us. Each home has a dedicated Activities Co-ordinator who works closely with our residents to create a programme of fulfilling activities and events, tailored around each resident’s requests, hobbies and interests. The programme of events and activities provide a source of fun and laughter, to help each resident live their life to the full and make new friendships.
A daily activity schedule for a home may include:
- Trips to garden Centres, café’s, pubs, sporting events, National Trust parks, wildlife parks, aquariums and museums.
- Performances from entertainers
- Coffee mornings
- Art and Craft clubs
- Quiz Nights
- Exercise classes such as Zumba and Thai chi.
- Ice skating
- Opera and theatre visits
- Visits from local petting farms, reptile houses and PAT dogs.
- Local school visits
- Wine and cheese tastings
Download sample activities schedule
And that’s not all:
We’ve had silent discos, hoe downs, Chinese banquets, Oscar parties and so much more.
Many of the activities feature Reminiscence Therapy to aid those living with Dementia to remember events, people and places using sight, touch, taste, smell and sound.
Events
There's never a dull moment. We run regular activities for all to join in:
- Coffee mornings
- Care Home Open Day
- Summer and Autumn fetes
- Christmas Parties
View our full events calendar to see more upcoming events taking place at Avonbourne Care Centre.
Meet the team
The team consists of a Home Manager, Care Services Manager, Dementia Lead, Senior support Workers, Support workers, Activity Co-ordinators, Admiral Nurses, Housekeeping, Handy person, administrators and the home's Chef and catering team.
Mercy Mautsi
Jane Mealing
Abbie Thorne
Gemma Reynolds
Home Manager
Mercy has been in care for over 22 years, having been employed for almost every role in a care home. Mercy brings a lot of hands-on experience to her role as Home Manager of the dementia side of Avonbourne. Having started out as a carer, Mercy worked her way up to become a care leader and later becoming Head of Care at Willowcroft in Salisbury.
During her time as Head of Care; Mercy worked alongside our other Home Manager Sharon Payne, helping shape Willowcroft into the home it is now. Mercy was then awarded her own home in Mere, where she managed Fives Court for a number of years.
Wanting to shape a Dementia home, Mercy was then given the opportunity to be the Home Manager of Avonbourne's dementia side and we were delighted to welcome Mercy in late 2018.
Mercy's goal is to make Avonbourne an example of how to care for those living with Dementia.
Activity Coordinator
Jane is one of two Activities Co-ordinators here at Avonbourne Care Centre. She is focused not only on meaningful activities and general well being within the home, but also on setting up links within our local community and encouraging a younger demographic to come through the doors to bridge the gap between generations.
Jane hasn’t always worked in care, however her roles have focused on enriching the lives of those who would otherwise struggle, including working with children with disabilities.
You can always find Jane by listening out for laughter and music in the home.
Deputy Manager
Abbie joined Avonbourne in February 2018 as our Deputy Manager for the Residential side of Avonbourne Care Centre. Abbie has been working in care for over 14 years; having started as a carer Abbie has experienced many sides of elderly care, including working in the local hospital, out in the community as a co-ordinator and in the care home environment. Abbie has areal passion for caring for the elderly and likes to lead by example. Abbie’s goal is to make sure that every resident receives care that is personalised to them, and works with and mentors carers everyday to make this a reality.
Activities Co-Ordinator
Gemma is one of two Acitivties Co-ordindators at Avonbourne Care Centre. Gemma is passionate about arts and crafts and enjoys helping our residents to be creative. Gemma has previously worked in care, having been a personal care assistant. Wanting to take her passion for the arts into care, she joined our activities team in 2018. Gemma is a great asset to activities team and constantly brings smiles to the faces of our residents.
What's happening
Jul 2019
We are delighted to share our Summer 2019 Trust in Care magazine, free to download. A varied selection of articles spanning both external and internal topical matter is available for you to enjoy. From heart-warming stories such as our cover story 'A Reunion of Pure Chance at Longlands' to the exceptional care quality ratings bestowed on recently inspected homes. Also, highlighted are the Trust's strong links with our local communities who we work closely together with to help support our residents and to provide wonderful experiences.
Jun 2019
On Friday 28th of June Avonbourne Care Centre will be celebrating Care Home Open day. Welcoming the community in to our home. This year we will be looking at the role of art in the lives of our residents. We can't wait to show you just how amazing the art is at Avonbourne Care Centre!
Mar 2019
From the 22nd to the 28th of February Avonbourne celebrated a number of different decades, starting with the 1980s. Joining other The Order of St Johns Care Trust Care Homes across the country to help bust some of the myths about living in a care home in the annual ‘I Can’t Believe It’s a Carehome’ challenge.
Come and visit us
The best way to find out all that we can offer is to come along for a chat, look around and meet our team and residents. Contact us to make an appointment - we'll be delighted to welcome you.
Call: 01722 429400Mitre Way
Old Sarum
SP4 6GW
United Kingdom