A warm welcome to our home
The Lakes Care Centre located in South Cerney offers an outstanding home environment. The private bedrooms are your personal haven and there are comfortable and homely living areas, including beautifully furnished lounges, a kitchen and dining room.
- Dementia Care
- Residential Care
- Respite Care
- Day Care
- Vaccinated against COVID-19
The home offers compassionate, individualised residential, dementia, respite and day care for up to 64 residents. The purpose-built home environment has been specifically designed to support the needs of older people including those with dementia, from aiding memory in day-to-day living and reminiscence therapy, to reinforcing personal identity and navigating around the home.
Cosy lounges are available to relax in, as are the safe terraces to take advantage of on sunny days and social activities take place daily for your enjoyment. If you’d like a little more privacy, then your own spacious bed-sitting room, with en-suite ‘wet room’ shower facilities, offers a peaceful oasis.
If you are joining us for day care you will be able to enjoy all of the facilities which include; your own en-suite bedroom, our delicious home-cooked meals, daily activities and use of our jacuzzi bathrooms.
Our key actions against Coronavirus
- Testing for employees and residents means that asymptomatic cases are picked up early.
- Plentiful supplies of PPE.
- Vibrant, fun and socially distanced social bubble activities for all residents.
- Indoor safe visitor spaces installed across the Trust.
- Rigorous cleaning including the use of the latest high-tech electrostatic devices.
- OSJCT is proactive in participating in the latest in research such as ‘instant’ Lateral Flow Tests and the Vivaldi2 antibody study.
We understand there may be a lot of questions and concerns at this time and to provide guidance to those looking to move into a care home view our admissions page.
Services & Facilities
The team
Food
Activities
Events
Pricing and Key Facts
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
A talented chef and kitchen team prepare tasty, home-cooked meals. The freshly prepared, delicious 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.
The menus change daily, and the kettle is always on, so hot drinks are available throughout the day.
Each of the four households have their own personal kitchen-dining room where residents u can take their meals if they wish. Residents are also encouraged to help prepare their own food, and to make snacks.
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 at The Lakes Care Centre. We have 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.
We are also fortunate to have the support of many volunteers of all ages from the local community, strengthening our links to this thriving market town. Here is a sample of activities on offer:
- Arts and crafts
- ‘Pat the dog’ – a visit from a trained dog
- Coffee mornings
- 100th birthday party
- Lunch club
- Manicure and massage
- Gents’ club
- Flower arranging
- Visiting musicians
- Knit2gether
- Visit from the Beavers
- Christmas party’s
- Summer fete
- Church service
- Gardening
- Mind song (music therapy)
Download sample activities schedule
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
We run regular activities for all to join in: (all community events are currently on hold, call The Lakes Care Centre on 01285 314141 for more details)
Pricing
Care fees vary depending on the level of care required and this will be confirmed upon completion of a care assessment prior to moving into the home.
Below is indicative pricing for self-funded residents per week.
| Care Type | Fees From | Fees To |
|---|---|---|
| Dementia Long Term | £1300 | £1350 |
| Dementia Respite | £1495 | £1555 |
| Residential Long Term | £1225 | £1300 |
| Residential Respite | £1410 | £1495 |
Our home charges self-funder rates for the services we provide. We accept third party top ups for individuals funded by the Local Authority up to the self-funder rate.
We understand that paying for long-term care can often be a complex subject, and with several options available to you it can be confusing. You will find helpful guidance on our Paying for Care page.
Key Facts
The Key Facts document contains information regarding this care home which can be used in comparison with other care homes or can be printed for reference and brought with you when you visit the home
Meet the team
Our homes' professional services are provided by the Management team, Carers, Nurses and Dementia support teams (where required), Admiral Nurses, Support Workers, Activities Co-ordinators, Housekeeping, Handy Person, Administrators and the home's Chef and Catering team. We also have health professional support from Doctors, Nurses and personal services who will regularly come into the home.
Mandi Short
Jessica Cousins
Penny Carpenter
Annie Clarke
Home Manager
Mandi started working in care when she was 18 in a small dual registered nursing home, before going on to becoming a senior carer and mentor. It was very evident from the beginning that Mandi had the knowledge, skills and experience to lead a team and continue her mentoring to help develop new starters with the high standards she was taught right from the beginning. (She forgets how many times her beds had been stripped by the Matron, as they were back then!)
After a couple of years she was offered a managerial role, leading a team over two residential units and after six years as residential care manager, Mandi stepped into the home manager role to lead the home. After nine years at the helm, she was after a new challenge and managed an 80 bedded nursing home. It was here Mandi, with her team, secured a good CQC inspection for the first time in eight years. She also gained an accreditation for the dementia care delivered, and then the home went on to win a National South West award for its dementia care.
Mandi joined the Trust in 2017, and with the home's first 'Good' CQC rating, she has high aspirations for the home's future and hopes to secure many awards with her team.
Deputy Manager
Jessica began her role working with the Trust in 2008 and found her passion for supporting people to live well and advocate for the best care possible. Throughout the years of working in care homes, Jessica gained valuable experience and knowledge; She started as a Carer before moving into an in-house trainer role and then on to be a Care Leader. Through natural progression, Jessica found a keen interest in educating others, and in 2012 decided to leave her role as a Care Leader and support best practice care by training others, becoming a Health and Social Care Assessor. In her role as a QCF Assessor, Jessica secured the skills to later form part of the Trust’s Learning Development Team. However, it was during this period that Jessica realised her real passion was back in the home with the residents and accepted the Head of Dementia Care role at The Lakes. Since joining the team she hasn’t looked back since. In 2019 Jess accepted the position of Deputy Manager and she is a huge asset to the team.
Jessica has a firm understanding of how to best provide a safe, effective and personal experience for the residents who are living with dementia. Jessica feels privileged to be part of the team at The Lakes and looks forward to a happy future for the home.
Customer Relations Manager
Penny joined The Lakes Care Centre in August 2019 with a vast amount of experience in customer service. Following her degree in business studies Penny worked in London for many years for a major hotel company and for ITV and wanted to continue that ‘hands on’ level of customer service when she moved to Gloucestershire.
Penny enjoys speaking to families and finding out how she can make a real difference in supporting them and their loved ones, she welcomes them into the home and shows that life at The Lakes Care Centre is a life well lived.
When Penny isn’t at work she can be found walking in the countryside, at the theatre, listening to live music or eating out with friends and family.
Activities Co-ordinator
Annie joined The Lakes Care Centre as an Activities Co-ordinator in November 2019. Annie has 8 years’ experience working as a carer where she enjoyed spending time with residents and the relationship that built from hearing their life stories. Annie finds the role of Activities Co-ordinator exciting and enjoys the joy it brings when a resident accomplishes something that they didn’t think they could do or simply seeing residents enjoying themselves, seeing them smile or hearing them laugh.
Outside of work Annie loves spending time with family and friends, playing darts and taking care of her garden. When Annie has some downtime, she enjoys a good book or completing a craft project.
Latest News
Apr 2021
The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) specialists in dementia care held a virtual event to provide carers with support and advice on ways to communicate with a loved one who is living with memory loss.
Mar 2021
The Lakes Care Centre in South Cerney joined up with their local church and other local organisations to deliver treats to those living along during lockdown.
Mar 2021
Following on from our Living Well with Dementia and Wellbeing Support for Carers sessions, join our Admiral Nurses, specialists in dementia care, for a talk and Q and A session on how to communicate with a loved one who is living with dementia.