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About Us

Who We Are

A calm, cheerful and relaxed family-like environment pervades throughout our home. This is influenced by our dedicated staff who embrace the philosophy of care through ongoing training, skills and knowledge.

Our Mission

General Aims and Objectives

  • Provide long term psychiatric care for adults and older people suffering from past and present mental illness.
  • Help in the preservation of dignity and independence by progressively restoring confidence either on a one to one basis or in-group related personal process.
  • Maintain a key worker system to enable staff to be responsible and accountable to a negotiated group of Service users in monitoring comprehensive individualised care.
  • Assist those Service users who require help on maintaining personal hygiene and appearance and similarly encourage self-care to enhance rehabilitation.
  • Offer help and assistance as may be required to individual Service users to enable them to lead as normal a life as possible within their mental and physical ability.
  • Uphold the principle that each individual Service User has his/her own personality and social identity and therefore provide good understanding to maintain their sense of personal worth and self-esteem.
  • Hold regular meetings to promote community bonding and facilitate them to develop social relationships of sufficient strength.
  • Create a homely and caring environment where individual needs are continuously assessed and personal choices promoted.
  • Organise planned activities, which would promote assertiveness and social skills training on a voluntary basis.
  • Offer help and supervision to those Service users who are physically and mentally less able to dress and carry out mental tasks.
  • ✓ Offer advice on welfare benefits and liaise with the voluntary and statutory services to provide all help and resources.
  • ✓ Monitor the administration of drugs, observe their side effects and encourage the more able to self medicate.
  • ✓ Provide a comprehensive range of facilities, which help to offer care to Service users with mild dependency and incontinence problems.
  • ✓ Uphold the views that Service users exercise the same rights similarly to when living in their own home.
  • ✓ Consult Service users in the preparation of menus and provide choice of meals to individual likes and dislikes to meet dietary needs.
  • ✓ Hold a three monthly family meeting to facilitate and promote objective discussion on the activities of the Home and help to create a partnership in care.
  • ✓ Provide daily planned activities to stimulate occupation and confidence and organise special functions and visits to places of interest.
Philosophy

Our Home Philosophy

Thornton Lodge has a friendly, family-like environment where care is delivered on an individual or group basis at regular meetings. This improves interaction and fosters understanding of one another's needs to help residents express their feelings, identify their rights, independence, fulfilment and self esteem.

Philosophy
Our Values

Equal Opportunity

Equal Opportunity
  • 1

    The Home does ensure that each service user is treated with dignity and given the opportunity to act and think without hindrance by anyone. Every service user is treated with equal regard irrespective of his or her religion, race, cultural origin, gender, sexual orientation or disability.

  • 2

    The Home is committed to equal opportunity in every facet of its recruitment and employment, which means that staff are employed irrespective of their religion, race, cultural origin, gender, sexual orientation or disability.

  • 3

    The home endeavours, at all times, to maintain a happy and healthy environment, free of petty conflicts based on racial or sexual remarks.

"Thornton Lodge is a Home where quality goes with care, where reputation is built with experience and where the resident always comes first."

Meals
Dining

Meals & Dining Experience

Meal Times

Breakfast 8:00 AM
Dinner 12:30 PM
High Tea 5:30 PM
Supper 8:00 PM

Menus are prepared in consultation with service users' wishes and a weekly menu is displayed in the Dining room with alternative choices. Every effort is made to meet the service users' requests and choices. The Home also provides special dietary needs for vegetarians and to those of different ethnic origin.

The home also provides kitchenette and laundry facilities for residents who are able to do their own laundry or make their own tea and coffee.