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Our Team

Willett Lodge Nursing Home prides itself on the high standard of care, which is given to its Residents, and provided by our friendly and caring team of staff.

With a registered nurse on duty 24 hours a day and accompanied by a team of dedicated Healthcare assistants (NVQ Level 2/3) ,we are fully equipped to deal with the needs of our residents. When more specialist treatment is required our staff are experts in identifying the need for referral to clinical speech and language therapists, dieticians, psychiatrists and other trusted specialist service providers.

Nursing Staff

Our team of 8 Registered Nurses are highly experienced and attend regular training courses to ensure they maintain their NMC registration.

At Willett Lodge we offer many training courses, designed specially for our Nursing team. Nurses have a close working relationship with the Home Manager and are supervised carefully.

Some of the Training courses for our Nurses are:
  • Wound Management/Tissue viability
  • Medication
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults at Risk
  • Pressure area care

Health Care Assistants

Our hardworking team of approximately 15 Health Care Assistants always keep individuals and their families at the heart of the care they provide at Willett Lodge. Most of our Healthcare Assistants have or are working towards either an NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Care.

We have a dedicated training regime for all our Carers. There are normally at least one or two training courses available in house for our Carers to attend per month.

Some of these would be;
  • Manual Handling
  • Dementia
  • Challenging Behavior
  • Health and Safety
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Risk

All our Healthcare Assistants have regular supervisions, carried out by the Home Manager. There are also weekly meetings carried out by the Home Manager with the Nurse and Healthcare Assistants on duty, where residents are discussed. This helps identify new needs and observations.

Equal Opportunities

Willett Lodge operates an equal opportunities employment policy and aims to ensure that no employment applicant or employee receives discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, sex, religion, or marital status, therefore, inappropriate behaviour including racial harassment will not be tolerated. This also means that you will be nursed by Nurses and Healthcare Assistants of either gender.

Staff Training

  • All Nursing and Healthcare staff are subject to an Induction Programme and Assessment of Training needs.
  • All staff involved in food preparation will have been trained in food hygiene awareness.
  • All staff involved with the moving and handling of the residents will have been trained on an accredited moving and handling course.
  • A first aider will be on duty in the home 24 hours a day.
  • All staff attend fire safety training regularly.
Other training given to staff will include:
  • Health and Safety
  • Dementia
  • Challenging Behavior
  • Medication
  • Tissue Viability/Wound management
  • Safeguarding Adults at risk
  • Equality, Dignity & Diversity

The Manager

Since joining in 2017, Srijit has innovated how people with dementia are looked after at Willett Lodge by introducing the idea of focussing on the individual and looking beyond their journey with Dementia.
Nursing and Dementia Care Homes in Worthing Our Manager
Prior to joining us, Srijit worked for BUPA for 7 years and completed his RMA and Management Training with them. He has worked closely and successfully alongside Adult Services, the Adult Safeguarding Team, Admission Avoidance Matron, Older People’s Mental Health Team and Dementia Crisis Service (now Intensive Support Unit) and some Psychiatrists.
Srijit and the team successfully managed to host a Dementia Crisis Bed at Willett Lodge. He is keen to establish and work in partnership with relatives and friends of the people who we care for. He learns from each family’s interpretation of what care should be.
Srijit continues to draw from these experiences to add to his learning and applies this to continuously evolve and improve on ways of our care.
“Each person gives us the cue and teaches us how we should care for them.”

Join Our Team

Willett Lodge has a policy of equal opportunity of employment with an overriding principle that vacancies should be filled by the best people to do them. Decisions to employ are made on job related criteria with all potential staff being treated fairly and equally.

All posts are subject to Disclosure checks to comply with legal Regulations. The level of check required to work at Willett Lodge is “Enhanced”.

Enhanced Disclosures contain all convictions held in the Police National Computer, including “spent” convictions, together with cautions, reprimands or final warnings held on the computer. Enhanced Disclosures also include information held in local police records. Willett Lodge has a policy on the secure storage handling, use, retention and disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure information in order to give full consideration to the Data Protection and Human Rights Acts.

If you are in the process of looking for a new job please send us an email at info@willettlodge.co.uk, attaching your CV and details of the position you would like to apply for.

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