Thomas Knight
Thomas Knight Care Home is a modern, rebuilt facility in a historic location in the heart of Blyth. Thomas Knight Care Home is a residential and nursing home in the area of Blyth, which can accommodate just under 55 residents.
Bedrooms are sizes and designs that exceed minimum standard requirements, and all are en-suite. There are multiple communal lounges, dining areas, bathrooms, showers, wet rooms, and toilet facilities across each of the three floors.
Nursing or personal care is delivered across three dedicated floors. The top floor which is called Auguste Community is mostly for persons living with a dementia or related syndrome. The ground floor Harmony Meadows is specialised general nursing provision.
The remainder of the service is on the middle floor. Trinity Retreat provides accommodation and care for a mixture of personal care needs for those with a dementia and those with no cognitive challenges but a degree of frailty.
The Registered Manager and his close management team oversee the entire service. All staff will have received the appropriate induction and ongoing training for the aspects of care they deliver. Each floor has a dedicated team with named leaders and a selection of champions (staff who receive extra training and have a degree of responsibility for certain care topics i.e. medicines, wound care, nutrition etc).
There are fully stocked, working kitchenettes on the first and 2nd floor and the service provides a snoezelen room on the middle floor and has recently added a ‘cafe’ to the top floor.
With an enclosed safe garden and local shops right on the door step this is the perfect setting for a modern, well presented care facility. It is fully staffed with nurses and carers and has a very high staff to resident ratio.
Our Manager
John Logan
- Manager, Thomas Knight Nursing home
John is a qualified nurse with over 45 years’ experience in health and social care as a registered nurse and registered manager. His specialist areas are neuropsychiatry, mental health, older persons mental health and challenging behaviours. John begun his career in the independent sector in 2007 and quickly progressed to registered manager. He has managed a range of services where he has further contributed to research and development that has assisted the industry.
He has several beliefs around the type of care he and his teams wish to deliver in which he will be fully supported to bring to fruition in his new duel registered facility here at Distinguished Care Group
John believes care should be person centred which at its heart is about people: their rights, protection, individuality and empowerment – he sees the care environment as not only encompassing the care home but also the surrounding community and that as far as possible people should be supported to remain part of that community and to carry on with their lives and relationships as uninterrupted as possible by their changes in circumstance
A tremendous advocate for the development, training and wellbeing of his teams John will attempt at every opportunity to make the service active, vibrant and a fun place to undertake serious work
John has joined the Distinguished Care Group as a founder manager to assist the groups objectives and mission of achieving outstanding ratings with the regulator through delivering exception care by the promotion of the highest ethical and clinical standards and by the maximising of each employee’s individual talents and potential. John has many years to give to this profession, and he wishes to give these years to a likeminded, person focused organisation where hard work and focusing on the inclusion of residents, their family and friends is seen as the highest possible goal.
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