Our staff and the people we support are involved in all sorts of activities and events throughout our services. Below we showcase just a few of them. For any more information about Optima Care please contact us.
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Open Day: Seahaven celebrates its move to become a Total Communication setting
In line with Seahaven’s move to become a specialist ‘Total Communication’ environment, we’re hosting an Open Afternoon on Friday 19th June (also National Care Home Open Day) to enable commissioners, care managers and also families to meet with staff and the people we support. Our in-house MDT will also be on hand to talk about […]
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The Chilterns’ Cookery School launches
To coincide with the start of Mental Health Awareness week (11 – 17 May 2015) The Chilterns is launching its own Cookery School, which will be tailored to the needs of the people we support: starting with making snacks, for those who require a high level of support, to budgeting, planning, shopping and cooking with […]
Read more »David Roe of LaingBuisson to speak at Optima Care’s breakfast briefing
Optima care is hosting a free breakfast briefing for local commissioners at our offices in Manston on Wednesday 20th May, 9.30am – 12.30pm. The event is entitled ‘Achieving clinical outcomes in practice’ and features headline speaker David Roe, Senior Consultant, LaingBuisson. Here’s the full programme: 9.30am Registration and breakfast 9.45 Welcome by Eddie Coombes, CEO, […]
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Seahaven supports National Care Home Open Day
Sharon Head, Manager of Seahaven, has pledged her support for National Care Home Open Day on 19th June and is now planning a fun-packed day, in conjunction with the staff and people we support at the setting. The theme of this year’s event is ‘The Arts and Valuing Staff’ and it seems that Seahaven already […]
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Food champions at The Chilterns
Two of The Chilterns’ staff are set to benefit from a free 2-day training course on how to put the theory of healthy eating into practice, followed by a 12-month programme of mentoring by a member of the nutrition team at Kent Community Health. Jordon Cowburn, a Support Worker at The Chilterns, already leads on a […]
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Day Centre widens its appeal
The day centre is about to offer life skills and vocational training programmes alongside its usual timetable of popular activities. Optima Care is now registered with ASDAN: a British charity organisation that provides programmes tailored to young people post school age. In line with our new transition services for school leavers, we wanted to help […]
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Schools service launches
This month saw the launch of our transitional services for school and college leavers. Underpinned by our Shine therapeutic model, the service will provide tailored support to each young person’s needs, with the goal of ensuring that individuals feel confident to move on to adult supported living wherever possible. We’ve been busy visiting local SEN […]
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Shine goes live!
We’re getting set to launch our Shine therapeutic model, which will provide the framework for our services going forward. The Shine circle visual is designed to show the way in which the individual is at the centre of everything we do. This is being incorporated into brochures to help communicate our new schools transition services […]
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The Spring newsletter is here!
The Spring edition of Optima Care’s quarterly ‘Our Community News’ is packed full of news from across all of our settings. We also feature the launch of Shine, our new therapeutic model of care, which provides the framework for everything we do – from our new transition service for school and college leavers to adult […]
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Laing & Buisson Awards Finalists
The Chilterns, part of Optima Care, has been shortlisted in the Laing & Buisson Specialist Care Awards in the Care Pathways category. The award was submitted on behalf of Denise Banks, Clinical Services Manager at The Chilterns. Denise was responsible for designing and implementing a personalised pathway to fill a gap that she identified in […]
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