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Saint Cecilia’s Nursing Home in Scarborough offers compassionate and professional care for people with a wide variety of often complex needs in a homely, warm and welcoming environment. Our ethos is to concentrate on what people can achieve rather than what they can’t and to provide the most individually tailored, person-centred care that we can. A settled team of nursing and care staff, many of whom have been with us for many years, provide a high standard of care in a positive, happy atmosphere.
Call in to our lovely home on the outskirts of Scarborough and discover our amazing care for yourself…
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Nurse on duty 24/7
Close to Scarborough’s South Cliff with sea views
Comfortable and easily personalised rooms
Regular activities and entertainment
Complex nursing and care needs catered for
Care at Saint Cecilia’s Nursing Home is based on respect. We respect that the home is our residents’ home and treat them with the respect and dignity they have a right to expect. It is also based upon respecting their individual likes, dislikes and wishes.
Our care is also based on choice and ensuring that the residents enjoy the same level of independence they would if they were still living in their own home. That means choice and flexibility on things like food, what, when and where to eat, what activities to join in and what their room looks like.
We care for people as we would our own family – indeed our Managing Director’s mum is a long-standing resident. We have a settled and strong team of highly trained nurses from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures to ensure we can offer nursing care to meet all different and complex needs. Many of our nursing and care staff have been with us for many years and their breadth of experience contributes to a high standard of care and excellent continuity and consistency at the home. Our close-knit team of staff work seamlessly together with a passion for providing the best of care. They are dedicated to keeping our residents safe, well and content and love what they do.
Within the staff we have our ‘Champions’ – selected team members who take added responsibility for things like nutrition, wellbeing, dignity and supporting new staff members.
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Recently redecorated rooms
Attractive and well-tended gardens
Lift to all floors
Large, light and welcoming lounge with a widescreen tv and music centre
Nice, light and airy dining rooms
Rooms with character and original features
Minibus for outings and visits
Saint Cecilia’s Nursing Home is an impressive and attractive building on the outskirts of the popular seaside town of Scarborough. It is situated on Scarborough’s South Cliff, an area close to the town’s famous Esplanade, with its views across Scarborough’s beautiful south bay.
The home has well-tended and attractive gardens, ample parking and a light, airy aspect.
On entering visitors are met by an attractive reception area where they can meet our staff and discuss their care needs. Across the hall is our large, bright activity room and down the corridor our two tastefully decorated and attractive dining rooms.
All our residents’ rooms are clean, freshly decorated and have all the facilities needed. They are ready for our residents to personalise them with their own choice of decoration and their own furniture, pictures and ornaments, if desired.
Say hello to some of the key members of staff at our home.
Dani Botelho
Home Manager
Our Registered Manager at the nursing home is Dani Botelho. Winner of the nurse of the year accolade at our awards night in 2023, Dani has been described as “an angel” for the way she delivers compassionate, person-centred care.
Previously Clinical Lead, it is Dani’s role to manage the home and ensure the team is providing the best nursing care for those who need it at our home. Dani trained to be a nurse in her home country of Portugal before taking the very brave decision to move, with her boyfriend, to the UK in 2015 in search of greater opportunities.
She began at the nursing home as a care assistant, whilst she found her feet and got to grips with the language and the way we deliver care in this country. She soon settled in and her excellent nursing skills and empathetic nature saw her rise through the ranks as a nurse, senior nurse, clinical lead and now manager.
“We help and support each other, which is very important in ensuring we deliver the right care for our residents,” says Dani. “That idea of creating a family atmosphere is really important. When residents arrive, they might feel lonely as they have left their home and familiar surroundings. We work hard to transmit a family welcome to them to help them to settle in and feel happy, safe and content.”
She now describes herself as ‘part of the furniture’ and says she loves her work and the opportunity to properly get to know the residents, which is less possible in a hospital environment. “It makes it so much easier to provide the proper care when you have known a resident for a long time and they know and trust you,” she adds. “No day is ever the same and it is a very rewarding job, providing care for someone. Often it is the little things that are important, stopping to have a conversation and a laugh with a resident can make their day. For me, knowing you have made a difference to someone’s life gives me the greatest satisfaction.”
Laura Fielding
Catering Manager
Of all our team, Laura Fielding is one of the most important as we believe providing our residents with tasty and nutritious food is vital.
And the catering couldn’t be in better hands than those of our award-winning chef and Catering Manager, Laura.
She is passionate about good food and about giving the residents choice. On a typical day Laura will prepare, from scratch, lunch for 42 residents and around 20 staff.
Residents get a choice of three main courses and if they don’t like those, Laura will prepare something different - if you fancy fish and chips, then fish and chips you will have!
“Meals are a really important, social part of the day and the residents really look forward to them so we do everything we can to give them a good choice of tasty, nutritious and enjoyable food,” she says. “We take into account every dietary requirement and personal preference to tailor a menu for each individual so that food is another area where our residents feel cared for and valued.”
That dedication earned Laura the Chef of the Year Award at the Yorkshire and Humberside Great British Care Awards in 2020.
She takes every little detail into account – right down to individual residents preferring one vegetable against another and is passionate about food being made properly.
In how many nursing homes would the toasted teacake at teatime be made from scratch – flour, sugar, yeast, fruit and so on?
We love a celebration and Laura will knock-up a mouth-watering buffet (with homemade scones, quiches, pizza, doughnuts and cakes of course) or create a themed birthday cake, at the drop of a hat. She creates cakes for anything from a Royal Wedding to the FA Cup Final.
Laura splits her time between cooking at the nursing home and supporting the cooking staff at Saint Cecilia’s other homes in her role as Catering Manager for the whole group.
Sarah Earp
Housekeeping Manager
Ensuring that our homes are spotless and our residents’ clothes are properly cared for are really important at Saint Cecilia’s.
Sarah Earp has the task of making sure those things – and a lot more besides – get done.
She has been with the nursing home since she was 15 and now has the role of Housekeeping Manager, responsible for the housekeeping function across all of our homes.
Putting the residents first is her top priority.
“The most important thing is understanding our residents and getting things the way they like them,” Sarah says. “It is about dignity and happiness for the residents. This is their home and an important part of that is making sure they have the clothes they like to wear clean and ready to put on and that the home is as clean and pleasant an environment as we can make it.”
Sarah has a scrupulous eye for detail, borne out of many years’ experience as a housekeeper at the nursing home. She joined straight from school as a domestic assistant, later becoming housekeeper.
Now, as Housekeeping Manager, she supports the housekeeping teams at the other homes, ensuring a consistency of cleanliness and hygiene across the group.
It's a busy role. Sarah has to ensure all the paperwork is up to date, evidencing the hard work that her teams undertake; ordering supplies and ensuring the housekeeping rotas have enough staff. She is more than willing to do a shift to help out if a home finds itself short and that is in care as well as housekeeping.
Evans Sarbeng
Nurse
Ghana-born nurse Evans Sarbeng is one of 28 staff recruited by Saint Cecilia’s Care Group from overseas in the past year and is playing a vital role delivering care in our centres.
Evans grew up in Duayaw Nkwanta in southern Ghana and after school went to nurse training college in Berekum. Following three years’ training he did the mandatory year of work for the Government at the St John of God Hospital in his home town before going to work at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Kumasi.
Evans was tempted by the job at Saint Cecilia’s by the opportunity to take up a new challenge and progress in his profession. After an interview across Zoom, he arrived in this country in November and after a month’s training started at the nursing home in December. He is thoroughly enjoying working at Saint Cecilia’s, particularly getting to know the residents well.
“They are amazing,” he says. “A pleasure to look after. We lift each other – if they are feeling down, we lift them up and if we are feeling low, they cheer us up too.” Away from the nursing home, Evans has thrown himself into football, joining Aaron and Jordan Padgham playing for the Goal Sports team.
Jane Scurrah
Team Leader
Team Leader Jane Scurrah turned her back on a career in beauty therapy to concentrate on looking after people instead.
“I went to college to do beauty therapy but I realised I didn’t want to pamper people, I wanted to care for them instead,” she says.
Jane first worked in community care, looking after people in their own homes but switched to nursing home care when she joined us at Saint Cecilia’s in 2020.
She came first as a care assistant but has worked her way up to team leader, responsible for leading a team of care assistants, after picking up her NVQ Level 3 in care along the way.
“I enjoyed community care but working in a nursing home, where everyone is under the same roof is very rewarding,” Jane says. “You get to know people a lot better, get to know their likes and dislikes, their personalities and what keeps them happy and contented.”
Jane passionately believes in person-centred care that includes the whole family.
“We don’t just look after the resident, we provide support for their family too, because we understand that having a relative in a nursing home is a big responsibility and we are with them on that journey.
“A good day for me is when the residents are happy and content and their families feel happy and have peace of mind too.”
Away from Saint Cecilia’s, Jane loves spending time with her family and is a keen walker.
We accept both North Yorkshire Council and private placements at this home. Our pricing in dependent upon an individuals needs, and would be confirmed after the completion of an assessment. To request an assessment, please submit an enquiry or call us on 01723 353884.
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