Birch Green Care Home’s Jamie Matthews has qualified to become an assistant practitioner.

Jamie, one of Birch Green’s team leaders, joined the Skelmersdale home six years ago and since then has steadily progressed. She has spent the last two years studying for the qualification and has passed with flying colours.

Mike Lakins, head of learning and development for the Springhill Care Group, said: “This is a fantastic result not only for Jamie but for the Springhill Care Group.

“We always support staff to achieve their career aspirations and to take full advantage of the training opportunities on offer - well done Jamie, this is truly deserved.”

What a fantastic achievement for Jamie who has worked to see all her hard work and commitment pay off.

Congratulations from everyone at Birch Green and Springhill Care Group.

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Springhill Care Home’s resident teddy bear has been on an exciting Scottish adventure with Sam and Gemma (Springhill Care Home, Accrington), Bev (Head Office) and family when they recently went to Dumfries and Galloway on their family holiday.

They all enjoyed visits to Galloway Forest, Galloway River and Galloway Harbour, the coastal village of Garlieston, Glenluce Abbey and last but not least Port William.

It was a fun filled adventure holiday and Teddy especially enjoyed crabbing with Charlie and Arthur and making new four legged friends whilst out walking.

A big thank you to Sam, Gemma and Bev for sending us the fabulous photos, it looks like you had a great time.

We’re looking forward to seeing where Teddy ends up next and we would love for anyone going away on holiday to take him on their travels.

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To view more photos on Springhill Care Home's Facebook page click HERE

Please get in touch with a member of our Lifestyle team at Springhill Care Home if you’d like to include Teddy in your own adventure and don’t forget to send us the photos!

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Springhill Care Home in Accrington held a ‘smartphone and tablet workshop’ recently to help our residents face their fear of computers!

First they learned how to sign into WiFi in order to browse the internet, then moved to using apps such as Google Maps. One residents used this app in order to look at the house he lived in when he was younger.

They then used YouTube to search for their favourite music and locations, before moving to Google searching for information on Accrington and Oswaldtwistle.

It was a fun and informative session delivered by Lancashire Adult Learning, and they managed to dispel a few misconceptions about using the internet.

Springhill Care Home has one more session left, but anyone interested in another should speak to our Wellbeing Lead, Victoria Huntriss at Springhill Care Home.

Remember that friends and family members can also sign up to this course.

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Riversway Nursing Home in Bristol love incorporating technology into their activities and they recently got to try out the ‘magic table.’

This device projects images onto a table which can then be interacted with, and they have great fun playing a number of games.

Everyone was very interested to see it in action, and loved what it could offer, from a football game to interactive autumn leaves.

To view more photographs on Riversway's Facebook page click HERE

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