Living with us

Accommodation

Our Mansfield care home can accommodate 45 residents in a variety of fully furnished single rooms with en-suite facilities. The rooms are spread across two floors and have lift access. Residents are also encouraged to bring in personal items or small pieces of furniture to personalise their own room and create a home away from home experience. We also make every effort to accommodate any special requests.

Each room includes:

Digital television (on request)
Nurse call system
Telephone
Wheelchair access

Dining

At Sherwood Grange we understand the importance of good nutrition. Our in-house chefs prepare fresh meals on a daily basis and our menus are carefully designed with meals our care home residents love to eat. We always offer a choice and we can easily cater for special dietary requirements. Tea, coffee, cold drinks, sandwiches, fruit and biscuits are available at any time of the day.

Food hygiene rating: 5

Lounge and social areas

The ground floor of our care home benefits from two spacious lounges where residents can relax quietly or socialise with visitors or friends, and enjoy served refreshments.

Gardens

The landscaped gardens are fully accessible and provide extensive wildlife, quiet corners and areas perfect for relaxing, reading a book or chatting with friends whilst admiring the views across the surrounding farmland. If you listen carefully, you might even hear the rustling leaves of Sherwood Forest.

Visitors

Friends and family are always welcome to visit at any time and visiting hours are unrestricted. Visitors can make use of the lounges, dining room and garden areas. Tea, coffee and biscuits are available. Car parking is also available.

Activities

We believe that exercise of the mind and body is essential to maintaining a happy and healthy lifestyle, so we offer a variety of activities. We also appreciate individuality and residents are encouraged to continue with any special interests or hobbies where possible. Of course, some would simply prefer to enjoy a cup of tea and read a good book.

Additional services

Laundry

An in-house laundry service is included in the fees. We advised that all items of clothing are labelled with the name of the resident prior to admission. Dry cleaning can be arranged for an additional charge.

Hairdressing and manicures

A hairdresser and manicurist regularly visit and appointments can be booked in advance. Charges apply and are not included in our fees.

Chiropody

A chiropodist regularly visits Sherwood Grange. An appointment can be booked in advance. Charges apply and are not included in our fees.

Physiotherapy

Mobility and rehabilitation is key to maintaining an independent lifestyle and private physiotherapy assessments and treatment can be arranged. Charges apply and are not included in our fees.

GP services

A local General Practitioner visits Sherwood Grange as required. Residents are encouraged to retain the services of their existing familiar GP if possible.

Religion

We understand that it can be important for our residents that their spiritual needs are met, so services can be easily arranged by prior notice, with what our residents are accustomed to.

Shopping

Where shopping trips alone or with family or friends is difficult, a shopping trip with a member of our team can be arranged.

Kind words from families of our residents:

“We chose the home because it was welcoming, warm and friendly on visiting it and Lisa was an experienced hands on manager. Their management of covid not losing any residents was impressive. We liked the rural aspect of the home and the beautiful garden. My family have always been involved in the natural world and natural history and know how important access to green spaces are as my mother was still in recovery. Her view from her room is an integral part of my mothers contented time at Sherwood Grange.

Since moving her there we have not encountered any problems at all. My mother is always well cared for from a hygiene prospective, has access to drinks and her room is always clean and tidy. We attend all times of day and evening.

Considering the absolute shocking state of the care system in this country with barely any training for staff, huge staff issues because of recruitment problems due to the terrible pay offered for the roles this place is a bloody miracle. There are some long standing staff who know my mother well and any new or agency staff seem to be deployed with these staff so routines according to individuality are maintained.

My mother for her own reasons well known to my sister and I as well as the staff does not like to leave her room. Even so they have never stopped encouraging my mother to join in with activities and events. She has been treated with respect and her individual needs are known and attended too. Gentle encouragement is given and not once to our knowledge have the boundaries my mother has set been overstepped. This I am sure you know is a tricky thing to get right especially when the care industry as a whole for older people offers little on no training on such matters.

The manager is approachable, down to earth and responsive to any needs we have for our mother. I would feel happy and comfortable to walk into her office and have a conversation no matter what the subject matter. I would have no hesitation to make a complaint to her, she does not take things personally and I have found her to be professional but friendly and realistic. This is super important to me because it has helped to build a trusting relationship with her and her team. She always has time to explain procedure, issues and the many nuances of care. This has also helped us as we were not only still in shock about putting my mother into care but knew very little about it.”