Welcome to Beechcroft

About Beechcroft

At Beechcroft Nursing Home you can be assured of excellent standards of care and high-quality facilities in a beautiful tranquil setting.

This 40 bedded home is situated in Birkenhead is an elegant, red brick house, set amidst landscaped gardens in Oxton, an attractive and established residential suburb of Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula.

This area is renowned for its natural beauty.

Beechcroft offers both long and short term, nursing and residential care under one roof.

Beechcroft is close to a range of local amenities and facilities including shopping parades and there is public transport to and from Birkenhead town centre, which is two miles away. 

Beechcroft Nursing Home is part of a group that runs successful Nursing and Residential Care Homes. The Home is registered and inspected by Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide outstanding care as follows:

• Caring for adults over 65 years
• Caring for adults under 65 years
• People living with Dementia
• People who require Nursing or Personal care
• Treatment of disease, disorder or injury

The maximum number of Residents allowed at any one time is 40.

Beechcroft Nursing Home aims to continually provide its residents with a secure, relaxed, and homely environment in which their care, well-being and comfort is of prime importance.

Carers will always strive to preserve and maintain the dignity, individuality and privacy of all residents and in so doing will be sensitive to the residents’ ever-changing needs. Such needs may be medical / therapeutic (for physical and mental welfare), cultural, psychological, spiritual, emotional and social, and residents are encouraged to participate in the development of their individualised Care Plans in which the involvement of family and friends may be appropriate and is greatly valued.

All Care staff within the home will be appropriately qualified to deliver the highest standards of care. A continuous staff training programme is implemented to ensure that these high standards are maintained in line with the latest initiatives and developments in Care Practices as may be laid down in appropriate legislation, regulations and Care Standards.

Beechcroft is an elegant and spacious red brick house, set amidst landscaped gardens in Oxton, an attractive and established residential suburb of Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula, an area renowned for its interest and natural beauty.

As Beechcroft is dual registered, we can offer both long and short term, nursing and residential care under one roof.

Beechcroft is close to a range of local amenities and facilities including shopping parades and benefits from public transport to and from Birkenhead town centre, which is approximately two miles south.

At Beechcroft, we are able to accommodate older people requiring nursing care, personal care, and end of life care.

There are 40 bedrooms at Beechcroft, 32 of these are en-suite, and a hand wash basin is provided in all other rooms.  Many of our bedrooms are larger than the required standard,  for either single or double occupancy.

All of our bedrooms are bright and airy, and residents are encouraged to personalise their bedroom as much as possible so that it feels like ‘home from home’.

We provide a nurse call bell and TV point in all bedrooms.  Residents can also purchase individual telephone services/Sky TV packages for their bedrooms if they wish to do so.

The home is accessible for wheelchair users and handrails are available in all communal areas.

We have a range of specialist equipment to meet the needs of our residents including specialist mattresses and beds, full-body hoisting equipment, standing hoist equipment and a “Sam Hall” turner to help residents when transferring.  We have a range of adapted bathing and shower facilities.

Our chef teams use great ingredients to provide freshly prepared, nutritionally balanced meals based on regularly changing, seasonal menus. We make mealtimes an occasion for our residents, enabling them to enjoy their food in welcoming surroundings and catered for by our care teams. Residents always have multiple options to choose from at all meal times and can opt for something different if they change their minds when the food arrives.

We make sure our residents start the day right with a filling breakfast including cereals, fruit, toast and porridge, plus a daily changing choice of hot options. Our Residents are welcome to have breakfast any time they desire, and we are happy to accommodate their morning schedule. Between Breakfast and Lunch, we offer mid-morning cake and coffee.

Here lunch is the main meal of the day – enabling residents to dine together in a restaurant-style environment and providing a choice of hot meals and the option of soup or a sandwich for those that don’t want something quite as filling. Lunch is finished with delicious desserts, all prepared on-site by our chef teams.

And then, between lunch and supper, it’s mid-afternoon tea time with mouth-watering freshly baked cakes that our residents and team members enjoy together, making afternoon tea an activity in itself. After supper, during the night, lighter meal options are provided in the evening, and fresh fruit and snacks are available throughout the day to keep resident’s nourished, energised and satisfied.

Management Team

Therese Ryall has over 35 years of nursing experience. She started with training as a Registered Nurse at Sefton school of nursing in 1985. Upon completing her training, Therese began her career in nursing homes, progressing to deputy and then manager.

She has a great deal of experience working in care homes and enjoys working in this sector. She is a champion in positive, engaged culture, focusing on continuous improvement and learning. Therese is passionate about her home; she believes in empowering and encouraging teams to reach their full potential to feel valued and respected, thus providing the very best possible care they can to our residents.

Therese is committed to providing a unique and engaging place for our residents to live and an excellent workplace.

Nurses, Senior Carers and Carers tend to the care of residents.

Care Team

Beechcroft has 35 members of staff: 22 of whom are directly involved with nursing and providing care for the Residents. All of our staff members have several years of care experience. Of the 22 care staff, 6 hold an NVQ level 2 or above in Health and Social Care

Support Team

The Admin and Head Office team are responsible for dealing with fees and clients personal allowance, suppliers’ invoices and payroll.

Domestic and Maintenance staff ensure the home is a safe and clean environment at all times, following the regulations set by COSHH, HSE and IPC.

Our cooks work on preparing and providing meals to our residents 3 times a day to meet each individual’s dietary need.

Beechcroft invests in a wide range of training for all our staff members, not only do we complete the mandatory training, but we also complete additional training courses such as Catheter Care, Challenging Behaviour, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, Dysphasia, Common Health Problems, End of Life Care and much more. All our staff re-train every year in dementia to keep our knowledge up to date to ensure we provide the best care.

Therapeutic activities are available for all our residents including those living with dementia; these include normal recreational events. Activities are planned and actioned through our Activities Co-ordinator; a 4 weekly plan is available.

Here at Beechcroft, we have a dedicated activities coordinator responsible for creating a monthly activities calendar. We Care Group provides the activities coordinators with all the tools necessary to enhance the well-being of our Residents. Each Home is a NAPA (National Activities Provider Association) member, which means each month, we receive a variety of activities and ideas; our activities coordinators can also get trained and develop their skills as well-being coordinators.

As we have residents with dementia, it is crucial to have daily activities that help keep their minds sharp. We focus on the sensory stimulation for our residents, which means we have activities that stimulate their senses (taste, smell, vision, hearing and touch)

Besides the wide range of sensory stimulation and activities, each Home has a 40 inch interactive table. In the past year, WCG invested in getting a Sharp Interactive table to each Home to aid the activities coordinators to provide a more person-centred and one-on-one session to low mobility Residents or Residents who prefer not to socialise. 

At Beechcroft, we believe in helping enrich the lives of people with dementia to ensure they are happy and fulfilled.