Welcome to Hollins Bank Care Home

Hollins Bank Care Home in Blackpool delivers personalised residential and respite care for older people, in a safe and relaxed environment they can call home. You’ll find us in a quiet residential area, less than a mile from the famous Golden Mile. With two comfortable lounges, delicious home-cooked food and beautiful mature gardens, Hollins Bank is a home-from-home in the heart of South Shore, Blackpool.

Hollins Bank Care 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

The maximum number of Residents allowed at any one time is 44.

Hollins Bank Care 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.

Hollins Bank is a detached property that has been substantially converted for Care, situated in Blackpool.

Alt Park Nursing Home specialises in providing care for the elderly and those living with dementia, offering person-centred care to the highest standard. The home is set on two floors and provides accommodation of 44 single rooms. There is a large open plan lounge, dining area and a number of areas for our residents to relax and make new friends.

For those Residents who need help in bathing, we have bathrooms that are easily accessible by staff and Residents. Each room is equipped with a nurse call system and a smoke detector.

Each bedroom is designed with a each of our residents in mind. Residents living with Dementia can relate to their own living space. Also, our corridors are filled with sensory pictures. There are TV points in all rooms and should any Resident wish to have their telephone or Sky TV, they are more than welcome to have this arranged with their chosen provider. Specialist equipment, which includes hoists, grab rails and aids, have all been provided to maximise the independence of our Residents. Doorways that require wheelchair access all have the required opening width.

Residents are invited to personalise their bedrooms by bringing their ornaments, pictures and any other objects of personal significance into the home. Furniture can be brought in by prior arrangement. The hairdresser attends once a week, additional charges will be payable by the Resident or their relative for hairdressing, other ancillary medical services and for personal requirements such as newspapers and clothing.

We pay particular attention to detail in order to make the home a safe environment for our Residents, we have installed CCTV in communal areas and access points.

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

Sue Lepori is the Home Manager of Hollins Bank. Sue oversees the day to day running of the Home. The Deputy Manager supports this role and takes charge in the absence of the Manager. Senior Carers and Carers tend to the care of residents.

Care Team

Hollins Bank has x members of staff: x of whom are directly involved with providing care for our residents.  All our Senior Carers hold an NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care and of our 29 care staff more than 50% of staff hold an NVQ Level 2 with others who are working toward this qualification.

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 alternate days preparing and providing meals to our residents 3 times a day to meet each individual’s dietary need.

Hollins Bank invests in a wide range of training for all our staff members, not only do we complete the mandatory training, 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 the normal recreational events. Activities are planned and actioned through our Activities Co-ordinator; a 4 weekly plan is available.

Here at Hollins Bank, 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 Hollins Bank, we believe in helping to enrich the lives of people with dementia to ensure they are happy and fulfilled.

Self-Funded prices starting from £750

(These prices are only a guideline, please contact Hollins Bank Care Home to find out the exact price for your requirements.)

For information about local authority financial support available, please check the care cost calculator