WCS Care Charity

WCS Care Charity

At a glance

Causes

  • Older people / later life
  • Physical disabilities
  • Social care

Other details

Organisation type: 
Charity
Geographical remit: 
Regional

Objectives

Established over 30 years ago, we’re a registered social care charity, operating 13 care homes across Warwickshire. 

Eleven homes offer long-term residential and short-term respite care for older people and people living with dementia or a range of different needs.

Two homes provide rehabilitation, respite and long-term residential care for people with physical disabilities or long-term conditions.

Woodside Care Village also provides our Deafinitely Independent service for residents who are deaf.

Our care

At WCS Care, we believe every day should be well lived. This will mean something different to every person we care for. We want to understand what this looks like for you and help you to achieve it.Our care is rooted in our core values: play; be there; make someone’s day; and choose your attitude. All of our staff are introduced to these values, giving them permission to be themselves and look beyond essential care needs to help residents find pleasure in every day.

Everyday life

We believe life in a care home should feel familiar. Our role is to help people be as independent as possible, doing as little or as much as they want, and are able, to do.Having effective processes and procedures in place that underpin every element of our day-to-day care means staff can focus on supporting people to live the life they choose.

Activities

We believe anyone should be able to benefit from quality care, regardless of their ability to pay for it. As such, one of our key objectives is to provide a home to people who are socially funded.

Using the latest innovations, techniques and approaches in our homes, we work hard to improve the lives of the people who live with us. A care home is simply a new home and you should carry on living your life, your way.

 

Our values - We believe every day should be a day well lived.This simple belief and approach applies to anyone who lives with us, or works for us - in fact, anyone we connect with. We keep this passion alive through our four values, which invite people to: 

Play - interact, be creative, be light-hearted, enjoy!

Make someone's day - notice, know people, make a positive impact through a simple act

Be there - listen, connect, focus on the other person

Choose your attitude - take responsibility for yourself; make a choice about how you're going to be today

 

Our people 

We know we’re only as good as our last act of care. And that if our staff are happy at work this will be felt in the care they provide to our residents. It’s our job to support our care workers so you experience smiling, friendly and kind staff who know how to support you, can spend time with you and go the extra mile to make your day.Through the introduction of new technology and our philosophy of elevating the role of care giving we’re fully staffed. Our dedicated WCS team members align with our values and are trained in our processes and procedures. This means residents are cared for by a consistent team of staff who they get to know, and vice versa.

 

Innovations

At WCS Care we’re not afraid of trying something new if we think it will improve the lives of our residents or staff. Over recent years we’ve developed a reputation in the UK and internationally for our creativity and use of technology, and, more recently, our award-winning dementia care village in Warwick.We regularly welcome visitors from other UK and international care providers, NHS colleagues, and Local Authority, Government and Care Quality Commission representatives, who come to experience our unique care village community and learn from our experience of using new technology. We’re proud that our approach to sharing our work with the rest of the sector (something that doesn’t happen very often in a competitive marketplace) has led to other providers adopting some of the technology we introduced to the UK and to our homes, benefiting residents in care homes across the country.

 

As a charity we don’t have shareholders so any surplus we generate is invested back into our services to improve the experience of people who live and work with us. This may be improvements to our buildings, the introduction of new technology, or the development of our team members.

Current opportunities

Warwickshire, CV8 1HW

As a trustee, you have the opportunity to be part of our dynamic Board, contributing to the continued evolution of WCS Care's innovative and...