Professional Care At The Cambridgeshire Care Home we pride ourselves on our ability to respond to individual needs. Whether a resident’s stay with us is just a two-week break or a permanent residency, everyone living here will be treated with dignity, compassion and respect Purpose Built The Cambridgeshire Care Home is an attractive modern, purpose-built care home with beautiful landscaped gardens, providing residential and nursing care for up to 72 elderly people. We have all the comforts of home, the luxuries of a hotel and expert staff on hand at all times. Activities As well as a comprehensive activities programme residents at The Cambridgeshire Care Home have a cinema which shows their favourite films, a therapy room offering aromatherapy, hairdressing salons, and private dining facilities along with a bistro in reception. Care Technology First Care Homes uses a range of carefully selected modern care technology to allow us to provide the best quality, personalised care for our residents. We use My Life Software to help us with Resident Life Stories. You can read more about our care technology by clicking this box. Cambridgeshire Care Home is proud to retain its 5 Star Food Hygiene Rating after we passed our latest inspection in March 2021. This means our food hygiene standards are very good and fully comply with the law so you can be rest assured of a first-class dining experience Professional Care At The Cambridgeshire Care Home, we pride ourselves in our qualified care team that provide residents with 24-hour nursing care in a safe environment. We train our staff are to administer care in a range of specialist areas including MS, Parkinson’s disease and diabetes. We operate to rigorous policies and procedures with a robust approach to clinical governance. Our company is very proud to have both achieved the HCIMA accreditation (Hospitality Assured for business excellence) and to be ISO accredited. We have a dedicated Hospitality Manager who ensures that our service standards are second to none. The Cambridgeshire Care Home CQC overall rating Good 13 March 2021 See the report At The Cambridgeshire Care Home, we offer a wholly tailored care plan. After registering the initial interest a member of our professional nursing staff will meet each resident to undertake a full needs assessment. This enables us to develop a tailed plan that will meet the resident’s unique requirements. Our plan will include details which will help us match the resident to different activities, information on diets and any other requirements the resident needs special attention for. This all helps form the basis of all the future care and support our residents receive. There are regular reviews of the care plans to ensure that we deliver appropriate care at all times. This is to ensure we take any changes to care needs are into consideration. Every care plan takes in the health care needs of the resident and also their spiritual, physical and daily needs. MYO App – Our exclusive messaging service directly between you and your loved ones Why not choose one of the few care homes that uses the MYO app to keep in touch with your family members during this difficult time? Stay up to date about the life in Cambridgeshire Care Home by receiving news and messages directly to your mobile phone. Videos, photos and text allow you to take part in the daily life of your loved one in real time and without the barrier of distance. Elizabeth Hoggett, Relative: ‘I finally managed to log into MYO and I love it! My dad Ronnie has Dementia and can’t ever remember what he’s been doing, so it’s fantastic to see the photos, to see him looking so happy, and taking part in so many activities. Thank you so much’ Natasha Jackson-Gotham, Relative: ‘I absolutely love your app. It makes my day to receive alerts that I have a post of my mother who is in a nursing home. I live in America and she lives in Ipswich UK. What a delight to see what activity she is involved in. I have been using your comments to communicate with carers and have received almost immediate responses. This app is priceless to me.’ Ashton Wills, Wellbeing Team: ‘myo is a great way for relatives to get an insight of the daily lifestyle and activities programme at First Care Homes. Especially for those relatives who do not get the change to visit as regulars as they would like or who live in a different country, myo is the perfect app.’ Our Features Our mission is to provide the best service, care and match for you and your family Purpose Built At The Cambridgeshire Care Home, we offer exceptional facilities to all that stay with us, whether your stay is for Assisted living or a Respite recovery stay. Activities Alongside our core technologies, we provide our residents with an excellent range of themed events designed to our resident’s personal tastes. Location You can find our home in Great Shelford, only a short drive away from the historic county town and university city of Cambridge. Recommended At The Cambridgeshire Care home, we pride ourselves in our exceptional reviews. We provide a first-rate quality of service and care. Activities Alongside our core technologies, we provide our residents with an excellent range of themed events. This Includes tea parties, coffee mornings, reminiscence afternoons, craft sessions, live music and day trips to interesting locations. These are all designed to help each resident feel at home while meeting their cognitive, sensory, social and emotional needs. Some of these themed events are to help raise money for charity which provides a wonderful opportunity to build community spirit within the home whilst making a difference for some very worthy causes. Underpinning our activity planning is the creation of a ‘Life Story’ for every resident in our care home. Although ‘Life Stories’ were created for residents living with dementia to help create a record of the person’s life, they provided a fantastic resource for understanding and engagement and are now rolled out to every resident who wishes to take part. We use My Life Software to help us with Resident Life Stories. My Life Software contains a large collection of photographs, videos and music specifically chosen to spark recollections that can be used to form conversations and promote well-being. Our home also boasts a fully equipped cinema room where Residents can enjoy their favourite films, both old and new. The walls are covered with classic Hollywood movie posters such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s. With rows of comfy chairs to relax in, as well as being a fantastic place to watch a film, the surroundings evoke enjoyable memories of past cinema visits. Exceptional Reviews At The Cambridgeshire Care home, we pride ourselves in our exceptional reviews. We provide a first-rate quality of service and care and this reflected in the feedback we receive from past residents, their family and friends. Read a few below and see for yourself. “Everything about the care home is excellent and it is a lovely environment to live in and to visit. The staff are attentive, caring and respectful, with a good sense of humour and a reassuring calmness and Dad could not have been in better hands. The facilities are great, the gardens are beautiful and the food outstanding.” Sue D 5 April 2017 “The home is an excellent facility and the standard of care is of the highest levels. There is a caring and thoughtful approach to residents which is supported by excellent management and supervisory staff. Outstanding.” – Gillian N 4 Dec 2018 “We could not have been happier with the quality of care provided by the staff who showed superb levels of expertise, professionalism and empathy. Equally, the level of family support was really appreciated. The quality of the facilities and catering services was also faultless.” – Phillip M 25 July 2018 “Mum has been in The Cambridgeshire Care Home for eight months following the death of dad. The care she has received has been excellent. The staff always go that extra mile to help. I would recommend this care home.” -E R (Daughter of Resident), 22 Mar 2019 Information about Great Shelford Cambridgeshire Care Home is proud to offer Retirement Home services in Great Shelford. The Village of Great Shelford, lies within England in Cambridgeshire. Great Shelford is part of the South Cambridgeshire local authority administrative area in Cambridgeshire in England. Great Shelford is based within East Of England. Great Shelford comes under the Cb22 postal code. Adjoining the Village of Great Shelford to the south, are the neighbouring settlements of Cambridge A variety of businesses including Cambridgeshire Care Home make Cambridgeshire and Great Shelford their home. First Care Homes - The Cambridgeshire Care Home 176-178 Cambridge Road, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5JU Tel: 0808 223 5550 Email: enquiries@cambridgeshirecarehome.co.uk Get In Touch You can contact us by phone or by email using the following details: 0808 223 5550 Your Name (required) Your Email (required) Subject Your Message First Care Homes Where Care Comes First © Cambridgeshire Care Home Ltd 2019 • 176-178 Cambridge Road, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5JU • Tel: 0808 223 5550 • Accessibility • Privacy Policy • Sitemap We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. You can ead our rull cookie policy by clicking here. Cookie settingsACCEPT We have no confirmed Covid-19 cases in our home All of our Covid secure measures remain in place and this will not change following the Government guidance changes on 19 July 2021. Visitors are asked to continue to wear a face covering, unless they are exempt, and to follow social distancing when visiting our care home. This follows the national Infection Prevention Control (IPC) Guidance for all healthcare settings and will help to ensure the safety of our staff and residents at all times. Thank you for your continued support. The Cambridgeshire Care Home If you are planning on visiting our Care Home, please read our latest advice and guidance on the Coronavirus first by clicking here or call our Home directly