Colten Care is the care home provider behind the new building, which is decorated in an art-deco theme and located on Langside Avenue on the Poole-Bournemouth border. It is the 21st building that Colten Care have opened across Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Sussex. 

 

All Colten Care homes are registered for nursing care. The difference between a nursing home and a regular care home is that at a nursing home qualified nurses are available 24/7.

 

Bourne View home has 68 en-suite bedrooms and two guest suites along with a rooftop garden and Canopy Café, piano lounge, hair salon, spa and hotel-style foyer.

 

Chief executive Mark Aitchison said: "Residents are at the very heart of everything we do. We want the home to be a beacon of excellence reinforcing our position as one of the country’s leading care home groups.

 

"A building is only a small part of what makes a home outstanding however. It’s the team and the residents that define a home’s character. I am truly delighted by the team here at Bourne View.

 

"In our home manager Sohail Daniel and clinical lead Vera Almeida we have two highly experienced, dedicated professionals who embody our values. We are one team with two objectives, being the care provider of choice and employer of choice, and one goal: our residents and the care they receive."

 

Source: Insider Media South West

 

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Care homes are staffed 24/7 by care workers, receptionists, security guards and other members of staff. If it is also a nursing home, with specialist nurses on-site, they will also need to have a constant presence. This means that there is likely to be a large number of overlapping and/or irregular shifts. 

 

This is already difficult enough for supervisors to manage successfully. It is vital that there is a clear picture of who is in the building at any given time, not only for the security and reputation of the care home, but also for visitors’ safety in situations such as fire alarms. 

 

Our specialist time and attendance system records everyone’s entrance and exit from controlled doors, using either smartcards or more expensive but more secure biometric measurements. 

 

When the time and attendance clocking terminals from Time and Attendance Southern are linked into your company’s fire alarm system, any fire alarm activation will result in the printing of a fast, automated list of who is currently clocked into the building. This is more accurate than a paper sign-in sheet.

 

All the data from our system on when people went through controlled doors is exportable onto all major payroll programmes. We also have the Self Service Module, which can be accessed from a browser or from your mobile via the app (available on Android and iOS). This enables employees to sign in and out and request holiday. 

 

If the clocking in/out is done from a mobile, the information is transferred to the central Tensor.NET application, including GPS position data so that you can make sure your remote employees, such as community carers, are where they should be at that time.