Castle View

Bridport Road, Poundbury, Dorchester DT1 2NH
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9.9 85 Reviews
  • Castle View, Dorchester
Thomas Hardy country is the setting for Castle View in Dorchester. This uniquely designed home is built on the Poundbury Estate with its links to the Duchy of Cornwall. The spacious reception area welcomes you to the home offering luxury en-suite accommodation to fifty-seven residents.

Residents enjoy companionship and can join in with singing, music, exercise and arts and crafts sessions. There is the opportunity for gentle gardening activities in the summer sunshine, and there is a busy pen pal scheme.
The home is registered for nursing care and staffed by dedicated nurses and health care professionals with extensive experience in caring for age-related conditions and fully trained in infection control.

Castle View provides an atmosphere of spaciousness and light, with its luxurious reception lounge, garden room with French doors leading to patio and garden, large terrace, and second-floor lounge with panoramic views over the surrounding countryside.

The home offers four luxury suites with separate sleeping and living areas. A well-equipped activities room and cafe for the use of residents and visitors alike.

There are a fully equipped hairdressing salon and a selection of specialist bathrooms including a hydrotherapy bath.
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Care Provided by Castle View

Primary Care Categories

  • Older Person Care

Length of Stay

  • Permanent Care
  • Respite Care

Care Types Provided

  • Residential Care
  • Nursing Care
  • For a maximum of 57 Service Users

Other Care Provided

  • Palliative / End of Life Care
  • Convalescent Care

Facilities

  • Own Furniture if required
  • Smoking not permitted
  • Close to Local shops
  • Near Public Transport
  • Minibus or other transport
  • Lift
  • Wheelchair Access
  • Gardens
  • Bar/Café
  • Residents Kitchenette
  • Phone Point in own room
  • Television point in own room
  • Residents Internet Access

Funding & Fees

Weekly Charges per Person

  • Self-Funded Residential Care: from £1316

These prices are only a guideline, please contact Castle View to find out the exact price for your requirements.

Funding Types Accepted

  • Self Funding (Private)
  • Local Authority with Top Up
  • Local Authority
  • NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)

Good to Know

Group/Owner

Person in Charge

  • Ashika Reddy (Home Manager)

Local Authority / Social Services

Admission Information

  • Ages 65+

Care Home Design/Build

  • Purpose Built: Yes

Room Information

  • Single Rooms (57)
  • Single Rooms with Ensuite Wet Room (3)

Visiting

  • At Castle View, there's are no specific visiting hours, all that is asked is that you let the home know your in the building by signing in on the Ipad in Reception, if outside of Reception hours, just ring the bell and a member of staff will enable your visit.

Parking

  • Parking is available on site at Castle View, all visitor parking is clearly marked. When coming to view the home, please get in touch and a space can be saved.

Castle View Reviews (85)

9.9

Castle View has a Review Score of 9.9 (9.946) out of 10, based on 20 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Castle View has 85 reviews.

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Review from Wendy (Friend of Resident) published on 27 July 2016 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Lovely ambience, staff helpful and caring, nice and comfortable, bedrooms could be a little bit bigger. En suite nice, lounge very comfortable and lovely for social gatherings. They organise lots of lovely things to do and listen to.
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Review from Beryl F (Friend of Resident) published on 26 July 2016 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Visit regularly. Staff very friendly and caring. Always activities going on, lots of people joining in and enjoying themselves.
Always offered refreshments. Always pleasurable experience when I come.
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Review from Janice K (Friend of Resident) published on 20 July 2016 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
A lovely home with no unpleasant smells when entering inside. Its almost like a hotel lovely to sit have coffee (lovely self service coffee machine) and a chat to who ever you are visiting. Best home I have ever been in (have visited a few as I helped older people when they were in their own home).
Would recommend this to anyone who can afford it as i'm sure it is expensive. Had lunch a few times like a restaurant, lovely.
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Review from Pamela L (Wife of Resident) published on 30 March 2016 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
My husband was admitted to Castle View at the end of July 2015. He has been welcomed with kindness, care and consideration excellent nursing and doctors when necessary. His room en suite has charming views with large windows. The food is very good and the carers really care for him which is a tremendous
plus. He is now almost 96 years of age and it has been a tremendous relief to know he is now in excellent and caring hands.
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Review from Chris F (Husband of Resident) published on 21 March 2016 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
I am the main carer for my wife who has just received 7 days Respite Care at Castle View (14/03/16 to 21/03/16.) I visited her twice a day - mornings & evenings. During those visits I always found the members of staff I had contact with to be friendly, warm, caring and helpful to both of us, nothing
was too much trouble for any of them in order to meet my wife's varied needs. If I ever become unable to provide the care my wife needs, I sincerely hope there will be a vacancy for her long term care at Castle View. We do intend on receiving further Respite Care with them when needed, but that would depend on availability of accommodation at the time. My wife is aware of this review and endorses it.


Our first experience of Respite Care was last year with a different service provider and that was less than good - we paid significantly more to receive significantly less care, services and activities as provided by Castle View. My regards and best wishes to all the staff there.

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Current Review Score: 9.9 (9.946)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.9 (9.946) out of 10 for Castle View is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  1. The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 20 Reviews in the last 24 months.
  2. The score for the number of positive Reviews is 5.0 out of 5 from 20 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Care Home is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  1. 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months. The Average Rating of 4.946 for Castle View is calculated as follows: ( (227 Excellents x 5) + (13 Goods x 4) ) ÷ 240 Ratings = 4.946
  2. 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5'). The 5 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Castle View is based on 20 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    1. 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4
    2. 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the registered maximum number of service users in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Care Home registered for a maximum of 50 service users has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 57 registered maximum number of service users is 11.4, which has been reached with 20 Positive reviews. Points = 1
  3. When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.
  4. If a Care Home does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

Regulatory Rating

Care Quality Commission (CQC) Rating

Date: 4 Jun 2019

Overall Good

  • Caring Good
  • Effective Outstanding
  • Responsive Good
  • Safe Good
  • Well-led Good
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Bed Vacancies

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Awards / Recognitions (12)

Meet the Team (2)

Ashika

Ashika Reddy

Job Title: Home Manager

Ashika leads the team and is ultimately responsible for every aspect of life in the home, ensuring the highest standards of care and service are delivered. Her door is always open if you have any questions or queries.

Anca

Anca Opris

Job Title: Clinical Lead

Anca is responsible for leading a team of registered nurses and carers in delivering consistently high levels of clinical care to meet the individual needs of residents.

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