
my mother is being very well cared for and looked after and can't thank the home enoughR B(Son of Resident/Service User)

Have shown nothing but compasion, care and love for her.Claire S(Daughter of Resident/Service User)


my mother is being very well cared for and looked after and can't thank the home enoughR B(Son of Resident/Service User)

Have shown nothing but compasion, care and love for her.Claire S(Daughter of Resident/Service User)


Woodlands Care Centre offers person-centred support and care for those with Nursing, Residential Dementia and Nursing Dementia needs.
The purpose built home offers light and spacious living accommodation. There are relaxing and welcoming social lounges and homely dining rooms to enjoy freshly prepared daily menus designed by the home's chefs and based upon the residents preferences.
The home boasts landscaped gardens and accessible patios, perfect for enjoying a stroll or...
Care Provided by Woodlands Care Centre
Primary Care Categories
- Older Person Care
- Dementia
- Physical Disability
- Visual / Hearing Impairment
Length of Stay
- Permanent Care
- Respite Care
Care Types Provided
- Residential Care
- Nursing Care
- Dementia Residential Care
- Dementia Nursing Care
- For a maximum of 109 Service Users
Dementia Care TypesMild Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "mild dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Memory problems such as misplacing items and not be able to recall recent events (however, in some forms of dementia a person's memory may be unchanged)
- Difficulties thinking through problems and planning, making decisions
- Language and communication issues such as finding it difficult to recall the appropriate word in a conversation or following a conversation
- Poor orientation, getting lost in areas previously familiar to them
- Difficulty judging distances (more falls than usual)
- Changes in their normal mood including anxiety and depression
- In certain types of dementia, personality and behaviour changes may be present alongside or instead of issues with memory or concentration.
Moderate Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "moderate dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Worsened memory problems. Not always recognising own family members and friends. Repeating the same questions over and over again
- Worsened language and communication issues, forgetting what they are saying mid-sentence. Not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- More frequent confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Advanced Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "severe dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Severe memory problems. Not recognising family members and friends. Not being able to recall their own name
- Severe language and communication issues, not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- Severe confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Verbally or physically aggressive behaviour
If your loved one displays this type of behaviour you may need a care home that has specially trained staff. Verbal/physical aggression is often defined:
- Consistent shouting and screaming
- Verbal abuse
- Physical abuse
How we define Dementia Care Types
Mild Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "mild dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Memory problems such as misplacing items and not be able to recall recent events (however, in some forms of dementia a person's memory may be unchanged)
- Difficulties thinking through problems and planning, making decisions
- Language and communication issues such as finding it difficult to recall the appropriate word in a conversation or following a conversation
- Poor orientation, getting lost in areas previously familiar to them
- Difficulty judging distances (more falls than usual)
- Changes in their normal mood including anxiety and depression
- In certain types of dementia, personality and behaviour changes may be present alongside or instead of issues with memory or concentration.
Moderate Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "moderate dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Worsened memory problems. Not always recognising own family members and friends. Repeating the same questions over and over again
- Worsened language and communication issues, forgetting what they are saying mid-sentence. Not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- More frequent confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Advanced Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "severe dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Severe memory problems. Not recognising family members and friends. Not being able to recall their own name
- Severe language and communication issues, not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- Severe confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Verbally or physically aggressive behaviour
If your loved one displays this type of behaviour you may need a care home that has specially trained staff. Verbal/physical aggression is often defined:
- Consistent shouting and screaming
- Verbal abuse
- Physical abuse
How we define Dementia Care Types
- Mild Dementia
- Moderate Dementia
- Advanced/Complex Dementia
Other Care Provided
- Parkinson's Disease
- Stroke
- Palliative / End of Life Care
- Convalescent Care
Facilities
- Own Furniture if required
- Pet Friendly (or by arrangement)
- Close to Local shops
- Near Public 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
*All fee’s are based on a pre-admission assessment conducted by the team at Woodlands Care Centre. Our Nursing fees do not included FNC contribution (NHS-funded Nursing Care)
The price(s) shown are provided by the care home. Contact Woodlands Care Centre for full pricing details and T&Cs.
Contact Woodlands Care Centre to confirm what's included and get a personalised quote:
Funding Types Accepted
- Self-Funding (Private)
- Local Authority with Top-up
- Local Authority
- NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
Support you may be entitled to
- If you chose a care home based in England, you may be eligible for NHS Funded Nursing Care (FNC), which helps cover the cost of nursing. This is worth £267.68 per week and is usually paid directly to the care home.
Good to Know
Group / Owner
- RCH Care Homes Ltd
- Private Owned
Person in charge
- Jessa Avila(General Manager)
Local Authority / Social Services
Admission Information
- Mixed (no single-gender units)
- Ages 65+
Care Home Design/Build
- Purpose Built: Yes
- Year Purpose Built: -1
- Last Refurbishment: 2021
- Number of floors: 3
Room Information
- Single Rooms (109)
Visiting
- Woodlands Care Centre welcome visitors. Please contact the home directly for the latest visiting arrangements.
Parking
- Car parking is available
Woodlands Care Centre Reviews (130)
Woodlands Care Centre has a Review Score of 9.8 (9.827) out of 10, based on 42 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Woodlands Care Centre has 130 reviews.
Woodlands provide an excellent care setting for my dad, who is very happy there. He has been there for nearly two years now and certainly made the right choice. We have found standards of communication and cleanliness very high.
Thank you so much for your kind words. We take pride in looking after your relative - very glad that he is settled so well in the Byron unit. I will pass on your review comments to the team.
Clean, comfortable, great staff. Friendly atmosphere. High level of care and support! Would highly recommend it! Welcoming to friends and family. Individual needs catered for. Great activities you can participate in.
Thank you for taking the time to leave such a lovely review about the home and we are pleased to hear that you highly recommend Woodlands Care Centre.
I am happy with the care that my mum receives. I know she is looked after and caters for all her needs. Would recommend. The food and care is excellent. I can go home and know she is receiving all she needs.
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review about Woodlands Care Centre. We're pleased to hear about your experiences of the home and that you are happy.
My lovely father-in-law has now been at Woodlands for over three years. We are so grateful for the love and incredible care he receives. The attention to detail to the individuals’ needs is amazing, and we feel he could not be in safer hands. He is always clean and groomed, and they pay attention to his clothes. He is always in a good mood and is very happy there. The communication with the staff is very good, and they are all very approachable.
Thank you for taking the time to leave such a positive and thoughtful review about our home; your feedback is truly appreciated.
I am a regular visitor as my sister is a resident of Woodlands Care Centre during all my visits I am always impressed by the level of care that I witness. The home is very well maintained and I am always particularly impressed by the quality of the common areas. It is always comforting to feel that my sister is in good hands.
It is always so lovely and encouraging to read the thoughts and experiences of loved ones who spend so much time at our home and we are so pleased that you are impressed. We very much appreciate the time you took to leave your review.
My husband is always treated with respect and is well cared for by extremely kind and patient staff. I have been well supported through this distressing time, everyone is very kind. The care centre is always clean. My husband tells me the food is excellent!
Thank you so much for your kind words of appreciation. I will pass your appreciation to the team. It is a pleasure to be leading such a caring team.
I can not thank all the staff enough for what they do. My mum's neighbour is a resident at the home; he has a long-term illness, in which he will not get better. The staff go above and beyond to care for him. They have a laugh and a joke with him and make him feel happier throughout the day. On our visits, the staff always greet us and let us know how he is doing. He does become tearful at times, but all the staff rally around to cheer him up. We couldn't name individual staff as they are all friendly and helpful; you all do an amazing job. We thank you for the care you are giving our neighbour. We visit fortnightly to see our neighbour and have got to meet most of the staff at the home.
We are truly overwhelmed by your review and your thoughts about our home. The team at Woodlands Care Centre really appreciate your comments, and we're so glad to have your neighbour and you all as part of our Woodlands Care Centre family.
They did all they could for Dad, even though Dad's needs were more than most, they did what they could.
Lots of activities are put on for the residents. The gardens are lovely for some much needed vitamin D.
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review for Woodlands Care Centre. We appreciate your feedback, it is really valued and we will pass it on to the manager and the team.
The nursing staff have taken the time to listen and to adopt a person centred approach to care planning.
The carers have unfailingly shown mum warmth and respect.
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review and we appreciate your feedback, especially at this time. As a home being compassionate and supporting residents and their loved ones is at the heart of everything we do; it is an honour to be able to be there for you both.
Woodlands Care Centre in our experience, is an excellent care home, they are extremely caring and we feel reassured that my dad is being well looked after. They offer a wide range of activities which are excellent there is something on every day from live singers to pottery classes which you can see photos of on their social media page which enables you to see pictures/videos and feel a part of what your loved ones have been doing which is really reassuring. All the staff and carers are so friendly and helpful and extremely caring.
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We appreciate your comments and feedback about the team, the home and care. We especially love hearing your thoughts on the variety of activities and events the team organise.
The staff are caring and work very hard. My dad seems to be well looked after, especially with him often being challenging, given his condition. We are always made to feel welcome, which helps make a difficult situation somewhat bearable.
Thank you for taking the time to leave us feedback, the team at Woodlands very much appreciated your feedback.
The unit has been our father's home for the last five months. It feels like home from home. The staff go above and beyond with the residents and family. If any requests are given from the family about the resident, the staff act straight away. We could not ask for a better place for our father to be in. Any other staff that we meet who are not in the unit are very kind and compassionate. We highly recommend this care home!
Thank you so much for leaving such positive feedback; we very much appreciate your comments.
My dad was with Woodlands on Coleridge floor for a short period before he passed away but I couldn’t have asked for better care. Every member of staff from the domestics to the home manager were lovely, they looked after him and the family at all times. I was so happy he was there. The nurse was so caring, thankyou to everyone.
Thank you for your thoughtful review of your experience at Woodlands Care Centre. We will pass on your review to the team as I know they will be touched and very much appreciate it.
During this time we received nothing but excellent levels of love and care from Woodlands. All the staff knew her, not just the ones on whichever unit she currently was with. The teams there took great care to try to stimulate people with activities according to their needs/abilities throughout the progression of Alzheimer's / Dementia/ageing (as appropriate), and were always respectful, even when she had lost the ability to recognise people or respond verbally.
The place looked bright and inviting whenever we visited.
Over the COVID lockdown period and after, the team kept us in touch with her as much as possible (eg via video calls), and were exemplary in their cautious policy and practices over possible COVID infections.
We would strongly recommend this care home, (if you can afford it).
Thank you so much for your feedback on the home and the team at Woodlands Care Centre.
For nearly five years my mum was in the loving care of Woodlands and their excellent staff. As her condition changed they responded with kindness and consideration, always taking the time to keep us informed and welcoming us when we visited. During COVID they made sure we got as much contact as possible with Skype calls and regular updates. Can't recommend them more highly.
The team at Woods Care Centre really appreciate your comments about the home and the service. Thank you for taking the time to leave the review.
Mum has had good care at Woodlands Care Centre and is only leaving so she can move nearer her family. Many thanks to the staff for all their help she has always been happy with her time at Woodlands and that is very special to her for making her feel safe and happy.
My mum has been at Woodlands for four years. Mum was always very happy and very well looked after. Mum loved all the activities and took part. The carers were lovely and worked very hard. All the staff, and Woodlands, were our second family. Mum had dementia and became very poorly, she was on her end of life plan. Everybody has been lovely towards Mum.
My sister went into Woodlands in September 2015 as her dementia was progressing. I have nothing but very high praise for all the staff present and past who cared for her in a loving and passionate way. She passed away in December 2021. Music featured very prominently all through her life. Her favourite tracks were played in her room on a loop system non-stop right up till the end. I was kept informed of any change in medication or her health and always welcomed her warmly on visits. During Covid restrictions, the activity team set up regular FaceTime sessions with her once a week. Living in Hampshire this was my only contact with her. I shall always be grateful that she spent her final years in such a loving, warm and compassionate home. Thank you is not enough to all the staff especially those who had daily contact with her.
The staff were very friendly and reassuring and were very good with my partner and other residents. The food at dinnertime was excellent but the food at teatime was a mishmash of everything. During Covid, I would like to think he was looked after excellently, but couldn't tell.
For over three years, my late husband was a resident at Woodlands Care Centre and in all that time I, nor my family, have had any cause to feel he was not being looked after properly, in all respects. The affection the staff had for him and their kindness to me was so obvious when he was seriously ill and after he passed away. My family and I cannot thank all the staff and praise them enough for all they did for my husband and us. Thank you all so very much.
Thank you so much for your kind appreciation. I will pass it on to the team. It was lovely to look after your husband and get to know you.
Regulatory Rating
Care Quality Commission (CQC) Rating
Date: 21 May 2019Good
- CaringGood
- EffectiveGood
- ResponsiveGood
- SafeGood
- Well-ledGood
Inspection ratings
We rate most services according to how safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led they are, using four levels:
- Outstanding - The service is performing exceptionally well.
- Good - The service is performing well and meeting our expectations.
- Requires Improvement - The service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
- Inadequate - The service is performing badly and we've taken action against the person or organisation that runs it.
- Not rated - we have not yet rated this area of the service, this is normally because the assessments we have carried out have been focused on other key questions.
Bed Vacancies
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News (31) & Events (0)
- 24 Jul 2026
Summer Fete Brings Music, Laughter and Plenty of Bunting to Woodlands Care Centre Woodlands Care Centre embraced the summer spirit with a colourful fete filled with live music, traditional games,...
- 24 Jul 2026
Residents from Woodlands Care Centre recently made the most of the summer sunshine with a relaxing visit to Milton Country Park. With beautiful weather providing the perfect backdrop, residents enjoyed...
- 21 Jul 2026
Woodlands Care Centre welcomes experienced nurse Jessa Avila as new General Manager Woodlands Care Centre in Cambridge has welcomed experienced health and social care professional Jessa as its new General...
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Awards / Recognitions (7)
- 17 Nov 2023Recipient: Woodlands Care Centre
- 18 Mar 2022Recipient: Woodlands Care Centre
- 06 Nov 2021Recipient: RCH Care Homes Ltd
Accreditations
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Meet the Team (1)

I’m Jessa, the General Manager at Woodlands Care Centre. I am a Registered General Nurse with more than 15 years’ experience in health and social care.
Caring for people has always been my passion, and I am proud to lead a team that shares my commitment to providing safe, compassionate and person-centred care.
My priority is to ensure every resident feels respected, valued and truly at home, with care shaped around their individual needs, choices, interests and life experiences.
I believe that supporting and developing colleagues is an important part of my role. By creating a positive working environment where team members feel valued and able to thrive, we can continue delivering the high standards of care the residents and their families deserve.
What I enjoy most about my role is having the opportunity to make a positive difference each day. Seeing the residents smile and knowing they feel safe, comfortable and happy is incredibly rewarding.
For me, what makes Woodlands Care Centre special is its warm and friendly atmosphere. We work together like one big family, treating every resident with kindness, dignity and respect.
It is a privilege to share so many meaningful moments with residents and to work alongside a dedicated team with such a genuine passion for care.
Outside of work, I enjoy singing, taking long walks, travelling and spending quality time with my family and friends.
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