Derby Heights Care Home is Open For New Admissions
Meet the Home Manager and team at the home for a cup of tea in one of our safe visiting rooms or garden area. You can enjoy the rest of the home via the virtual tour below or call us and we’ll be happy to talk you through the different facilities in the home and discuss your specific care needs.
Derby Heights Care Home in Derby (Littleover)
Care Services Offered: Residential Care, Dementia Care and Respite Care
Awards: Health Investor Residential Care Provider of the Year 2020. Winner of 4 National Care Home Awards in 2018 including Best Care Home Group (Large) & Qube Learning Employer of 2019
Features: Daily social activities, Seasonal restaurant dining, Cafe for guests & residents, Sun terrace, Quality interiors, Fully equipped cinema, Large garden, Piano lounge, En-suite bedrooms, 3/4 size beds, Minibus for outings across Derbyshire.
Derby Heights Care Home offers quality, stylish retirement living in the village of Littleover, on the edge of Derby and adjacent to the Nuffield Private Hospital. Residential care, support and companionship give our residents the platform they need to enjoy their retirement years in the company of other like-minded residents, all in a home with outstanding interiors; lively, spacious cafes, dining rooms, balconies and intimate lounges.
One of the newest care homes in Derby, Derby Heights posses a variety of spaces from private dining rooms to a fully installed cinema, there is something here for everyone, a room whatever the occasion or mood. From relaxing reading lounges to the buzz and spaciousness of Wren’s Café, with its floor to ceiling windows. Life at Derby Heights is what you make it, whether it is reminiscing with new friends, entertaining family or just catching up on the papers in one of our many communal lounges.
Derby Heights offers a variety of en-suite bedrooms, including companion suites for couples and bedrooms that access their very own patio areas and for whom our large, landscaped garden with its mature trees, paths, raised beds and gazebo is just an open door away. All rooms have en-suite wet rooms and TVs as standard.
To see what we get up to in our Derby retirement home you might want to view our dedicated Facebook that is kept updated with all the activities and goings on in the home, or call our residential home manager Angela Haskey on 01332 540060 to find out more about life at our Derby care home.
Life within our residential care home is both stimulating and varied. We recruit energetic Well-being Co-ordinators who ensure that there is always something going on, whatever your interests, each and every day of the week. We publish our programme of activities and events so that family and friends can join in, and we also ensure that our Derby Heights Facebook page is regularly updated so that relatives can see what we are getting up to, even when they are unable to visit. It is something that has proven very popular.
We like to get out and about across Derbyshire too and our mini-van is a regular visitor to local places of interest, whether it is trips to the theatre, local heritage sites, shopping or just a Sunday lunch down at the pub.
Dining is an integral part of life at our retirement home in Derby. For many it is the highlight of their day and much planning goes into ensuring that the meal time experience is sociable, nutritious and above all, delicious.
Our culinary team take pride in delivering a choice of balanced meals, three times a day, whilst ensuring that between meals our café is well stocked with freshly baked cakes and biscuits.
We have the freshest baking of any care homes in Derby! Dining at Derby Heights is so much more than just food, it is a time when we gather as a whole to enjoy one another’s company.
Derby Heights Care Home has recently received its Playlist for Life accreditation, a core component of Avery’s ReConnect strategy, which helps residents and families to communicate by using personalised music which has a special significance to them. The virtual ceremony, which took place on the 20th, November was hosted by Heather Perkins, Avery’s Dementia Support…
BBC Radio Derby recently interviewed Claire Shore, our Customer Services Manager at Derby Heights Care Home, about our latest online initiative to keep families in touch whilst everyone is urged to stay at home. Claire spoke to BBC Radio Derby’s presenter, Donna Alos, about our idea of residents sending a pre-recorded video message to their…
We are delighted to announce that, in collaboration with the Continuous Advancement Programme (CAP) Awards, Derby Heights Care Home in Littleover, Derby has received a Double Gold Award, for both Catering and Housekeeping for a second consecutive year! Simon Lawrence, Group Culinary Manager at Avery Healthcare who operate Derby Heights, has supported the team at the home…
Patricia Partington is Avery’s Resident Ambassador, with real first-hand experience of placing relatives into care. Highly articulate, approachable and popular with staff, we were delighted when Pat accepted this post to bring to life the view of a family member. We see this as an essential aspect in our continual journey to improve resident and relatives experiences of care in our…
Hay! Sometimes our homes love to do something extra special for staff and residents to join in with, especially if it involves some friendly competition! With the Grand National coming up on 6th April, Derby Heights Care Home certainly didn’t rein it in, and with unbridled enthusiasm, staff set about a staging a series of races in some rather…
Avery Ambassador, Sherrie Hewson, was the special guest at Derby Heights Care Home’s Spanish Open Day on Friday 25th January. Sherrie was welcomed to the home by Patricia Partington, Avery’s relative’s Ambassador, who presented her with a basket of flowers. We were also tipped off that Sherrie liked Malteasers and Earl Grey tea so we…
Continuing its first in the adult social care sector, Avery Healthcare, in collaboration with the CAP Awards (Continuous Advancement Programme), is delighted to announce that Avery’s Derby Heights Care Home in Derby has won a double Gold Award for both Housekeeping and Catering. This follows on from the same Double Gold award at its Crispin…
We are constantly impressed by our hard-working, dedicated staff here at Avery Healthcare. We are very proud to say that our compassionate teams of staff provide an excellent level of care to our residents in every one of our homes. Our Customer Service Manager at Derby Heights Care Home, Claire Shore, is one of those…
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Derby Heights Care Home
Rykneld Road,
Littleover,
Derby,
DE23 4BU
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