Lakeside Care Home

lakeside@bmcare.co.uk

25 Whiteknights Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 7BY

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Lakeside Care Home is an impressive, purpose-built home on the exclusive Whiteknights Road close to the centre of Reading. With uninterrupted views across the home’s neighbouring Whiteknights Lake nature reserve, Lakeside has been developed across four levels to provide three levels of specialist residential and dementia care.

Lakeside offers the following types of care for an older person: 24-hour long-term residential & specialist dementia care, as well as respite & convalescence care.

Activities

Cafe

En-Suite Shower

Hair Salon

Landscaped Garden

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"Thank you very much for allowing me to undertake my work experience at Lakeside. I would especially like to thank all the staff who helped and supported me during my placement. I especially enjoyed all the activities such as singing, films, puzzle games, art and crafts, and card-making. I think these kinds of activities really help the home's residents feel happy and healthy."
Student
"[Resident] is settling in remarkably well at Lakeside. She has a lovely room overlooking allotments, and has been busy playing darts, doing small exercises, and borrowing books from the home’s mobile library service. What was evident was that Lakeside makes a significant effort to keep residents engaged, including daily one-to-one discussions. The management team is very focussed and run the home extremely well. All in all, very successful so far and I would recommend it."
Bedfinder
"My Mother came to Lakeside in 2015 following a period of respite care in another home. She was suffering with dementia and had begun to wander away from home. We were immediately struck by how relaxed she seemed following what we anticipated would be an uprooting and unsettling move. Her bedroom was nicely decorated and furnished and she quickly settled into her new surroundings. It was the quality of staff that also stood out. Most importantly staff respected the residents and treated them with utmost dignity. There was huge affection shown to my mother and great efforts made to meet her needs. The care was superb at the end of life."
Family of Resident
"This is a special thank you to all the staff at Lakeside for the care and kindness given to me during my stay with you."
Respite Resident
"I [would like] to thank you for the excellent care received by my late Mother. The staff have always been amazing. Their tender, constant and professional care was appreciated by all of us. They are a credit to both Lakeside and B&M Care."
Daughter of Resident

Our Staff

Lakeside has a select team of experienced care staff who have each undertaken bespoke training to meet the individual needs of the home's residents. The home provides appropriate ratios of staff both day and night, alongside a day-to-day care ethos that delivers highly-personalised care where dignity, freedom and privacy are consistently upheld. With an industry-envied training programme and ongoing support & development, B&M Care's guiding principles are what define our staff within the dementia care sector.

“Since joining Lakeside in 2012 as a Care Assistant, B&M Care has supported and developed me to enjoy a career that has cultivated a number of promotions, including my most recent appointment as Home Manager in December 2018. With a degree in photography and an NVQ Level 5 in Health & Social Care, my education has encouraged me to combine theory-based practice with my passion for creativity to ultimately encourage my team and I to deliver something unique within the home.”

Magda Burdzy - Home Manager

“I started my career at B&M Care in 1996 as a Care Assistant at St Lukes. Following several promotions, I transferred to Lakeside in 2015 as Assistant Manager, and have since been promoted to Deputy Manager. In addition to taking responsibility for fully inducting new members of staff, I have achieved an NVQ Level 3 & 4 in health & Social Care, as well as graduating as the home’s Moving and Handling trainer.”

Liz Fox - Deputy Manager

Lianne Johns - Deputy Manager