Activities at Archview Lodge Care Home

Care Practitioner, Slater and Senior Head Chef, Ahmet, have been crowned with Care Practitioner of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Awards for the North East and Scotland Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2025 and are through to the national round of judging.

The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,500 residents living in Barchester’s 267 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’. 
 

Enable go Live at Archview!

This is where EnabLE (our new digital care system) comes in. It will help us plan, record, and co-ordinate person-centred care ‘in the moment’ using hand-held devices. Anyone who works within the home will be using EnabLE to record the important life enriching moments our residents truly value. 
 

Great wee trip to our local Dalkeith Museum, 

Dalkeith was the centre of the large mining and agricultural area of the Lothians. The people employed in those industries needed all manner of equipment and domestic goods. 

Dalkeith, the busting market town at the centre of Midlothian had an iron foundry, a brass foundry, a brush foundry, a carpet factory and plenty more. Residents really enjoy looking at all the memorabilia.   
 

Happy Carers Week!

We’d like to take this great opportunity to recognise and thank our wonderful carers here at Archview Lodge.  We’re proud of each and every one of our care team for the outstanding care that they provide to our residents every single day. They always go above and beyond their role and for this we are truly grateful.

This week's Art class was all about water painting. Our residents were inspired to create their own masterpieces and the final results were astonishing. 

Painting can improve manual dexterity, it engages the mind, and it offers opportunities for socialising and conversation. We all can’t wait for the next class. 

Happy International Nurses' Day 

Today, our residents and colleagues came together to celebrate International Nurses Day, recognising the incredible dedication, compassion and care our nurses show every single day. 

To mark the occasion and to say thank you, our talented chef prepared delicious treats and refreshments for everyone to enjoy. A big thank you to our nurses and all team members – you truly are the heart of our home!

Today we marked the 80th anniversary of VE Day in style by throwing a party to remember. Our home was specially decorated for the occasion with flags and bunting.

Our residents took a two-minute silence to honour the fallen and listened to wartime tunes.

It was a fabulous day, enjoyed by all. Flags were flying, hands were clapping and feet tapping. 

Archview Lodge has held a party to celebrate 30- years of serving the local community and recognise colleagues 120-years combined of long service.

Archview Lodge has built up an excellent reputation within its local communities. The home regularly holds events and activities for its residents and surrounding neighbours.  The double celebrations included Senior Carer, General Assistant and Hairdresser receiving prestigious 30 Year Service Awards in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 30 years. In addition, Senior Head Chef also received a prestigious 20-year award, for celebrating 20 years at Archview Lodge!

Susie Adams, now Senior Carer in Memory Lane, Cath Kleinwoolthuis, now a General Assistant, and Tracey Laidlaw, hairdresser all started at Barchester in May 1995.  Ahmet Akkur, now a Senior Head Chef started in Barchester in May 2005.  All have worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the decades. 
 

We got our binoculars and logbooks out to learn more about our native birds. We had a great time filling bird feeders and looking up what we’d seen to make sure we logged them correctly.  

Last year, over 1 million people took part and between them, they counted 17 million birds! It was a lovely experience for everyone, especially the bird experts here.