Care Home in Chipping Norton | Southerndown

Staff at Southerndown are celebrating after it performed strongly in Your Care Rating 2016, a nationwide survey of care home residents. The results show it was given an overall score of 996 out of 1,000. You can read the report here.

We are proud to be one of the first homes to be accredited as part of Barchester’s 10-60-06 Dementia Care programme, reflecting the enhanced quality of dementia care and improved quality of life experienced by residents here at Southerndown.

We are situated in the beautiful market town of Chipping Norton in the gorgeous, rolling Cotswold Hills in the district of Oxfordshire, about 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Banbury and 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Oxford. We provide 24-hour nursing care and personal support to frail older people, people with long term illnesses, people with sensory deficits and people living with dementia, who are cared for in our specialist ‘Memory Lane’ community.

Our approach to care is based on careful assessments leading to a personalised and regularly reviewed care plan. Drawn up with the individual concerned and with relatives the care plan provides the basis for medical and rehabilitative work, making sure that dietary needs and preferences are met and the basis for our activities work, which we see as the heart of what we do - to keep up to date with our latest activities and events, please keep popping back to our website to see what we have been up to and what is coming up.

From the minute you enter Southerndown, you will feel the warmth radiating from the caring and homely atmosphere we provide. We want everyone who comes to stay or visit to have a wonderful, memorable experience. Please have a look at our very own Southerndown video we have created to give you a little insight into life at home.

Please feel free to drop in at any time, no appointment needed. Or just come along and have a coffee and a chat to see what we are all about. We hope to welcome you to Southerndown very soon.

Life at Southerndown Care Home

Ensuring that we deliver high quality care to those we support isn’t our only priority here – we also want to offer excitement and, most importantly, to ensure that everyone feels at home. That is why we employ trained staff who are committed to delivering a stimulating activities programme and nutritious cuisine, which are supplemented by services and facilities that are designed to make life here as pleasant as possible.

Our team

Care Home in Chipping Norton | Southerndown

Mandy Vettraino

General Manager

Welcome to Southerndown Care Home!

My name is Mandy Vettraino and I am the General Manager here.

My career in nursing started as a carer, where I worked my way up the ladder, where I eventually became a General Manager. I have now been managing for 15 years in 3 homes around Oxford, supporting elderly residents with nursing and dementia care.

I like to be involved with the residents and their families, it is a home for every one and high quality care with a holistic approach is essential. In 2013 I was presented with a dignity in care award from Age UK. My team here in Southerndown are champions together in ensuring dignity and true quality care is always the priority.

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Our care

Southerndown provides person-centred nursing care for people in need of support or for individuals living with dementia. We understand that each resident has individual needs that we need to tailor our care to, so our services are designed to provide the very best for each of them, based on their personal requirements, and to help them maintain as much independence as possible. In our latest CQC inspection we received an overall outcome of 'Good'.