Springfield care home, Bradford
Welcome to Springfield
A friendly and safe welcome
Find out about making an enquiry and how we ensure a warm and safe welcome to all new residents.
Anchor's Springfield care home in Bradford is a trusted provider of care for elderly people, and we offer support for older people who have residential, dementia and convalescence care needs.
Our care home’s well trained and helpful staff provide 24-hour care and support to help you maintain your chosen lifestyle.
At Springfield, activities play an important role and we aim to enhance our residents’ quality of life by providing a varied range of social activities, which include special events, entertainment and leisure trips.
We pride ourselves on the quality of our catering with our Chef Manager preparing meals daily from fresh, seasonal ingredients, offering a choice of appetising and nutritionally balanced meals.
Set in a quiet location in its own beautiful grounds, Springfield is close to local services and amenities. These include a supermarket, nearby villages and a direct bus route into Bradford city centre.
In times of uncertainty, Anchor is a care provider you can depend on. We are proudly not-for-profit with almost 60 years of experience.
We’re here to help and look forward to giving you a warm welcome.
The service at Springfield is performing very well
Features of Springfield
Communal facilities
Shared facilities complementing each private residence:
- Engaging activities programme
- Garden
- Communal lounge
- Hairdressing salon
- Communal iPad
Care and support
In addition to residential care, we also offer:
- Respite care
- Palliative care
- Dementia care
- Convalescence care
- Parkinson's disease
Food and dining
We promote wellbeing through a positive dining experience:
- Communal dining area
- Nutrition and hydration stations
Life at Springfield
At Springfield care home, we provide quality residential care, which includes 24-hour personal support such as help with dressing, bathing, eating, help in participating in actvities and companionship. Our dedicated staff are comitted to providing the higest quality care and work with each resident to ensure they recieve the right level of care to meet their individual needs and lifestyle. We support and develop our staff on an ongoing basis to enable them to provide the highest quality care for our residents.
At our home we have:
-- A teabar serving old fashioned confectionary
- A hairdressing salon
- Lifts to all floors
- A personal laundry facility and laundry service
- A private telephone line in each room
- A ‘pets are welcome’ policy by arrangement with the Manager
- Regular religious services and meetings should you wish to take part
- Newspapers which can be ordered and delivered daily to your room
- Wheelchair access and car parking.
Set in a quiet location Springfield is well situated and has excellent bus and train routes to nearby towns:
- Bradford and Halifax Town Centres are three miles away
- The nearest hospital is Bradford Royal Infirmary
- Bradford Railway Station is three miles away
- A theatre, swimming pool, and supermarket are less than three miles away.
Springfield care home is a unique, purpose-built residence which was designed to provide residential care. Set in a quiet location and in its own secure grounds, Springfield offers 99 single en-suite rooms, some with French doors looking out to views of the well-kept gardens.
Our home is newly refurbished and decorated to a high standard with a call system in each room which ensures that help is at hand 24-hours a day. We have wheelchair accesss and car parking and the home also has shared communal areas where our residents can meet and talk or take part in social activities. We also offer:
- Some rooms with views of the gardens
- Some rooms opening directly onto gardens
- A television point and connections for satellite and digital TV
- Tea-making facilities available to make drinks for you and your visitors.
Other accommodation facilities include:
- Cosy lounges with TVs and quiet areas for reading and relaxing
- Bathrooms specially equipped so you can relax in comfort
- Safe, enclosed gardens including a sensory garden area
- Lifts to all floors
- Pet friendly policy.
We encourage you to bring small personal items with you to further enhance your room and help you to feel at home in our care .
We know how important mealtimes are to our residents, so we always try to make this a sociable and enjoyable experience, whilst recognising individual choice.
Springfield's Food Promise ensures all our menus offer freshly cooked, appetising and nutritionally balanced meals including:
- Cooked breakfast every day
- Wholesome homemade soup everyday
- Freshly baked biscuits and cakes everyday
- Traditional Sunday Roast
- Fish and Chips weekly
- A variety of snacks available all day
- Cooking with customers once a month
Our Chefs understand the nutritional needs of older people and ensure that our meals are prepared using fresh, seasonal ingredients.
We serve tasty, wholesome dishes and involve residents in selecting our menus at a local level. We offer daily choice of meals and cater for special dietary needs and preferences, helping keep our residents healthy and well nourished.
Our care home organises and arranges a variety of opportunities for our residents to enjoy daily activities in our home and in the local community. These include supervised day trips to leisure facilities and places of interest as well as social events in the home, including themed restaurant evenings, arts and crafts, quizzes and regular entertainers.
We work in partnership with the National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People (NAPA) and encourage activities that enhance our residents’ lifestyle, health and wellbeing.
Everyone is encouraged to join in with activities but how often is up to each individual. Residents preferred activities, interests and abilities are discussed when they move in and an agreed plan ensures that these requests are fulfilled. Our residents’ suggestions for activities also help shape the planning process.
Activities calendar
| Day | Morning | Lunch | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ipad activities | No activity | Quiz | Pamper session | |
| Hairdresser | No activity | Armchair exercises | Movies | |
| Baking | No activity | Communion (monthly - Thursday) | Dominoes | |
| Coffee morning | No activity | Sing-a-long | Pamper session | |
| Word games | No activity | Bingo | Living stories | |
| Skittles | No activity | Board games | Newspaper discussion | |
| Music session | No activity | Ipad activities | One-to-one chit chat |
Health
At Springfield Care Home our caring and attentive staff work with our residents and their loved ones to create a detailed care plan which ensures our residents individual health and care needs are met.
We know how important it is to care for our residents with the dignity and respect they deserve and this is at the heart of what we do at Springfield care home. Our commitment to advanced dementia training for our staff has helped the Department of Health pass its goal of 3,000 Dignity Champions nationwide.
We work together with a number of health and social care professionals who visit the home on a regular basis or who will visit by appointment. These include:
- A GP who is available on request
- Two hairdressers who visit a number of times a week
- A chiropodist who will visit on request
- A dentist and optician who regularly visit the home
- The district nurse and physiotherapist who will visit by appointment
- A Holistic therapist - visits by arrangement.
Pricing information
We endeavour to be completely transparent about all our charges and fees. For further information please contact us.
How much does it cost?
Care homes
Call us to discuss your specific care needs today
What is included in care home fees?
For many people, moving to a care home is a big decision and it can be difficult to know where to start. Care home fees are based on a range of factors, including specific care needs, which can change over time.
Living in an Anchor care home you can be confident that a single fee covers the cost of your personally tailored 24 hour care and support, utility bills and meals, as well as a fantastic range of daily activities. In an Anchor care home our weekly charge includes:
- cost of personal care
- accommodation
- utilities e.g. heating and light
- all resident catering, meals, snacks and drinks
- laundry undertaken on the premises
- television licence, including for person use
- housekeeping services.
The following extra items and services are not covered by the weekly fees, however we can arrange for them to be provided (at an additional cost):
- professional hairdressing
- personal copies of newspapers or magazines
- personal purchases such as stationery, confectionery, toiletries etc.
- clothing, shoes and slippers
- dry cleaning
- private telephone line rental and calls and cable connections.
In the absence of free provision by the NHS, we can also arrange for the following healthcare services to be provided, these will be charged in addition to the weekly fees:
- chiropody
- optometry
- dentistry
- physiotherapy
- other privately arranged healthcare
- care staff accompaniment to regular medical appointments.
No upfront deposit is required at any of Anchor’s care homes to secure a room.
At Anchor we pride ourselves on offering a truly tailored approach to care and therefore need to fully understand your needs to provide you with an accurate fee estimate. Please call us to discuss your specific care needs today. Alternatively we welcome you to visit us to discuss your situation face-to-face.
Want more information on care home fees?
Learning about the different funding options available to you can also help you feel confident in your decisions. Anchor know that securing care home funding can sometimes appear a rather daunting task and so to help we have put together a free guide covering requesting assistance, top up fees and third-party payments.
Care home feesAt Springfield we have a caring team of well qualified professionals, passionate about what they do and dedicated to ensuring our residents always feel confident that they can rely on a friendly face and helping hand 24-hours a day.
We encourage visits to Springfield so you can meet our team and get a feel of what it would be like to live here. You will be able to look around, meet other residents, find out what goes on and ask any questions you may have. It is important to us that you make the right decision and are happy with your choice of new home.
Kay Alderson
Deputy Manager
Our home offers a warm, safe and friendly environment with facilities to make you feel at home. I’m proud to say our professional caring team provide individually tailored care, excellent food, fun activities and plenty of good company. I look forward to showing you all our home has to offer.
Welcoming you
To start your enquiry simply click 'Enquire now' at the top of the page and either call us or complete an online enquiry form.
We’ll provide you with full details of the home, along with any other information you’d like, such as sample menus and activity schedules.
Whether you’re looking to stay with us permanently, or for a short break, we’d be delighted to take you on a show round of the home in person, subject to meeting COVID-19 safety guidelines. Simply book a tour with the home manager once you’ve made your enquiry.
We can also provide a virtual show round if you’d prefer. Either way, we’re keen to show you what daily life is like here and for you to meet our friendly team. You can also see for yourself how we keep residents safe.
We hope you decide that following your visit that you or your loved one would like to move into the home, in which case we’ll organise an assessment to make sure we can meet all your care needs.
Ensuring residents’ safety and wellbeing is our absolute priority.
Our friendly team will discuss every area of moving-in with you in detail to make sure you and your loved-one know exactly what to expect and feel confident, safe and welcomed when coming to live with us.
We understand how important visits are for everyone and we follow government guidelines in welcoming regular visits from family and friends. We also actively support our residents to have visits away from the care home, and make sure this is always in line with any government COVID-19 guidance.
As each of our homes are different, the home manager will provide all the information you need around visiting.
Getting here
Springfield
Western Way, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD6 2UB
What's happening at Springfield
Today for the first time in over 2 years due to covid we welcomed back singer Johnny Dee. The residents were so excited and had a good old sing along! A lovely afternoon was had by all! 🎉🎵🎤🤗 @AnchorLaterLife #FridayFeeling #singing https://t.co/4pEvmLkB59
twitterColleague nominated for “Food Blogger of the Year” award
Shannon Palmer, who works at Springfield care home in Bradford has been nominated for a blogger award
Stay up to date with us
Follow us on Twitter to hear about all our latest updates, events and activities first.
Follow us