Buckingham Care Home

Green Lane, Penistone, Sheffield S36 6BS
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9.9 61 Reviews
  • Buckingham Care Home, Sheffield
Buckingham Care Home is a seventy-two capacity service dedicated to personalised methods, with en-suite bedrooms and charming interiors ideal for adults with a wide range of care needs.

Alongside professional care, residents enjoy a number of homely comforts and additions, such as quality furnishings, flat screen TVs and refreshments with homemade cakes. The home even has a beauty salon.

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Care Provided by Buckingham Care Home

  • Primary Care Categories
  • Dementia
  • Older Person Care
  • Physical Disability
  • Respite Care
  • Sensory Impairment
  • Care Types Provided
  • Dementia Residential Care
  • Residential Care
  • For a maximum of 72 Service Users
  • Privately Owned
  • Care Offered
  • Alzheimer's
  • Bariatric Care/Obesity
  • Cancer Care
  • Colitis & Crohn's Disease
  • Korsakoff Syndrome
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Stroke
  • Other Care Provided
  • Convalescent Care
  • Day Care
  • End of Life Care
  • Own GP if required
  • Palliative Care
  • Physiotherapy
  • Separate Specialist Dementia Care Unit

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Marie Wood (Manager)
  • Admission Criteria
    • Ages 65+
  • Room Information
    • Single Rooms (72)
    • Single Rooms with ensuite Wet Room (72)
  • Care Home Design/Build
    • Purpose Built: Yes
    • Year Purpose Built: 2012
    • Last Refurbishment: 2024
    • Number of floors: 2

Funding & Fees Guide for Buckingham Care Home

  • Funding Types Accepted
  • Self funding (Private)
  • Local Authority with Top-Up
  • Local Authority
  • NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Funding

Facilities

  • Bar/Café
  • Close to Local shops
  • Gardens
  • Lift
  • Near Public Transport
  • Own Furniture if required
  • Pet Friendly (or by arrangement)
  • Phone Point in own room
  • Residents Internet Access
  • Residents Kitchenette
  • Smoking not permitted
  • Television point in own room
  • Wheelchair Access
  • Parking

  • Buckingham Care Home offers convenient parking facilities for visitors to ensure a stress-free experience. Dedicated parking area provides ample space for both cars and bicycles, allowing guests to easily access the home.


    Key Features:


    Free Parking: Ample free parking is available on-site for all visitors.
    Accessible Spaces: Designated parking spaces are provided for visitors with disabilities.
    Safety: The parking area is well-lit and monitored for the safety of their guests.


Buckingham Care Home Reviews (61)

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9.9

Buckingham Care Home has a Review Score of 9.9 (9.872) out of 10, based on 22 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Buckingham Care Home has 61 reviews.

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Review from Jane C (Friend of Resident) published on 21 February 2020
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Completely love going to see my friend's Mum.
I love seeing all the residents too.
They're like one big family.
The staff are fantastic and keep the mood light and try everything in their power to make people’s stay there happy.
There’s nothing too much trouble.
I love feeling welcome and have
never felt any different.
I would totally recommend any relatives being here.

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Review from P W (Son of Resident) published on 17 February 2020
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

We are very satisfied with Buckingham Care Home. Our mum seems very comfortable and settled. The caring staff seem to do all they can for Mum and treat her with dignity and a happy smile. The carers, unfortunately, are kept too busy at times.

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Review from Katie W (Daughter of Resident) published on 12 February 2020
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Dad was in Buckingham House for a short while. As a family, we were reluctant to go down the care route. We needn't have been Dad was looked after so well by the staff. Warm clean friendly place. Extra pudding for Dad. All members of staff made us feel like we were part of their little family. Dad passed
in November. We still keep in touch with Buckingham House. For us it was a 70-mile round trip to see Dad but he got so much lovely care we were happy to make the trip almost daily.

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Review from Jayne H (Daughter of Resident) published on 12 February 2020
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

It’s always a difficult, worrying and desperate time when you have to make the decision to move your loved one into a home. At very short notice Buckingham Care Home accepted Dad for respite with a view to becoming a permanent resident. We needn’t have worried. They treated Dad, and us all, with the
utmost care and respect. They understood. It’s hard, but they eased the way. They truly gave Dad the care and attention he needed and looked after him with care, respect, friendship, and love. They did the same to us. The staff and management are friendly, professional and helpful. Nothing is too much trouble. We were lucky and thankful Dad spent his last months there. We couldn’t have found anywhere better. As a mark of how much we appreciate them, we have returned and will return again, to see the staff who always make us so welcome. We feel they are friends, and it’s true what they say, we are all their family, not just the person who is in their care. Wonderful place.

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Review from J M (Brother of Resident) published on 3 February 2020
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

As shown below all aspects of Buckingham are good. All personnel are cheerful and very approachable and helpful.

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Review from L D (Daughter of Resident) published on 27 January 2020
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My Mother needed to be admitted to Buckingham in an emergency situation. From the start, she and we, her family, were greeted and treated with great care and kindness. Adapting to the new circumstances was difficult for all of us but my Mother, who was very weak and frail, was well looked after throughout
and we always felt supported by the managers and staff who were available to advise and get things done as needed. Overall, our experience of Buckingham was excellent. The possible improvement my Mother said she would have liked was a choice of international style dishes to supplement the standard British traditional menu.

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Review from J H (Wife of Resident) published on 13 January 2020
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Everything was so comfortable and clean and the staff so caring and helpful. You couldn't wish for anything better.

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Review from D C (Respite Resident) published on 22 November 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I spent two very happy and comfortable weeks a Buckingham Care Home. All the staff were excellent and very caring. All my visitors were very impressed by what they saw.

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Review from Kenneth A (Husband of Resident) published on 14 August 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Everyone I have dealings with all do so in a professional manner. The carers look after my wife as if she was one of there own loved ones. The food needs to be looked at, as she enjoys her breakfast but lunch, soup, sandwiches and pudding week in and week out gets very boring, surely a menu change every
4 weeks could be arranged. She does request a change sometimes i.e. boiled egg, sausage sandwich and this works for her.

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Review from S W (Civil Partner of Resident) published on 13 August 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

The home is run in a professional manner and the residents are well cared for. The staff work very hard and could use more bodies at times when really busy.

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Review from Patricia Shirley H (Resident) published on 23 February 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I came from the hospital for rehabilitation as I fell at home and broke my hip. When I got here I was frozen, the care staff gave me a nice blanket and a nice large cup of tea with three sugars. The care staff took me to my room, it was very warm they assisted me into bed. I must have fallen asleep
as the next thing I knew it was morning. They were giving me my tablets, I asked if I could have a cup of tea. I said I want three sugars, they said "we know" I said please call me by my first name. The staff said, "that's ok if its ok with you." I had my tea then fell asleep again, don't know what time it was as they woke me again and asked if I wanted some breakfast. I said just a little of porridge with a lot of sugar. The care staff said "no problem." After my breakfast, they came and help me get washed and dressed. The care staff was so so nice I hadn't a bad thing to say about them all, they were all very nice. The Buckingham Care Home is a lovely place all staff are fantastic at their job.

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Review from Celia C (Daughter-in-law of Resident) published on 18 February 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My Mother-in-law has been in the home 4 years in April 2019. She has loved living there since the first day. The care she got when she first went into the home got her well again, I don't think she would still be with us if she hadn't gone to live there. Credit to the manager and her team who are brilliant,
they don't just look after Mum but all the family too. It is a welcoming, clean and comfortable home.

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Review from S K S (Resident) published on 2 November 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Generally more than adequate. Would appreciate being asked if there was anything else I needed before carers beat a hasty retreat from the room.
I appreciate being warm and comfortable. The facilities in the room were a pleasant surprise. I would appreciate being woken up properly in the morning so
that I would have breakfast at proper time.
The care varies from carer to carer.

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Review from J H (Friend of Resident) published on 18 October 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Mostly clean, accidents quickly cleaned up.
Most carers are kind and considerate.
Food left out of reach of resident whilst in bed and residents not woken up to eat and drink - on occasion juice/water not always supplied unless requested.
One carer is absolutely brilliant with my friend on 26/09/18.
She was an example other carers would do well to follow. I would like to move good to excellent next time - as I would like to end my days in this care home.

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Review from Sharon P (Niece of Resident) published on 15 October 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My aunt was admitted to Buckingham Care Home under very difficult circumstances. The business manager especially has been exceptional in both her communications to me and information about my aunt. I was never concerned about her care and I know she was happy at Buckingham. Thank you to all the staff.

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Review from G C (Daughter of Resident) published on 17 September 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

I have always found the staff to be very helpful towards me and very kind and caring towards my mother.

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Review from Beryl B (Wife of Resident) published on 17 September 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My husband was in another home in Barnsley area so I was paying £50 - £60 a week to see him in taxi fees.
We did very well to get him here.
Since going to Buckingham, myself and two sons are very satisfied, he is well cared for, showered, haircuts, shaved and kept clean together with his clothes which
they wash.
He's happy, well cared for by every staff.

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Review from Joanne W (Daughter of Resident) published on 5 July 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

My Mother is very happy living here and considers it home.
The staff are kind and very loving towards her.
Her room is kept clean and tidy.
She enjoys the meals provided, and her weekly appointment at the in-house hair salon.
Buckingham House is warm and friendly, and I rest easy, knowing that my
Mother is looked after, and secure in her environment.

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Review from Sheila M (Daughter of Resident) published on 4 July 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Mum has been a resident of The Buckingham for just over 2 years. Took a little while to settle in, but she had always been happy there. Some excellent caring staff, that go that extra mile.

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Review from S A (Daughter of Resident) published on 10 April 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My father lived at Buckingham for 18 months and was happy there from Day 1.
He had a short spell in a different care home where he was very unhappy so the family were relieved to find such friendly staff.
Throughout his stay, he gradually became increasingly dependent on staff for all aspects of daily
life and they were happy and willing to help.
During his last few days the care lavished on my father and also on my brother and I whilst we stayed with him was exceptional, nothing was too much trouble and they were really considerate.
A big thank you to all staff at Buckingham for their exceptional care.

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Current Review Score: 9.9 (9.872)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.9 (9.872) out of 10 for Buckingham Care Home is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 22 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 5.0 out of 5 from 22 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Care Home is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  • a) 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months.

    The Average Rating of 4.872 for Buckingham Care Home is calculated as follows: ( (225 Excellents x 5) + (31 Goods x 4) + (1 Satisfactorys x 3) ) ÷ 257 Ratings = 4.872

  • b) 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5').

    The 5 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Buckingham Care Home is based on 22 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    • i) 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4

    • ii) 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the registered maximum number of service users in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Care Home registered for a maximum of 50 service users has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 72 registered maximum number of service users is 14.4, which has been reached with 22 Positive reviews. Points = 1

  • When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.

  • If a Care Home does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

Performance

Care Quality Commission (CQC) Rating

Date: 31 Jan 2024

Overall
Requires improvement

  • Caring

    Good

  • Effective

    Good

  • Responsive

    Good

  • Safe

    Requires improvement

  • Well-led

    Requires improvement

Care Quality Commission is responsible for the registration and inspection of social care services in England.

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Meet the Team (6)

Marie

Marie Wood

Job Title: Home Manager

Joined: 2022

Marie has been a dedicated Home Manager at Buckingham Care Home since 2022. With a passion for ensuring quality care and a nurturing environment, she oversees the daily operations of the care home, ensuring that all residents receive the highest standard of care.


Marie's commitment to fostering a compassionate and supportive atmosphere has made her an invaluable leader and a trusted advocate for both staff and residents. Her background in healthcare management and her empathetic approach have consistently contributed to the well-being and happiness of everyone in the care home.


Sarah

Sarah Abbott

Job Title: Advanced Care Practitioner

Joined: 2021

Sarah is an Advanced Care Practitioner at Buckingham Care Home, where she brings over 6 years of experience in elderly care and nursing. Renowned for her compassionate approach and medical knowledge, Sarah specialises in coordinating care plans, and supporting both residents and their families. Her dedication to providing personalised, high-quality care has earned her recognition and respect within the community. Outside of her professional duties, Sarah is an advocate for continuous education and often mentors junior staff, ensuring the highest standards of care are maintained.


Amy

Amy Dolan

Job Title: Business Support

Joined: 2021

Amy is Business Support at Buckingham Care Home, where she plays a pivotal role in overseeing financial operations and administrative functions. With her keen analytical skills and strategic approach, Amy ensures the smooth running of the care home's business activities, from budgeting and financial planning to resource management. Her expertise and dedication have been instrumental in optimising operational efficiency and supporting the overall mission of providing exceptional care. Amy's commitment to excellence and her ability to manage complex tasks with ease make her a valuable asset to the team.


Sue

Sue Tasker

Job Title: Housekeeper

Joined: 2018

Sue has been the head housekeeper at Buckingham Care Home since 2019. With a meticulous eye for detail and a commitment to maintaining a clean and comfortable environment, she ensures the highest standards of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the facility. Sue's dedication and hard work have made her an essential part of the team, greatly contributing to the health and well-being of the residents. Her friendly demeanour and proactive approach to housekeeping have earned her the respect and admiration of both colleagues and residents alike.


James

James Wilby

Job Title: Chef

Joined: 2023

James is the chef at Buckingham Care Home, where he brings his culinary expertise and passion for nutritious, delicious meals to the residents. With a focus on creating balanced and appetising menus, James ensures that every meal meets the dietary needs and preferences of the residents. His creativity in the kitchen and dedication to quality have made dining a highlight of the care home experience. James's ability to blend flavour with nutrition reflects his commitment to enhancing the well-being and satisfaction of everyone at the care home.


Mark

Mark Dunican

Job Title: Maintenace

Joined: 2023

Mark is the maintenance supervisor at Buckingham Care Home, where he has earned a reputation for his reliability and expertise. Responsible for ensuring the facility's safety and functionality, Mark handles everything from routine repairs to emergency fixes with efficiency and skill. His proactive approach to maintenance and his quick problem-solving abilities keep the care home running smoothly.


Mark's dedication to maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for residents and staff alike makes him an indispensable member of the team.