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Avocet Court

Avocet Court Care Home, Monmouth Close, Ipswich, England, IP2 8RS, United Kingdom

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Respite Rehabilitation Nursing Palliative Dementia Residential

Situated in a residential nook in Ipswich, our 115-bedroom Avocet Court care home is surrounded by beautiful gardens.

As one of the top residential care homes, Ipswich, we provide exceptional standards of care. We’re proud to have an award-winning activities team and a newly refurbished café that is the heart of our home. We also have fantastic sustainability credentials, including solar panels and green initiatives to minimise our environmental impact.

If you’d like more information about any of our care homes, please request a brochure here today.

24-hour care

Activities 7 days a week

Cafe

Dining Rooms

Disabled W/C Facilities

Duty Manager 7 Days

Electric Profiling Bed

En-suite rooms

Free WiFi

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Each of our care homes has a Home Manager, Deputy Manager and designated Clinical Care Leaders. These key members work together to keep the home running smoothly.

Ruth Garnham

Home Manager, Avocet Court Care Home, Ipswich

Ruth is part of the furniture here at Avocet Court. Having started with us in April 1994, Ruth was originally interviewed for a role as a bank housekeeper.

Ruth absolutely adores her role, as no two days are ever the same, and she truly enjoys spending time with residents, as well as their families and friends when they visit the home. As an experienced Home Manager, Ruth fully understands how challenging the transition into new surroundings can be. She and her highly qualified team are committed to fully supporting residents and their families throughout this journey at all times.

Ruth is passionate about ensuring that residents are safe and enabled to lead fully enriched lives while consistently receiving outstanding care. This is a responsibility she takes very seriously, and together with her team, she believes it is imperative that this high standard is delivered every single day.

The team at Avocet Court is dedicated to ensuring that all residents are treated with dignity, respect, and compassion, enabling them to enjoy life while happy and meaningful memories are created together.

Ruth’s door is always open, and she is available to offer support in any way she can. She very much looks forward to welcoming residents and their families to Avocet Court in the near future.

Avocet team celebrating Ghana Independence Day

Celebrating Ghana Independence Day at Avocet Court Care Home

Avocet Woodland Gardens

A Magical Night at Avocet Court – From Woodland Calm to Wild Howls

Avocet Court Care Home Blooms with a Generous Plant Donation

Avocet Court - Coca Cola Truck

Avocet Court’s Fairytale Christmas: A Heartfelt Celebration Honoured by Heart Radio

Winners Avocet Court

Avocet Court Recognised at the Suffolk Care Awards

NaDCAS accreditation - working towards

Our Path to NaDCAS Accreditation

Avocet Court in Ipswich shortlisted for two prestigious Palliative and End of Life Care Awards

A heartfelt thank you to the Ipswich Blanketeers for sharing their warmth and comfort at Avocet Court care home.

Elsie Bray: A life in bloom at Avocet Court

Avocet Court celebrates six years with Athena Care Homes

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Making every moment matter is as important to us as the standard of care we deliver. Here at Avocet Court, we focus on ensuring that our residents’ needs are at the heart of everything we do. When a new resident joins us, we take some time to understand their life stories, and hobbies and learn about the important people in their lives. This helps us to support our residents in living life the way they choose, and always with laughter and love.

Our residents are encouraged to bring their personal belongings, including furniture, from home. Our maintenance team is on hand to help, by hanging pictures and photographs to create a ‘home from home’.

Regular feedback forums enable residents and their loved ones to suggest experiences, outings or events, to ensure that our activities programme is varied, enjoyable, and reflects the choices and interests of our residents.

Avocet Court is one of the top residential, respite, rehab, nursing, palliative, and dementia care homes, Suffolk. It is very important that our activities programmes are accessible and promote inclusivity. We continuously adapt and review programmes for the changing needs of our residents. You can view an example activity calendar here.

We are constantly striving for new and creative ways to meet the physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual needs of our residents – some of them even star in our brochure! Our clubs and activities include gardening, exercise classes, quizzes, and church services. We nurture links with local schools and nurseries, churches, and businesses to enhance our resident experience. We also know how to throw a good party – residents and team members can often be found dancing and singing along to live entertainment!

Keep up to date with all of the activities and community news for Avocet Court on Facebook!

As one of the leading nursing homes in Ipswich, our freshly home cooked meals play a central role in the resident experience. Here at Avocet Court, seasonal menus are designed with the help of our residents at regular food forums.

Menus can be easily adapted to ensure we cater for all dietary needs. If the residents fancy something a little different, we’re pleased to be able to further enhance our menus by offering light bites and alternative choices.

We work closely with local suppliers to make sure we have the very best quality produce to offer, and our creative kitchen team enjoy using food to offer new experiences and world cuisines to the residents.

You can see an example menu here.

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Being sustainable and reducing our impact goes hand in hand with our mission to provide exceptional care to our residents. Since 2021 we’ve planted a tree for every new resident and we continuously work to source our food locally, improve our efficiency and much more.

You can find out much more about what we do on our sustainability page here.

24 hour care, most activities, all meals and non-alcoholic drinks are all included in your fee.

There’s a cost for:

Toiletries
Beauty treatments like massages, nails and hair dressing.
Some outings.
Some alcoholic drinks.
Subscriptions for papers, magazines, premium TV channels and phone lines

There may be other chargeable fees, but your home will let you know about these. For more information please visit our FAQ page here.

Weekly Fee Guidance*:

Our fees at Avocet Court typically start from £1,250 per week depending on specific care needs.

* Please note that fees are for guidance and are subject to assessment of care needs and room choice

At Avocet Court it is always our priority to protect those who live and work within our home. We have strict infection control procedures in place for when any infectious disease strikes. This includes isolating residents and implementing a team of Infection Control Champions within our home. To find out more, please click here.

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