CCL's Learner Voice team is going on-tour! For those of you who aren't aware of it, we have a team of learner voice representatives who hold regular meetings with Nicky from our Speech & Language Therapy team. The team consists of Tom, Naomi, Kevin, Nabeel, Hannah and Ben. In Nicky's words, "Learner Voice provides a forum [...]
CCL teams and individuals have been shortlisted for 7 Great British Care Awards (GBCA) in the West Midlands Regional Finals. CCL are delighted to be shortlisted for the following awards: Jo Mear, Director of Care & Support – ‘The Outstanding Contribution to Social Care’ Andrew Harris, Director of Operations – ‘The Social Care Covid Hero Award’ [...]
On Saturday 18th September, a group of 11 people completed a sponsored walk to fundraise for Amy Llewellyn’s eye gaze communication aid. The sponsored walk included hiking over ‘Shropshire 3 Peaks’ – the Lawley, Caradoc and Ragleth – collectively 1,234m of climbing and 17.78km. Everyone did exceptionally well, and we could not have been [...]
Today was our COVID team's 100th day of testing! Our testing centre is open Monday's and Friday's. A considerable amount of work goes into our COVID testing system, from ordering the tests, to carrying out the COVID tests, inputting the tests on to the government’s website, administering the results and sending out to team members, [...]
We are saddened to announce the passing of Eddie Henderson on Monday 19th July. Eddie was a valued member of CCL’s Board of Management and father of Kim Henderson, resident of Church View. Eddie spent his last few days with his wife, Sue and daughters, Kim, Liz & Yvonne. Eddie played an important part at [...]
Today we are celebrating Robyn Field, from our HR department, completing her Level 5 Diploma in Human Resource Management. During National Careers week, you may remember we shared an article all about Robyn studying whilst working, which you can view here: https://www.condovercollege.co.uk/national-careers-week-celebrating-robyn-field/. For those of you who did not read the article, here is [...]
Donate now: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/amyllewellyn?utm_term=qd9anvRKJ I am sure many of you will know Amy, but in case you don’t, this is Amy, a resident at CCL's Church View home. Due to Amy’s Cerebral Palsy, she is not able to use speech. She is an excellent and highly motivated communicator and does a fantastic job of using sounds [...]
Today, we are celebrating Magda Grobelna, one of our Account Assistants, on obtaining her British Citizenship. Magda joined CCL in November 2019 and is a valued member of our Finance team. To celebrate Magda’s news, we discussed the process Magda went through to become a UK citizen – it’s a lot more difficult than we [...]
Today, Laura Conway, our Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, held Induction Communication Training at our Grafton Centre. Laura led the group through various aspects of communication, covering the importance of being able to communicate and a range of ways to do so with our learners and residents, such as Intensive Interaction and Makaton. [...]
Today, we are celebrating Laura, our Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, who recently qualified as a Dysphagia Practitioner. Dysphagia is the medical term used to describe swallowing difficulties (NHS, 2021). To celebrate Laura’s latest achievements, we sat down with her to discuss her career. Let’s take a look at her story… Laura started [...]
