McGonagall House Celebrates Staff Wellness with New Focus Room
McGonagall House has taken an important step in supporting its team by opening a dedicated wellness and tranquillity space for staff, known as The Focus Room. This newly created room offers a quiet, calming environment where staff can take a moment for themselves, reflect, or reach out for support when they need it. The initiative reflects the home’s commitment to caring not only for residents, but also for the people who make that care possible every day.
At Enhance, we always place residents at the centre of everything we do, and part of providing excellent, person-centred care is ensuring that staff feel valued, supported, and able to look after their own wellbeing. Working in care is an incredibly rewarding career, built on compassion and connection, but it can also bring moments of emotional strain, especially when forming close bonds with residents. McGonagall’s creation of the Focus Room recognises these challenges and addresses them in a positive and proactive way, offering staff a welcoming space that encourages openness, resilience, and reflection.
The room itself has been redesigned to feel soothing and restorative, complete with a relaxing beach mural on the wall to encourage a peaceful atmosphere. Staff attending the grand opening described the space as “calm and inviting,” somewhere they instantly felt able to pause and reset. Inside, staff will find contact information for mental health agencies, materials offering guidance on a range of wellbeing topics, as well as a designated spokesperson who will be available on set days for anyone who simply needs someone to listen.
Along with the grand opening, each staff member was also given a small wellbeing box containing a stress ball, encouraging quotes, a heart crystal, and a few sweet treats - a small gift that reinforces the home’s ongoing commitment to staff wellbeing.
Supporting mental wellness in care homes can have a significant impact on the quality of care provided. When staff feel emotionally well, they are more confident, consistent, and able to bring the high level of care that our residents rely on and expect.
Enhance Healthcare also benefits from a full-time Mental Health Liaison, Clare Armstrong, who works closely with all of our homes to ensure that both residents and staff have access to the right support whenever they need it. Speaking about the new Focus Room at McGonagall House, Clare said:
“It’s undoubtedly a difficult time in the health and social care sector, but the emphasis Enhance puts on the wellbeing of staff is a way of building resilience and positivity across the workforce, which then ensures our residents get the very best from those looking after them. This facility at McGonagall House is a fantastic resource which can only benefit everyone in the home.”
The opening of the Focus Room is a proud moment for McGonagal House and a reflection of the wider commitment across Enhance Healthcare to nurture teams, celebrate their dedication, and ensure they feel supported in every aspect of their role. It is a thoughtful and meaningful addition to the home, one that we hope will be used to support and maintain an incredible staff team who, in turn, can continue providing exceptional care to incredible residents.
