The combined expertise behind care at our three Nottinghamshire homes.
Across Ashfield Care Home, Forest Manor Care Home and Bancroft Care Centre, ASHA Healthcare brings together deep, specialist knowledge in nursing, mental health and dementia care. With more than 140 bedrooms and over 100 dedicated staff across our three homes in Nottinghamshire, we support adults with complex, enduring and often changing needs — and we share what we know across all three services, so that every resident benefits from the collective experience of the group.
Our care is nurse-led, clinically informed and person-centred. Whether someone is living with dementia, recovering from a period of acute mental illness, or managing a long-term mental health condition, our teams draw on the same core body of knowledge: how to keep people safe without taking away their dignity, how to build daily life around the person rather than the routine, and how to help people move forward at their own pace.
Each of our homes has its own character and area of focus, and each contributes to — and draws from — the knowledge held across the group.
Nurse-led dementia and mental health care, delivered in a warm, supportive environment focused on comfort, stability and meaningful daily engagement — our “Living Life in the Moment” approach.
A modern, purpose-built specialist mental health service providing hospital-equivalent care for adults aged 18 and over with complex and enduring mental health needs, in a calm, community setting.
Specialist nursing for people with complex needs, combining a therapeutic environment with strong clinical oversight and our person-centred “Grab and Go” approach to activity and engagement.
A group-wide commitment to clinically-led, evidence-based care delivered across all three of our Nottinghamshire services.
We care for adults living with complex and enduring mental health conditions, including those who no longer need hospital treatment but whose needs remain too complex for generic residential or nursing services. Our teams are experienced in supporting people through recovery, stabilisation and the everyday challenges of living well with a mental illness.
We provide skilled, compassionate dementia care built around the individual. Our teams understand how attention, mood and energy change through the day, and we shape daily life to respond to the person in the moment rather than to a fixed timetable — an approach that research links to improved wellbeing, communication and emotional stability.
Many of the people we support have physical health needs alongside their mental health or cognitive needs. We are experienced in caring for people whose needs are complex, fluctuating, and sometimes considered too challenging for other settings, and in adjusting our support as those needs change.
Our services are nurse-led and supported by a multidisciplinary approach. Occupational therapy, visiting psychiatry and access to psychological input allow us to properly assess, understand and plan for each person’s needs — rather than simply managing day to day.
We have a strong focus on helping people move, safely and at their own pace, from intensive support towards greater independence. Working through robust, dynamic risk assessment and a recovery-focused environment, we support people to regain skills, confidence and autonomy — better outcomes for the individual, and sustainable, responsible care for those who fund it.
We know that the physical environment is not incidental to care — it is part of it. From purpose-built, anti-ligature design that keeps people safe discreetly, to calm, low-arousal bedrooms, welcoming communal spaces and secure gardens open to the sky, our environments are designed so that safety, dignity and homeliness sit together.
We build daily life around the person. Activities reflect each resident’s history, interests and abilities, delivered by a dedicated team and responsive to the moment, so that engagement happens when a person feels ready. Meaningful activity, connection and purpose are central to how we support wellbeing.
Keeping people safe at their most vulnerable, while protecting their privacy, independence and dignity, is at the heart of everything we do. Our teams are experienced in safeguarding, positive risk-taking and proportionate, person-centred approaches to safety.
Our knowledge extends to the systems behind good care: safe staffing and deployment, medicines management, accurate record-keeping, robust quality assurance and audit, and a culture of learning and continuous improvement, all overseen by experienced clinical leadership.
Behind the calm, homely front of each service sit professional, commercial-standard facilities — catering built around food safety, on-site laundry capable of thermal disinfection, and rigorous infection prevention and control — the unseen foundations on which good, safe care depends.
We work closely with families, who play a central role in the life of our homes, and with commissioners, care coordinators and healthcare partners. We understand what good, outcome-focused, clinically-led care looks like from every perspective, and we communicate openly and responsively.
What sets ASHA Healthcare apart is not only the expertise held within each home, but the way that knowledge is shared across all three. Consistent standards, shared clinical leadership, common training and a culture of learning mean that a lesson learned in one home strengthens care in the others. Our experienced leadership teams focus on quality, safety and positive outcomes, so that every resident — wherever they live with us — benefits from the full depth of the group’s knowledge and experience.
This section is supported by our growing library of articles, in which we share how we think about care in practice — from the design of a single bathroom fitting to the model of care behind a whole purpose-built home. We invite families, professionals and commissioners to explore these pieces to understand the standard of thinking we bring to every detail of life in our homes.
To learn more, or to discuss how we could support someone in your care, please contact our team at support@ashahealthcare.co.uk or 0115 9729 465, or arrange a visit to one of our homes.
Choosing care often brings questions. Below are some of the things families and professionals ask us most about our approach, our teams and how we support people every day. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, our team is always happy to help.
Our knowledge shapes every part of daily life across our services. Experienced nurses, leaders and specialist professionals use evidence-based practice to guide care planning, risk management and therapeutic support. This means care is personalised, environments are designed around safety and wellbeing, and decisions are informed by real clinical understanding. We focus on reducing distress, supporting independence and creating stability. By combining practical experience with continuous learning, we help people feel secure, valued and supported while delivering consistent, high quality outcomes for residents and reassurance for families.
Care is led by registered nurses and supported by experienced leadership teams across every service. At Bancroft, this is strengthened by multidisciplinary input including psychology, occupational therapy and psychiatry. Across all homes, teams work closely with GPs, social workers and external healthcare professionals to ensure joined up care. This collaborative approach allows us to respond quickly to changing needs, maintain strong clinical oversight and provide safe, person-centred support that reflects each individual’s history, goals and wellbeing.
Our teams take part in structured training covering areas such as safeguarding, dementia care, mental health awareness, medication management, infection prevention and end of life care. Learning is supported through leadership guidance, regular team meetings and reflective practice. We invest in ongoing development to strengthen confidence, maintain safe standards and improve care quality. This culture of continuous learning helps staff respond effectively to complex needs, build trusting relationships with residents and families, and deliver calm, consistent care every day.
Families play an important role in each person’s care journey. We maintain open communication through regular updates, care reviews and informal conversations, ensuring relatives feel informed and involved. Families are welcomed into our homes, encouraged to join activities and invited to share insights about preferences, routines and life history. This partnership approach supports continuity, builds trust and helps us provide care that feels familiar, respectful and reassuring for everyone involved.
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Bancroft Care Centre is our flagship home, custom built with one goal: to provide exceptional specialist mental health care.
Led by our nurses and Occupational Therapist, we put each person at the centre of every decision—shaped around their needs, outcomes and unique identity.
People arrive at a difficult point. What happens next is not containment, but a multidisciplinary team who see the whole person: their strengths, culture, goals and the life they want to return to.
Contact arlene.bunton@ashahealthcare.co.uk to book a viewing or discuss referral pathways.
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Specialist nurse-led mental health service for adults 18+
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