Parent and Baby Awards 2020

www.lux-review.com Page 43 Page 42 www.lux-review.com LUX 2020 Parent & Baby Awards LUX 2020 Parent & Baby Awards Hydra Tots has been established for nine years, starting small with only two classrooms before expanding to now include six bespoke rooms, three outdoor play spaces, a large indoor play space, including a bespoke indoor soft play area, and a five-star food and hygiene industrial kitchen which has been maintained since opening. Any day spent at Hydra Tots is filled with magic and learning in ways that kids can really engage with. Each of the six bespoke rooms offer a wide variety of learning opportunities, imagination, and extremely stimulating activities that specifically cater to the individual needs of the children. All of the children are welcomed into the Hydra Tots family, and are cared for by the most passionate and highly-qualified teachers, all of whom pride themselves on their levels of parent-carer communication. Collating together all of the exceptional elements that Hydra Tots offers results in what can only be described as one of the most outstanding private day nurseries. Behind the success of Hydra Tots is the dynamic team of Nola and Phillip (husband and wife) Maddison and Rosie. With Phillip running the kitchen, providing all children with freshly-prepared and nutritious meals that are made on site daily, whilst Nola is very hands-on when it comes to running and managing the Nursery to the highest possible standards. Nola has always been passionate about childcare, and D.O.T.S Chiropractic Centre is dedicated to providing expert chiropractic care for people of all ages, offering bespoke care plans to help patients reach a better quality of life. With over twenty years of combined experience serving professional athletes, government officials, corporate workers, pregnant women, babies, children and the elderly across six countries, D.O.T.S boasts a conscientious team of chiropractors; Lindsay McInnis, Chris Carter and Sonu Jose, as well as masseur, Rachel Whitehall. Together, the team is committed to providing exceptional care to the people they serve. D.O.T.S encapsulates the company values to be Dynamic, Organised, Transformational and create Synergetic relationships with the people they care for and within their community. The team thrives on group discussion, continuous training and customer feedback to learn how they can adapt and develop to best serve the community. To ensure the highest level of service and care, D.O.T.S employs a rigorous recruitment process when taking on new staff which, before the outbreak of Covid-19, involved a group interview to see how candidates fit in with the personality of the practice. While candidates can be trained in technical elements of the role, character cannot, and the successful candidates are the ones who demonstrate excellent personality skills and a genuine enthusiasm to learn. The team is the biggest asset to the firm, and each new recruit Taking care of children in a careful and considered manner is absolutely important when it comes to their physical and intellectual development in a place that is as magical as it is safe. A day at Hydra Tots Private Day Nursery is a magical day learning through play, and the facility specialises in creating endless opportunities for littles ones to fulfil their limitless potential. Once you step foot into the unique environment at Hydra Tots, you will automatically feel the passion and the creativity that flows through the walls of the Nursery. We find out more about the excel- lence of this facility in a profile. D.O.T.S Chiropractic Centre is dedicated to honouring the dynamic and organised intelligence of the human body. With the fervent belief in the power of chiropractic care to transform lives, D.O.T.S aims to create synergistic relationships with the people they care for and their community. The practice boasts extensive knowledge of chiropractic care of pregnant women and children and are now being celebrated as the Best Family Chiropractic Centre at the Parent and Baby Awards 2020. Sep20605 Aug20500 Hydra Tots Private Day Nursery Child Care Centre of the Year 2020 - South Yorkshire D.O.T.S. Chiropractic Best Family Chiropractic Centre 2020 - Buckinghamshire has always had a vision of providing a highly unique service that gives children everything they could ever need. All of the staff that Nola and the management team personally trains must first meet stringent criteria to ensure that they fit into the existing team, but also contribute to the luxurious and magical atmosphere at Hydra Tots. Every prospective staff member must display passion, friendliness, kindness, care, a willingness to learn, organisational skills, confidence, the ability to work as part of a team, creativity, imagination, a DBS, paediatric first aid, and advanced safeguarding. This team are the first point of contact for children and parents alike, so must be the best of the best that the industry has to offer. Fortunately, with the management’s expert guidance and the abundance of outstanding facilities onsite at Hydra Tots, every member of the team can fulfil this requirement. Perhaps the passionate, hard-working, and empowered team can best be showcased through their response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has plagued the United Kingdom for much of 2020. When the virus hit, Hydra Tots took a serious hit to numbers of children and the business as a whole struggled. Rather than resign to whatever may come, the management team began to think quickly and efficiently in order to deliver adaptations to the nursery, ensuring the doors could remain open for parents who had no alternative plans. Behind the scenes, both management and staff put in additional hours to plan how to move forward during the pandemic. Due to limited guidance when the lockdown commenced, it was vital that a plan of action was proposed that was defined by robust risk assessments. Working together, the whole team at Hydra Tots created a clean and safe environment where they could continue to care for many of its keyworkers. Throughout what has seemed like an eternity, Hydra Tots has adhered to the rules and kept everyone safe, recording no positive cases in the last eight months. The nursery even became a hub for South Yorkshire, supporting other nurseries and families to ensure that local children were getting everything they needed. There is simply no telling how long this virus will be present for, but Hydra Tots remains as committed as ever to delivering new, fresh, and exciting ideas for its children and parents alike. 2021 is already looking better, with January registers filling up quicker than anticipated. People have rightly put their trust in this exceptional childcare facility, and it has proven itself more than capable of taking care of individuals despite the prevalence of COVID-19. As society continues its recovery, the whole team at Hydra Tots looks forward to welcoming back its families with open arms and exciting activities. Company: Hydra Tots Private Day Nursery Contact: Nola Jackson Boot Website: www.hydratots.co.uk is welcomed with open arms and a bouquet of congratulatory flowers. D.O.T.S prides itself on offering the only Webster certified chiropractor in Milton Keynes, a technique designed to create more balance and ease in a pregnant woman’s pelvis for optimal positioning of the baby and greater comfort for the mother. The team has found that pregnant women are sitting a lot more than in the past, which creates a stress pattern that is not conducive to optimal foetal positioning. Chiropractic adjustments, as well as Spinning Babies techniques, aid in balancing the women’s pelvis, while tweaking seating at the workplace and at home combined with at-home exercises leads to more space being created in the pelvis, facilitating easier pregnancies. There is also an increase in developmental challenges in babies as a result of being put in bouncers, jumpers and other seated apparatus before they are developmentally ready. D.O.T.S is aiming to educate using in-office dialogue and social media to promote the natural development of babies, as well as becoming a hub of parent and child services in the near future. The hope is that D.O.T.S can become a resource that provides exceptional places for mothers and children to grow and flourish, hosting workshops and classes again soon. With its client-centric approach to chiropractic services, D.O.T.S continues to be as valuable an asset to its customers and community as ever. Contact: Lindsay McInnis Company: D.O.T.S. Chiropractic Web Address: www.DOTSchiropractic.co.uk