Activities at Elm Bank Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Tina Prosho
Hello. I am Tina, I have been a team member at Elm Bank since 2023 and began my career as a Team Leader and was upskilled to Head of Care before moving my role to become Activities Coordinator.
I am passionate individual with vibrant character and my goal is all about life enriching activities that enhance the lives of our residents. I ensure that the entertainment is stimulating and is inclusive of all our residents no matter their challenges. It is important to me that our weekly calendar offers rich experiences with music from live entertainers, visits to various locations outside the home of interest, as well as arts and crafts tailored to individual abilities. We are a pet friendly home and fully support the benefits animal therapy can bring to the lives of our residents and welcome animals of all kinds to the home on a regular basis.
Getting to know our residents better is so important to me, and through regular family and friends’ meetings we can gain a greater understanding of their loved ones' interests and life prior to joining Elm Bank that will make for a richer activities program to be developed. I look forward to getting to know you, and your loved ones.
We are always open to new ideas. If you would like to get involved in any of our Life Enrichment activities or have a skill, or project you'd like to share with our residents, please click here to contact me direct. New entertainers and community links are always welcome.
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Elm Bank Care Home
CQC 'GOOD' Rating Annouced
We are thrilled to announce that Elm Bank Care Home passed a recent CQC inspection with an overall 'Good' rating after being praised for operating a safe and effective service.
The report stated that residents at the home received good quality person-centred care and were treated with kindness by caring staff who knew them very well. The inspectors found that the manager of the home was committed to promoting a positive culture for both residents and staff that was open, inclusive and empowering.
Comments in the report from relatives included: "The manager is very supportive. Nothing is too much trouble, and you can tell the staff enjoy working here." Another relative added: "The attitude of the staff is top notch in my opinion."
Katie Hudson, General Manager at Elm Bank Care Home said: "We are absolutely thrilled that Elm Bank Care Home has been rated 'Good' following the CQC's most recent inspection. It is fantastic team here and I am incredibly proud of each and every one of them."
Well done team - Life is GOOD at Elm Bank!
Open Day Thank you's
Thank you to all our visitors on Saturday 1st July, you made our Open Day so special. It was wonderful to welcome you and showcase our lovely home and introduce everyone to our Elm Bank family of residents and team.
Our friends from Clarks Kettering set up shop in the Bluebell Walk lounge, with plenty of stock for our residents and guests to choose from, they measured many feet, it was a pleasure hosting their pop-up.
Young Children Bring Joy
Our residents get so much joy from interacting with young children, last week a group of students from Hall Meadow Primary School came in for a little ‘Story Time’.
As young and old read together, chatted and created beautiful artworks the room was full of happiness. We all had such a wonderful time getting to know these lovely children.
Thank you for being so well behaved, gentle and kind, you brightened our residents’ day, we very much look forward to your next visit.
Pride Party
The weather may not have been on our side to party in the grounds of Elm Bank however, that didn’t stop our residents, staff and visitors from having the best time in support of the LGBTQ+ community.
We gathered together to celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion with the most colourful party with guest singer Tara leading us all in song and plenty of dance!
Young Musician Performance
The joy of children visiting our home is clear on the faces of our residents.
We had the privilege of watching a private performance by a small group of students from St Peter's School Kettering last week.
These talented children had our staff and residents enthralled with their singing, and mastering of such wonderful instruments from Violin to Piano, Cello and Clarinet we all agreed they are such skilled musicians.
Our residents enjoyed getting to know each of the children and chatting to them about their instruments and hopes for the future.
We'd like to send a massive THANK YOU to the students and teachers for making our day so magical.
Kettering Library Pop-Up
We've been out in the local community with the Claremont Parkway and Elm Bank care home managers at Kettering Library. It was wonderful to meet so many people, find out more about life in Kettering and hand out homemade cakes, goodies and refreshments.
We hope to hold another pop up in a few weeks time. We'll be there again from 10am to 12 noon we've got lots of community events and forthcoming activities to tell you about!
Upcoming events
Monthly Church Service
Come and join in worship and singing with our residents, held in the home lounge every 4th Thursday of the month.
Dementia Sings Out
Dementia Sings out is a regular event for our residents at Elm Bank, all are welcome to attend at the Compass Church in Wellingborough.
