Activities at Ottley House Care Home
At Ottley House, we offer a person-centred activities programme, and aim to match residents' abilities and interests with meaningful activities of the correct degree of challenge that promotes their health and well-being. We also provide visual, tactile, audible and olfactory sensory experiences. There are weekly music/movement therapy sessions, 'Oomph' sessions, and arts & crafts classes to help improve, maintain and refine motor skills. We enjoy regular visits from entertainers, musicians and animal therapists, as well as pub nights, 'food from around the world' days, and minibus outings to places of interest.
Cath Smallman
Hi, I'm Cath, the Activities Coordinator here at Ottley House. My days are spent making sure that the residents in the home have an interesting and active social programme to enjoy each day. Residents individual preferences are considered all the time in a person centred approach and I welcome feedback from families too.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Ottley House Care Home
We Braved the Shave
Near to the end of 2016, four members of staff 'braved the shave'. All sponsor money has been collected and the total raised is £700, which is to be divided between cancer research, Parkinson's UK and the residents' fund.
Barchester Care Awards Winners!
We are honoured to announce that two of our very own team members won national accolades at the Barchester Care Awards on 12th October 2016.
Donna Binnersley, who has worked at Ottley House Care Home since the age of 16, was thrilled to be named ‘Home Trainer of the Year’ in the national finals, while General Manager, Jamie Stubbs, won the highly prestigious ‘General Manager of the Year’ award.
On receiving his award, Jamie stated: "I am very humbled to receive such a distinctive and prestigious award and I am thrilled that the Ottley House has received the recognition that all the staff deserve. To be cited as the General Manager of the year 2016 would simply not be possible without the fantastic team and support that are in place within the home."
Donna said hat she was absolutely thrilled and overwhelmed to have been chosen as Home Trainer of the Year 2016. She was delighted that she had been able to support and train the staff at Ottley House to a high standard so that excellence in care could be delivered to all the residents who were living at the home.
We are one of the first care homes to receive a new dementia care accreditation!
Ottley House has achieved accreditation for a new standard of dementia care after taking part in a 10 month pilot trialling a new programme developed by dementia care specialists at Barchester Healthcare.
The 10-60-6 dementia programme will replace Barchester's current dementia care programme in order to ensure that the care services provided by our Memory Lane communities for people living with dementia are the best in the sector.
A certificate and trophy were presented to us at a celebratory lunch on 15th August. The presentations were opened by Martin Green who is the Chief Executive of Care England, the largest representative body for independent social care services in the UK.
Trip to Cardingmill Valley
We took a trip to Cardingmill Valley in the south Shropshire hills with some of the residents. The weather was very kind to us and everyone enjoyed a picnic lunch whilst taking in the beautiful surroundings.
Ottley House's Divisional Winners
Congratulations to Donna Binnersley and our Housekeeping Team, who have been named as Divisional Winners in the Home Trainer of the Year and Team of the Year categories at this year's Barchester Care Awards.
10-60-6 Accreditation
We were the first home in Barchester to be awarded the 10-60-6 accreditation.
The 10-60-6 is a whole programme approach to help develop both the environment and the staff understanding of dementia care in practice. The programme has been put together following the latest evidence and research-based practice in dementia care. There are four levels of training, underpinned by Dr. Al Power’s 'Seven Domains of Well-being' and the environmental considerations are based upon the work of the King's Fund, with elements of guidance from Stirling University. Each home within the pilot project has undertaken a specific intervention that is new to the company, with Ottley House trialing the Oomph programme with considerable success.
We have been accredited recently and have 91% good or excellent scores against the 76 criteria identified, but we will not stop there, as we will ensure that all of our good scores will soon become excellent.
At the moment, we are still awaiting the new designated signage to arrive, but this will be with us and placed within the unit as soon as it's here.
Early statistical analysis is showing that we have achieved a 100% reduction in anxiolytic medication, a 75% reduction in hypnotic medication and a 35% increase in weight amongst the residents, initially identified in September 2015.
