Wheatfield Way
Barleythorpe
Oakham
Rutland
LE15 7UD
Profile Strength |
Excellent 99%
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Care Type | Care Home |
Care Category | Nursing | Dementia | Respite | Residential |
Availability | Yes |
Regulator's Rating | Good |
Catherine Ferguson is General Manager at Oakham Grange.
Hello, I’m Catherine and I am very proud to be the General Manager of Oakham Grange.
I offer a wealth of healthcare management experience and I am a nurse by training. My team and I are here to support you so that Oakham Grange feels truly your home. As we all grow older our wants and needs naturally change, so in turn, our support for you will mirror this.
However, we will never forget, it’s your life, to be lived your way, with our support.
I won’t be a stranger, so whenever you see me say hello and if you or your family ever want a private word, my office door is always open to you.
Oakham Grange is an amazing, life affirming place. Purpose built and designed by the family that owns it, it’s been created to be a home, not a hotel. You will find it’s a bright and airy place to live, with lots of sunlight giving a sense of natural warmth, as it shines through the many double aspect picture windows. French doors encourage you to enjoy the well laid out gardens, for a gentle stroll around the raised beds or just feel the season’s breeze on your face.
Oakham Grange is made up of three households that are known as; Sandpiper, Osprey and Avocet. The creation of these areas makes getting to know Oakham Grange easier and helps to build a family like camaraderie between residents and staff, as well making your private bedroom, never too far away to pop back to.
About us: Oakham Grange is an Ardale home. We are a family run business which has owned and managed care homes for more than 25 years. We have created Oakham Grange to be the home suitable for our own family members to live in. We are not an anonymous ‘grey’ corporate care company and you will soon get to know us all. Our experienced leadership team are responsible for a small number of bespoke homes, so we can give each one our full support to deliver the highest quality care.
We are very proud that each of our homes are unique and aim to be the care home of choice, in the communities we serve.
Care Options | We Can Provide |
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Support For | Companionship, Convalescence, End of Life, Independent Living, Palliative, Personal care, Physiotherapy, Reablement, Rehabilitation, Support for Couples. |
Disability Support | Bed Bound, Hearing Impairment, Physical Disability, Physically Frail, Requires Hoist , Speech Impairment, Visual Impairment, Walking Frame, Wheel Chair Bound. |
Medication | By Mouth, Change Catheter, Injection, Suppository. |
Nursing Specialisms | Bariatric care, Cancer, Cerebral Palsy, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), Diabetes, Epilepsy, Heart Disease, Huntington Disease, Liver Disease, Lung Disease, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Ulcerative Colitis. |
Type Of Dementia | Mild Dementia, Moderate Dementia, Severe Dementia. |
Dementia Behaviour | Challenging Behaviour, Violent Behaviour, Wandering . |
Dementia Specialisms | Alzheimer's, Frontotemporal, Lewy Body, Mixed Dementias, Picks Disease, Vascular Dementia. |
Respite Care | Yes |
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Infection Control Training | Our staff are trained to use measures which prevent and control infections. |
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Connectivity for resident testing, monitoring & communications |
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Infection control and the safety of both residents and staff often requires quarantine measures and the isolation of care home residents. To test, monitor and allow residents to communicate with relatives, the prevalence of room-level connectivity within the home is becoming increasingly relevant. Wireless Internet access (WiFi) Yes, our care home has WiFi in all our resident’s rooms. Mobile Phone Network Coverage (mobile “signal”) Yes, our care home has mobile phone signal in all our resident’s rooms. Telephone for external calling The Care Organisation has not indicated availability Family Portal Yes, our care home has provides families with a family portal. Find out more about Family Portals here. |
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Our Building and Facilities |
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Oakham Grange is an amazing, life affirming place. Purpose built and designed by the family that owns it, it’s been created to be a home, not a hotel. You will find it’s a bright and airy place to live, with lots of sunlight giving a sense of natural warmth, as it shines through the many double aspect picture windows. French doors encourage you to enjoy the well laid out gardens, for a gentle stroll around the raised beds or just feel the season’s breeze on your face. Oakham Grange is made up of three households that are known as; Sandpiper, Osprey and Avocet. The creation of these areas makes getting to know Oakham Grange easier and helps to build a family like camaraderie between residents and staff, as well making your private bedroom, never too far away to pop back to. Each household benefits from a dining area, a kitchen, a beautiful appointed lounge and a quiet lounge. Each lounge and dining room benefits from air conditioning, so eating and relaxing is always comfortable, even on the hottest of summer days. Your lounge has easy access to the garden or a balcony overlooking the terrace, with views of the water feature, our classic car and Oakham Grange’s putting green. |
Is Our Home Purpose Built |
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Yes |
The Year Our Home Was Built |
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27 Aug 2020 |
How Many Floors We Have |
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3 |
Who Owns Our Building |
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Private |
Communal Rooms |
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Activities Room, Coffee Shop / Café, Dining Rooms, Library, Sitting Rooms, TV Lounges. |
What Else Do We Provide |
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Assisted Bathroom, Beauty Salon, Chiropodist, Cinema, Coffee Shop, Dentist, GP, Hairdressers, Library, Lift, Minibus, Optician, Smoking Area. |
Our Garden |
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Communal Garden, Communal Patio, Seating, Secure Garden, Sensory Garden, Vegetable Plot, Wheelchair Friendly Access. |
How 'Smart' Are We? |
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Electronic Visitor Register, Individual Heating Controls, Interactive Digital Touch Table, Reduce Plastic Use. |
Brochures |
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Oakham Grange Residents Handbook_email.pdf |
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Description |
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Everyone’s bedroom should be their sanctuary; the place where you always feel comfortable to be yourself. Oakham Grange benefits from a range of rooms including premier, deluxe and apartments, enabling space for couples or companions. Whichever you choose, yours will be beautifully decorated, with custom designed fixtures and furniture from UK manufactures. These large ensuite bedrooms benefit from modern technology, including a large WiFi enabled Freeview TV, with the technology to keep you in touch with friends and family, as well as current affairs or your favourite soap. Importantly your bedroom will also be fit for purpose, featuring a large ensuite wetroom and a Staff Call System, which enables you to call for assistance at a click of a button. Our electrically adjustable beds and range of mattress options guarantees the best chance of a good night’s sleep. Every room has its own character, with no two are quite the same, but they are also a blank canvas for you to truly make you own. Pictures you love or photos which bring you happy memories will truly make your room, yours. |
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Number Of Rooms | 68 |
Number Of Ensuite Rooms | 60 |
Type Of Room |
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Apartment, Double Room, Kitchenette, Separate Sitting Room, Single Room. |
Room Features |
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Direct Garden Access, Furnished, Garden View, Step Free Access. |
Room Facilities |
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Alarm, Catch up TV, Freeview TV, Fridge, Internet Access, Private Patio, Safe, Secure Access, Tea and Coffee-making Facilities, Telephone Point, Wifi. |
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Description |
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Oakham Grange is a beautiful, purpose care home with nursing, but as lovely as our environment is, it’s the staff which brings this home to life, giving it its distinct personality and vitality. We are one team made up from many disciplines, skills and backgrounds, but together we make Oakham Grange a very special place. |
Our Team |
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![]() Catherine FergusonGeneral ManagerHello, I’m Catherine and I am very proud to be the General Manager of Oakham Grange. I offer a wealth of healthcare management experience and I am a nurse by training. My team and I are here to support you so that Oakham Grange feels truly your home. As we all grow older our wants and needs naturally change, so in turn, our support for you will mirror this. However, we will never forget, it’s your life, to be lived your way, with our support. I won’t be a stranger, so whenever you see me say hello and if you or your family ever want a private word, my office door is always open to you. ![]() Jesamy RawlingsDeputy ManagerHello I am the Deputy Manager here at Oakham Grange. I am a Registered Mental Health Nurse, having qualified at Robert Gordon’s University in 2007. I began my career working in Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen, in a functional assessment ward for those over 65 years of age who were experiencing acute mental health issues. I then moved on to working in a dementia assessment ward, and following that a challenging behaviour ward for gentlemen over the age of 65. Upon my return from maternity leave, I worked in a variety of settings, and then made the move back home to Rutland where I took up of Clinical Lead in a care home. I am so proud to work at Oakham Grange, having been born in Oakham and bought up in Uppingham. I believe that people should be treated with the same love and care that I would like to see my own family treated with, and strive to make sure that this is the case for all our residents at Oakham Grange. ![]() Cat StathamNurse PractitionerAt the age of 17, I started my Dip H E in adult nursing at Leeds University. I qualified in 1999 and started my first job in nursing on Ward 15 at Glenfield hospital, which was a rehabilitation ward. I started as a community nurse in April 2001, and this is where I have spent the last 19 years of my career, all be in different guises. I was a triage nurse for 18 months for the community and latterly from 2014 worked for a service called ICS. I met my 2 colleagues Liz and Chrissy working here approximately 12 years ago and now a new adventure begins for the 3 of us as nurse practitioners working together to provide nursing care at Oakham Grange. This is very exciting!! To be able to work as a professional with friends who you have the utmost trust and belief in is very special. My aim as a nurse practitioner at Oakham Grange is to provide autonomous, person-centred care for our residents. ![]() Chrissy DawesNurse PractitionerI studied BSC (Hons) Adult Nursing at East Anglia Polytechnique, I’d loved my student placements in the community working with the District Nurses and knew that this was what I wanted to do. Once qualified I took a job at Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry, I worked on an assessment unit for the elderly for a year before taking a job in a Community Nursing team in Leicestershire, that’s where I stayed for fourteen years before moving to the Intensive Community Support team in 2015. I’ve worked with both Cat and Liz for over twelve years and we have a great working relationship with a wealth of experience that we can bring to Oakham Grange ![]() Deepu StephenHead ChefMy Name is Deepu Stephen, a Chef with over 22 years of experience in creating different cuisine (English, continental, Chinese and Indian etc.). My aim at Oakham Grange is to cook exciting and new things for our residents to enjoy every day. I have worked in some of the most prestigious hotels in the world including; Burj Al Arab Dubai, Jumeirah Beech Hotel Dubai, Hilton Bahrain, InterContinental Bahrain and Taj Hotels in Indian. I was awarded Chef of the year Middle East 2006 and a Gold Medal in the Blackbox competition in Australia. I have worked with some of the most well-known chefs around the world including Chef Garry Rhodes and Chef Paul Bocuse to name just a few. I like to spend time with my wife and three children in my spare time and I also run a cooking channel on YouTube. ![]() Lorraine HillActivities CoordinatorI am one of the Activity Coordinators at Oakham Grange ![]() Shirley Martin-AbelActivities CoordinatorI am a lifelong learner and have studied social and health care, horticultural therapy and life coaching to degree level. I am an NVQ assessor and a health and social care trainer and mentor to level 5. ![]() Chris PotterDriver / MaintenanceMy name is Chris Potter ![]() Sarah WoodingHead HousekeeperI am so pleased to be Head Housekeeper at Oakham Grange. My previous role was in Housekeeping for 11 years at a Therapeutic residential school for boys and girls with social, emotional and mental health difficulties. Although this is a change in a work environment for myself, I bring to this role, enthusiasm, care, compassion and high standards. I will endeavour to work alongside this great team we have and support the working ethics of Oakham Grange. ![]() Tina EdwardsReceptionistI was previously a receptionist for the Veterinary industry for over ten years before the pandemic hit and I revalued life and decided to gain a better work life balance. I feel privileged to be part of Oakham Grange and the care we endeavour to deliver. I am here to ensure all our residents and their families feel supported, communicated with and taken care of no matter how small the request. We have a fantastic team on reception and I feel this is reflected in how much we love our job and how hard we work to support our residents and their families. ![]() BrabhamTherapy DogHello my name is Brabham and I am a Qualified PAT Dog (Pets As Therapy). My role here is to spend time with residents, their family and friends and staff, offering unconditional affection. There is nothing I like better than being patted, stroked and hugged by all who wish to meet me. The special moments for me are when I bring back happy memories of past pets, or a smile to the face of someone who finds communication difficult. I have an interesting pedigree being half Saluki and half Standard Poodle, which makes me a 'Salukidoodle'. I’m named after Sir Jack Braham’s F1 racing cars, as it has been said that I’m fast in a straight line, but suffer from understeer going round corners! |
Funding Types | |
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Local Authority | Rutland |
Region | East Midlands |
We Accept Self-Funding Clients | Yes |
We Accept Local Authority Funding | Yes |
We Accept NHS Continuing Healthcare | Yes |
We Accept Local Authority funding with a Third Party Top-Up | Yes |
Choice Dining is a food-focused accreditation designed to give care-seekers like yourself the ability to consider and compare the dining experience within different care settings.
To be awarded the Choice Dining badge, a care home will have committed to delivering exceptional dining experiences with a strong focus on preference, individuality, hygiene and the environment. You can explore the specifics of all participating homes in the tab below to learn more about the food on offer, how it is served and presented and what they’re doing to cater for your personal taste. For more information about Choice Dining please click here.
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The preparation, nutritional value and presentation of food.
Attractive drinks and adaptive cups/glasses are available and accessible where needed.
Individual dietary needs are person centred.
Meals reflect the nutritional needs of the residents.
Our menu is balanced.
Snacks are provided for residents that require texture-modified food.
Sweet and savoury foods are provided between meals (this does not just include cakes and biscuits).
A la Carte
Hot Trolley
Room Service
A critical component for good health.
We are following best practice including NICE guidelines as a standard.
We are conducting internal and/or 3rd party food safety audits.
We have allergen management policies in place.
A freedom to eat the food you want, when you want it.
A Private Dining room is bookable for residents and their families.
Families are invited for meals [Covid permitting].
Residents dining in their own room have the same food options as elsewhere.
Residents dining in their own room have their food presented to same standard as elsewhere.
Residents have access to Dining Room.
Residents have the option of dining in their own room.
Staff also dine themselves with the residents they support.
Staff sit with the residents they support when they dine.
Residents can order food not on the menu, or have access to an ‘evergreen menu’.
Residents have access to a flexible meal service beyond defined times.
More than one option is available at mealtimes for all residents, including those with special and theraputic diets.
Residents with dementia are shown food or visual menus to help them decide.
There is a weekly menu.
We offer catering for special events.
Residents are involved in the creation of the menu.
The best interest choices are made for residents unable to make their own choices.
Understanding the wants and requirements of every individual be it cultural, religious or dietary.
Halal food can be served.
Kosher food can be served.
Gluten-free food can be served.
Vegan food can be served.
Vegetarian food can be served.
We can support people with Diabetes.
Delivering a respectful and quality service.
Residents are given appropriate and dignified crockery / glassware and cutlery.
Staff are hospitality trained to present / serve meals.
Tables are well laid.
We have food theme days/nights.
Staff understand and pre-empt potential meal-time behaviours which can impact nutritional intake.
Staff always use appropriate and dignified language (e.g. it is an ‘apron’ not a ‘bib’).
We promote an inclusive dining experience.
There are no unnecessary disruptions during mealtimes.
Being environmentally and socially responsible and thoughtful.
We correctly dispose of our waste.
We have a waste management system.
We monitor our food waste.
Residents can get involved in the growing of food and/or ingredients on site.
We grow some food and/or ingredients on site.
We use locally sourced and locally grown or reared food.
Our energy usage is well maintained.
We are actively reducing food mileage.
Activities Are So Important |
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Encouraging a high quality of life is at the heart of Oakham Grange’s culture and ethos. Our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to provide fun and engaging social calendars. Whatever our age, variety is the spice of life, so we ensure you have the opportunity to explore a wide range of hobbies and activities. Oakham Granges own little artificial putting green is a perfect fit with its care ethos of maintaining residents shills and interests. It is another reason for residents to go out and enjoy the gardens and a breath of fresh air. It is important to us that Oakham Grange is an active part of our community. There will be many opportunities for you to take part in a wide range of social activities within and outside of the home. |
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Activities At Home |
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1 to 1 Activities, Animal Petting, Birthday Celebrations, Board Games, Card Games, Cooking, Crafts, Crosswords, Dancing, Excursions, Exercise Class, Flower Arranging, Gardening, Knitting / Embroidery, Music Entertainment, Painting, Pet Therapy, Pilates, Quiz Games, Religious Services, Reminiscence, Residents' Committee, Singing, Themed Events, Visiting Entertainment, Word Games. |
Activities Outside Our Home |
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Cinema, Garden Centre, Local Tourist Attractions, Park, Pub, Shopping, Shopping Centre, Theatre. |
Our Pets |
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Our pets are an extended part of our family and we love them dearly. Sadly it is not possible to let most pets live at Oakham Grange but that doesn’t stop them visiting. We are very ‘dog friendly’, with a fresh bowl of water and the odd treat waiting for any thirsty four legged friends. As well as our regular Therapy Dog visitor, there will be many organised visits in and out of Oakham Grange, to get close to a range of domestic animals and to keep connected with our county’s wildlife and farm animals. |
Can You Bring Your Pet |
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Yes |
How We Help With Your Pet |
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Feeding. |
We Welcome |
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Birds, Cats, Dogs, Horses, Others (subject to review), Rabbits, Reptiles. |
Wheatfield Way
Barleythorpe
Oakham
Rutland
LE15 7UD
Current Ratings | |
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Overall | Good |
Safe | Good |
Well Led | Good |
Caring | Good |
Responsive | Good |
Effective | Good |
Inspection Reports | |
Last inspected | 14th March 2022 |
Last rated | 28th April 2022 |
Reports | |
Registration Date | 27th August 2020 |
Service Provider | Ardale (Oakham) Limited, AL8 6HG |
Transport |
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Bus Stop nearby, Car Park, Car Park on-site, Train Station nearby. |
Places of Worship |
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Anglican Church, Methodist Church. |
Nearby Services |
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Garden Centre, Hospital, Park, Pub, Restaurant, Shops. |
Our Awards |
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