A range of services help make each day enjoyable and stress-free.

Services at Otto Schiff range from help with daily tasks such as laundry and arranging medical appointments, to indulging in a mini makeover or having a favourite newspaper delivered to a resident’s rooms each morning. 

Otto Schiff provides the following services, included in the weekly fees: 

• Care according to a personalised care plan  
• Assistance with washing, bathing, taking medication and other personal daily activities 
• Food, drinks and snacks 
• Bedroom accommodation with housekeeping 
• Full use of communal areas 
• A programme of daily activities 
• Laundry service by washing machine 
• Weekly on-site GP surgeries and consultations 

Otto Schiff can also arrange to provide the following services. Please note these services are additional costs, paid for separately to the weekly fees. 

• A communal synagogue service takes place every week, as well as on Jewish festivals 
• Care according to specific, additional care needs (subject to assessment and discussion) 
• New personal items such as clothes, toiletries and newspapers 
• Hairdressing 
• Chiropody 
• Dry cleaning 
• Medication, equipment and prescription charges 
• Private car hire and taxi service 
• Telephone line installation and service charges 
• Television and subscriptions 
• Staff assistance and escorts for medical appointments and private outings outside of the care home 
• Special equipment such as bespoke recliner chairs, wheelchairs and medical aids 
• Additional staffing to provide one to one care, or other additional care over and above the standard level of care 
• Meals and refreshments for visiting family and friends  
• Special activities and excursions 

There is a unique range of services and facilities on the Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus for residents and visitors to use. These include:

Taubles Café

Here you can enjoy a wide range of drinks, delicious cakes and pastries, and hot and cold meals. It sells sushi boxes, sandwiches, soup, smoothies and there is a varied salad bar.

The café is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 3.30pm. It serves a dairy menu with parev options always available (supervised under a Kashrut licence).

Annah’s Restaurant

A restaurant serving hot lunchtime and evening meals (meat). The restaurant is kosher, supervised under a Kashrut licence.

Booba Brenner shop

A shop selling gifts, toiletries, groceries, and frozen Kosher meals.

Michael Sobell Jewish Community Centre

The community centre brings people together; those who live at the Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus, as well as those from the wider Jewish community. It is a space to meet friends, try new things, and have fun and connect with others. There is a full programme of events and activities during the days, evenings and weekends. This means there is something for everyone to enjoy.

Holocaust Survivor Centre

Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors Centre is the only place of its kind anywhere in the UK. More than 500 survivors and refugees are supported at the Centre through a specific programme of social, cultural and therapeutic activities.

 Memory Way Café

A group for family carers, together with their friend or family member living with dementia. Enjoy activities together and socialise, listen to guest speakers and professionals, get advice, and learn coping strategies. All in a relaxed and confidential environment.

Jewish Care Explore

A service offering support with technology to all adults in the Jewish community. There is a dedicated centre on campus with equipment available for people to use independently or with support from the team. They also offer dedicated courses to help people learn how to use technology such as iPads, tablets, laptops and Zoom.

Live life to the full with our range of engaging activities.

Otto Schiff offers a varied programme of wellbeing and lifestyle activities for residents to enjoy. Residents can continue their hobbies or make new ones, connect with each other, and have fun.

The team of Activity Co-ordinators meet with residents and relatives regularly. Everyone has a say in the types of activities they would like to do.

Example activity timetable

Here is an example of some of the activities and entertainment taking place every week. The actual timetable will vary.

Monday

Exercise with music
Quiz
Board games

Tuesday

Arts and crafts
Reading group
Afternoon tea

Wednesday

Movie
Exercise

Thursday

One-to-one Montessori box
Crosswords

Friday

Discussion group
Shabbat service

Saturday

Montessori quiz
Exercise

Sunday

Live entertainment

A tasty, nutritious and kosher meal for every breakfast, lunch and supper.

Otto Schiff is supervised by the Kosher London Beth Din (KLBD). The care home uses fully kosher certified food products and suppliers. 

We place traditional Jewish values at the heart of all we do at Jewish Care. That’s why we ensure that every breakfast, lunch and supper served in our care homes is tasty, nutritious and kosher (or kosher-style). All our services use kosher ingredients and recipes, and our staff are trained in preparing food in a kosher way. Please contact us to find out more about this. 

Meals at Otto Schiff 

The team of skilled chefs plan and prepare a varied menu of meals each week. They meet with residents and relatives to ensure that they cater to every palette. 

Mealtimes are social times, where residents enjoy tasty kosher meals together. Traditional foods help residents remember and mark key moments in the Jewish calendar; challah on Shabbat, doughnuts for Chanukah, honey cake for Rosh Hashanah and hamantaschen for Purim. These are all part of what makes Jewish life so important in our homes.  

Some residents may have difficulty swallowing their food (dysphagia). Kun Mor and George Kiss can provide a wide variety of enjoyable and nutritious pureed kosher meals, in partnership with the Hospital Kosher Meals Service (HKMS). 

Make your visit a day to remember with some great things to do and see in the area.

Otto Schiff is in Golders Green, the heart of North London Jewish community. There are lots of things to do in the local area to help make your stay or visit even more memorable: 

Golders Green Road shops, cafés and restaurants (0.1 mile) 

This bustling road has a whole host of shops and kosher eateries to suit all tastes. It’s ideal for popping out for lunch or a browse around the shops. Here you will find Head Room Café – a community café run by our partner organisation Jami. 

Golders Hill Park (1.2 miles) 

A beautiful, landscaped park with plenty to see and do all year round. There is a café, zoo, children’s playground, walled garden, and more. 

Brent Cross Shopping Centre (1.3 miles) 

There are 120 shops and over 30 cafés, takeaways and restaurants. There is The Kanteen, a family-run kosher restaurant and coffee shop. The menu combines American food like waffles and soft ice cream, Mediterranean favourites like salads and Pastas, and Middle Eastern food like falafels, borekas and shakshuka. 

 Hampstead Heath (1.9 miles) 

A wild park of woodland and meadows. It sprawls over 800 acres and boasts some of the most spectacular views in the city. It has lots of different habitats for wildlife and more than 30 lakes and ponds. All these in one place – and in the middle of a city – means it’s quite special and important to London and to the UK. 

Fenton House (2.1 miles) 

A 17th-century house with unusual collections and picturesque walled gardens. It is filled with highly decorative collections of porcelain, Georgian furniture and 17th-century needlework. The renowned, ever-changing garden includes an orchard, kitchen garden, rose garden, terraces and lawns. 

Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath (2.6 miles) 

The former stately home sits on the edge of Hampstead Heath and is surrounded by landscaped gardens. The interiors and world-class art collection are free for everyone to enjoy. There are children’s activities, a café to relax in and acres of grounds to wander. 

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