Sunridge Court
Care home for older people
Personal care
Short term stay, subject to availability
Sunridge Court, part of Jewish Care, is a warm and friendly care home located in the heart of Golders Green. It has built an enviable reputation in the local community throughout its rich history, most recently joining Jewish Care in 2021.
Life at Sunridge Court
We are a 45 bedroom home offering en suite accommodation in all rooms. Our beautiful landscaped gardens can be viewed throughout the home and are enjoyed all year long. We have a large sun lounge that overlooks the garden where residents enjoy reading, relaxing, and watching the birds and the wind in the trees.
Residents are encouraged to bring their own belongings with them to truly personalise their living environment. We arrange daily activities such as current affairs discussion, reminiscence groups, film afternoons, and bingo, amongst various other activities.
We create a warm and homely atmosphere where nothing is too much trouble. Our valued and highly trained staff are available 24 hours a day to cater for all of our residents' needs - great or small. Our staff are all trained to a minimum of NVQ 2 in Health and Social Care with many of our long serving staff having more extensive qualifications in care and management.
Sunridge Court has strong links with the Jewish Community where we work in partnership with various organisations to offer fulfilling and enriching ways of remaining part of the community. We work alongside many local synagogues ensuring that residents have the opportunity to meet their spiritual and cultural needs.
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Location
There is parking available in nearby streets.
Tube:
Golders Green (Northern Line)
Bus route:
113
MEET THE MANAGER
Grace Ramalho - Registered Manager
"I joined Sunridge Court in June 2019, having worked as a Registered Manager for the past 16 years.
I am passionate about care and I really enjoy working at Sunridge Court because of the amazing community here.
I look forward to meeting new residents and their relatives, and welcoming them to our care home."
Food
A tasty, nutritious and Kosher meal for every breakfast, lunch and supper.
Our team of skilled chefs plan and prepare a varied menu each week and meet regularly with residents and their relatives to ensure that every palette is catered for.
Traditional foods are important as they help us remember and mark key moments in the Jewish calendar. Challah on Shabbat, doughnuts for Chanukah, honey cake for Rosh Hashanah and hamantaschen for Purim are all part of what makes Jewish life so important in our home.
Sunridge Court uses fully kosher certified food products and suppliers (not supervised). We do not follow Kashrut - meat and milk are not kept separately.
ACTIVITIES
We run a huge variety of activities within the home.
Our Engagement and Wellbeing Coordinators focus on implementing meaningful and exciting activities seven days a week.
Our residents are free to take part or observe what is on offer and there is no pressure to join in.
We are also able to offer 1:1 activities in our residents rooms.
We like to experiment with new activities and we regularly speak with our residents to ensure we deliver a popular and stimulating programme.
An example of a typical week at Sunridge Court
Monday Quiz/Residents Meeting/Film Showing
Tuesday - Chair based Yoga/Bingo/Photography Club
Wednesday - Current Affairs Discussion Group/Film Showing/Art History Talk
Thursday - Art club/Bridge/Poetry Club
Friday - Chair based Pilates/Kalooki
Saturday - Shabbat Services/Card Games
History
In the mid-1960s a group of friends recognised the need for a rather different care home.
They were all supporters of what was then called the Home for Aged Jews in Nightingale Lane, Wandsworth. This care home looked after around 400 residents, almost all of whom were first generation immigrants to the UK.
The group decided to build Sunridge Court. The vision at the time was that it would be a much smaller Home (a home from home), that it would be based in North West London and that it would be for more established Jews as well as immigrants.
In 1969 the foundation stone was laid for a purpose-built 26 bed residential home in Golders Green. Demand was soon such that in around 1980 they took the opportunity to buy the two houses next door which became known as the Extension. Subsequently, the Extension and the main building were joined to form the 45 bed home that exists today.
Sunridge Court was a Housing Association and therefore treated as a charity. It was run by a committee made up of volunteers and the Home’s manager. In the beginning, Committee members were very ‘hands on’ doing the cooking, admissions and administration.
In 2013, an Executive Director was appointed to oversee the running of the Home at a more strategic level, and to lead the professional Senior Management Team.
In 2021, Sunridge Court joined Jewish Care to become one of its ten care homes. Colleagues at Jewish Care and Sunridge Court had built strong professional relationships over the last ten years, with the two organisations talking about coming together to benefit everyone. The decision was made in order to guarantee Sunridge Court’s continued success for now and in the future.
Throughout all this change, the Home prides itself that there have been many long serving managers and staff, and that it continues to be highly regarded by its residents, their families and friends and the wider community. Today it has well trained and qualified staff as well as the professional management required to respond to the diverse and individual needs of the residents.
It is all these people who are at the core of this story – thank you for making Sunridge Court such a special community.
CQC report
View the latest CQC inspection report for Sunridge Court
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