The community will be part of Larkfleet’s major urban Oakham Heights development, located between the Oakham bypass and Barleythorpe Road. This large development will eventually include 800 houses, offices, parks and open spaces, children’s play areas, allotments and a new local centre and hotel (with restaurant). 

 

Clearance work started earlier in the year, and soon the essential infrastructure such as water supplies and roads will be put in. The first of these retirement homes should be available in the spring of 2019.

 

The Oakham Heights CCRC will create around 90 jobs for local people.

 

Larkfleet Homes CEO Karl Hick said: “This is a big step forward for the project and allows us to advance development of this much-needed facility in Oakham. There is an urgent need for this type of accommodation to meet the needs of the increasing number of elderly people in the county.

 

“Putting independent living, assisted living and care home provision on the same site means that if people need to move from one type of accommodation to another as their care needs increase, they do not have to move away from family, friends and the social networks that they have built up.

 

“It can mean, for example, that if one half of a couple needs to move into the care home, his or her partner can remain in the independent living part of the development within easy walking distance.”

 

An active and open retirement community such as Larkfleet is creating here will have a lot of people coming and going. Staff, health and safety inspectors, medical staff and friends and family of the residents, not to mention the residents themselves as they walk about the community or leave it for a holiday. It’s vital in these situations where potentially vulnerable adults are concerned to have a clear picture of not only where everyone is, but also whether anyone has wandered somewhere they shouldn’t. A visitor monitoring system will make everyone feel more safe and secure inside a retirement community. 

 

At Time and Attendance Midlands we offer a high-quality visitor monitoring system, called Monitoring of Contractor and Visitor System (“MCVS”). This is a network-based app which lets you pre-book appointments from visitors or contractors. It will handle both single and multi-day appointments with one or more attendees. 

 

All appointments can be viewed in a graphical diary using daily, weekly & monthly calendar views. Configurable timings allow the diary to show visitor appointments as pending, late or missed. Personal visitor details, visitor company information, images and scanned in documents are all recorded by the system for later retrieval or reporting. 

 

If there is no clear reception area for a large community like this, then visitors can use Time and Attendance Midland’s Standalone Console to sign themselves in and out. This triggers a printed pass and emails who needs to be made aware of their arrival. The visitor information can also be printed as a fire roll call if an alarm goes off. 

 

In areas which need to be more secure, such as the care home, the visitor monitoring system can be integrated with Time and Attendance Midland’s Access Control, which would provide any visitors with a smartcard with the correct doors programmed in. These smartcards can be designed by you, using our Badge Designer software to put on your own logo and company name.