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Effective use of NHS funding: case studies [PDF]

Remove: British Medical Association - BMA source - 01 November 2016 - Publisher: British Medical Association (BMA)

This report presents the results of a literature review that identifies examples of successful initiatives that have sought to improve value for money in the NHS within the UK and internationally.

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West Sussex Integrated Dementia Crisis Service: assessment and crisis management make big impact [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2013 - Publisher: Skills for Care

The ‘Living Well with Dementia’ initiative offers a quick response service to individuals and their families. The team provides information and practical support to maximise independence and delay...

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Thurrock Rapid Response Assessment Service: right place, right time, right team [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2013 - Publisher: Skills for Care

A joint Thurrock social care and South West Essex Community Services initiative helps residents in Thurrock get a rapid response and assessment for their health and care needs.

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Hampshire County Council Sensory and Deaf Services: embracing change [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2013 - Publisher: Skills for Care

A comprehensive review of an early intervention service has led to streamlined referrals for service users and partnership working with audiology, ophthalmology and voluntary sector...

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Sutton Mental Health Foundation: peer support provides solutions [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 May 2013 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Peer support workers are people who have personal experience of mental distress and of using mental health services. They offer mutual support to anyone who feels that it may be helpful to talk...

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Mind in Taunton and West Somerset: holistic mental health care [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 May 2013 - Publisher: Skills for Care

The SUCH Project promotes well-being through complementary therapies to anyone suffering mental distress.

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Nutshell Communications: personalisation through play [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2013 - Publisher: Skills for Care

‘Whose Shoes? - Putting People First’ is a board game which promotes dialogue between a range of different people, encouraging them to see the world from others’ points of view and work together...

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Housing 21: meeting a growing need [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2013 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Housing 21 worked with the End of Life Care Programme to produce a learning resource pack. It has practical information and advice for managers and support staff working in extra care housing...

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Gateshead and South Tyneside Sight Service: adapting end of life care materials [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2013 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Sight Service tested how end of life care workforce materials could be used to improve care delivery for people with sensory difficulties.

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Nottingham City Council, JackDawe Service: integrating health and social care [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 May 2013 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Taking an open approach to partnership working delivers high quality home care for people with dementia.

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Bracknell Forest Borough Council: home first policy saves money [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 May 2013 - Publisher: Skills for Care

A dedicated community team delivers a person-centred, cost-saving service, but they don’t work in isolation. Partnerships with other professionals, training for providers and carers, along with...

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Supporting people through transforming care: hear from Joe [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 March 2018 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Transforming care is all about improving services so that more people with learning disabilities and/or autism access the right support in their local community. Joe’s just one of the people who’s...

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Recruitment breakthrough at Roselands Residential Home [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 October 2019 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Roselands Residential Home were experiencing a very low number of applicants to their recruitment adverts. This was despite there being over 400 advert views on the job website, which only...

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The Good Care Group: learning from leavers to improve retention [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 July 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Learning from leavers to improve staff retention.

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Agincare: learning from and safeguarding against elder financial abuse [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 July 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Agincare provide care and support through domiciliary care, live-in care, care homes and home cuisine services across England. They support people with a range of conditions including Alzheimer’s, ...

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Arts for Health Cornwall. Home Service Development Day: St Johns Hospital and Almhouse [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 February 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

The Home service 3 year programme will collaborate with other major arts organisations and residential care providers. The project will explore how high quality creative arts can engage, invigorate...

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Hertfordshire Care Providers Association Ltd: raising their game – activities culture, qualifications and technology improve people's health and wellbeing [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

An innovative project brings together three related programmes, culture change, training and touch screen technology to improve activities provision in numerous care settings across the...

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Association for Real Change: peer professional supervision [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

This project was designed to provide a framework for peer supervision for registered managers. It delivered training to participants in facilitating groups, guided reflective practice and supported...

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Staffordshire County Council, Care Market Development Team: working with dignity [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 February 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Staffordshire County Council aimed to develop and deliver two training courses (an e-learning course and a one-day workshop combined with distance learning) to promote the idea of ‘working with...

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Home Instead Senior Care: informatics [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 February 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Home Instead Senior Care is a domiciliary care company with 160 franchises. The National Office provides support to all the franchises delivering a range of services including information...

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Tameside Training Consortium: activities that promote mental health well-being in the care sector [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

This training combined core knowledge about dementia with three specially designed courses that gave carers the tools and qualifications to provide a range of activities for people with dementia.

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Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth (SHIP): recruiting personal assistants: model and guidance [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 30 August 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

The SHIP TCP worked with the University of Portsmouth and the University of Southampton to promote the personal assistant (PA) role to students and increase the number of PAs in...

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Woodford Homecare & Support Services: resilience training strengthens leaadership skills [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 15 February 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Leaders and managers working in domiciliary care can learn how to be a “walking, talking example of how to deal really well with people”, according to the project leader of this programme...

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My Life: pathways to employment: expanding the reach through Train the Trainer sessions [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 30 August 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

My Life Legacy developed the Pathways to Employment (P2E) model to support more people into the PA role. It invites potential PAs to attend five sessions to explore more about the role, the values...

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The Lifeways Group and Jeremy: positive behaviour support [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 June 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Positive behaviour support: Supporting Jeremy through the PBS-A fund 2016-17. The Lifeways Group used the fund to train staff who support Jeremy, who has a severe learning disability, Downs...

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Sutton Homes of Care vanguard programme [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 08 September 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Sutton Homes of Care vanguard programme has designed and developed a wide range of resources to enhance the training and skills of our care staff to deliver better and safer care in...

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The Lifeways Group and Keith: positive behaviour support [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 June 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Positive behaviour support: Supporting Keith through the PBS-A fund 2016-17. The Lifeways Group used the fund to train staff who support Keith, who has a learning disability, complex autism and...

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Extra Hands: using I Care...Ambassadors to motivate staff and improve their company reputation [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Through I Care…Ambassadors, Extra Hands has developed the skills and motivation of their existing staff, and improved the reputation of their organisation and the sector.

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The Good Care Group: a project looking at resilience within care workers has resulted in positive outcomes [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

The Good Care Group did some research to determine he skills of their highest-performing care staff. Results showed they scored highly in areas of tenacity, resolve, self-discipline and emotional...

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West Sussex County Council (WSCC): supporting transgender employees in the work setting [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

An employee undergoing gender reassignment contacted HR to ask for advice for themselves and their line manager about how they should manage the process in the workplace and what support was...

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Wiltshire Council and Learn to Care: the role of the principal social worker in supporting the ASYE [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2015 - Publisher: Skills for Care

In Wiltshire we wanted to make sure we had robust systems in place to recruit NQSWs and to support them. For us, involving senior managers and people in specialist and strategic positions was a...

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Adult Social Care, Learning & Development Team, Somerset County Council: newly qualified framework for social workers and occupational therapists [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Based on ASYE guidance, we wanted to offer a consistent pattern of supervision and support for all Newly Qualified (NQ) staff. We wanted to foster a learning culture within the organisation...

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Alcove and East Thames Group: using the Internet-of-Things to revolutionise care and support [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 November 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Alcove and East Thames worked together to improve service delivery; provide digital inclusion for residents; digitally upskill support workers; improve management oversight; engage families and...

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Disability Sheffield. Let's talk about restraints (Phase 2): working together to share knowledge and increase understanding of issues relating to restraint within the disability community [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Disability Sheffield wanted to produce and embed guidance – designed, developed and delivered by individual employers and personal assistants – seeking to minimise the use of restrictive practices...

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The Orchard Trust: moments of rewarding engagement (M.O.R.E.) E-project [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 February 2015 - Publisher: Skills for Care

The aim of the project was to enable staff at any level to understand the importance of engaging in a meaningful way with the people they provide care and support to - and how fundamental a...

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Disability Sheffield: A.A.T.A.C (Autism Awareness Training and Carers) [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2015 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Recently we have moved into the area of employment support. With funding from the Workforce Development Innovation Fund, we were able to develop a training programme for people with autism, that...

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Norfolk County Council and Norfolk Community Health and Care: future managers programme [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

This programme was developed to enable employees with the right skills, mind set, behaviours and ambition, to become the next generation of managers, operating across a range of teams in health...

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St Wilfrid's Hospice, Chichester and St Barnabas' Hospice, Worthing: summer school for 16-19 year olds [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2015 - Publisher: Skills for Care

This recruitment related initiative offered summer schools to provide an insight into working in a hospice. Feedback found them to be a positive experience for both the students and the hospice as...

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Dudley Centre for Inclusive Living: becoming an individual employer or personal assistant [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

We designed and developed four courses for people who are, or who are interested in becoming individual employers or personal assistants – understanding your rights and responsibilities and how to...

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ProACT and Autism Inclusive: adults with autism supported employment project [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

The objective of this project was to enable adults with autism to live independent, fulfilling and rewarding lives through active participation in employment.

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Shropshire Partners in Care / Care Workforce Development Partnership: IT in Adult Social Care across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 June 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

This care workforce partnership worked with small-to-medium adult social care providers to pilot use of the NHS’s secure mail service to communicate with hospitals and Skype video consultation with...

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Partners in Care (Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole): 33 activity coordinators qualified with a Level 2 Award [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Leisure activities are enormously beneficial to people’s health and well-being. We worked with a training provider to develop a course leading to qualification in Supporting Activity Provision...

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Liverpool Personal Service Society: the real value of consultation [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

This project developed a ‘creative cafe’ consultation to find out what people with learning disabilities really want in a personal assistant - the surprising answer changed their approach to...

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Dignity in Dementia: dementia emergency app for 999 responders, neighbours and family carers [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 November 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Dignity in Dementia identified the need for a quick guide for emergency services, community members and relatives – who are often the first responders when a person with dementia is disoriented, ...

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Richmond Users Independent Living Scheme (RUILS): personal assistant network and conference [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

RUILS set up a network for personal assistants (PAs) which offered monthly training, as well as a PA-focussed conference.

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Spare Tyre: once upon a time programme [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Spare Tyre developed and delivered a multi-sensory interactive storytelling project for care home residents with late stage dementia which also served as a development activity for residential care...

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Community Navigator Services CIC. Refocus: fresh perspectives on personalisation [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 November 2016 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Personalisation is described by the Department of Health as meaning every person who receives support, whether provided by statutory services or funded by themselves, will have choice and control...

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Suffolk County Council and Sue Ryder: Community Learning Hubs [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 June 2017 - Publisher: Skills for Care

Sue Ryder was running a network of cafes in towns across the county, providing a combination of peer support, information and activities for people with dementia, and their families and...

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Staffordshire County Council and CareMatch: Life Story Books [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

This project offered training courses: activity coordinators and Presentation Course. CareMatch have worked with the Adult and Community Learning Team within Staffordshire County Council to look at...

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National Activity Providers Association (NAPA): supporting activity provision in social care [PDF]

Remove: Skills for Care source - 01 January 2014 - Publisher: Skills for Care

The National Association for Providers of Activities (NAPA), a national charity and membership organisation, developed a training programme to deliver the Level 2 qualification for activity...

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