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Learning and Development
Partnership Newsletter
Karen Pirks- Partnership Officer
www.westsussexcpd.co.uk [email protected] 2017
Dear Colleague,
We had a great response to the Fire Safety Workshops in September in Worthing and in Crawley. There were delegates present from various types of services, and the overall feeling was that it was well received. Tania
Carter from the WSCC Care and Business Support Team, Al Evans, Simon Foster (WSCC Fire Service) and myself will be meeting to look through the completed evaluation of the events and perhaps share with you the key points raised.
On Wednesday we organised and facilitated the Clinical Skills Workshop in Worthing. Supported by our NHS Partners who delivered the training we provided a great opportunity to support the care sector with basic awareness which will ultimately ensure safer and better practice for those in our care in West Sussex. The comments received included the following:
“I have been to many learning days. This is by far the best, great personalities imparting the information in such a way that concentration did not wain, audience interaction too.”
“I found this a thoroughly enjoyable workshop. Vanessa was extremely engaging and all the speakers spoke with great knowledge and passion in their area. Please hold more of these workshops so we can spread the word.”
“Excellent venue, brilliant personalities, fun learning, excellent aids, so Informative.”
Developing these valued partnerships, has taken time and has been well worth the effort. I personally have been able to have frank discussions with and our colleagues in the NHS. They are extremely keen to work collaboratively with us to provider future training across West Sussex, in addition to what we provide already.
We are having conversations about providing clinical support in areas such as oral health care, podiatry, tissue viability, oxygen therapy, peg feeding, mental health conditions.
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Dr Anusree Biswas Sasidharan from the Safeguarding Adults Board, attended the event and stated that:
“I think this was pitched just right and provided a manageable amount of information (I learnt a
lot myself). I feel if this could be embedded and invested into more in the interest of common sense integration of health and social care it takes us on the road to further preventing abuse and neglect…..”
So yes there will be more to follow. The next Clinical Skills Workshop is planned for 21st of March 2018 in Horsham, so check out the Gateway for more details, and watch this space for other clinical awareness type workshops.
Whilst we are on the subject of Safeguarding, there is no excuse for not knowing what Safeguarding means. On our Gateway we have on line learning , which can provide any member of your team with a basic underpinning knowledge and useful for catering staff, housekeepers, and receptionists and admin team. Also any volunteers coming into your service would benefit from these on line courses. Coming up later this month for our own WSCC services:
It is useful to have “Safeguarding” on the agenda at your team meetings, this can give staff an opportunity to discuss themes and time to reflect on what good practice looks like in your service.
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Safeguarding Awareness Week is 27th of November to the 31st of November 2017. A great opportunity to review what you have in place and celebrate the good practice that lead to safe care of the people you support in your service.
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Wherever they may be cake, there will be the Care and Business Support Team. Fran, Debbie and Tania are promoting this great safeguarding awareness week, which runs from the 27th of November to the 31st of November. Below are some
ideas as to how you can support this event within your service.
The idea is truly scrumptious…..
Safeguarding Week
27th-31st November, 2017
I pledge to….
Hearts and Tarts
Come along to make a person centred safeguarding pledge. [Free Cake and tarts available].
Date: Time: Where:
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Safeguarding Week 27th-31st NovemberIdea to raise awareness
In raising awareness for Safeguarding Week and in general, an idea could be to bake tarts/cakes to give away in exchange for people writing on a post-it note, their commitment to make safeguarding personal. This would demonstrate how they will continue to help people to feel safe by stating their pledge as follows:
‘I pledge to help people to feel safe by…..’
All of the pledges that are made could then be collated and displayed.These could be displayed as a poster or a charter or whatever would highlight people’s commitment to support people to feel safe.
To promote awareness alongside this action, a variety of safeguarding leaflets and information could be made available for people to review and take-away.
You will need: Post-it notes, pens, display board, safeguarding literature/info (tarts’ cakes, sweets are optional!).
End of Life Learning and Development: we have some excellent hospices in West Sussex who offer some great workshops and in some cases FREE.
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I pledge to help people feel safe by…
Your team/care home name here
Click on the links for their training programmes that you may be able to access:
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PUBLIC HEALTH/ INFECTION CONTROL
Lead Infection Prevention & Control Champions Programme.
Residential Care and Domiciliary Care
This programme is aimed at the person ‘responsible’ for the infection prevention and control standards within your residential care/domiciliary care organisations. The role will support your organisation with the continued delivery of this important standard and help to reduce avoidable infections and improve outcomes.
The course will give delegates the knowledge and skills to disseminate, educate, audit and support your organisation in the delivery of infection prevention and control standards. Key infection control topics will be covered and at the end of the training, delegates will feel empowered to educate and implement any changes within the workplace.
Following the training day, the champions will be invited to attend bi annual meetings, and speakers from across the health economy will be invited to cover relevant, topical, topics. Group discussion will also be encouraged to discuss issues and resolutions within the role which will form a network of champions to support each other within their roles.
Dates and Venues
This is a FREE 1 day training programme and will be offered across West Sussex at the venues and dates below
23rd November 20179.30- 16.30
Clair Hall, Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath, RH16 3DN
18th January 20189.30 – 16.30
County Hall North, Park Street, HorshamRH12 1XH
15th March 20189.30 – 16.30
The Charmandean, Forest Road, Worthing, BN14 9HS
If you would like to send a delegate and find out more information the programme, details, and booking can be found on the Learning and Development Gateway at:
http://www.westsussexcpd.co.uk/cpd/default.asp?sid
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Your service should have received the following booklet from NHS England in October:
“Winter-readiness information for care homes in South East England”
For a copy if you haven’t seen it: WS2011 (B) order line: www.orderline.dh.gov.uk
Support for Managers:
WSCC support their managers in the Private, Voluntary and Independent (PVI) sectors in a variety of ways. Your WSCC contracts officer can guide you to when they are whether you provide a service in the domiciliary care
sector, or learning disability service, please contact your contracts team.
There are other forums available to managers to gain support, share good practice, and discuss issues. I have set up the various Managers Forums. Managers from domiciliary care services, registered care homes, learning disability homes, supported living, extra care housing.
Dates: Selsey Managers Forum December 14th from 12.30 till 14.30 -
special guest Jack Larkham talking about End of Life Care Hub (ECHO)
Bognor January 10th 2018 at WSCC Chestnuts Day Service Bognor (10-12) ECHO
Midhurst and Petworth January 17th 2018 at The Grange Library Midhurst (10-12) ECHO
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Future themes/ presentations will be from a variety of professionals and partners in your area, support from primary health care, mental health, DOCOBO (remote monitoring solutions), DOLS, Safeguarding, Continence Team and whatever you decide you would like to hear more about. Please contact me if you would like to attend one of the above forums:
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The Coastal West Sussex CCG have also developed the Local Community Networks (LCN’s) Bognor Regis Dr Louise Baverstock is running managers forums with more of a clinical edge to them – for more info and dates check:
https://www.coastalwestsussexccg.nhs.uk/care-homes-meetings
Integrated Response Team in Crawley provide support to managers of homes north of the County: Louise Steward, Team Lead, Integrated Response Team:
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, 4th Floor, Crawley HospitalWest Green Drive, Crawley, West Sussex. RH11 7DHTel : 07500128881e-mail: [email protected] e-mail [email protected] Tel: 01293 600300 ext 3094
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If you’d like to find out more information and increase your understanding, there are Parkinson’s Awareness courses available for you to book. To find out more and book a place on a local course, please follow the links below: Alternatively there is a great on line learning resource available:
https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/professionals/education-and-training/all?sort_by=title&term_node_tid_depth%5B%5D=10090&term_node_tid_depth_3%5B%5D=10201&text=&=Search
Boots Pharmacy can provide your staff with training in many formats and in a wide range of subject matter:Learning – an exclusive, valuable learning package for carers and nurses. Let’s help you manage your residents’ health needs.
https://www.boots.com/wcsstore/cmsassets/Boots/Library/Icon/Content%20/B2B/Care_Homes_Training_Brochure/
Care_Homes_Training_Brochure.pdf
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http://www.vaac.org.uk/training/
For other great training opportunities click on the embedded links below:
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FREE Academy Online Training Portal for Stoma Care
For information about training contact:
Active Care Forums
Championing activities, reminiscence and life story work for older people for more information click on the link below:
http://aliveactivities.org/alive/en/training/workshops/test-active-care-landing-page-/
We are currently offering a full range courses at no cost to your organisation. The funding for our courses has been secured through the
governments ‘Adult Education Budget’ and ‘European Social Fund’. This means that there are no hidden costs despite these qualifications costing in excess of £800 each. These courses are ideal for volunteers, people on pre-employment programmes and those wishing to personally develop.
The courses are undertaken in a flexible learning style meaning that the learners undertake the course in their own time with the continued support and guidance of their dedicated specialist tutor who they can contact at any time. They then take online assessments (or the assessment can be written and sent) to obtain their qualification and courses only take 6-10 weeks to complete.
All courses start with a short face to face session with a specially trained inductor which usually lasts no longer than 1.5 hours and familiarises learners with the learning materials and online learning platform. For this reason we require a minimum group of 8 to sign up learners to courses. As the induction covers the generic principles of the course learners
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starting different courses can be inducted together. We can start smaller groups of learners on a case by case basis. Your inductor will come to your premises or a place which is convenient to your groups to provide this session.
All our courses are quality assured as they are accredited to level 2 certificate (A*C GCSE equivalent) meaning that learners achieve a qualification in their chosen subject for their personal development. If a learner enjoys their course they are free to move straight onto another course as there is not limit on how many courses can be completed.
Please see our full list of courses attached and individual flyers for each course with further information on the units covered for specific course can be found on our website at the following address;
www.setas.org.uk/services/learning-and-skills/
These courses are funded for the purposes of personal development and so funding cannot be provided if the course relates directly to someone’s employment. For this reason every learner will be asked to sign a declaration confirming this at the beginning of their course.
To be eligible for a course the learner must be;
19 years or older
Be an EU citizen or have lived in the UK for the past 3 years
Not be undertaking a course related to their job
Please contact us for any further information
Telephone - 01403 458004
Email – [email protected]
Website – www.setas.org.uk
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As Partnership Officer and a representative for WSCC I share the information and refer to other training providers within the Newsletter with you in good faith. It is the responsibility of the recipient or organisation to check that the information,
event or training advertised meet your specific needs.
Thank you.
