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Job Opportunity – Technology and Digital Innovation Lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a self-motivating individual with excellent interpersonal skills and experience of establishing and managing an innovative technology-based project/workplan to join Scottish Care.

We are looking for a ‘Technology and Digital Innovation Lead’ to join our team for an initial fixed term period to 1st March 2021. This is a new post funded by the Technology Enabled Care project of the Scottish Government to promote and embed the positive, rights-based use of technology and digital in the independent care sector and to further develop the contribution of that sector to wider technology and digital innovation within social care in Scotland. Homeworking is preferred in this job post.

If you wish to apply, please read the Information for Applicants below. Then please send a completed Application Form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form to Laura Bennie, Office Manager, Scottish Care, 25 Barns Street, Ayr, KA7 1XB or preferably by email to [email protected] no later than 12 noon on Friday 17 January 2020. These forms can be downloaded below.

Please do not send us a Curriculum Vitae instead of a completed Application Form as it will not be considered. This is to ensure that all applications can be assessed equally.

Interviews will be held on Friday 31 January 2020 in Glasgow.

INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS - TECH DIGITAL LEAD

 

Download Information for Applicants
Download Application Form
Download Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form
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Save the Date – Conference & Awards 2020

We are pleased to announce that dates and venue for next year’s conference and awards have now been finalised – please put these dates in your diary as they promise to be great events.

National Care at Home and Housing Support Conference & Awards

Friday 22 May 2020

Radisson Blu, Glasgow

National Care Home Conference & Awards

Friday 27 November 2020

Hilton Hotel, Glasgow

 

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Opportunity for nurses to join the Short Life Working Group

At the annual conference this year one of the Insight Sessions was on ‘Transforming Nursing Roles within Care Homes’ – one of the sub groups, chaired by Jacqui Neil (Scottish Care) and Derek Barron (Erskine) is looking at Nursing in Care Homes ‘Role, Scope of Practice and Competencies’.

The group is looking for an additional one or two nurses, to join the current nurses on the Short Life Working Group, to provide a frontline nursing perspective to the work.  If you are interested in joining the group and can make two or three meetings in the Glasgow area over the next three/four months please contact Kim McGibbon ([email protected]).

Thank you

Jacqui and Derek

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Marie Curie Briefing: Community settings to replace hospital as most common place to die by 2040?

Scottish Care welcomes the important research which has today been published by Marie Curie in association with the Universities of Edinburgh and Kings College, London.

Together with Marie Curie we call upon the Scottish Government and Integrated Joint Boards to give a much greater priority than they currently do to enable people to die where they want to end their lives – in their normal place of residence.

The report states that if current Scottish trends continue the need for end-of-life care will rise over the next 20 years, particularly in home and care home settings. It goes on to add that by 2040 community settings could account for two-thirds of all deaths. Scottish Care believes it is a fundamental human right that a citizen should be supported to die where they would want to.

However, we share the concern of the Report’s authors that the reduction in hospital deaths (even at a much slower rate than in England) is a ‘scenario [which] is very unlikely to happen, if community support and capacity is not radically increased.’

Providers in the independent care sector in Scotland know the reality of the loss of care homes and care home beds and the considerable impact of reduced real-terms funding for homecare organisations. At the very time that we are asking even greater skills from our care staff we are reducing their support and stripping out essential training and learning.

Dr Donald Macaskill, Scottish Care CEO commented:

“I warmly welcome this Report. It tells it as it is – namely that if we as Scots are to be supported to end our lives with dignity in the places of our choice, the place we call home, then we need to get much better at supporting our care homes and homecare organisations to be places of palliative care excellence. This simply cannot be done on a wish and a prayer. A good death does not just happen it is nurtured, supported and enabled. It is time for national and local Government to give our frontline carers the tools and resources to do the best they can. At the moment with care homes closing and homecare organisations going to the wall with weekly regularity that is simply not happening.”

Marie Curie Briefing - Where will people die in Scotland in 2040

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TV licensing in care homes

I had a recent enquiry regards TV licences and contacted TV Licence on 0300 790 6011 and checked the website and summary as below:

The Care Home is responsible for purchasing the one communal room full fee regardless of how many sitting rooms there are – this is one overall cost.

Each bedroom or living space resided by the service user that has a TV must have an ARC Concessionary TV Licence at a cost of £7.50, therefore each of your service users must have one if they have a TV. This is paid online: https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one

HOWEVER, this applies if they watch the TV.  It could be they watch DVD’s through the TV or they listen to Free-view radio stations so that does not apply, but only if watching the TV.

Kind regards

 

Swaran Rakhra

Membership Support Manager

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Biennial Global Ageing Conference: Scotland 2023

Scottish Care is absolutely delighted to announce that we have been selected by the Global Ageing Network to host the Biennial Global Ageing Conference in Scotland in the autumn of 2023.

Following conferences in London, Montreux, Toronto and Seoul in 2021 we are honoured that the decision has been taken to allow Scotland to host this event which will be run by Scottish Care in association with the National Care Forum from England and Wales.

The event will bring together several hundred international delegates and leaders in ageing services, housing, research, technology and design.

GAN seeks to bring together experts from around the world, lead education initiatives and provide a place for innovative ideas in older person care and support to be born. They seek to improve best practices in aged care so that older people everywhere can live healthier, stronger, more independent lives.

Over the next two years an organising committee will be working hard to ensure this event is a success and we will keep you updated as we make progress.

Dr Donald Macaskill, Scottish Care CEO said:

“We are absolutely delighted in the trust placed in our team in Scotland by GAN. We look forward to inviting guests from across the world by offering not only Scottish hospitality, but we hope and inspiring event which showcases the best of dignified, rights-based care and support for the older citizens of our world.”

Katie Smith Sloan, Executive Director, Global Ageing Network and President & CEO, LeadingAge said:

“The Global Ageing Network is thrilled to be joining Scottish Care in 2023 for a joint conference, bringing aged care leaders from around the world together to share innovations, challenges and ideas. Our common mission is to ensure the highest quality of care, services and life for older adults, wherever they live. I look forward to all we will learn together.”

For any further details please contact Scottish Care at [email protected]

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Infection Prevention Webinar – 13 December

Sarah Freeman from NHS Education for Scotland (NES) will be hosting the next Scottish Care Webinar. In this session, Sarah will discuss the topic of preventing and controlling infection in care home and care at home/housing support settings. 

This will be held on Friday 13 December at 11:00 am. 

Details to join this webinar will be available in the Members Section of this website.

If you require any support to participate, please email [email protected]

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NES: Care Home Train the Trainer Workshop

Registration – Cohort 8 of the Care Home Train the Trainer Workshop – 25th February and 3rd March 2020

Registration is now open for Cohort 8 of the Care Home Train the Trainer Workshop which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 25th February and Tuesday 3rd March 2020 at the Scottish Health Service Centre, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh, EH4 2LF. This programme is organised by NHS Education for Scotland.

The trainer programme covers:

  • Infection prevention and control education focussing on the Standard Infection Control Precautions and Transmission Based Precautions
  • Specific infections in care homes, outbreak management and blood borne viruses
  • Understanding impact of human factors, quality improvement in practice and translating learning into practice
  • Learning from previous cohort’s experience of the training and how this has been applied locally in practice

Please register through the following link on the flyer: https://response.questback.com/nhseducationforscotland/trainthetrainercohort8

The closing date to register is Monday, 13th January 2020.

Train the trainer
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New Human Rights report launched by Scottish Care

Human Rights Day is celebrated annually on December 10, commemorating the day when the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

Scottish Care are delighted to share our newest report – written by our CEO, Dr Donald Macaskill – on Human Rights Day 2019. This piece is titled ‘The Human Right to Social Care: A Potential for Scotland’ – focusing on the ‘right to health’ in relation to social care and long-term care, and how it can impact social care practice.

You can view the report below.

The Human Right to Social Care
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Movie Memories: Dementia friendly movie screenings

Movie Memories is a monthly programme funded by Life Changes Trust and ran by the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). This programme presents classic and contemporary film screenings alongside a programme of multi-arts entertainment.

This programme is designed especially for people affected by dementia. This encompasses people living with a type of dementia and their carers, friends and family.

With dementia aware staff and volunteers (Movie Memories Ambassadors) a safe and social environment is created where everyone is welcome.

Why is this programme important?

A new case of dementia is diagnosed somewhere in the world every four seconds. This is something we can’t ignore, particularly as 34% of the 850,000 people currently living with dementia in the UK don’t feel part of their community, 61% felt anxious or depressed recently and 40% felt lonely. (Data from Alzheimer’s Society).

Calamity Jane Singalong

The next event takes place on Thursday 23 January 2020 at 11:00 am where there will be a Calamity Jane Singalong. Tickets are priced at £3.00 and includes free refreshments and an interval with live music. For more information see: https://glasgowfilm.org/shows/movie-memories-calamity-jane-sing-along-u

Dementia Friendly eNewsletter

You can also sign up to the monthly Dementia Friendly eNewsletter to be the first to hear news and updates about dementia friendly events at the Glasgow Film Theatre: https://glasgowfilm.org/enewsletters