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Extended Use of Face Mask Guidance Webinar – 1 September

The Scottish Government will soon be updating the extended use of face mask guidance within social care settings. To discuss the updated guidance, the Scottish Government would like to invite staff, managers and providers within the social care sector to attend a webinar, hosted by Scottish Care, on Thursday 1 September, 2:00 – 3:00 pm. Policy and clinical advisors look forward to answering any questions you may have about the guidance.

This session will also discuss changes to testing as well.

Please note that this webinar is open to the whole of the social care sector and not just Scottish Care members. This webinar will also be recorded and available after broadcast.

The details for joining the webinar are as follows:

Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84344629870?pwd=eE85R3k5VVZ2WXN0M0I3VmQzRDNRUT09

Meeting ID: 843 4462 9870

Passcode: 828169

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Global Ageing Conference 2023 – Call for Presentations

The 2023 Global Ageing Network Biennial Conference will be hosted in Glasgow, Scotland on 7 – 8 September 2023. This conference will be in partnership with Scottish Care and the National Care Forum – leading care and support provider associations in Scotland and England.

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

The Global Ageing Network 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.

The conference theme is ‘Care about Our Future: Global Symposium for Sustainable Care and Support’. We are currently inviting presentation submissions for this conference. We are seeking presentations that embrace a future perspective and feature thought leadership. Including innovative ideas, research, projects and/or programmes that address specific needs in supported housing, homecare, residential and nursing care and support, backed by professionally documented practical experience and/or research findings.

Find out more on: www.globalageing2023.com

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National Care Service Webinar – 24 August

We are hosting a National Care Service Bill engagement session next week on Wednesday 24 August 2022, 2:00 pm.

This session is open to all Scottish Care members and staff. Our Policy & Research Manager, Becca Young, will be presenting on the progress of the National Care Service Bill and the consultation process currently underway. There will also be time for discussion and to ask any questions. This is an opportunity to hear more about Scottish Care’s response to the Bill, and for your comments to help shape Scottish Care’s submission to the Stage 1 Calls for Views. We would greatly appreciate your attendance at this session. A briefing will be shared in advance but attendees are also encouraged where possible to familiarise themselves with the National Care Service Bill:

Please register your interest using the form available on the Members Area of this website.

Please note that this webinar will be in a Teams Meeting rather than the usual Zoom format. After registering, you will be sent the joining link a few days before the webinar.

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Scottish Care Awards Hints & Tips Webinar – 16 August

The Scottish Care Awards are the perfect opportunity to recognise and celebrate the best of the independent social care sector. We typically hold an Awards Ceremony for finalists and winners twice a year – Care at Home & Housing Support in May and Care Homes in November. Awards entries are open a few months before the Awards Ceremony.

If you don’t know where to start or need help filling out a nomination, don’t worry! We are holding a Scottish Care Awards Hints & Tips Webinar on Tuesday 16 August, 2:00 – 3:00 pm for all members to find out more about how to submit a successful awards entry!

Our Deputy CEO, Karen Hedge, will be going through the application and the judging process. We are also hoping to be joined by some successful awards applicants to talk about their experiences and how winning the Scottish Care Awards has impacted them.

This is your chance to come along to ask questions and get all the hints and tips to being successful in the awards. Don’t miss out and join us for this webinar session!

Entries for the Care Home Awards are currently open until 5:00 pm, Monday 5 September, so if you are considering entering, come along to this webinar to get all the information you need! Find out more about the Care Home Awards here.

Details to join the webinar session will be available in the Members Area.

If you have any questions about the Awards, please get in touch with us at [email protected].

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Serial Prescribing in Care Homes

Residents who live in care home settings are now eligible to register with a community pharmacy and participate within the new Medicines: Care and Review (MCR) service. MCR has three key elements – medication review, provision of pharmaceutical care and serial prescribing. The service is well embedded into daily practice for people who do not live in a care home setting, however, it is a new concept for care homes and required feasibility testing to help support potential change in medication management processes.

Five health boards have been participating in a pilot to test the application of serial prescriptions (SRx) in a care home.  The pilot has successfully demonstrated that SRx can be used within care home settings and has provided improvements in communication between the care home, the GP practice team and community pharmacy. In addition, it has also resulted in reduced interim prescription requests and a reduction in unnecessary pharmaceutical waste/drug returns.

A SRx is a prescription that may be supplied to people who have a long-term condition(s) and will remain valid for up to 56 weeks, with items dispensed in accordance with a dispensing frequency defined by the prescriber. The main differences between a repeat prescription and a SRx are that the person does not need to reorder a prescription each time an item is required. This brings a fundamental change to how prescriptions are managed within the care home for residents with stable medication regimes for long term conditions.

SRx is supported by electronic messaging (ePharmacy system) between general practice and the community pharmacy. GPs will receive notification on the next working day after an item is dispensed; this notification will update the GP patient record as well as the patient’s Emergency Care Summary (ECS).

As SRx is underpinned by the ePharmacy system, it is important that if a care home is considering using an electronic MAR system in its service, the new eMAR should be compliant with the Scottish ePharmacy processes.   Each health board has an ePharmacy facilitator who can offer advice if needed.

The national project team is now working to expand the pilot to other health boards in a controlled and supported manner as we continue to test in new scenarios whilst aiming to achieve the same positive results and gather real time intelligence that will be shared to support the wider network as this programme rolls out.    We look forward to your support in this process to improve the medicine system for the benefit of residents and staff.

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2022 Care Home Awards – Open for entries!

We’re delighted to announce that the 2022 Care Home Awards are now open for entries!

Scottish Care would like to invite you to enter your company, staff and residents for this year’s awards. Please help us recognise the work of fantastic staff and providers whilst also giving positive visibility to this often neglected sector.

There are 13 award categories, including:

  • Ancillary & Support Staff Award
  • Nutrition & Eating Well Award
  • Meaningful Activity Award
  • Training, Learning & Staff Development Award
  • Emerging Talent Award
  • Outstanding Achievement Award
  • Leadership Award
  • Palliative & End of Life Care Practise Award
  • Nurse of the Year Award
  • Care Worker of the Year Award
  • Specialist Service/ Unit of the Year Award
  • Care Home Service of the Year Award
  • Positive Impact Award

Find out more about the awards and submit your nomination here.

Award entries close on Monday 5 September 2022, 5:00 pm.

The award ceremony will be held on the evening of Friday 18 November at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow. More details to follow.

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Summer Bulletin 2022

This year’s Summer bulletin has now been published online and is available to view.

We will not be sending out physical copies of the Bulletin due to Covid-19, this edition is in a digital format instead.

We are in the process of redesigning our quarterly Bulletins. If you have any feedback or ideas of what you’d like to see in the Bulletin, please get in touch at [email protected].

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Job Opportunity – Independent Sector Lead: Glasgow

INDEPENDENT SECTOR LEAD – Glasgow

PARTNERS FOR INTEGRATION 

SCOTTISH CARE 

 Health and Social Care Integration  

 £45,829 per annum – 21 hours per week pro rata

Fixed term contract funded for one year – in process of securing a further 2 years funding (3 year post) 

Do you have an interest in improving the quality of care, can you COLLABORATE, INNOVATE AND COMMUNICATE, and would you like to join a successful, committed and highly motivated team? This could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

We are seeking to engage an Independent Sector Lead to support the Integration of Health and Social Care in Glasgow.  Hosted by Scottish Care and working closely with care providers and partners, the post involves ensuring sector involvement in the delivery of the integrating of health and social care in Scotland’s HSCPs.

The post holder must be highly motivated, be able to use initiative, possess excellent communication and networking skills, demonstrate success and experience working at strategic level with policy makers, providers, regulators, people supported by services and carers. Qualifications and experience at a senior management level would be a significant advantage.

The post holder will be expected to create and support significant collaborations across the independent care sector while contributing to the development of new care pathways which will result in the delivery of improved outcomes for people who access care and support. The post holder will ensure the Independent Sector’s contribution is fundamental to integrated services and transformational change and be able to evidence their impact. The role requires considerable and skilful collaboration with our key partners in the NHS, Local Authority, Carers, third sector organisations and other forums.

Glasgow is a progressive partnership and invests heavily in this post and the Independent Sector.

The post is home based with travel, where necessary, and is hosted by Scottish Care.

To request an application pack, please contact Tracy Doyle at Scottish Care by email [email protected] or to discuss this post please contact Janice Cameron by email [email protected]

Closing date 12pm on Monday 22nd August 2022.  Interviews will be held by video conference – week commencing Monday 5th September 2022 (date(s) to be confirmed). 

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Workshop invitation and survey – using algorithmic and AI tools in health and social care

The growing use of algorithms and AI tools to support delivery of care – for example, risk assessment tools, monitoring tools, and tools to support capacity management –  has implications for learning and workforce development at all levels. Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Strategy sets out an objective to “equip our staff with the ability to understand and interrogate data-driven recommendations and decision support tools, including those powered by Artificial Intelligence.”

DHI Scotland and NHS Scotland are now offering two opportunities for you to contribute your perspective on these learning and workforce development needs. They would really appreciate hearing your views by:

  1. Completing this short (10-15 minutes) Questionnaire survey
  2. Joining the virtual workshop “Using AI and algorithms with confidence”  11.00 am – 1.00 pm on 23rd August.  This workshop brings together leaders in the field to share their expertise and insights. It is a great opportunity to learn from experts in the field and to contribute your perspective on developing the workforce to realise the full benefits of these tools. The workshop programme is available below and you can register here using this booking form.
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Advancing Care Home Practice Funding Opportunity

Funding opportunity – for managers of care homes, lead nurses in care homes, (open to nurses, AHPs and managers working in care homes).

Scottish Government have agreed to fund 5 places for the Advancing Care Practice Post Graduate Certificate. We are really keen to seek applications for this funding to undertake the course with Queen Margaret University.

If you are interested in applying for the course and would like to be considered for one of the funded places, please note your interest via email to [email protected] by Monday 8 August.

For information

Advancing Care Home Practice flyer July 2022

 

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