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CARE HOME CONFERENCE,
EXHIBITION AND AWARDS 2022
FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2022
We are pleased to announce that our annual Care Home Conference, Exhibition and Awards will return this year on Friday 18 November 2022. These events will take place in-person at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow (1 William Street, G3 8HT).
Please get this date in your diary and share with your colleagues.
More details to follow.
SCOTTISH CARE REQUIRES A CARE TECHNOLOGIST
Do you have a passion for working with people and an enthusiasm for technology? Are you excited by the opportunity for technology to provide meaningful and personalised support? Do you consider it important to use technology within a human rights and ethical framework? Are you excited to learn about new technology and digital solutions, and confident that you could apply these in practice? Then this may be a great role for you.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Scottish Care for a Care Technologist to join the Scottish Care team. The posts available is for 0.4FTE, 2 days/week. The post holder will be hosted by Specialist Resource Solutions in Aberdeen City and employed by Scottish Care. This post is for a fixed period of 11 months and is remunerated at £26,500 pro rata plus agreed expenses.
Scottish Care is funding this post as a result of funding from the Scottish Government Technology Enabled Care Programme.
Applicants should have qualifications and experience in health and social care and/or the technology and digital sector. Current knowledge of the social care sector in Scotland, and an ability to engage and innovate the positive use of technology to enable the delivery of a rights-based approach to support and care are desirable.
The Care Technologist role was conceived through work undertaken on the future of social care carried out with Glasgow School of Art School of Innovation and Design. The next phase of this project will involve working with homecare and care home service providers, people who access services and support, strategic designers, technology industry, academia, and wider stakeholders across health and social care. Some travel will be required to work in different service areas and geographical locations. The Care Technologist will work as part of a small team, with another Care Technologist role and the Care Technologist Lead. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of an innovative approach to delivering care and support services.
The post-holder will report to the Scottish Care Technology and Digital Innovation Lead, Nicola Cooper.
Application forms
An Application Form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form is available to download below and completed forms should be returned to [email protected] no later than 12 noon on Friday 15th July 2022.
For further information on the post please contact [email protected]
Interviews will be held virtually.
Our Annual Report for 2021 – 2022 was published at today’s AGM (16 June 2022)
We are pleased to share this Annual Report and encourage you to give it a read. This report reflects and evidences the work and efforts of the Scottish Care team over the past year, during what has been a challenging time for the social care sector.
This report is divided into two different sections:
The ‘Activities and Achievements‘ section provides a business overview of Scottish Care: our aim and objectives, strategic priorities, and additional workstreams. It also covers what we have achieved over the past year, outlining the activities of our strategic priorities and workstreams.
The ‘Finance and Governance‘ section gives detailed reporting of our financial performance and outlines our approach to overall governance via the Executive Committee and other representative groups.
You can access the two sections of the Annual Report using the buttons below.
Thank you and we hope you enjoy reading the report.
Scottish Care
Hawkhill House in Aberdeen recently celebrated Happy Carers Week, giving their carers a wonderful day of celebration and appreciation for all the hard work that they do. Graffiti wall were set up to show messages of thanks from residents and staff. Hawkhill would like to give a special thanks to their staff who helped in the event. The home cooked foods were amazing and home-baked sweets were delicious! Keep up the good work, Team Hawkhill!
We are hosting webinar with Brodies LLP Solicitors on ‘The Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry and the care sector‘ on Thursday 23 June at 2:00 pm.
Speakers at this webinar includes:
Brodies intend to give a short presentation which will cover:
Brodies will also touch upon their role in supporting Scottish Care’s engagement with the Inquiry in order to represent the wider interests of the sector. They are also happy to answer any questions that members may have.
Details to join this session are now available on the Members Area.
Scottish Care issues statement on the removal of funding to support infection prevention and control in social care
Scottish Care would like to raise concern that Scottish Government funding for infection prevention and control and PPE is being removed at a time when community rates of Covid-19 are back on the rise. The funding has to date been essential in supporting the sector and its workforce to continue providing safe, quality care and support to people living at home and in care homes across the country.
Over the last 2 years, we have seen social care staff and families working tirelessly to keep loved ones safe. The shift to remove this funding is at complete odds with what is happening on the ground, where we are seeing Covid-19 rates increase, and the necessity to continue to safely implement Scottish Government issued guidance which clearly recommends infection prevention control measures and PPE use remain in place alongside the successful vaccination programme.
The way that social care is paid for seems complicated, but in most cases, each year local authorities or Health and Social Care Partnerships set a rate for providers which is significantly cheaper than if the council were to deliver it themselves. Funding for this financial year does not cover the guidance outlining the new way of working, which has kept people safe from Covid-19 as this money had been coming from the Scottish Government. There is no capacity in the system to change this, leaving care providers wondering how they will be able to fill the funding gap. We have all felt the effects of this pandemic and for Ministers to remove funding with 2 weeks’ notice is short-sighted and potentially dangerous to those who work in and access care and support.
Last Friday (2 June 2022), the staff at Suncourt House in Troon held Jubilee celebrations for residents in the home gardens.
Families, friends, staff and their families joined in the fun. All were treated to fabulous food and stunning cakes throughout the afternoon.
A right Royal surprise took place when the ‘queen’ arrived to greet everyone and honour a very special lady, Rhona Gibson – Suncourt Home Manager. Rhona has been awarded the British Empire Medal and will appear on this years honours list, for all the dedicated work carried out for charity.
The day was thoroughly enjoyed by all, made all the better with the sun shining and a merry sing along with a guest singer.
Check out the party below!
Braeburn Home in Edinburgh celebrated the Platinum Jubilee in style! All residents had a great time, as they enjoyed a church service, concern, cream tea, and a big jubilee lunch!
Have a look at what Braeburn Home got up to in the image gallery below!
We are excited to share a fantastic and brand new benefit with all of our Scottish Care members which we think you will love!
First of all a few questions? Do you love live music? Do you love going to concerts? Would you like to go for FREE?
If the answer to any of these questions is YES then we have the best new benefit for you to sign up for TODAY!
Concerts for Carers is an amazing charity that provides FREE tickets to carers across the country! All you have to do is register, pick the concert you want to go to, your name will be put in the digital “hat” and if you win, you get to go to the concert of your choice for FREE! The only cost to you is £4.50 for a booking fee and this all goes to fund this incredible charity and gives it the ability to offer this amazing benefit to carers everywhere!
So sign up today! And make sure to come along and meet Harry from Concerts for Carers on our webinar this Thursday 9 June at 2pm and ask him as many questions as you like!
Please register for this webinar in advance, details of which are available on the Members Area of this website.
Register for Concerts for Carer on: https://www.concertsforcarers.org.uk/register/
Concerts for Carers (Scotland)
We are excited to share a fantastic and brand new benefit with all of our Scottish Care members which we think you will love!
First of all a few questions? Do you love live music? Do you love going to concerts? Would you like to go for FREE?
If the answer to any of these questions is YES then we have the best new benefit for you to sign up for TODAY!
Concerts for Carers is an amazing charity that provides FREE tickets to carers across the country! All you have to do is register, pick the concert you want to go to, your name will be put in the digital “hat” and if you win, you get to go to the concert of your choice for FREE! The only cost to you is £4.50 for a booking fee and this all goes to fund this incredible charity and gives it the ability to offer this amazing benefit to carers everywhere!
We have an exclusive update for members that Concerts for Carers has just received a large allocation of tickets to the Big Top Edinburgh Series which kicks off this Saturday at Royal Highland Centre. Featuring Madness, 50 Cent, Fatboy Slim and more! The events will be up on the website shortly.You can find out more about Concerts for Carers via the flyer below.
We also recently hosted a webinar with Concerts for Carers and we were delighted to be joined by Harry Gywnne, Events & Marketing Executive, who spoke to members on how Concerts for Carers work and how they can register. The recording of this webinar is now available to view.
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