The Care Home EGM will be held on Wednesday 2nd November at 11:00am in the Renfield Centre, Bath Street, Glasgow.
If you haven’t already confirmed your attendance can you please let us know by close of play on 31st October if you will be attending.
The agenda and National Care Home Contract briefing paper are available to members by contacting Scottish Care on 01292 270240 or emailing [email protected]
The finalists have now been shortlisted by our judges for the 2016 Scottish Care Care Awards. Congratulations to everyone shortlisted.
The winners will be announced at our awards ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow on Friday 18th November.
For more information contact Scottish Care 01292 270240.
Scottish Care – Care Awards 2016 Finalists
Ancillary & Support Staff Award
Alex Ross Quayside Care Home BUPA
Ella Douglas Fairview Care Home HC-One
Stephen McGrath Southview Care Home Thistle
Nutrition & Eating Well Award
Bev Woodman, Allan Dickson & Kelly Atkinson Annan Court Care Home Advinia Care
Mosswood Care Home Pacific Care
Catering Team at Rubislaw Park Care Home
Meaningful Activity Award
Mandy Kennedy Carlingwark House Community Integrated Care
Jackie Ross Innis Mhor Care Home Parklands
Activities Team (Callum O’Donnell & Kari Hartmann) Camilla House Embrace
Training & Staff Development Award
Linda Matheson, Nisha Sujeewon, Jill Scoular Southview Care Home Thistle
Wendy Adams St Modans Care Home Meallmore
Balhousie Care Group
Innovative Practice
Quality Improvement Project Team Southview Care Home Thistle
Wheatlands Care Home Balhousie
Carlingwark House Community Integrated Care
Volunteer Award
Mary Macmillan Bankview Care Home Holmes Group
Tom Miller Morningside Care Home
Elaine Till Birdston Care Home Pacific Care
Care Home Resident Achievement
Peter Smyth Three Towns Care Home Holmes Care Group
Patrick McGonnigal Greencross Care Home Thistle
Jim Duffy Fullarton Service Loretto Care
Manager/Leader Award
Marshall McDowall Fullarton Service Loretto Care
Shirley McTeir Carlingwark House Community Integrated Care
Angela Martin Whitefield Lodge Care Home Four Seasons Healthcare
Nurse of the Year
Angela Baird Forth Bay Care Home Caring Homes
Agata Czerwonka Rosepark Care Home Balmer Care Homes
Martin Masterson Fleming House, Darnley Court Care Home BUPA
Freda Clark Northlands Care Home
Carer of the Year
Jennifer Marshall Marchmont Care Home
Mary-Jane Ross Northlands Care Home
Sarah Taylor Rubislaw Park Care Home
Gemma Schiller Annan Court Advinia Care
Specialist Service/Unit Award
Marchglen Care Home Caring Homes
Interim Unit, Darnley Court BUPA
Murdoch Unit Silverburn Care
Care Home Service of the Year
Northlands Care Home
Auchtermairnie Care Home Fairfield Care Scotland
Deeside Care Home
Building on the work of the Technology Enabled Care (TEC) programme, funding of up to £15,000 is being offered for around 6 technology enabled care Tests of Change. This offer is open to any NHS Board, Integration Authority, Housing, Independent or Third Sector organisation and is intended, primarily, as a support to inform local or organisational planning and commissioning activity.
The aim of any application must align with the overarching TEC programme aim which is to support more citizens to make greater use of technology to manage their own health and wellbeing at home and in the community. A test of change should seek to demonstrate measurable improvement in outcomes either directly to individuals or indirectly through improved service delivery processes.
For more information, please read the letter of invitation.
To apply, you must complete a Test of Change Planning template and table (contained in the above letter of invitation).
These must be submitted to NSS.TEC @nhs.net by the 11th November 2016
Activity and Falls (Care Inspectorate)
This workshop will offer a chance to hear about current resources available to promote activity and manage falls and fractures as well as hearing about examples of good practice from areas around Scotland.
There will also be the opportunity to share what works well in your care setting and how you support people to live well and stay active. It will be relaxed. interactive and give you ideas to action.
Sign up HERE to show your organisation supports Human Rights with Scottish Care.
Scottish Care is responsible for producing evidence, reports and support for Human Rights within social care.
Scottish Care produced the Convention on The Rights of Residents in Care Homes for Adults and Older People as well as the Convention on The Rights of Adults and Older People Receiving Care at Home or Housing Support.
We developed both of these Conventions together with the people whose rights they are designed to protect and promote. We have their assurance that the articles collectively express the basic and minimum rights that individuals should expect to achieve.
For us at Scottish Care, this means that, if resourced, supported and embedded these Conventions can go a long way to improving the quality of life for adults and older people receiving care services.
In terms of who can endorse the Convention- everyone and anyone who works in health and social care can sign up.
In doing so, you are not only accepting the terms of the Convention but committing, as much as you can, to embed them in practice. You are showing your support for care that protects and promotes human rights. This means care that guarantees dignity and worth; that promotes autonomy, equality and participation and assures freedom from discrimination.
There’s no regulation behind it- and that is where these differ from the new National Care Standards. We see these Conventions as complimentary to the current national agenda and a way to help shape practice towards a human rights based approach.
If you are operating in a Care Home setting please click here.
If you are delivering Care at Home or Housing Support services please click here.
After signing up, your name will be displayed by Scottish Care on our website as one of our partners who have committed to providing care which respects and promotes human rights. If you provide an email address, you will also be sent a certificate electronically which you can print and display proudly.
Fitness to Practise (SSSC)
The SSSC are one of our partner organisations who will be holding an interactive session at the Care Home Conference, working through case scenarios to consider the issue of Fitness to Practise with particular focus on the new revised SSSC Codes of Practice for workers.
The scenarios will be based on themes and learning from casework within the Fitness to Practise Department. What the new national dementia strategy might mean for care homes.(Alzheimer Scotland)
Henry Simmons, Chief Executive of Alzheimer Scotland will explore the impact that our national dementia strategies have had in transforming dementia policy and practice, considering what Alzheimer Scotland believes must be delivered in the new strategy to truly ensure the best quality of care and support for people living with dementia and their families from the point of diagnosis through to advanced care and end of life.
Buy Tickets for the 2016 Scottish Care – Care Home Conference here
Insight Sessions Scottish Care: Care Home Conference 2016 Spiritual Care
Jenny Henderson will be delivering this insight session at the Scottish Care: Care Home Conference focussing on ‘Spiritual Care’.
In Jenny’s own words : “There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.”
Inspired by Rumer Godden’s A House with Four Rooms. Which room do your residents live in most of the time?
The insight group with explore together how we can help to embed in person centred care that everyone we care for has the opportunity to ‘visit’ their spiritual room.
Look out for award winning film-maker Duncan Cowles on BBC Reporting Scotland this evening Friday 14th October.
Scottish Care recently commissioned Duncan to make a series of films in and around North Merchiston Care Home in Edinburgh as part of Luminate, Scotland’s Creative Ageing Festival.
The films entitled ‘Directed by North Merchiston’ features residents aged between 80 and 102. The residents involved are Edith Emerson, May Reid, John Moore, Margaret Henderson and Charlie Dolan – the eldest at 102.
You can see previews of the films here www.duncancowles.com/category/films
Duncan will give the films their premiere at the Scottish Care Conference on Friday 18th November at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow.
Scottish Care hosted a Workforce Matters Frontline event on 21st September with an engaged and enthusiastic workforce from across the country in attendance at the Renfield Centre in Glasgow.
The event proved to be a hugely insightful day where members of frontline workforce could engage, share their experiences and learn from each other as well as our distinguished guests.
The event was opened by Katharine Ross, National Lead for Workforce for Scottish Care who welcomed those in attendance to the event along with Elaine MacMaster Workforce Consultant.
Speakers at the event included Alan Baird, the Chief Social Worker Advisor to the Scottish Government who gave a personal and thoughtful presentation to delegates focussing on the hugely critical role of the front line workforce in care. Alan paid tribute to the dedication of the workforce as well as their passion and highlighted that everyone who cares has the ability to truly change the lives of others and that they must recognise within themselves their ability to change the world. Mr Baird shared insights and his experience of his own family receiving care and how grateful he was for the quality of that care and the difference it made to his whole family.
Edith Macintosh, Rehabilitation Consultant with the Care Inspectorate gave an engaging presentation on physical wellness and the need for the workforce to look after their own needs as well as the people they support and care for. Edith stressed the importance that we keep ourselves fit in order to truly provide the best quality of care of those we look after. Edith gave the delegates food for thought with suggestions on ensuring physical wellbeing including nutritional concerns, exercise and sleep.
The day took a lighthearted and fun turn with a session led by Vivian Wallace. Vivian who works as an Aging Well Coordinator with Midlothian Council had the whole room on their feet as the group indulged in some Samba style dancing inspired by the Olympic Games in Rio earlier this year. Vivan educated the delegates on the hugely positive benefits of movement and dance on the wellbeing of workforce as well as those they care for and much fun was had by all.
Delegates took part in a number of workshops led by Scottish Care team members which had delegates discussing topics and issues such as “What does wellness mean to me?”, “What do you need to experience wellness?” and “How could I improve my wellness?” These workshops proved to be hugely thought provoking and useful as delegates shared their own personal experiences from the frontline and with many able to relate to similar experiences and shared understanding working in care.
After a short refreshment break Neil McLeod, Equality Advisor from the SSSC provided the delegates with a thought provoking presentation focussing on skills current and future of the frontline workforce. Neil led an inspired and engaging discussion as to what the workforce might look like in the future in terms of skill set and how organisations might best equip their workforce for the challenges of the future.
Dr Donald MacAskill, Chief Executive of Scottish Care gave the final presentation of the day which was an illuminating and fascinating perspective on the wellbeing of the workforce with Dr Macaskill discussing focusing on physical,mental and emotional burnout and how we can best ensure that we best care for ourselves. This was best summed up by the revelation that ” It’s not selfish to look after ourselves, in this sector it’s selfish to not look after ourselves.”
Thank you to all who came along to this hugely engaging and positive event and we hope you will consider attending future Workforce events, you can find information about upcoming events at www.scottishcare.org/workforce-matters
Upcoming Workforce events include ‘The Spirit Beyond the Letter’ which is being held at the The Renfield Centre on Tuesday 1st November from 11am – 3:45pm.
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