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Care Tech 2: Programme

We are delighted to confirm that the following organisations will be involved in the workshops available to delegates on the day:

Please click on the Programme button to the right for details on the schedule on the day of the event.

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Take part in the first Scottish Care webinar

Scotland Excel is delighted to be the first organisation that has partnered with Scottish Care to bring you a webinar on their work to develop a national flexible framework for care and support services.

Scotland Excel is currently working with a wide range of partners (including Scottish Care) to develop a national ‘flexible’ framework for care and support services which incorporates both care at home and supported living services. This will give the flexibility for services to be purchased separately under the framework where required.

Our main aim is to develop a framework which will allow maximum choice for people using services to choose the care and service provider who best meets their needs. In addition, we hope that the framework will promote a holistic approach to delivering care and support and focus on the achievement of personal outcomes and facilitate the provision of innovative approaches to promoting choice and control. We recognise the importance of the Health and Social Care Standards and through our service specification we hope that they will be embedded into service delivery.

To date, 22 Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs) in Scotland have confirmed a preference for Scotland Excel to develop a national framework for care and support and we anticipate that additional HSCPs will join the framework throughout its term.

We are making full use of the light touch regime to allow new providers to apply to be on the framework at set periods throughout its four-year duration. Providers on the framework will also be able to amend, change and add to the types of service they provide and the care groups that they support.

Scotland Excel has and will continue to engage with partners as we take this work forward. We anticipate that the development of the specification of requirements and approach to rates will be two important elements of this work. We have already run a number of events with providers and their representative groups to get their input, before, incorporating this information in to our work.

We are delighted to be taking part in this webinar which will allow us to discuss our work and answer any questions participants may have.

If you can’t attend the webinar, we would be happy to hear from you directly with any queries or input. We also have a provider distribution list where information will be disseminated. Please email us on [email protected] if additional members from your organisation should be added to this list.

Edmund McKay, Category Manager Adult Social Care at Scotland Excel

Those who wish to attend the webinars must be members of Scottish Care.

The first webinar is scheduled for Thursday 15th August at 10:00 am.

Link to webinar: https://zoom.us/j/248225386

Webinar ID: 248-225-386

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‘Stay in Scotland’ Campaign: Support for EU citizens working in Scotland

As the UK prepares to leave the EU, the Scottish Government has created a package of support to help EU citizens stay in Scotland. This also offers support and guidance to those who employ staff from the EU.

Their package of support includes:

  • £250,000 of dedicated resource for community based support across Scotland
  • a support and advice service for EU citizens with more complex needs or particular challenges. This is currently being rolled out with more information available at: cas.org.uk/brexit
  • a ‘Stay in Scotland’ toolkit to support EU citizens and employers with EU staff which includes a poster, a factsheet, digital content and guides

 

For more information and guidance please visit:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/eu-citizens-staying-in-scotland-package-of-support/

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2019 Care Home Awards now open for entries

We're delighted to announce that the 2019 Care Home Awards are now open for entries!

A perfect opportunity to recognise colleagues, services and residents

Scottish Care would like to invite you to enter your company, staff and service users for the Care Home Awards 2019. Last year’s event was a great success and recognised the work of fantastic staff and providers whilst also giving positive visibility to this often neglected sector.

The entry forms have been made shorter and easier to complete, with  online entry and guidance available on which awards are designated for individuals, teams and companies. As you can see there are 13 award categories for the 2019 Awards.

 

Award Categories

  1. Ancillary & Support Staff Award
  2. Nutrition & Eating Well Award
  3. Meaningful Activity Award
  4. Training, Learning & Staff Development Award
  5. Emerging Talent Award
  6. Outstanding Achievement Award
  7. Management & Leadership Award
  8. Palliative & End of Life Care Practise Award
  9. Nurse of the Year Award
  10. Carer of the Year Award
  11. Specialist Service/ Unit of the Year Award
  12. Care Home Service of the Year Award
  13. Positive Impact Award

Good luck everyone!

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Welcome to Care Home Celebration Day 2019!

Today (Wednesday 17 July) Scottish Care is organising the first Care Home Celebration Day in Scotland

This is largely an online, awareness raising week aimed at busting myths about and celebrating care homes in Scotland, the role they play in communities and telling the good news stories about those who live in, work in or engage with them.

Throughout the day, we will be celebrating the following elements of care home life and work:

  • Activity & wellbeing
  • Workforce
  • Technology
  • Palliative & end of life care
  • Reform & resources

You can follow the day's activity at www.scottishcare.org/care-home-celebration-day/

You can get involved on Twitter & LinkedIn using #carehomecelebration19

We're delighted to start the day with a message of support from the Cabinet Secretary for Health & Sport, Jeane Freeman MSP

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Partners for Integration event – 5 September 2019

The Integration story: Trust, engagement, relationship building, and innovati

Join us as we highlight collaboration, improvement and shared values on the integration journey

On Thursday 5th September, the Partners for Integration team are hosting their annual event; join us as we showcase & celebrate collaboration and innovation across HSCP areas. People are at the heart of integration; whether that’s people who access care and support, colleagues across HSCPs sharing knowledge and skills or the independent and 3rd sector care providers delivering valuable services.

Scottish Care’s Partners for Integration team plays a vital role in the  delivery of integration; building relationships with key stakeholders to create a shared vision, supporting the delivery of local and national improvement programs, contributing to strategic planning and local engagement, these are some examples of the work currently underway in different partnership areas. Come and meet the team, hear about our role in integration and how we can support the improvement journey.

The event is designed to support the integration agenda and is initially targeted at Chief Officers & Senior Managers within the Health & Social Care Partnerships.

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Care Tech 2 event – Friday 23 August

Following the success of our first technology event, Scottish Care is delighted to once again host our Technology and Digital event, Care Tech 2, an event dedicated to the design, development, use and future potential of technology in the Scottish social care sector.

The event will be held in the University of Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre on Friday 23rd August 2019.

Technology has an increasingly important role to play in all our lives. In social care, technology is being used to enable individuals to maintain their independence for as long as possible, to support staff more effectively in their work, and to ensure that individuals remain in control of their supports for as long as possible.

As well as hearing about cutting edge innovation, the event will provide an opportunity to consider what technology might mean for you in your home or workplace.This event will explore some of the most creative technologies now available and some which are currently under development, and will bring together designers and developers, alongside people who us and work in social care services.

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Take part in important EU Exit survey for care services by 12 July

The Scottish Government is working with a wide range of local and national organisations to help support contingency planning in the social care sector in response to the possibility of a No Deal EU exit. As part of this work they have commissioned Scottish Care to research the social care sector’s preparedness, levels of contingency planning and resilience factors. This will mean over the next few months as part of this work, they will be looking for sector leaders to share their concerns in 3 separate survey’s. These surveys will start by looking at clinical consumables.

The Scottish Government will use the results of these surveys to understand better how it can support the social care sector to minimise disruptions if the supply of clinical consumables was to be affected by shortages or failures in deliveries.

If you are a provider or a leader in the social care sector who is concerned about possible disruptions and you manage a care service, the Scottish Government would really like to hear from you and your support in completing this survey would be most appreciated.

Please see survey link below:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YL95SYN

Please complete the survey by 12 July 2019.

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Elaine Rae – [email protected]

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New Chair of Scottish Care announced

For the last eight years Iain Buchan has acted as Chair of Scottish Care. Iain stood down at the AGM on the 13th June. Scottish Care owes a huge debt of gratitude to Iain for his firm yet gentle style which has brought the organisation through a considerable period of change. Under him the reach and influence of Scottish Care has grown and the importance of the voice of providers in social care has been enhanced.

The Executive is delighted to announce the appointment of Mary Preston as the new Chair of Scottish Care.

 

Mary has been an active member of Scottish Care since joining the Meallmore Group in 2011. She has extensive care industry knowledge and detailed understanding of the required outcomes for service users gained through her nursing background, combined with extensive strategic, quality and operational management experience over many years in both care homes and care at home services.

Scottish Care Chief Executive, Dr Donald Macaskill said:

“I want to record my personal appreciation for the work, energy and commitment shown by Iain Buchan over many years as the Chair of Scottish Care.

“I am also delighted to be able to welcome Mary Preston as our new Chair. Mary brings immense experience and skill to this role and I am sure under her guidance Scottish Care will continue to go from strength to strength. We are very grateful not only to Mary but to all our Directors who volunteer their time and skills so freely.”

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Rights Made Real in Care Homes: find out more about this exciting project

Scottish Care is thrilled to introduce this innovative human rights project, 'Rights Made Real in Care Homes', which has been kindly funded by Life Changes Trust, working in partnership with the University of the West of Scotland and care home providers throughout Scotland.

Working in seven care home groups, the aim is to make human rights a reality for those living with dementia in a care home.

Through our new dedicated web pages, we will be posting human rights reflections and a blog on a bi-monthly basis from our Policy and Human Rights Project worker, Verity Monaghan.  We will also share useful human rights information and resources to help you to make rights real in your own work.

We look forward to keeping you up to date on their journey and engaging with you around how we can spread and share the human rights learning to more care services.

You can also follow the care homes' journey on Twitter: @rightsrealscot 

Let’s talk human rights.