Scottish Care Wellbeing Webinar with Big Health - 2 December
2020-12-02 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
Big Health, the company behind evidence based digital therapeutics, Sleepio and Daylight will be hosting a webinar for Scottish Care on the 2nd December at 11am.
Sleepio and Daylight have been available to all Health and Care staff in Scotland since May 2020 to help our key workers learn proven CBT techniques to help with any worry or sleepless nights they may be experiencing.
Please join us to hear Dr Dimitri Gavriloff (clinical psychologist and sleep medicine specialist) and Dr Richard Stott (clinical psychologist and anxiety specialist) explain more about Sleepio and Daylight, how you can access the programmes and what benefits you may see.
Details to join this webinar will be available on the Members Area of this website.

Boots eMAR customer webinars
2020-12-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-12-03 10:00 - 11:00, 2020-12-03 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-12-08 10:00 - 11:00, 2020-12-08 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-12-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2020-12-09 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-12-10 10:00 - 11:00 and 7 more dates
At Boots we know more and more care homes and organisations are looking at how they can use digital technology to benefit them. eMAR is an important part of our Boots Care Services package and we believe it is really important care homes understand what we do and how we can support them on their digital journey. To support with this we are running some dedicated customer webinars in the coming weeks.
Our eMAR with Boots digital experts are hosting multiple interactive Webinar sessions for Care Home Providers from 1st December to 17th December & Discussing:

What to consider before starting your eMAR journey
How to find the right eMAR solution for you
What training and implementation support looks like
What success can eMAR bring for your organisation

Find out more and register here.

Lexleyton webinar: Mental wellbeing and managing homeworkers during the pandemic
2020-12-03 11:00 - 12:00
This year more than ever, mental health challenges in the workplace have no hiding place, especially with a shift in working culture and many people working from home. Emotional resilience of workers, particularly certain groups such as parents and young workers has been severely tested.
Join Lexleyton’s webinar on 3rd December 2020, where Ashleigh Halpin of Imperium HR & Mindfulness and Musab Hemsi, Partner – Employment Law, will be in conversation on this topic, kindly hosted by the good people at Subsea UK.
For more details and registration, please click here.

Covid-19 Surgery on Care Home Testing for Visitors - 8 December
2020-12-08 11:00 - 12:00
The next Covid-19 surgery will be live on Tuesday 8th December at 11:00 am hosted by our National Director, Karen Hedge. This session will focus on testing for care home visitors and Karen will be joined by colleagues from the Scottish Government including:
Anna Kynaston: Pandemic Response – Adult Social Care
Fee Hodgkiss: Unit Head Pandemic Response – Adult Social Care
Hugh Masters: Associate Chief Nursing Officer
The Cabinet Secretary announced on 2 December that we would significantly accelerate the delivery plan for testing of designated visitors to care homes . The roll out of LFT kits to all care homes across Scotland will start on the 14 December following a compressed, but very important, roll out to early adopters which will test the web-based training and guidance and allow both to be finessed. You will appreciate that there is a significant amount of work required across national organisations, care homes and Health and Social Care Partnerships to support delivery and implementation. There will be undoubtedly be learning and support required along the way at a local level as we move to full implementation and we will work with local partners to put this in place. still PCR testing of visitors to be made available to care homes whom, for logistical reasons, may not be able to deliver LFT over the Christmas period. This is your opportunity to meet with the Scottish Government officials taking this work forward and ask questions and raise concerns.
The surgery is strictly for members only, details to join can be found on the Members Area of this website.
If you have any issues accessing the Members Area or this surgery session, please contact comms@scottishcare.org.

Kinections Staying Connected Celebration - 8 December
2020-12-08 14:00 - 15:30
The Kinections Project will draw to a close on Dec 16th, the Kinections Team are hosting a final celebration event on Dec 8th 2-3.30pm on Zoom Webinar.

During the celebration they will both look back, at all that has taken place and emerged within Kinections of practical value to those living, working and connected to care homes, whilst also having an eye to the future to think about how connections can continue.

They will be sharing our Kinections Chronicle- which tells the story of the project, and will also hear from care home staff, collaborators, academics and researchers* about their Kinections experiences and perspectives.

Everyone is welcome.
The Staying Connected Celebration may be of particular interest to:

– all those connected with care homes
– people involved in dementia-friendly communities and the support of people living with dementia

– those with an interest in appreciative approaches to engagement and research including ethical considerations of research involving people with dementia.

Please register via EventBrite by clicking on link below.

https://stayingconnected2020.eventbrite.co.uk/

* Joining us will be:

Eileen Hay, Activity Co-Ordinator, Burnfoot Care Home, Patna

Tamsin MacBride, Lecturer, UWS

Suzie Ferguson, Artistic Director, Hearts & Minds

Dr Louise Ritchie, Reader, Alzheimer Centre for Policy & Practice and SDRC Executive Committee

Panel Discussion

Host: Dr Annette Coburn, Senior Lecturer Community Education, UWS

Panel Members:

Jill Veitch, Care Home Manager, Glennie Care Home

Dr Belinda Dewar, Co-Director My Home Life International

Dr Margaret Brown, Depute Director Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice, UWS

Arlene Crockett, Director of Evidence and Influencing (Dementia Programme), Life Changes Trust

.Music Treats

Carol Beckwith, Songwriter

Adam Bowman, Musician ABCreate

You are welcome to share this event with your connections and networks.
Find out more about Kinections: https://myhomelife.uws.ac.uk/scotland/kinections/

Homecare Day 20
2020-12-09 09:00 - 17:00
Building on the success of the previous three events Scottish Care is pleased to bring Homecare Day 20 – a day to celebrate the best of care at home and housing support services across Scotland and wider afield.
This day is a largely online event, we encourage members, providers and partners to take part in this day by sharing positive stories about the care at home and housing support sector.
More information on this event to follow.

Project Lift Event - Collaboration & Working Across Boundaries
2020-12-10 12:30 - 14:00
Collaborating & Working Across Boundaries
12:30-14:00, 10th December 2020
When the COVID19 first appeared in the UK, health and care organisations across Scotland had to respond quickly and often with fast changing information. Working across boundaries came to the fore as teams, pathways, processes, services and working environments changed, even if only for a short time.
But we know that collaboration and working in this way is not just for times of crisis response and doesn’t always look and feel like the pandemic response did. It can be formal or informal, taking place on a small or larger scale, and it can be found in the everyday and in the unusual.
We know leaders are key to how we experience our environment and relationships in the workplace. Being open to, encouraging and enabling working across boundaries are ways that leaders can role model and actively encourage a more collaborative culture. We don’t have to be in a time of crisis to experience this.
Join our conversation where we consider how can we make the most of both the everyday and the crisis lessons we have learned. We invite everyone who is engaged with the health and social care, third and voluntary sector communities to explore experiences and stories around what good leadership at all levels looks like around this topic.
Are you interested in participating in this lively online and interactive session? We are pleased to announce that registration for this community event is now open. Register for free.
If you are interested in our other events you can explore insights packs from past events
Would you like to start a conversation? Find out more about hosting a community event with us.
We look forward to seeing all who can join us,
Many thanks,
The Project Lift Team

Legal Resources Digital Panel Webinar
2020-12-11 11:30 - 12:45
We are hosting a Legal Resources Digital Panel Webinar on Friday 11 December at 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM. This session will be hosted by Dr Donald Macaskill, who will be joined by our Legal Resources Select Group which includes five of the very best law firms in Scotland chosen for their experience and understanding of the social care sector).
We have gathered all your feedback from our recent Legal Survey and shared with the Scottish Care Legal Select group. They will bring their best and brightest specialists on the areas that members have highlighted to the Legal Panel. Each of the five law firms will have a specialist to speak to your concerns based on the results of this survey. They will also answer your legal questions in real-time in the webinar.
For more information on the Scottish Care Legal Resources Select Group please go to our website: https://scottishcare.org/legal-resources-select/
Details to join this webinar is available on the Members Area of this website. If you have any issues accessing this area, please contact comms@scottishcare.org

Covid-19 In-house Surgery - 15 December
2020-12-15 11:00 - 12:00
The next Covid-19 surgery will be live on Tuesday 15th December at 11:00 AM with Dr Donald Macaskill and Karen Hedge.
The surgery is strictly for members only, details to join can be found on the Members Area of this website.
If you have any issues accessing the Members Area or this surgery session, please contact comms@scottishcare.org.

Covid-19 In-house Surgery - 22 December
2020-12-22 11:00 - 12:00
The next Covid-19 surgery will be live on Tuesday 22nd December at 11:00 AM with Dr Donald Macaskill and Karen Hedge.
The surgery is strictly for members only, details to join can be found on the Members Area of this website.
If you have any issues accessing the Members Area or this surgery session, please contact comms@scottishcare.org.

Covid-19 Vaccine Surgery w/ Dr Ahmed - 5 Jan
2021-01-05 11:00 - 12:00
The next Covid-19 surgery will be live on Tuesday 5th January at 11:00 am hosted by Scottish Care CEO, Dr Donald Macaskill and National Director, Karen Hedge. They will be joined by Dr Syed Ahmed, Senior Medical Officer in the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland Directorate covering Vaccination, Immunisation and Respiratory Viral Infections.
This session will focus on the Covid-19 vaccine.
Please join us and ask any questions you may have.
Details to join are now available on the Members Area of our website, please contact comms@scottishcare.org if you have any issues accessing the Members Area or the webinar.

Covid-19 In-house Surgery - 12 January
2021-01-12 11:00 - 12:00
The next Covid-19 surgery will be live on Tuesday 12th January at 11:00 AM with Dr Donald Macaskill and Karen Hedge.
The surgery is strictly for members only, details to join can be found on the Members Area of this website.
If you have any issues accessing the Members Area or this surgery session, please contact comms@scottishcare.org.

Fever Free Zone Webinar - 14 Jan
2021-01-14 14:00 - 15:00
We are hosting a webinar in partnership with Fever Free Zone on Thursday 14th January at 2PM.
This webinar is titled – Challenges and Opportunites and Risks for the care sector in an era of Public Health Risk: Protecting the vulnerable as we emerge into a new normal.
Public Health Consultant and Clinical Epidemiologist Dr Paul Nelson presents a perspective on the challenges of the next 6 to 12 months and the likely new normal and offers a forum for discussion. Dr Paul Nelson is a Clinical Epidemiologist and Public Health Consultant leading on the health protection of the Care Home Response for Herefordshire Council and is founder of Fever Free Zone.
Details to join this webinar session are now available on the Members Area.

Covid-19 in-house surgery - 18 Jan
2021-01-18 12:00 - 13:00
With the Care Home Gathering event taking place over Tuesday 19 – Thursday 22 January, the Covid-19 surgery on the week beginning 18th Jan will be rescheduled.
This surgery session will be live on Monday 18th January at 11:00 pm hosted by Scottish Care CEO, Dr Donald Macaskill and National Director, Karen Hedge.
Please join us and ask any questions you may have.
This session is strictly for Scottish Care members only, details now available on the Members Area of our website. If you need help accessing this, please contact comms@scottishcare.org.

Scottish Care - Care Home Gathering
2021-01-19 09:45 - 2021-01-21 15:30
The Care Home Gathering is a three-day virtual event in place of our usual Care Home Conference that normally takes place in November. Care Home Gathering will be held between Tuesday 19th January to Thursday 21st January 2021.
Tickets are priced at £45 + VAT and will give delegates access to all 3 days of the event. Attendance is flexible and delegates are able to go to whichever sessions they find interesting or most useful.
After purchasing your ticket, delegates will receive an email with instructions to register for the event on HopIn. Please make sure that you register so that you are able to attend the event. Any issues, please contact comms@scottishcare.org.
This event will reflect on the issues that care homes has faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring new innovations that have been implemented during this time and using these reflections to help shape the future of the care home sector.
The programme for the Care Home Gathering is available here.
Tickets are available at the bottom of this page.

Collaborative Practice Learning in South East Scotland: sharing ideas and learning from others
2021-01-21 13:00 - 15:15
Please see below for further details on the South East Scotland practice learning event and how to register. It’s a free event, and open to anyone, from anywhere, who has an interest in improving student learning experiences in health and social care practice settings.
Collaborative Practice Learning in South East Scotland: sharing ideas and learning from others
Online Event
21 January
13:00 – 15:15
This South East Scotland practice learning event offers an opportunity for us to come together to think about some new ideas for enhancing the practice learning environment and to celebrate the positive benefits of partnership working. If you’re interested in the practice learning of nurses, midwives and AHPs then you are very welcome to join us! It’s a free event, open to anyone, from anywhere, who has an interest in improving student learning experiences in health and social care practice settings. We have an exciting programme of speakers and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.
Presentations include:

Practice education context in Scotland: Dr Kathy Duffy, Head of Programme for Practice Education and pre-registration at NHS Education for Scotland.
Using coaching in the practice learning setting, a strategic & operational perspective: Barbara Foggo, Emma Shepherd & James Wade
The Peer Enhanced e-Placement (PEEP) placement model – offering placement recovery and re-imagination: Dr Lisa Taylor
The PEF/CHEF team as a PLE: a collaborative approach with ENU: Billy Jackson, Michelle O’Reilly and Ken Dick

If you’d like to attend book here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collaborative-practice-learning-in-south-east-scotland-tickets-135672296491
Further details of the programme will be sent prior to the event
