Scottish Care

Disclosure Scotland - Aberdeen workshop
2017-05-17 09:30 - 15:30 UTC
This workshop has been designed specifically for organisations who are registered with Scottish Care.
The event aims to provide you as representatives of our Registered Bodies with the necessary knowledge and understanding of the various processes and criteria within Disclosure Scotland to assist you to meet and comply with your legal obligations and requirements as laid out in legislation and the Code of Practice for Registered Persons.
We will also provide you with advice to support you manage the application process in an efficient manner, which will assist your organisation in your recruitment process.
We aim to:

Provide an overview of managing the registration process and the obligations under the Code of Practice of being a ‘registered body’.
Advise on common application completion errors to minimise the possibility of PVG/Disclosure applications being returned or queried.
Increase knowledge of the legislative criteria providing eligibility for the PVG scheme and Enhanced or Standard Disclosure.
Provide an understanding of the PVG scheme (and Police Act Disclosures) and the legal obligations on organisations as regulated work providers, including the ‘duty to refer’ to Disclosure Scotland.

This event is FREE to attend Lunch and Refreshments will be provided on the day:
There are 30 places available and are by invitation only. Places are limited to a maximum of 2 places per organisation.
You will be placed on a waiting list once all the available spaces have been allocated. Should a space become available you will be notified automatically.
We would respectfully ask that if you are allocated a place and are unable to attend that you cancel at the earliest convenience allow the place to be allocated to someone else. Thank you.
On arrival
Please report to reception on arrival.
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Should you have any question about the event you can E-Mail them to dsworkshop@disclosurescotland.gsi.gov or call Stewart Rafferty on 0141 314 3108.
Should you be unable to attend on the day, please contact Stewart Rafferty stewart.rafferty@disclosurescotland.gsi.gov.uk or call 0141 314 3108 as soon as possible.

Safe and Effective Staffing Consultation - Edinburgh
2017-05-15 10:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Dublin) | COSLA Conference Centre, 19 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh, EH12 5BH, United Kingdom

Care at Home and Housing Support Annual Conference and Awards Dinner
2017-05-12 08:30 - 16:00 UTC | Marriott Hotel, Glasgow, G38RR, United Kingdom
Details to follow. Put this date in your diary.

Falls, Fractures, Frailty and Osteoporosis 2017
2017-05-11 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Perth Concert Hall
Falls, Fractures, Frailty and Osteoporosis 2017
Registration opens 9th January 2017

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Safe and Effective Staffing Consultation - Glasgow
2017-05-09 10:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow, G1 3SF

Scottish Care and SSSC Regulatory Forum
2017-05-09 10:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Murrayfield Care Home, Edinburgh

Care Actually: Scottish Care Workforce Development Strategy Group
2017-05-03 09:30 - 15:00 UTC
‘Care Actually: Exploring the origins of good care’ #careactually

9.30am – 9.45am

Registration and coffee

9.45am – 10.00am

Welcome and workforce updates
Katharine Ross and Paul O’Reilly
Scottish Care
10.00pm – 11.15am
1st breakout session – one of:

Making good – and safe – employment decisions: Working with the Fitness to Practise Model

Maree Allison – Director of Fitness to Practise – SSSC
Laura Wylie – Manager Fitness to Practise – SSSC

Regulation, registration and qualifications: are you fully informed?

Cheryl Campbell – Registration Manager – SSSC
11.15am – 11.30am
Tea and coffee
11.30am – 12.45pm
2nd breakout session
12.45pm – 1.15pm
Lunch
1.15pm – 2.30pm
Good care as prevention: exploring the contribution of the social care workforce
Donald Macaskill – CEO
Scottish Care
2.30pm – 3.00pm
Care at the Movies!

Effective Leadership in Dementia Care
2017-04-04 09:30 - 2017-04-05 16:00 UTC
Strong clinical leadership is arguably the hardest of all roles to embed in an improvement culture. Yet leadership plays such an important role in the care of people with dementia.
Historically, emphasis has been placed on management style and strategies as opposed to leadership. But there is a difference. Often, health and social care systems are over-managed and under-led. Leaders need to have the capacity to influence others, to inspire and articulate their vision to move the workforce to the end goal.
Dr Kevin Hope, Honorary Professor at the University of Stirling and DSDC Associate, explores the importance of leadership in the workplace in this blog.
DSDC’s new programme, Effective Leadership for Dementia Care Services, addresses the important topic of leadership and dementia care. Aimed at Front-line Leaders and Operational Leaders, the two day course explores a range of relevant information aimed at assisting you to develop your leadership skills will help you identify what characterises good leadership and its associated traits and behaviours.
The course provides an important opportunity to network within and beyond dementia communities, including the potential to liaise with and gain support from other like-minded people who have undertaken this programme of development.
We look forward to welcoming you to be part of this exciting project in developing today’s leaders in the promotion of more effective dementia care services.
Please click here to confirm your place.

SISCC Consortium 2017
2017-04-04 09:00 - 16:00 UTC
Celebrating SISCC – Building on the foundations & planning for the future
The SISCC 2017 Consortium Event has been designed to provide you with the opportunity to learn more about the SISCC, our work and how this is helping to develop the evidence-base to support improvements in health and social care.
In addition to sharing, we want to engage with delegates from health, social care, researchers, policy makers and the third sector to help to inform our future priorities and shape our work programme and develop future collaborations around:

Care & compassion – person-centred interventions
Evidence-into-practice: neonatal care
Improvement methods and approaches
Large scale behaviour change
Older People’s health & wellbeing

This is a free event, however places are limited. If you would like to attend this event please register on Eventbrite at http://bit.ly/2jloxx0.

Self-directed support systems - Mind the gap
2017-03-31 10:00 - 16:00 UTC
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is to hold a free workshop to discuss a whole systems approach to self-directed support (SDS) implementation.
Can taking a whole systems approach work? What resources would the health and social care sector need to help to engage in whole systems thinking? You are invited to explore these questions.
In the continuing Adventures In Systems (AS IS) series of workshops the SSSC welcomes Julian Corner from the Lankelly Chase Foundation https://lankellychase.org.uk/person/julian-corner/
Julian will explain whole systems approaches and help to consider how this might work from an SDS perspective. The workshop will give participants the chance to think about what’s happening and working well now in their services and how thinking at a systems level can help to improve future collaboration. The workshop will also discuss what resources workers and organisations need to support systems thinking.
We will hear from our colleagues in the Living Well in Communities Team at Healthcare Improvement Scotland about how they are working to support system change in Scotland.
This event is for people working in any part of the health and social care system including: commissioners, finance staff, procurement staff, policy officers, risk compliance officers, legal officers, social workers and their managers, service providers, support organisations, people who use services and their families and friends.
The workshop is free although places are limited so please book early. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Please click here to confirm your place.

Advanced Care Practitioner (ANP) Event - Edinburgh
2017-03-30 10:00 - 15:00 UTC
NHS Education for Scotland, in collaboration with the Transforming Nursing Roles (TNR) Advanced Practice group, is to host an event that will:

Inform delegates of the national approach to advanced practice and the Scottish Government’s commitment that 500 additional ANPs will be trained by 2021.
Provide guidance on the Service/education needs analysis that Scottish Government will request all Boards to undertake.
Share and seek agreement on a set of national clinical competencies for the ANP role in the following areas of practice. These have been identified as national priorities by the TNR group.

Paediatrics and neonates
Acute
Community and Primary care
Mental health

We welcome nominations from all advanced practitioners, practitioners/ANPs from the specified 4 clinical areas and service managers and clinical leads who will be involved in undertaking the service/education needs analysis.
Please send nominations to collette.kelly@nes.scot.nhs.uk by Monday 20th February.
We very much welcome those from the independent health and social care sector who are, or are interested in developing nursing roles within their organisation.
The event is free to attend and will take place at the Scottish Health Services Centre, Edinburgh.
