Scottish Care

Winter Planning Workshop
2020-11-05 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
We should all by now be planning and preparing for winter. This year we will still have the usual Flu, Norovirus and other Winter viruses, however, we now face the added challenge of Covid-19 . We need to ensure winter plans are in place to allow us to protect our most vulnerable, those adults who are in receipt of care and our workforce who look after them.
Join our workshop on 5th November 2-4pm for the opportunity to learn and share best practice and be supported to write your own winter plan.
Details to join this workshop now available on the Members Area.

Covid-19 In-house Surgery - 10 November
2020-11-10 11:00 - 12:00
The next Covid-19 surgery will be live on Tuesday 11th November 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.

Disclosure Scotland Webinar
2020-11-12 11:00 - 12:00
We will be hosting a webinar on Thursday 12th November at 11:00 am with Disclosure Scotland.
This is an opportunity to discuss with Andrew Morrall (Customer Engagement Manager, Disclosure Scotland) to look at the changes in Disclosure Scotland Act, as well as the impact that Covid 19 has had upon employment and challenges to the membership.
Details to join this webinar session are now available on the Members Area of this website.

Covid-19 In-house Surgery - 24 November
2020-11-24 11:00 - 12:00
The next Covid-19 surgery will be live on Tuesday 24th November 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.

Citation Webinar - 26 November
2020-11-26 14:00 - 15:00
Important webinar for care providers – employee wellbeing and engagement
After such a challenging year for the care sector, it’s never been more important to focus on your staff. Whether their stresses and strains stem from in or out of work, it’s easy to overlook those struggling in silence.
That’s why Scottish Care Preferred Supplier, Citation, is hosting a webinar on Thursday 26 November at 2 PM, which we strongly encourage members to join.
The hour-long session will offer practical top tips on how to proactively support your employees’ wellbeing. This includes the importance of developing strong foundations in HR, Employment Law and Health & Safety, to create an environment in which your people will feel safe, happy and supported.
REGISTER YOUR PLACE
The session will be interactive and there will be an opportunity to ask their experts questions throughout, including a dedicated Q & A.
Some of the key discussion points will include:

Starting with the basics, including handbooks, policies, and contracts;
The fundamentals of employee engagement and why it’s particularly important for the care sector;
The three main motivators for your staff, including a positive working environment;
Practical tips and solutions for supporting your staff’s wellbeing, including communication, getting help from others, and training, learning and development.

Places are first come, first serve, so please reserve your place today to avoid missing out.
Once you have registered using the above link, please click here for further details for helpful tips on how to join on the day.

Please note that this webinar is hosted through Cisco Webex instead of Zoom.

Boots eMAR customer webinars
2020-12-01 10:00 - 11:00, 2020-12-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-12-02 10:00 - 11:00, 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 and 8 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.

Covid-19 In-house Surgery - 1 December
2020-12-01 11:00 - 12:00
The next Covid-19 surgery will be live on Tuesday 1st 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.

Scottish Care Wellbeing Webinar with Big Health - 2 December
2020-12-02 11:00 - 12:00
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.

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.
