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Quick guide: Good practice in safeguarding training
- Authors:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE, SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
Safeguarding adults in care homes means protecting their right to live in safety and acting to prevent abuse and neglect whilst taking into account each person’s views, wishes, feelings and beliefs. Training is one way of making sure this happens. This quick guide, aimed at registered managers of care homes, explains what to cover in training and how to deliver it, including how to evaluate training in a care home. (Edited publisher abstract)
Practice guidance: supporting the social care workforce to deliver person centred care for people with dementia
- Author:
- ROWETT Roger
- Publisher:
- Care Council for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The focus of this workforce practice guidance is to assist managers and social care staff to raise their levels of understanding and competence in person centred working with people with dementia. It draws on a study carried out in 2008 which aimed to identify and promote good practice in relation to older people experiencing dementia. The study involved care providers from across Wales trying out various approaches to person centred working. These mainly focused on introducing ways of capturing information about the individual, from the individual’s point of view. The guidance is based on first hand examples of what has worked and been learned. It includes: key messages; guidance to managers; sample information and worksheets that can be used to inform the workforce and others about person centred working and its introduction; as well as sample guidance to staff on good practice supporting the process with service users and carers. The guidance is mainly for managers and supervisors within social care but will be relevant to others such as health professionals and families.
Mental wellbeing and older people: quick reference guide
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CLINICAL EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This quick reference guide presents the recommendations made in ‘Occupational therapy interventions and physical activity interventions to promote the mental wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care’. It focuses on the role of occupational therapy interventions and physical activity interventions in the promotion of mental wellbeing for older people. It is for health professionals who have a role in, and responsibility for, promoting older people’s mental wellbeing and may also be relevant for carers and family members and older people themselves. The four recommendations are: occupational therapy interventions; physical activity; walking schemes; staff training.
Dementia care training manual for staff working in nursing and residential settings
- Author:
- WALSH Danny
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 240p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource book encourages front-line staff working with dementia sufferers in nursing and residential settings to examine their working practice and modify it to where appropriate to meet best practice guidelines. Packed with photocopiable training exercises, discussion points and questions to prompt care workers to reflect on their style of work, this practical training manual also provides a framework for care work in line with statutory requirements and national training standards. It can be used as a self-training guide by carers, who can work through it at their own pace or under the supervision of a colleague, or by trainers running structured courses on good practice in dementia care. It is also suitable as a quick reference in daily practice.
An induction pack for care home staff (transitions): for front-line staff of care homes
- Authors:
- CHAPMAN Alan, KILGOUR Jim, WILLLIAMSON Margaret
- Publisher:
- University of Stirling. Dementia Services Development Centre
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 144p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
Effective induction of staff is recognised as a vital component of providing safe care and of establishing a competent workforce. Education and training provision could be used as appropriate to provide learning support. There are also learning programmes, intended as an early or pre-employment introduction to social care that should contribute to induction but have a different role - acting as part of the bridge between school and employment. The induction standards are set out to provide a description of the minimum understanding required for social care work in care homes. The frontline workplace manager is responsible for adding areas of work particular to the worker’s role and for deciding the level of understanding required for that role. Standards are set out minimum understanding they readily link to the NVQ level 2 that is the minimum qualification used within the sector.
Staying home alone: working in the community with older people who have dementia
- Author:
- MCDONALD Annette
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 98p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This is a training pack with simply structured guidelines, notes for facilitators and clear learning objectives. It is specifically geared towards the training needs of home care workers. Each workshop is cross-referenced to S/NVQ Units in Care Level 2. The sessions are designed to help staff understand their own attitudes and assumptions and to re-think their practice through case scenarios. It includes a factual session on 'what is not dementia' which is an important area of knowledge for home care workers, and one which not all training packs include. Practical guidance is given on how to apply person-centred principles, and action planning sheets are included for staff to take away and consider how to put their learning into practice.
Bridges not walls: good practice guidance for transition and cooperation between mental health services for older patients
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 11
- Place of publication:
- London
The report makes recommendations aimed at improving the care of people who are growing old with enduring mental health problems and who face the possibility of moving between psychiatric services to the psychiatry of old age. Updating previous guidance, it recognises the growing needs of patients in specific groups, such as older offenders; older people with alcohol and substance misuse problems; people with neuropsychiatric disorders; and people with intellectual disabilities. The recommendations fall into six areas: availability and use of protocols, assessment, transition, monitoring, commissioning, and training. It updates guidance the contained in College Report CR153 'Links not boundaries: service transitions for people growing older with enduring or relapsing mental illness.' (Edited publisher abstract)
Managing falls and fractures in care homes for older people: good practice resource
- Authors:
- CARE INSPECTORATE, NHS SCOTLAND
- Publishers:
- Care Inspectorate, NHS Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 96
- Place of publication:
- Dundee
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
Good practice resource to help staff working with older people in care homes to assess how well falls prevention and management and the prevention of fractures is being addressed in their service. It aims to help staff to recognise quality care already in practice; identify and prioritise areas for improvement; and test and implement new ways of working to benefit both staff and residents. Sections include: an introduction to the topic of falls and fractures in care homes; guidance for improving the quality of care; prevention of falls and fractures; identifying and managing key risk factors for falls fractures; and working together with the wider health and social care team and other care homes; and education and written guidance for staff. The guide is accompanied by a range of tools, including a self-assessment form, which can be used to improve aspects of the management and prevention of falls and the prevention of fractures. Sections of the resource pack can also be used during staff induction and training to raise awareness and increase knowledge of falls prevention. Originally published in 2011, this revised edition incorporates learning from the Scottish Government’s ‘Up and About in Care Homes’ project, and includes a new section Guidance for improving the quality of care to help support care homes to make improvement to how they manage falls. (Edited publisher abstract)
Developing end of life care practice: a guide to workforce development to support social care and health workers to apply the common core principles and competences for end of life care
- Author:
- NHS. National End of Life Care Programme
- Publisher:
- NHS. National End of Life Care Programme
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The National End of Life Care Programme has worked alongside Skills for Health and Skills for Care to ensure that workers involved in supporting someone who is at the end of their life are properly trained to be able to undertake their work effectively and appropriately. Each section gives an explanation of the area of work and includes important links to further information and resources. There is also a ‘practice scenario’ to show how the competences are connected and how they can be used to help in developing services and ensuring that workers are appropriately trained and skilled. This guide completely replaces the 2010 A framework of National Occupational Standards to support common core principles for health and social care workers working with adults at the end of life and should be read alongside the Common Core Competences and Principles: A guide for health and social care workers working with adults at the end of life.
Multiple conditions: multiple challenges: exploring palliative and end of life care for older people with multiple conditions
- Author:
- NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PALLIATIVE CARE
- Publisher:
- National Council for Palliative Care
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance supports implementation of the End of Life Care Strategy and associated care pathways, for older people with multiple conditions at the end of life. It notes that there is a risk of older people's cumulative needs being lost to diagnosis specific care. To meet the palliative care needs of people with multiple conditions better, staff must be encouraged to consider the whole person throughout the care process. The guidance covers: individual centred care; commissioning; workforce and training. Innovative practice examples are highlighted throughout. It concludes with recommendations for local action to ensure people with multiple conditions receive good quality care at the end of life, regardless of diagnosis or setting.