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Nutrition and well-being
- Authors:
- BEN Neil, (Director)
- Publisher:
- BVS
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- (28 mins.), DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
This DVD offers advice and training tips on the preparation and provision of food for service users, as outlined in the National Minimum Standards. It features 'Care Chef of the Year 2007', Patrick Moore, and tackles problems of what constitutes a good diet, nutritional requirements of older people, encouraging service users to enjoy their food, assisting people with dementia to eat and drink and calculating the body mass index. The training material has been constructed to help carers achieve the Skills for Care knowledge set on nutrition and well-being and has been mapped against other induction and educational standards, including S/NVQ Level 2 and 3 in Health and Social Care.
Principles to practice: the worker's guide to implementing the common core principles to support good mental health and wellbeing in adult social care
- Author:
- SKILLS FOR CARE
- Publisher:
- Skills for Care
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Skills for Care produced 'Common core principles to support good mental health and wellbeing in adult social care' to ensure that staff working in social care services know how to support and promote good mental health and overall wellbeing. This guide demonstrates how each of the ten principles and the two key areas can be applied in practice. Each principle is accompanied by a good practice example based upon real life situations and dilemmas from a range of social care settings. The guide will help learning and development for social care staff within any setting. (Original abstract)
Better understanding of levels of support for individual employers and their personal assistants (PAs): research into what local authorities are doing to support people who employ personal assistants
- Authors:
- ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES, LEARN TO CARE, SKILLS FOR CARE
- Publisher:
- Skills for Care
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 22
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The research builds a study undertaken in 2012 and explores how the nature of local authority support for personal assistants (PAs) working in adult social care has changed and developed since then. It investigates in particular the support offered to individual employers by local authorities in relation to their role in employing PAs, and support offered to PAs themselves. A total of 64 completed questionnaires were received by local authorities (response rate approximately 40%). The data were analysed and a number of authorities also provided follow up visits. The findings are reported under the following themes: preparation and support available to individual employers of personal assistants; development of the personal assistant market; support and development for personal assistants, and quality of support. The findings support those of 2012. Recommendations made include: providing a range of support for PAs; the provision of learning and development opportunities; signposting to tax advice from HMRC; provision of a fuller range of services from support organisations; increased support for specific/ethnic groups; support for self-funders; and provision of local PA registers. (Original abstract)
An interactive guide for individual employers: supporting your personal assistant to gain the skills they need
- Author:
- SKILLS FOR CARE
- Publisher:
- Skills for Care
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
An easy to use online guide which offers practical support to employers who want to employ a personal assistant and how to help their personal assistant to access learning and development opportunities that they need for their role. It also answers questions about different aspects of employing a personal assistant and learning new skills to develop as a employer. (Original abstract)
Assisted living technology and services: a learning development framework
- Author:
- SKILLS FOR CARE
- Publisher:
- Skills for Care
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 154
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
A learning and development framework to support those involved in the commissioning, design or delivery of workforce development. The framework aims to help ensure that the social care workforce has the skills and knowledge to use assisted living technology to enhance the lives of vulnerable people and their carers. Five stages provide the structure for the framework: Readiness; Customer Flow Analysis (guidance to assist the identification of work or service flow in your or your partner's organisation); Workforce Analysis (which provides guidance on how to map tasks and roles to knowledge and skills needed); Learning Design and Delivery (providing tools and resources for learning) and Checking (helping to evaluate the impact of learning). The framework also provides definitions, terminology and language that can be used by all when preparing workforce development products in the assistive living technology field. (Edited publisher abstract)
Voices of experience
- Author:
- CRAWFORD Alix
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.2.03, 2003, p.36.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Briefly reports on a study which asked service users groups to help shape the future of social work training.
Building on positives: staff development in community services
- Editor:
- WERTHEIMER Alison
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 80p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at staff development issues that arise from providing community services to mentally handicapped people through strategies such as normalisation, rights and participation.
Supporting personal relationships: supporting people who need care and support to have meaningful relationships
- Authors:
- CHOICE SUPPORT, et al
- Publisher:
- Skills for Care
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 46
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This guidance is relevant to all people who provide social care to any group of people and it will help organisations to equip their staff to support people to develop and maintain personal relationships, in a way that respects peoples’ choices and values whilst keeping them safe. Organisations need to facilitate the environments, skills and opportunities which enable relationships to flourish and sexual needs should be recognised and addressed in the same way as other needs, which will assist in reducing the risk of sexual harm and abuse. Sections of the guide cover the values and behaviours that social care workers need and what they need to know and understand to support people with their personal relationships in a person-centred way. It also explains what employers can do to support the development of their workforce and how to develop a workforce development programme to provide staff with the skills to support personal relationships. The document includes a series of exercises to help organisations start to tackle the subject, explore their values and consider some common relationship scenarios and how organisations might approach them. (Edited publisher abstract)
Workforce development: perspectives from people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- DAVIES Jill, MATUSKA George
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 23(4), 2018, pp.165-172.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: Research into the skills and competencies required by staff working with people with learning disabilities has concentrated on staff views. The purpose of this paper is to explore what people with learning disabilities want from the workforce supporting them. The evaluation was commissioned by Health Education England working across Kent, Surrey and Sussex (HEE KSS). Design/methodology/approach: An easy read questionnaire, co-produced with people with learning disabilities, was completed with 70 participants, 65 of whom attended one of 10 workshops. Two questionnaires were also completed by parents on behalf of their child. The workshops also allowed for open discussion. Findings: People with learning disabilities value a workforce with a positive attitude, with staff who are skilled in supporting people to gain independence and have a voice. Research limitations/implications: Findings are relevant to staff recruitment, matching of staff to services and staff training. Originality/value: Although there is some previous research around service user views, this evaluation had a larger sample size. The findings were similar to previous studies, particularly around the kind of qualities required from staff, which were the ability to listen, have trust and be able to learn specific skills. Although the highest representation was from young people and young adults, participants ranged from 12 to over 65 years. Differences in views according to participant age ranges are also noted. (Publisher abstract)
People's experience in adult social care services: improving the experience of care and support for people using adult social care services: NG86
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline covers the care and support of adults receiving social care in their own homes, residential care and community settings. It aims to help people understand what care they can expect and to improve their experience by supporting them to make decisions about their care. The guideline has been developed by a committee of people who use services, and carers and professionals, using information from a review of research evidence about people's experiences of care and support, and from expert witnesses. It sets out key recommendations to support best practice, focusing on: overarching principles of person-centred care and coproduction; access to information; care and support needs assessment and care planning; providing care and support, including continuity of care and consistency; staff skills and experience; and involving people in service design and improvement. The guideline is aimed at practitioners working in adult social care services in all settings; service managers and providers of adult social care services; commissioners of adult social care services; and people using services (including those who fund their own care) and their families, carers and advocates. (Edited publisher abstract)