Message from Dr Richard Harling, Director of Health and Care
(Director of Public Health and Director of Adult Social Services)
19 December 2024
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
As we approach the final weeks of this year, I want to extend our gratitude to each and every one of you across all job roles in the adult social care sector. Your dedication, compassion, and hard work have made a tremendous difference in the lives of those you look after.
Wishing you all a joyous holiday season and a happy new year.
-Richard
1) Winter planning resources for Care Homes
Please find bellow a collection of useful resources designed to support care homes during both D&V and acute respiratory infectious outbreaks.
These resources include comprehensive business continuity plans, detailed checklists and essential information on reporting procedures.
Be winter ready
D&V Checklist
Increased Norovirus risk in care homes in England
Care Home Winter Prep Checklist
Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) outbreak
2) Staff Psychological Wellbeing Hub January webinars
Positivity in the New Year: Tuesday 7 January 13:00 or Thursday 9 January 10:00
Introduction to Grief and Bereavement: Tuesday 14 January 13:00 or Thursday 16 January 10:00
Finding your Ikigai: Tuesday 21 January 13:00 or Thursday 23 January 10:00
Building Self-Confidence: Tuesday 28 January 13:00 or Thursday 30 January 10:00
3) Job Centre recruitment support
The Job Centre has a recruitment service; they can support you to fill your vacancies with a network of local Employer Advisers. They work with you to fill your vacancies using the most suitable recruitment solution.
Click here to view the guide
4) Supportive Communities Training - New dates
Helping people to recognise their strengths’ Training
These online sessions aim to increase knowledge, skills and confidence around the strength-based approach, to support strengths-based working.
These sessions are relevant for all adult social care staff, as well as the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector and wider partners.
All sessions are free to attend. To book a place, please click on the links in the flyers.
Recorded versions of all the previous training sessions have been included in the flyers. Training certificates are still available via this route.
Click here to access the flyer
5) Social Care Nurse Development Scholarship 2025
This development opportunity is open to nurses who have completed the free FoNS NHS England supported Resilience-based Clinical Supervision Programme.
Closing date for applications is Friday 14 February 2025, with the associated residential programme taking place 28 April – 2 May 2025.
For more information about the scholarship and application process Click here.
For more information about the clinical supervision training (open to nurses and nurse associates) Click here
6) Survey on Hospital Discharge for Staffordshire Residents
Healthwatch are asking people of Staffordshire to feedback about their experiences of hospital discharge (leaving hospital)
The anonymous feedback will be shared with organisations who run and commission these services in order to understand any problems and how the service could be improved.
The want to hear from:
If you are sharing information on behalf of another person, make sure that you have their permission to do so.
Click here to complete the survey
7) Upcoming Free Training
Check out the upcoming training taking place in the new year.
All training has been commissioned by the Care Market Development Team.
Click the links below to book your free space or to find out more about the training
Improving your CQC rating Delivered by Skills for Care
4 February 2025
Delivering outstanding care Delivered by Skills for Care
13 February 2025
Dysphagia (for providers in the South of the county)
7 February 2025
Risk Assessment Training
11 February 2025
Effective monitoring of food and drink intake
11 February 2025
Audit Training
13 February 2025
Free International Recruitment Workshops:
These interactive, face to face workshops are for managers with opportunities for Q&A throughout the workshop, after which you will receive a resource pack.
Avaibiale dates:
16 January 2025
17 January 2025
3 February 2025
4 February 2025
Note - to book onto this course you need to register your interest using the link below.
Click here to register your interest
Field safety notice, national patient safety alert, device safety information, and medicines recall/notification
Click here to sign up to regular updates on field notices
If you are interested in accessing past editions of the 'Adult social care in Staffordshire – monthly briefing', please email your request to:
asccommunications@staffordshire.gov.uk
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