Learning and developing our care delivery
I wanted to bring you up to date
on various strands of philosophy
and practice which will help us
promote and deliver good quality
care, as informed by the
requirements of the CQC
domains, ensuring our thinking is
joined up with delivering a
focused approach to care and
support.
All our thinking is
driving policy change to ensure
homes remain marketable and
relevant to commissioner needs,
as well as continuing to inform
our learning from the current
round of CQC inspections.
Linked to this will be ‘mock
inspections’ by our Operations
Team to help support and provide
learning to our Homes and
Branch
Managers
awaiting
inspections with this programme
commencing in June.
We remain committed to the
principles of the Eden-Alternative
www.eden-alternative.co.uk and
will now apply for the Dementia
Care Matters ‘Butterfly Status’
award to confirm ‘exceptional
person centred care environments’
through
expert
assessment,
report, and follow up visits by
specialist dementia consultants
(www.dementiacarematters.com) .
We also want to learn from the
experiences of the associated
work by Anne Child and Steve
Mason at Puddingstone Grange
called Project Joy.
Oomph! (www.oomph-wellness.org)
a leading social enterprise in fun
and fitness for older adults will be
commissioned to train around 30
staff in new programmes for the
homes. Through my ‘Home Life’
(www.myhomelife.org.uk), devised
by City University and Age UK,
learning sets have been created
for
Home
and
Assistant
Managers to evidence skills and
competency. These will be
planned in 2015.
Immediate priorities for spend in
2015/16 will be for Bridge
Haven,
Court
Regis,
and
Parkview. However the request
for local decoration work
required by our MT’s can be
found through guidance notes on
the shared drive, should staff
wish to request this.
Mark LLoyd
Managing Director
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