Inform Newsletter May 2015 | Page 3

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 3