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Projects & Findings
The Workforce Implications of Cross Sector WorkingIntroduction
This theme is about jobs which include elements of more than one professional sector. This will include social care work and also may include health care, housing support, leisure, employment support, justice or other sectors.
Holistic working in Extra Care Housing
Organisation: Housing 21
To develop and evaluate an end of life care training resource pack about end of life care for support staff working with older people in extra care housing settings.
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Organisation: Housing 21
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Objectives: 1, develop a training pack for staff about end of life care including for people with dementia in extra care housing. 2, develop competancies for staff. 3, evaluate and identify key messages.
Start Date: 01/01/09
End Date: 31/09/09
Home care worker - new enhanced role Multi Agency Project, Leeds
Organisation: Multi Agency Project
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Multi Agency Project
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Improving services for children with a visual impairment ROVIC, Devon
Organisation: Devon Social Services Sensory Team
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Devon Social Services Sensory Team
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Joined up assessment, Children's Sevices Guildford
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NToW Project NVQ Assessment, Competency and Verification
Organisation: Bath and North East Somerset Council
To explore models of providing NVQ (Nurse) assessment and verification to care workers undertaking NVQ with additional health task modules for the 'extended care worker role'.
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Organisation: Bath and North East Somerset Council
Organisation Description: Local Authority
Objectives: To develop Nurse assessor time and CPD for NToW's undergoing NVQ level 2/3 training with "bolt on" clinical units. * to support service users in Registered Care or Extracare Sheltered Housing projects in to maintain older peoples’ independence, help them to develop well being strategies and to avoid acute hospital admissions.
Start Date: 01/02/08
End Date: 31/12/08
Residential Care Bath Bristol and South Gloucestershire
Organisation: Residential Care Bath Bristol and South Gloucestershire
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Residential Care Bath Bristol and South Gloucestershire
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Training for integrated health and social care support workers
Organisation: Phoenix re-solutions (Stakeholder Partnership)
To evaluate a package of training for integrated health and social care workers and identify the workforce implications which emerge from it.
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Organisation: Phoenix re-solutions (Stakeholder Partnership)
Organisation Description: Partnership of a private consultancy with further and higher education providers.
Objectives: Help develop underpinning and guiding principles for the development of new roles in adult social care and embed sustainable new types of working in the sector developing career pathways, performance management and National Occupational Standards.
Start Date: 14/10/08
End Date: 31/10/09
Transition for young people, Sutton
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Working for CHANGE
Organisation: CHANGE
To present a report on the innovative way CHANGE employs people with learning disabilities.
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Organisation: CHANGE
Organisation Description: Information needed.
Objectives: 1,To employ 2 workers on the activity, 1 a person with a learning disability. 2, The workers will research, document and record the way CHANGE successfully employs people with learning disabilities. 3, produce a written report with an easy-to-read summary and accompanying DVD.
Start Date: 01/08/08
End Date: 31/03/09
Dual practitioner - single role, social work and nursing
Organisation: Hertfordshire County Council
Exploring the desirability and feasibility of employing an individual with a dual nursing and social work qualification within a single role and utilising both skill sets.
Organisation: Hertfordshire County Council
Organisation Description: County Council
Objectives: 1, background research. 2, consultation. 3, present findings.
Start Date: 01/08/08
End Date: 31/08/08
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| Recommendations for Assisted Living Residences and Nursing Homes |
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| Extra care housing and end of life care: Supportive skills development for staff | July 2009 | 23 KB | |
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| End of Life Care Learning Resource Pack | July 2009 | 1825 KB | |
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| Transforming Community Services: Ambition, Action, Achievement Transforming End of Life Care |
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Introduction
This theme is about new or innovative ways of providing support which are not about personalisation. It is about new types of provider organisations such as social enterprises, and micro providers and new types of support such as assistive technology and alternative therapies. It is about roles like ?enablers? and considers how people can develop new skill sets.
A Training Package for the Learning Disability Care and Support Workforce
Organisation: Cumbria Training Partnership
To develop a training package that will raise the awareness and skills of the LD Workforce, faced with new ways of working, thus enabling them to understand and meet the challenges of meeting the individual requirements of clients who have chosen self-directed support and individualised budgets.
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Organisation: Cumbria Training Partnership
Organisation Description: Local Authority
Objectives: To design a training programme for Personal Assistants who are working with people with a learning disability
Start Date: 28/01/08
End Date: 31/03/09
ABSWAP
Organisation: Rendezvous for Justice and Equality (ABSWAP) London
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Rendezvous for Justice and Equality (ABSWAP) London
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Assistive Technology Norfolk
Organisation: Assistive Technology Norfolk
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Assistive Technology Norfolk
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Community Enabling Project, Somerset
Organisation: Community Health International
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Community Health International
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Delivering Choice and Independence in Adult Social Care: Strand 1 - Training
Organisation: London Borough of Barnet
To explore the workforce development implications of 2 strands of transformation for a local authority; responding to and preventing depression in older adults and brokerage to support self directed services.
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Organisation: London Borough of Barnet
Organisation Description: An inner city local authority.
Objectives: 1, research the workforce development (WFD) needs of statutory, private and voluntary organisations working seamlessly to respond to and prevent depression in older people. 2, research the WFD implications of an inner city LA promoting brokerage to enable self directed services. 3, evaluate and report on the above activity.
Start Date: 14/01/08
End Date: 31/03/09
Delivering Choice and Independence in Adult Social Care: Strand 2 - Brokerage
Organisation: London Borough of Barnet
To explore the workforce development implications of 2 strands of transformation for a local authority; responding to and preventing depression in older adults and brokerage to support self directed services.
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Organisation: London Borough of Barnet
Organisation Description: An inner city local authority.
Objectives: 1, research the workforce development (WFD) needs of statutory, private and voluntary organisations working seamlessly to respond to and prevent depression in older people. 2, research the WFD implications of an inner city LA promoting brokerage to enable self directed services. 3, evaluate and report on the above activity.
Start Date: 14/01/08
End Date: 31/03/09
Developing Senior Support Workers (for Pregnant Women) within the local community
Organisation: Gateway Family Services CIC
To explore the workforce development implications of developing a local workforce that can work across the health and social care interface with confidence, competence and skill when delivering care/support to vulnerable people in their own homes.
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Organisation: Gateway Family Services CIC
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Objectives: 1, to identify role and competancies for level 4 worker. 2, ensure workforce is drawn from local communities. 3, ensure there are progression routes for non professional staff.
Start Date: 14/10/08
End Date: 31/06/09
Empowering the workforce to do the job
Organisation: The Wilf Ward Family Trust
To identify the workforce development implications of a partnership of voluntary, statutory and private organisations developing a local workforce. To ensure that the workforce of the partnership can provide effective, personalised seamless support with confidence, competence and skill when delivering care/support to vulnerable people in their own homes.
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Organisation: The Wilf Ward Family Trust
Organisation Description: Voluntary organisation (Wilf Ward Family Trust), Statutory Local Authority ( North Yorkshire county council), & Private companies ( 'Carewatch' Homecare & residential service provider and 'Tunstall', telecare provider.
Objectives: 1, Build a cross sector partnership. 2, Challenge the traditional roles and reshape them for what people need now. 3,Share the findings.
Start Date: 01/08/08
End Date: 31/06/09
Learning disabilities day service County Durham Care
Organisation: County Durham Care
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: County Durham Care
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Mind Skills and Opportunities Centre, Mind in Taunton
Organisation: The Mind Skills and Opportunities Centre
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: The Mind Skills and Opportunities Centre
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Person Centred Planning for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders - Implications for the Workforce
Organisation: The National Autistic Society
To assess the costs and benefits of Person Centred Planning (PCP) on staff within a large 3rd sector organisation, providing support to people with autism in a range of settings including residential and outreach support and an independent hospital.
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Organisation: The National Autistic Society
Organisation Description: National Charity.
Objectives: To undertake paper research, interviews and focus groups to; 1, evaluate how PCP affects levels of job satisfaction 2, identify the work competencies required to undertake PCP. 3, examine the optimum degree of PCP knowledge a member of staff needs.
Start Date: 14/10/08
End Date: 31/01/09
Practice Quality Mentors Scheme; adult protection in self directed care
Organisation: The City of Liverpool
To run and action learning set to investigate how people working with adult protection issues need to work differently, especially in response to the personalisation agenda.
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Organisation: The City of Liverpool
Organisation Description: Local Authority.
Objectives: 1, identify roles. 2, carry out action learning. 3, report on key issues.
Start Date: 25/01/08
End Date: 31/07/08
WRAP
Organisation: Wellness Recovery Action Plan
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Wellness Recovery Action Plan
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Your TeleSupport
Organisation: United Response
Investigate the workforce and training issues associated with piloting the use of touch-screen videophones as part of a support package for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems.
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Organisation: United Response
Organisation Description: National 3rd sector provider of services to people who have a learning disability.
Objectives: 1, Complete needs analysis and desktop research to inform training programme and to assess appropriate recipients for pilot. Develop, carry out & evaluate training pilot to train 20 care staff. 3, Prepare final report on key messages.
Start Date: 31/03/08
End Date: 31/10/09
New type of social worker
Organisation: Sheffield Government
To use action research to outline the key roles and functions of social workers/care managers and care co-ordinators in the context of self directed support.
Organisation: Sheffield Government
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Objectives: 1, use local and national developments/literature& work key stakeholders, including families and workers. 2, Identify key skill sets underpinning these roles to inform the work of local, regional and national groups working in the area of workforce development, including Skills for Care. 3, To produce 'key messages' for relevant local & national stakeholders.
Start Date: 15/11/08
End Date: 31/05/09
Real feedback for real change
Organisation: North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus
The aim of the project is to evaluate the real time feedback from service users about the care they received in their own home, with a view to using this information to focus the service accordingly.
Organisation: North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus
Organisation Description: Care Trust.
Objectives: 1, background research. 2, consultations / trialling. 3, report / present findings.
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| File Title | Date | File size in KB | File type | |
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| Frequently asked questions to help social care providers in the northwest | February 2009 | 821 KB | |
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| New and Emerging Roles for those working with people with dementia | 195 KB | |
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Introduction
This theme is about the workforce development implications of promoting health and wellbeing. It includes preventative Care, self Care & Long Term Conditions, end of Life care, quality of Care, specialist Care and the social care aspects of public health.
A Sub regional approach to integrated low vision services
Organisation: Sight Service Gateshead and South Tyneside
To share the learning from the Gateshead pilot by undertaking an 18 month initiative driving through a sub-regional approach to developing integrated low vision services, thereby investigating the workforce development implications of other areas adopting this approach.
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Organisation: Sight Service Gateshead and South Tyneside
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Objectives: 1, Hold information/learning exchange events with service users to identify gaps in services currently available and to consider alternative ways of providing services. 2, Hold a sub-regional event to promote the benefits of an Integrated Low Vision Service and engage stakeholders for the next stage. 3, Run Action Learning Sets and then publish final report and interactive case studies to tackle the challenges to workforce redesign.
Start Date: 01/07/08
End Date: 31/03/10
Barnardo's - Creative Arts and Emotional Wellbeing
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Dementia Care - an Introduction to the Jewish Care Project
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Identifying the skills and knowledge needed by people leading self care learning activities for social care and health
Organisation: E.P.P. C.I.C.
To develop a set of competancies for people leading learning activities for self care / self management across health and social care.
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Organisation: E.P.P. C.I.C.
Organisation Description: National Community interest company providing self management courses and enabling self care.
Objectives: 1, Conduct desk research into existing and potential models. 2, Hold focus groups with tutors, commissioners and H&SC providers. 3, Draw together framework / set from work to date and validate at workshop.
Start Date: 01/09/08
End Date: 28/02/09
New ways of learning and changing practice for healthy eating, dignity and well being - Food matters!
Organisation: InPerspective
The project is working with residential care homes and nursing services, and with service users to address poor diet and attitudinal barriers to change and is exploring the implications of this for workforce development.
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Organisation: InPerspective
Organisation Description: Ltd consultancy.
Objectives: 1. Engage 6 service providers to take part in the pilot work with Care Learning and the Learning Exchange (a learning network for care service managers). 2. Work with 3-4 Learning Ambassadors (home managers) to design and deliver 2 workshops that will facilitate cultural change through action learning and work together to facilitate discussion and change with and for service users. 3. Review and work together to identify limitations and gaps in current qualifications and training provision.
Start Date: 31/01/08
End Date: 31/07/08
Self Care Pilot - Community Matrons teams
Organisation: South of Tyne and Wear Health Authority
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: South of Tyne and Wear Health Authority
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Self Care Pilot - GP Practices
Organisation: NHS East of England
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Self Care Pilot - Home Care Workers
Organisation: Lancashire County Council
This is a project to explore and develop the workforce development implications of introducing the Self Care principles (Common Core Self Care Principles DH 2007) into support at home services for people with long-term conditions.
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Organisation: Lancashire County Council
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Objectives: 1, To investigate the workforce development implications of offering substantial opportunities to employees who have experienced mental distress and mental illness to develop work related skills that are transferable within adult social care, including exploring issues relating to cultural change. 2, To evaluate the project and document the learning and employment redesign in a publication which will be accessible to other organisations working in adult social care. 3, To map the roles to the level 2 NOS in Health and Social Care.
Start Date: 15/06/08
End Date: 31/03/09
The JackDawe Service
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User Led SUCH Project, Taunton
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Creating Capable Teams
Organisation: Skills for care
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Developing the End of Life Carer (NToW)
Organisation: University of Hull
To trial and evaluate an End of Life Carer learning programme for the workforce in a social care residential setting. Learners will investigate the needs and preferences of service users and create a portfolio to demonstrate work-based learning aligned to NOS and Liverpool Care Pathway, with the option of accreditation by the University of Hull.
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Organisation: University of Hull
Organisation Description: Faculty of H&SC within University in partnership with independent EoL care home.
Objectives: 1. Identify the needs of local service user and workforce in ‘End of life’ care. 2, faculty tutors will deliver action learning sets in the workplace. 3. Support workforce in completion of portfolio of evidence.
Start Date: 21/07/08
End Date: 30/06/09
Working Together for Well-Being in Dementia Care
Organisation: Tower Hamlets
To determine and evaluate what difference this new way of training staff, with a greater emphasis on ensuring that the training is specific to individual service users, has made to the service users' wellbeing & Quality of Care received both in the home and day care environment.
Organisation: Tower Hamlets
Organisation Description: Borough Council
Objectives: 1, background research. 2, consultation. 3, present findings.
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| File Title | Date | File size in KB | File type | |
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| Dementia Care Partnership: More Than Bricks and Mortar | November 2007 | 114 KB | |
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| Making a Difference in Dementia Care Report on the dementia training pilots for care homes in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire |
January 2007 | 259 KB | |
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| Transforming Community Services: Ambition, Action, Achievement Transforming Services for People with Long Term Conditions |
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| Transforming Community Services: Ambition, Action, Achievement Transforming Services for People with Long Term Conditions |
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Introduction
This theme is about people being in control of their own support ? self directed support. People might do this by using a direct Payment or an individual Budget. They might employ their own staff or use an agency so this theme includes working with providers of support. Workers directly employed by the person they support are often called ?Personal Assistants? (P.A.s), this theme includes training and workforce development for P.A.s. Some people will need help, advice or guidance to get in control so this theme includes Advocacy and Support Brokerage as well as marketing / promotion and dissemination about personalisation. People working for Local Authorities will need to work differently to help people get in control, so this theme includes the things that they will need to do differently; this includes social workers, managers and people who work in human resources, finance and contracts departments.
Ask The Family
Organisation: In Control
To investigate the workforce implications of family carers adopting a teaching role. The project aims to recognise the value of their knowledge and potential to contribute to a change in practice to more personalised support.
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Organisation: In Control
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Objectives: To support good practice in social care modernisation- promote positive relationships between professionals and family carers to the benefit of disabled people- contribute to a smooth transition between traditional assessment and self directed support- increase knowledge and experiences of both family carers and professionals to contribute to professional development- test this model of learning.
Start Date: 15/10/08
End Date: 31/03/09
Considering Individual Budgets within a Domiciliary Care Team
Organisation: C & S Care Services Limited
To investigate the workforce and business implications of people (mainly but not exclusively older people) choosing to use direct payment and individual budgets for a small private provider of domiciliary support.
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Organisation: C & S Care Services Limited
Organisation Description: Private sector domiciliary care organisation
Objectives: The main aim of the project was to research the implications of the direct payments / individualised budgets from a variety of perspectives.
Start Date: March 2008
End Date: July 2008
Friends and Futures
Organisation: Skills for People
To explore the workforce implications of working with a group of people with learning disabilities ( and their families) in the North east of England to try out a way of facilitating support networks, which can enable people to be more in control of their lives and support. The way is called PLAN and has been successful in Canada.
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Organisation: Skills for People
Organisation Description: Local campaigning and advocacy group led by people with learning disabilities and their families.
Objectives: 1, To support 16 families to set up a network. 2, To develop and run (3 times) a training course for network facilitators. 3, To explore setting up a plan NE organisation.
Start Date: 01/03/08
End Date: 28/02/10
Peer Advocacy and People with Visual Impairments
Organisation: Angel Eyes (formerly Gateshead Visually Impaired Forum)
To identify the workforce development implications of developing 2 new roles - Part Time Coordinator and 15 Volunteer Peer Advocates.
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Organisation: Angel Eyes (formerly Gateshead Visually Impaired Forum)
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Objectives: 1, To support people with visual impairments through the individual budgets process from self assessment, assessment, resource allocation and brokerage. 2, To provide a high quality team of trained volunteers fully equipped to provide a peer advocacy service. 3, To produce a report on the key findings
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Personal Assistants - effective relationships
Organisation: Reshma Patel
To identify the factors which disable people feel contribute to an effective working relationship with their Pas.
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Organisation: Reshma Patel
Organisation Description: Independent service user consultant.
Objectives: 1 To define what is meant by a ‘successful working partnership’ from the point of view of disabled people who employ their own staff. 2, To find ways to measure that partnership. 3,To identify characteristics and circumstances which contribute to a successful working partnership, as well as those which hinder it.
Start Date: 01/01/09
End Date: 31/12/09
Picking Your Pathways
Organisation: ARC House / Independent living alternatives
To build on the 'PA net' by supporting people, with a range of social care needs, who employ their own staff to design a training matrix for P.A.s.
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Organisation: ARC House / Independent living alternatives
Organisation Description: National charity for people with learning disabilities / Organisation led by people who employ their own support staff.
Objectives: 1, carry out research and consultation with direct employers. 2, identify the training which they feel would be useful for Pas and how this could be delivered. 3, Identify key messages for all stakeholders.
Start Date: 04/02/08
End Date: 31/03/09
Self directed support
Organisation: R.U.L.C.
To research workforce / HR issues in relation to self directed support and individual budgets in total transformation sites.
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Organisation: R.U.L.C.
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Objectives: 1, Identifying the key workforce policy issues and how these need to adapt in the light of self directed support and individual budgets. 2, Create action learning sets to draw out the learning from existing in-control and individual budgets projects. 3, Deliver a range of publishable material that informs workforce strategy in relation this area of work and provides practical tools for people implementing these models of support.
Start Date: 15/08/08
End Date: 31/03/09
What factors disabled people feel are important in their relationships with their personal assistants?
Organisation: Reshma Patel (Independent Consultant)
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Organisation: Reshma Patel (Independent Consultant)
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Employing Personal assistants - training a team
Organisation: Joe Tomlinson
To investigate the training and development implications of directly employing a team of staff and developing an innovative, well motivated personalised workforce which is able to respond across all aspects of the employer's life.
Organisation: Joe Tomlinson
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Objectives: To enable each member of a staff team to self direct their own personal learning budget based on their training needs and capacity to access training. 2, To encourage an effective and responsive team to evolve that is centred on the way the employer needs to be supported. 3 To identify key messages for employers, P.A.s, trainers and SFC.
Start Date: 01/01/09
End Date: 31/07/09
Exploring support for people involved in Self Directed Care
Organisation: Knowsley Disability Concern
To examine the workforce development implications of ways in which people who are directing their own support can be supported to ensure that they meet their responsibilities. Including considering peer support forums which meet and support available over the internet.
Organisation: Knowsley Disability Concern
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Objectives: 1, Consult with the existing forum and ensure this is representative of disabled people in the area who are directing their own support. 2, Conduct research / consultation / exploration of the models available. 3, Produce a report detailing the findings.
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Personal Assistants and holiday support
Organisation: Skills for care
To explore the workforce issues of direct employers seeking specific personal assistants to support them on holiday.
Organisation: Skills for care
Organisation Description: Hosted by SFC.
Objectives: 1, background research. 2, consultations with employers and Pas. 3, reports and present findings.
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Self Directed Support Workforce Training Development
Organisation: Herefordshire Centre of Independent Living
To explore what is needed for the expansion and development of the workforce to meet the growing numbers of disabled employers / people using their own funds to employ personal assistants.
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Organisation: Herefordshire Centre of Independent Living
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Objectives: To work with disabled people to; 1, raise disabled people’s awareness of workforce issues, and - develop induction and training that will attract, support and enable P.A.s to develop and progress. 2, develop the skills and knowledge that disabled employers need to be effective in order to maintain positive working relationships with their P.A.s. 3, use peer mentoring and disabled training teams to pilot tools locally.
Start Date: 14/10/08
End Date: 31/12/09
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Introduction
This theme is about recognising that people who use services and carers are the experts in their own support and can provide an expertise which can complement professional or academic expertise. The theme seeks to identify the workforce implications of utilising this expertise in the sector and of supporting these experts to develop professionally in volunteering, employment and self employment. It includes individuals and user led organisations. The theme includes these experts working as regulators, trainers, paid care workers, researchers and informing strategy.
Connect Works
Organisation: Connect in the North
A multi ethnic team of people with learning difficulties is designing and piloting training for people to work as personal assistants. The team is led by a projector leader who has learning difficulties. They will be building on the work of a second team (also people with learning difficulties) who are consulting people with learning difficulties and their families about what training they want their personal assistants to have.
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Organisation: Connect in the North
Organisation Description: Regional training, peer advocacy and consultancy organisation led by people with learning difficulties.
Objectives: Design and trial the training course for Pas. Identify key messages for PA training. Identify key messages for recruiters and trainers who have a learning disability.
Start Date: 15/01/08
End Date: 31/12/08
Developing a carers network No Limits, Somerset
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Sutton Cooperative for Recovery and Peer Support (SCRAPS)
Organisation: Sutton Mental Health Foundation (SMHF)
To explore a co-operative model of employment for people who have experienced mental distress to use this experience in providing peer support. Examine the structures which can support this.
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Organisation: Sutton Mental Health Foundation (SMHF)
Organisation Description: Local charity for people with experience of mental distress.
Objectives: To be self-sustaining as a social enterprise. To be run by people who use services. To have an accredited training course in place.
Start Date: 28/01/08
End Date: 31/12/08
The Lifecraft User Employment Project: Changing the culture
Organisation: Lifecraft
To investigate the workforce development implications of people with experience of using mental health services being employed in those services in a meaningful and well supported way.
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Organisation: Lifecraft
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Objectives: 1, To investigate the workforce development implications of offering substantial opportunities to employees who have experienced mental distress and mental illness to develop work related skills that are transferable within adult social care, including exploring issues relating to cultural change. 2, To evaluate the project and document the learning and employment redesign in a publication which will be accessible to other organisations working in adult social care. 3, To map the roles to the level 2 NOS in Health and Social Care.
Start Date: 21/07/08
End Date: 31/03/09
User Voice Gateshead
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Partners in policy making
Organisation: IC / Manchester
To identify the workforce development implications of involving people with disabilities, families and the workforce (in particular those with caring responsibilities) in leadership training, information, advice and support mechanisms which support the personalisation agenda.
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Organisation: IC / Manchester
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Objectives: 1, Research and learn from those who have run P.inP. course in the country. 2, Run the course and support participants to be involved in change. 3, Evaluate the course’s potential and identify the workforce development issues for others in running these courses.
Start Date: 01/01/09
End Date: 31/07/09
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Introduction
This theme is about people responsible for transforming social care. It includes the workforce development implications for these people and also the things they need to consider about the workforce when they are commissioning services, (and training provision) including considering the workforce implications. This theme will develop implementation tools & information.
Action learning sets to facilitate delivery of outcomes-based services
Organisation: EBD
To review the action learning sets which will bring about whole system change and identify success factors and other learning points.
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Organisation: EBD
Organisation Description: private business consultancy
Objectives: To identify how to implement outcome based services. To make personalisation a reality.
Start Date: 01/01/08
End Date: 30/11/08
Managers from day services in Cambridgeshire look to move from managers to leaders
Organisation: Cambridge
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Cambridge
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Objectives: To pilot a training programme for day centre managers to help them develop their leadership skills. This was a short term project which has not been completed
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Supporting sustainable innovation & working with commissioners
Organisation: Minney Healthcare
To develop ways of supporting innovative social care to be sustainable.
Organisation: Minney Healthcare
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