New Types of Worker - Useful Links
Useful Links
The following are useful links for the NToW web site
General Links
- Department of Health - The guide sets out how health and social care organisations need to take a strategic approach to the implementation of New Ways of Working. The focus is on Mental Health Services http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/
PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_079102 - Changing workforce programme long term conditions. Reports on workforce re-design in services for people with long term conditions. Examples of integrating teams from health and social care are given. http://www.nhsemployers.org/workforce/workforce-1406.cfm
- POPP web site - The Partnership for Older People’s Project is a large scale pilot project funded by the Department of Health. Pilot projects are very varied; however they all have to demonstrate aspects of innovation. This innovation includes changing the way that people work - job roles, new types of jobs and new ways of organising services, particularly across traditional agency boundaries. The web link leads to the interim evaluation report. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/
OlderPeoplesServices/DH_4099198 - CSIP (Care Service Improvement Partnership) - The CSIP site contains examples of service development to meet the policy agenda of "Our Health, Our Care Our Say". This link leads to policy guidance on commissioning the future workforce. http://www.csip.org.uk/resources/publications/social-care.html?keywords=workforce%20reform
- In Control - The In Control web site gives extensive information about services and resources for people who use services. A central focus of the site is information about individual budgets. Individual budgets are a means whereby the funding for purchase of services goes directly to the person who uses social care services. http://www.in-control.org.uk/
- DH web site on Individual Budgets - http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Policyandguidance/Healthandsocialcaretopics/Socialcare/DH_4125774
- Individual Budgets - This site gives examples regarding the pilot projects who are implementing individual budgets. The 13 Local Authorities involved in the pilot are Gateshead, Coventry, West Sussex, Manchester, Oldham, Barnsley, Lincolnshire, Barking and Dagenham, Kensington and Chelsea, Leicester, Bath and North East Somerset, Essex and Norfolk. http://individualbudgets.csip.org.uk/index.jsp
- Think Care - This web site acts as an information gateway for workforce issues in social care. http://www.thinkcare.co.uk
- The children’s workforce - Changes in the way that the children’s workforce is organised and developed are similar to changes in adult social care. The site has information about integrated working in children’s services. http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/projects/newtypesofworker.htm
- New Ways of Working - This site explores issues concerning New Ways of Working within services for people with a mental health problem. http://www.newwaysofworking.org.uk/default.aspx
- The Social Care Institute for Excellence - The Social Care Institute for Excellence provides information about good practice in social care and includes a large section on issues to do with workforce planning. This page also provides links to practice guides on improving social care, including involving users and carers. http://www.scie.org.uk
- People who use services leading service development. For some excellent examples look at: - http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/04/16/107920/the-excellence-networks-top-user-involvement-teams.html
- New Local Authority Circular - A new Local Authority Circular sets out information to support the transformation of social care. It includes copy of the Social Care Reform Grant Determination and the details of the new ring-fenced grant to help councils to redesign and reshape the social care workforce over the next 3 years http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/SocialCare/Socialcarereform/index.htm
- Personalisation Self-Assessment Tool - The Department of health / CSIP are planning online tools to help councils deal with personalising social care in their area. http://self-assess.personalisation.org.uk/csips/
- Practical guide to integrated working - A practical guide to integrated working. This guide is aimed at policy makers to enable them to make good decisions about local integration. This is an updated version of a guide published in 2004. http://kingsfund.blogs.com/health_management/2008/02/practical-guide.html
- The Social Perspectives Network: Mental Health -
The Social Perspectives Network (SPN) is a unique coalition of service users / survivors, carers, policy makers, academics, students, and practitioners interested in how social factors both contribute to people becoming distressed, and play a crucial part in promoting people's recovery.
SPN aims to share work and information looking at mental health from a social perspective; to support people to put social perspectives into practice; and influence the development of mental health policy from a social perspective.
The network have been undertaking work on new types of working for social workers.
http://www.spn.org.uk/index.php?id=992 - The CSIP housing network provides a wealth of information about accomodation for older people and ideas for commissioning for good quality care - http://www.icn.csip.org.uk/housing/
- Alzheimer's Association - The Alzheimer's Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research. http://www.alz.org
- Community Care - Direct payments, personal budgets and individual budgets http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/06/102669/direct-payments-personal-budgets-and-individual-budgets.html
- Hugo Minney - A blog by Hugo Minney to help innovative projects to assess the benefits and costs of their service and so become sustainable. http://benefits.minney.org
The SUCH Project
- The SUCH Project - http://www.suchproject.org.uk
- Skills for Care - http://www.topssengland.net
- NMDS-SC - http://www.nmds-sc.org.uk
Assistive Technology
- Working with Older People - http://www.pavpub.com/wwopflyer
Dementia Care - an Introduction to the Jewish Care Project
- Alzheimer's Society report - Opportunities for improving standards of dementia care in care homes. The Alzheimers society have recently produced a report on dementia care for older people http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/download_info.php?fileID=270
- A vision for best practice in care homes - My Home Life: Quality of life in care homes, published in partnership with The National Care Forum (NCF) sets out its vision for care practices in care homes.
The report collates best practice within the sector and includes testimonies from a cross-section of care home residents, as well as, relatives and staff. It launches a two year development project aimed at supporting staff to make quality of life a reality in care homes. The care home as a community model requires attention to five essential processes
- Understanding that communities are created through relationships between residents, family, friends, staff and the wider community
- Recognising roles, rights and responsibilities and the need to balance risks
- Creating opportunities for giving and receiving
- Creating opportunities for older people to realise their potential
- Establishing a community atmosphere.
- Good practice guidance for staff and managment in residential and nursing homes for people with dementia - The guidance contains lots of good advice on training and development of staff, research from the USA, but very relevant to the UK. http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?ss=15&doc_id=10620&nbr=5562#s24
Rendezvous for Justice and Equality (ABSWAP) London
- The Association of Black Social Workers & Allied Professions - http://www.abswap.org
- Our health, our care, our say - http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/Ourhealthourcareoursay/index.htm
