Many of you will already have been contacted by the SSSC about the changes and improvements which will be taking place in MySSSC in February. Please see below a brief Employer Guide which will give you an outline of some of the most significant changes.

Please note that while the system is being upgraded, there will be no employer or registrant access to MySSSC from Thursday 7^th February until Monday 11^th February.

More information will be shared by the SSSC over the coming weeks but if you have any questions about these changes please contact the Registration Team at the SSSC.

EmployersguidetoMySSSC

Nutrition is a hugely significant factor in the delivery of quality care for people living in care homes and their own homes all across the country. Colleagues at NHS Highland have produced a newsletter, Nutrition News, highlighting positive and innovative food, fluid and nutritional care across their locality in a variety of settings that will be of interest to anyone involved in the care and wellbeing of older people wherever they may be.

 

 

The Care Inspectorate has given an update on its Care About Physical Activity (CAPA) improvement programme, please see below.

For more information about this, please contact National Project Lead for Workforce Matters, Katharine Ross

November update 2018

The Scottish Government are supporting 100 people to take this 5 day professional development course, with 22 places available to social service workers in appropriate roles. It will support participants to achieve knowledge and skills at the Enhanced dementia practice level, as described in Promoting Excellence: a framework for all health and social service staff working with people with dementia, their families and carers (2011). On completing the course, Dementia Champions have access to a support network to connect them to ongoing professional development opportunities.

You are encouraged to apply if you are:

• working in a senior role with organisational support to implement both small and large scale change;
• working in a hospital setting e.g. hospital based social worker, or at the interface between hospital and community-based support
• working in a care home, care at home or other social care organisation.

The course will begin in April and end in August 2019.

Applications from social service workers must reach the SSSC by FRIDAY 8 DECEMBER 2018.

Email [email protected] to request an application pack.

 

The Care Inspectorate has given an update on its Care About Physical Activity (CAPA) improvement programme, please see below.

For more information about this, please contact National Project Lead for Workforce Matters, Katharine Ross

CAPA improvement programme update October 2018

Good Life Good Death Good Grief is launching a new Scottish Compassionate Communities Network on Mon 8 Oct at the Charteris Centre, Edinburgh.

The network is for people and organisations who want to get involved in practical work to build compassion in their own community, with a particular focus on improving people’s experiences of deteriorating health, death, dying and bereavement.

The event will give network members a chance to meet each other, discuss the potential creation of a Scottish Compassionate Communities toolkit, and learn about community development approaches.

This event is only open to people who have signed up to be part of the Compassionate Communities Network. However, it is free to join the network and you can sign up here. Once you’ve signed up, you can book a free place at the event here.

For more information please contact Robert Peacock – Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care – [email protected]

Leadership for Integration is offered in partnership by NHS Education for Scotland, the Scottish Social Services Council and the Royal College of General Practitioners (Scotland), receives its funding from the Scottish Government and has recently been extended with new cohorts commencing September 2018.

Leadership for Integration aims to support health and social care integration in Scotland. It comprises of two development opportunities for primary care and social care professionals including GPs, senior primary care professionals, and middle or senior managers in statutory, third or independent social care organisations who are working in lead roles in health and social care partnerships or localities to shape, develop and deliver integrated care.

It has two parts: one programme aimed at individuals and another focusing on groups:

You as a Collaborative Leader (YaCL) – four month programme for individuals, comprising two workshops and three coaching sessions.

Participants in the first five YaCL cohorts said it developed:

• Personal leadership styles necessary for integrated working
• Insights into personal patterns of behavior and blockages
• Greater sense of personal role and potential influence

 

“It was genuinely one of the most useful experiences professionally. I have never had

supervision which has allowed me to focus on who I am and what I bring to my role and how

I can affect change in such a structured, interesting and challenging way. Each session reinvigorated my motivation to do a good job.” (HSCP manager, YaCL)

 

Collaborative Leadership in Practice (CLiP) – six months group coaching and facilitation to develop positive group dynamics amongst primary health care and social care professionals in localities to develop collaborative leadership practices for effective integrated care.

 

Feedback from over 30 full CLiP sites across 21 HSCP areas point to:

• Greater willingness to recognise and explore individual and group assumptions
• Greater honesty, less defensiveness and open acknowledgement of fears or anxieties
• Greater confidence amongst GPs and other practitioners in talking to patients and referring them to other services, including non-clinical services

“…use of a mental health team member in a practice setting, that hadn’t been able to recruit GP’s, which ultimately led to fewer prescriptions.”

 

“CLIP has helped us all to get the imagination going. We share more and are more open.

We’re not assuming so much about each other. We’re not assuming that the other person

understands our work. And when we do this, the ideas get better. It’s small-scale, but it’s

what we can do.” (East Kilbride, CLIP)

 

Applications

Applications for a further two cohorts of YaCL are now open.  To apply, complete the application here or on the flyer. We anticipate that interest in places will be high and you are encouraged to apply promptly.

Applications for both Cohort 1 & 2 should be submitted by Friday 7^th September 2018.

 

To apply for CLiP in your locality please register your interest by contacting Julie Higgins, on email [email protected] by 7^th September 2018.

 

Leadership for Integration Flyer