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In this issue:
Welcome to the January edition of the Adult Social Care Provider Bulletin.
Happy New Year to all of our wonderful adult social care providers. We hope you have enjoyed the festive season and are looking forward to another year of supporting adults in Coventry to achieve wonderful outcomes.
We hope you find this bulletin useful. If there is anything you would like to see in the next edition, please contact Mae.Fletcher@coventry.gov.uk.
- 1 New Year's Day/Hogmanay
- 4 World Braille Day
- 5 Twelfth Night (Christian)
- 6 Epiphany (Christian)
- 12 Baptism of the Lord Jesus (Christian)
- 13 Lohri Maghi (Sikh)
- 14 Makar Sankranti (Hindu)
- 14 Mahayana New Year (Buddhist)
- 20 Brew Monday
- 20 Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh (Sikh)
- 21 World Religion Day
- 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- 27 Lailat al-Mira (Islam)
- 29 Luna New Year
Skills for Care
Locality Manager - Coventry & Warwickshire
Email: Rachel.Shaw@skillsforcare.org.uk Mobile: 07971 078309
Next Registered Manager Network Meetings
Midlands Learning Disability and Autism Network: Monday 17 March 2025
- North Warwickshire Network - Tuesday 18 February 2025
- South Warwickshire Network – Tuesday 11 March 2025
- Coventry Network – Tuesday 25 February 2025
If you are interested in joining a network or would like to attend one of the meetings listed above please contact me for more information.
Webinars and events
Leading through digital change programme
Starts Thursday 9 January 2025 | 10am - 3pm | Online
Are you an adult social care manager or leader ready to embrace digital technology? This four-week programme, designed and delivered by Skills for Care and the National Care Forum, will help you identify digital solutions to meet your organisation’s needs and lead digital transformation with confidence. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your digital leadership skills, improve the quality of your service and embrace the benefits of digital technology in adult social care.
Book now
Being prepared for CQC assessment seminar
Tuesday 14 January 2025 | 10am - 3.30pm | Online | £120 +VAT
With the changes to CQC assessment, this one-day interactive seminar brings together frontline managers to learn about the step-by-step ways to be ready to evidence that your service meets CQC expectations to achieve a Good or Outstanding rating. Discover practical ways to prepare for assessment and evidence the quality care you’re providing.
Book now
Evidencing CQC safe and effective staffing through workforce planning
Tuesday 14 January | 9:30am – 3pm | Online | £250 +VAT
Join our one-day, online seminar to help you demonstrate to the CQC that your service has safe and effective staffing. Learn how to workforce plan using current data and information tailored to your service. You will leave with exclusive, customised tools to help you ensure staff are competent and supported to provide safe, effective, and person-centred care. It will mean you have fewer compliance issues during CQC assessments and help you to make financial savings.
Book now
Moving Up programme
There is now very limited availability for the cohort which starts on 22 January 2025. The next cohort starts in April 2025 and we have a waitlist available for people interested in joining.
ASC-WDS Virtual tour
Virtual tour - Thursday 16 January 2025 | 10:30am - 11:30am | Zoom
We’re running our next virtual tour of the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) on Thursday 16 January 2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am.
We’ll be giving social care providers who:
- don’t have an ASC-WDS account a demonstration of how the service works
- already use ASC-WDS and join tour a reminder of how they can make the most of their account.
Book your place
Resources
GO Guide
We have now sold out of the print edition of this publication, and it has been removed from sale on our Bookshop. With the potential that the CQC might make some light revisions to their assessment process next year, we have no plans to print additional copies for the foreseeable future. However, the guide is still available as an exclusive PDF resource for our Registered Manager Members.
Whilst the GO Guide is not currently available as a printed resource, our Registered Manager Members have access to the full 300-page PDF edition to use with their services. The PDF edition will continue to be updated to reflect any light changes to assessment that the CQC may introduce in 2025.
General Information
Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate and funding
The Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate is an Ofqual-regulated qualification aimed at setting a baseline care standard, reducing repeat training, and recognising the professionalism of the care workforce. Digital skills form one of the key criteria.
Employers can claim funding for the qualification through the Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS). We recently ran a webinar which covered all things LDSS - you’ll find the recording on the Skills for Care website.
Find out more about the qualification
Regulated professional workforce
Digital skills communities of practice
Between now and February, we’re hosting a series of online community of practice sessions to increase digital confidence and technology skills for occupational therapists, social workers, principal occupational therapists and principal social workers who work in adult social care. The topics that will be covered are:
- what does artificial intelligence (AI) mean to me?
- digital leadership
- the internet of things.
You can attend any or all of the community of practice sessions.
Find out dates, more information and book
 Health and Wellbeing Event
The Coventry Muslim Forum in partnership with NHS in Coventry & Warwickshire invite you to a health and wellbeing event in Coventry.
Services and information about:
- Healthcare advice about Ramadan
- Mental health awareness and support
- Type 2 Diabetes and managing your condition
- Adult social care and support
- Stopping smoking, chewing tobacco/betel nut
- Respiratory and being more active
- Vaccinations
- Physical health and being more active
- Healthy eating and portion control
- Dental health - looking after your teeth and gums
FREE health screening testing:
- Blood pressure tests
- Blood glucose testing
- Cholesterol test
- BMI checks
Local NHS staff will be on hand offering advice, information, support, and health screening checks, separately for men and women.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided.
Sunday 16 February 2025
10.30am - 2pm
Coventry Muslim Resource Centre, Coventry, CV6 5EE
Belvedere Park Nursing Home reflects on a year of success!
Belvedere Park have produced a year in review of positive highlights with their residents throughout 2024 including arts, crafts, cooking, games, one to one sessions, music, picnics, wellbeing activities, and birthdays - including one resident who celebrated their 100th birthday last year!
It is great to reflect on all the great work undertaken over the last year to celebrate hard work and positive outcomes. Well done Belvedere Park!
If you would like to share some of your positive stories with us, email Mae.Fletcher@coventry.gov.uk to be included in a future bulletin.
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