Devon’s Proud to Care campaign (funded by Health Education England) came second and was highly commended at the Drum Content Awards on 30 Oct 2019 in the Best Public Sector Content Marketing Award category. The campaign was to attract people to apprenticeships and entry level roles in health and social care and to education opportunities across all the Devon STP organisations.
The full results and the Proper Proud entry can be viewed by clicking on the links.
Thank you especially to our Proud to Care Ambassador, Nic Dunn, who worked so hard on this campaign with STP partner organisations and AB The Creative Agency.
All Proud to Care Ambassadors are welcome to show any of our film clips and those of our partners at careers events. Please email tracy.grant@devon.gov.uk for links.
Sally-Ann Turner
Proud to Care Devon
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13 Nov Chulmleigh Community College 6 pm - 8 pm Careers Fair
14 Nov Ilfracombe Academy 8.45 am - 1.20 pm Next Steps Day
14 Nov Exeter School 6 pm - 8 pm Careers Convention
18 Nov Horizon Centre, Torquay 10 am - 2 pm Information stand
19 Nov Dartmouth Academy 9 am - 3.15 pm Careers Fair
21 Nov St James School, Exeter 3.30 pm - 6.30 pm Parents Evening Y9
21 Nov Great Torrington School 6 pm - 8 pm Careers Fair
21 Nov Plymstock School 11.30 am - 3.10 pm Futures Event
22 Nov Sidmouth College 8.45 am - 1.30 pm Interactive Learning
28 Nov Holsworthy Community College 11.30 am - 5 pm Careers Fair
5 Dec St James School, Exeter 3.30 pm - 6.30 pm Parents Evening
For more information or to volunteer please email Tracy at tracy.grant@devon.gov.uk
As always, your feedback is important to us. Please follow the relevant links to a short two minute survey if you attended any of these events:
Proud to Care have funded workshops on Public Speaking Skills, following feedback from Ambassadors, running from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm
Tuesday 12th November, Mount St Mary Convent, Wonford Road, Exeter, EX2 4PF
Wednesday 20th November, The Hayridge, Exeter Hill, Cullompton, EX15 1DJ
Please click the above links to book a place. The workshops are fully funded by Proud to Care. Please note there is a cancellation fee of £25 per person if you cancel with less than 24 hours’ notice, or fail to arrive on the day.
There is an opportunity to participate in a part-funded pilot programme - Introducing the role of the Student Nursing Associate into Devon’s independent nursing homes! Book a place here.
Further information regarding the role and responsibilities of the Nursing Associate can be located on the Skills for Care website and the Nursing and Midwifery Council website
The NHS Oral Health Improvement Team are offering a fully funded training opportunity for care providers in Devon. For more information email Alexandra.Hatton@devon.gov.uk
The Eastern Care Services Team are offering a range of free workshops on pressure care, nutrition, falls, continence management and more. Full details here
Managers who have attended the FUNDED Leadership Development workshops commissioned by Devon County Council, have stated how they have helped them to further develop their setting’s procedures and practices. The workshops are being delivered in: Okehampton, Bideford, Newton Abbot and Honiton until March 2020. Times, venues, booking details and eligibility criteria can be found on COSMIC website: https://www.cosmic.org.uk/careworkshops
My name is Lynn Roddy, and I am the Director of the Tavistock and Tamar Valley branch of Home Instead. I live in Tavistock, Devon, with my husband, daughter and son.
After a 16 year career as an Army officer in the Royal Signals, I moved to Devon back in 2011, with my husband Mike, then a Royal Marine, and our 2 children. Having worked whilst the children were very small, I took the opportunity to be around for the children in their primary school years. With a serving heart, I immersed myself in voluntary activities, running the PA, managing sports teams and leading parenting courses for the local community.
My decision to start Home Instead Tavistock and Tamar Valley was influenced by my own personal experiences of the care sector.
My involvement with care came about when my mum, a fiercely independent lady who lived at home, started to struggle with day to day tasks. Like many people, I didn’t know where to start or who to go to for advice. I personally experienced how difficult it was to find quality and consistent care. Rushed visits were the norm with different stressed care workers focussing on completing set tasks rather than mum’s very real need for companionship…someone to sit and have a cup of tea and a chat, someone who could help me keep mum socially active. Mum deserved so much better. As mum’s health declined and seeing me so worried, mum asked to go into a care home. Mum saw how difficult it was for me to juggle my own family with the additional role of her care. However, mum would have dearly loved to stay in her own home……I came across Home Instead after a period of reflection some months after mum passed away.
I am now just over a year into my ownership of Home Instead Tavistock and Tamar Valley and am loving every minute. I cannot thank my team of office staff and CAREGivers enough for the difference they make to our clients lives every day.
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As a Proud to Care Ambassador you are able to claim expenses for travel and parking costs when attending events at schools, colleges, universities, job centres and recruitment events. You can claim either bus or rail fares or mileage when travelling to events and any parking charges during your time at an event. Please keep all receipts for travel and parking and submit copies with our expenses form to proudtocare@devon.gov.uk
Proud to Care would like to say congratulations to our Ambassador Sophie Carmody, who has been shortlisted for a Workforce Development award.
Good luck for the awards night and we look forward to hearing how you got on!
Congratulations to Proud to Care Ambassador John Powell, who along with Chris, suffering from brain damage from cerebral palsy, and their team, successfully scaled Kilimanjaro. They are raising money for people in their local community living with dementia.
If you would like to support them then their Just Giving page is here.
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Have you accessed funding through the Workforce Development Fund yet?
The CAHSC Learning Partnership are co-ordinating this funding worth a total of £220K for all adult social care providers to support staff learning and development. All you need to do is become a partner member with CAHSC Learning Partnership and be registered and compliant on ASC-WDS. You can then claim for any certificates dated between 1st January 2019 – 31st March 2020 for a range of qualifications and learning programmes.
Ambassador resources are available from:
- Your local Proud to Care Champion. Find your local Champion here.
- Health Education England have 16 A4 books covering individual health career areas and an A5 overview booklet. Order on 0345 6060 655 or advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk Allow two weeks for delivery.
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Skills for Care have a range of care careers and apprenticeship information and booklets. Contact your local Champion.
Do you or your company have anything you would like to be included in future newsletters?
If so, please send it to tracy.grant@devon.gov.uk by the second week of the month and I will do my best to include it in the next newsletter!
     
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