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The week’s issue contains another yellow Heat Heath Alert, so please take care.
We do our best to keep the content and structure of our PEN website up-to-date in these fast-changing times and your suggestions on how to improve the website are always welcome.
Yellow Heat-Health Alert
A Yellow Heat-Health Alert has been issued by the UK Health Security Agency and the Met Office and is in effect between 23/06/2023 at 09:00 and 26/06/2023 at 09:00.
This is a new impact based alerting system – further information on alert levels can be found below.
Advice and information from the UKHSA:
User guide to use of impact based Heat-Health Alerts system
UKHSA Action Cards
Heat-Health Alert Action card for the voluntary and community sector
Heat-Health Alert Action card for commissioners
Heat-Health Alert Action card for providers
Heat-Health Alert Action card for national government
Further Advice and guidance
UKHSA Adverse Weather and Health Plan and supporting evidence
Hot weather and Health: supporting vulnerable people
Find the latest weather forecasts and warnings
Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service
Flood Alerts and Warnings
Devon County Care Home Forum (Tuesday 27 June, 2-3pm) – Theme: Innovation
Please join us for the next County Care Home Forum meeting on Tuesday 27 June, 2-3pm. An open invitation to all care homes within the Devon County Council footprint to regularly meet with Devon’s Market Management Team, NHS Devon, Commissioners and other professionals to share information on key topics of interest and concern. There will be a discussion around Care Home commissioning work and be updated regarding other key national and local Care Home priorities.
June’s meeting will be themed around Innovation – an opportunity for us all to work collaboratively, think differently and innovate together to meet current unprecedented financial challenges. We invite you all to an open participatory session to come together, with an open mindset, willingness to put forward ideas and co-produce sustainable solutions.
The session will focus on the following five topic areas themed around Innovation and we are keen to hear your thoughts and approaches to innovative good practice within your care homes:
 Devon County Personal Care and Housing with Support (HwS) Forum (Friday 30 June, 2-3pm) focusing on innovation
Please note that the HwS meeting scheduled for 29 June at 11am has been cancelled.
Instead, a meeting has been arranged for 30 June 2-3pm which combines Housing with Support and Personal Care Providers.
The meeting will be themed around Innovation – an opportunity for us all to work collaboratively, think differently and innovate together to meet current unprecedented financial challenges. The session will focus on the following five topic areas themed around Innovation and we are keen to hear your thoughts and approaches to innovative good practice within your services. The diagram above demonstrates this also.
Enhancing Health Event- 25th July Newcourt Community Centre
The Eastern Care Services Team are pleased to announce that this is the first face to face Workshop we have arranged since before the Pandemic. We have organised various speakers along with representatives for you to meet and see what they can offer your care setting.
The Enhancing Health Event is all about enabling residents / service users to live their best lives possible and we are inviting you, the carers, to come and meet the teams that can help achieve this goal. Inviting care staff from care settings from across East, Mid Devon and Exeter only. Book your place.
25 July:
10am to 4pm, Newcourt Community Centre, Blakeslee Drive, Newcourt, Exeter EX2 7FN Orange Room Presentations from
10.30 - 10.50am Eastern Care Services Team RD&E
11 - 11.20am Bladder & Bowel Team RD&E
11.30 - 11.50am Speech & Language Therapy Team RD&E
12 - 12.20pm Infection Prevention & Control Team RD&E
1 - 1:20pm Oral Health Practitioners RD&E
1.30 - 13.50pm Falls Practitioner RD&E
2 - 2.20pm Tissue Viability Team RD&E
2.30 - 2.50pm Community Dietitians RD&E
3 - 3.20pm Palliative Care Facilitator RD&E
Industry Placements within the social care sector: how can they work in your organisation?
Working in partnership with the NHS England South West (Workforce, Education and Training) we are hosting this 90 minute session focused on the social care sector and how T Level industry placements can be used to support the short and long-term development of your workforce.
- What industry placements are and how they contribute to T Level qualifications;
- What industry placements look like for social care roles including models of delivery;
- How T Levels connect into other workforce initiatives and career pathways in H & S Care you may have in your organisation
- The kind of projects/tasks T Levels students can do and the workplace roles they can progress to after their course.
- Roles and responsibilities of employers, students and training providers;
- Case study insights from those already offering social care placements
- The tools, and resources available to support you along your journey.
Want to future proof your workforce? Come along to the session on Thursday, 20th July 2023, 10.30am - book your place.
Apprenticeship Levy- Now open for 2023-2024, £33,500 levy funds available for social care
Devon County Council can transfer apprenticeship levy funds to other employers in Devon. You can use this fund for apprenticeships for your staff to help develop your workforce. This includes new apprentices or existing employees.
"Our learners have just started their courses, we are really pleased we are able to achieve support with funding staff members to further their careers in care. We are really grateful for the funding as this allows us to give more staff the opportunity to further their training.” – social care provider
Find out more how you can apply for the fund.
Trusted Placement Advisor Service for Torbay and South Devon
New Trusted Placement Advisor (TPA) Service is available to support independent providers, ward staff and health and social care colleagues to ensure that we are supporting people to leave hospital at the right time with the right level of support.
Covering South Devon and Torbay, our TPA’s are available to support with
- Assisting Care Home Managers with their assessment process; by liaising with Care Homes, where there is an existing resident in hospital, for whom there is a potential change of needs
- Working with hospital discharge teams, to act on behalf of care home providers, to ensure appropriate nursing risk assessments and care plans are in place, to support and facilitate timely and safe discharges from hospital to care homes.
- Facilitating discharge where issues have arisen which could compromise the quality or timeliness of discharge from hospital, working with all relevant staff across the health, social care and independent sectors with a problem-solving approach
- Acting as a conduit between care homes and Trust staff to support communications, considerations of assessments and individual patient and care home requirements to ensure safe appropriate discharges for existing resident or new resident being discharged to care home
- Supporting improvement in hospital discharge arrangements from hospital to Care Homes and thus improve patient experience, clinical safety and patient discharge
Lynn Watson & Anna Simpson are both registered nurses and have a wealth of knowledge and experience between them spanning across acute, community and independent settings.
If you have a query about a current inpatient, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
tsdft.trustedplacementadvisor@nhs.net
01803 654708
Monday – Friday
9am – 5pm
 Celebrating the Success of the Virtual Dementia Tour – May 2023
The Virtual Dementia Tour, organised by the Health and Social Care Skills Accelerator Programme (HSSAP), part funded by the European Social Fund, was an incredible success!
The tour took place in May across five locations in Devon – Plymouth, Exeter, Tavistock, Barnstaple and Paignton – with a total of 169 people participating in the fully funded training from over 80 organisations. The participants ranged from individuals who work in Care Homes and Domiciliary Care to nursing students, unpaid carers, personal assistants, members of the police and fire services and many more.
The feedback from participants was entirely positive, with many expressing their desire to put the training into practice immediately by altering their approach to care and implementing the suggested solutions to improve the lives of people living with dementia.
‘[The training] changed the way I think about dementia. I thought I knew quite a lot about dementia because I work in healthcare. But this training has changed my perception of it’ - Nuch
‘This is a fabulous experience that everyone in care should experience to improve the care of dementia patients’ - Kelly
‘Every person who cares for someone with dementia should take this course’ - Amy
The Virtual Dementia Tour training provided participants with the experience of what having dementia is like. By walking in the shoes of a person with dementia, participants began to understand to a greater degree the challenges that people with dementia experience every day. The training stimulated the senses so that participants felt confused, isolated, lost, intimidated, vulnerable and much more. The participants were therefore able to understand what changes could be made to improve the quality of care for people with dementia and reflect on the provision of support and services to meet their needs.
The Health and Social Care Skills Accelerator Programme (HSSAP), part funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) is pleased to be offering FREE Optimal Handed Care Moving and Handling courses to Domiciliary Care Providers to support you and your organisation with single handed care approaches. These 3-hour sessions will increase your confidence and enhance your practical skills in safe moving and handling practice.
Courses will run weekly and be available through Petroc College and South Devon College from March to July 2023.
Spaces are limited so book early to avoid disappointment! To find out more or to book a place, please contact hssap@petroc.ac.uk or louisenorthcott@southdevon.ac.uk.
*Eligibility criteria applies.
** Places are only open to care staff that already have the mandatory Moving and Handling Training qualification.
Work for yourself offering care and support
Benefit from free professional advice to help you get set up!
Find out more - contact
Simon Tickner, Devon Community Catalyst
Call or text on 07741 260 674
Email: simon.tickner@communitycatalysts.co.uk
Leave your details on the website to get a call back.
Remember that the Devon COVID 19 Vaccination Support Team are here to help!
If you have an enquiry regarding your COVID 19 Vaccination, please contact the Vaccination Support Team Email:d-icb.devonvaccinationsupport@nhs.net Telephone: 01752 398 836 Check your eligibility here.
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