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This week we have ongoing training offers, and a short survey which will help inform future training offers.
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.
Care Homes: Information Resources Group Update
The Information Resources Group is picking up momentum in its commitment to co-produce practical guidance in the form of a handbook for Care Home providers, supporting the rollout of the proposed older persons’ care home fee model and placement process. On Wednesday 1 October, the group met in person, supporting joint planning and on Thursday 2nd October online. Thank you to all the providers who have contributed and that are supporting this work.
What’s Been Achieved
Members of the group have worked together to:
- Finalise a Terms of Reference
- Shape the Work Plan and Timeline
- Began to scope the information required for brokerage
- Prioritise key actions and outline guidance materials
Provider Membership
The group brings together a diverse mix of Care Home providers, including:
- Southern Healthcare Ltd
- Court Healthcare Ltd
- Brandon Care Limited
- Evolve Care Group
- Summerhayes Care Home Ltd
- Golfhill Ltd
- The Abbeyfield Society
- TLC Care
- Castle Grove Nursing Home
- BN Care Holdings
- Platinum Care Ltd
- Somerforde Ltd
DCC Commissioners support the group with additional input also provided by Operational and Quality and Contracting reps from DCC, Directors from the Devon Care Home Collaborative, alongside colleagues from NHS Devon ICB and Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust.
What’s Next
The group will now focus on:
- Delivering the work plan
- Developing clear accessible guidance
- Building a robust framework for information use in brokerage
- Information sessions being planned later in October for Care Home providers to attend.
For more information, please contact socialcarebusinessrelations-mailbox@devon.gov.uk
Local Skills Improvement Plan
Devon & Somerset Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) and Devon Chamber are gathering insights from Devon’s health and social care industry to influence local training and to help shape the future workforce.
They are looking for health and social care organisations to tell them the skills and training needs in their businesses by completing this short online survey:
Click here to fill out survey
Devon County Council Extends Partnership with Flourish to Support Social Care Training
Devon County Council has announced the extension of its partnership with Flourish's Click eLearning platform (previously known as Grey Matter Learning), providing part-funded social care courses for all adult care providers in the region until 31st March 2026.
Key Benefits
- Training matrix
- 134 eLearning courses
- Accessibility tools for all
Great feedback
Quote from Flourish user “This training platform has enabled us as a small new company to train our staff to a much higher level in a broader range of subjects that we could have afforded on our own. The accessibility features are also unique and ensure understanding regardless of language, dyslexia etc.”
How to get involved:
'Click' can be accessed for £1 per learner, per month, plus VAT, specifically for our Adult Social Care online course bundle. This is subsidised by Devon County Council who will be covering two thirds of the cost of 'Click'. To access the platform, use the form below and the team will get you setup in no time. https://flourish.co.uk/partner/devon-council
Learning Disability Annual Health Checks and Hospital Passports
People with a learning disability experience significant health inequalities, including lower life expectancy and a higher rate of avoidable deaths. This is often due to delayed diagnosis and poor access to appropriate healthcare. They face higher rates of chronic conditions like obesity, diabetes and epilepsy, as well as poorer mental health outcomes. Diagnostic overshadowing and failure to provide reasonable adjustments can contribute and perpetuate these inequalities
Providers are in a key position to make a difference to people’s lives and ensure individuals with a learning disability get the right support to access primary and secondary health services when needed
The following will ensure people receive better person-centred healthcare in a timely way:
- Supporting and encouraging individuals to attend an annual health check at their local GP practice, ensuring any health conditions are identified as soon as possible and screening initiatives have been utilised
- Support to complete a hospital passport to ensure any visit to out-patients or a hospital admission has all the relevant information of a person available to clinicians to make that interaction as person centred as possible and ensure any reasonable adjustments are identified as soon as possible
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