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Your Life, Your Way Newsletter Edition 11

This month's newsletter update features the following...

• Community Offer workstream update
• YLYW Programme- Key changes
• Programme communication

Community Offer workstream update

This month’s spotlight is on the Community Offer workstream. Our last detailed update from this workstream was given in January 2021. Since then a lot has taken place, our workstreams main focus has been on delivering the Local Coordinator role to sit within the East Riding's local communities.

As a workstream we have also been involved in a number of other activities over the past few months, including looking at the best ways to distribute our local grant funding within local communities, knowledge sharing ideas for our staff and ways we can help support our colleagues in Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Training. 

The Local Coordinator Model.

The Local Coordinator model has been designed with a key focus of helping adults within their local communities access assets within their communities to support them to remain independent and reduce, prevent or delay the need for longer term care packages. This is very much in line with our focus on building up our early intervention and prevention offer across the service. 

While the Local Coordinator will not carry out care duties but will play a key part in aiding existing services by delivering preventative, time-limited, independence-focused support to residents with a view to increasing their independence, building resilience, improving their wellbeing and reducing reliance on formal support, across health and social care, as well as other public services, both now and in the future.

Coordinators will be situated with in the six East Riding localities aiding an already strong community offer and a well-developed local environment for supporting residents to understand and access the wealth of opportunities and provisions available. Using a strength based approach in line with our overall approach across Adult Social Care, Local Coordinators will integrate within the East Riding area to build connections, helping people to stay strong whilst promoting independence but using proportionate community support when and where required.

We have envisaged that there will be two levels of service with a view to supporting residents before the need for formal care and helping in the prevention of their needs escalating further for those receiving support already.

Level 1: A plan co-produced and delivered with the individual and their family over a short period of time (e.g. 1-2 months) to maximise access to the community offer support system, maintain independence, and prevent needs from escalating into Adult Services. This time frame will not be a key measurement as each individual will require a tailored plan to support their individual needs.

Level 2: A detailed plan, co-produced and delivered over a longer-period with the individual, Adult Social Care, their family network and wider community.  This is likely to benefit those with complex needs who are currently receiving formal care and will aim to prevent or delay their needs from escalating and in some cases, support them to manage their needs in a more strengths-based way in the community and reduce the need for formal care over the longer-term.

Moving forward, our vision... Our vision is strongly centred on embedding the Local Coordinator within our local authority areas, working closely with all our teams across Adult Social Care, Primary Care and the Voluntary and Community Sector. The Coordinators role will complement our existing support services currently in place such as community connectors, social prescribing link workers and the community build team. Our goal is to have the service up and running by autumn of this year to help with demand into our existing services. We have seen from the recent local and national lockdowns that people have become disengaged with community activities due to isolation and restrictions in their day to day life and have relied on care support. The Coordinators will look to develop close working relationships with all of the ASC teams to support in the aim of assisting our adults in their independence and maximising their community benefits. The Local Coordinators will also be working collaboratively, engaging with adult social care teams over the summer to co-develop referral procedures as we progress.

The Local Coordinator Model and working with teams across ERYC... 

The Local Coordinator will be involved across a number of teams and be a key link to between our existing services and local communities. We envisage that if an adult was to come through our CSN or Front Door after initial conversations the adult could be signposted to speak to the local coordinator, there they could provide real time information to see if their needs could be met within the local community and help in preventing the need or reduction of formal care services.

The coordinator role has also been developed to help in supporting ASC teams understand and utilise community opportunities, we hope to have them attend and support existing team meetings, huddles and MDTs to share information on this and when they are supporting an adult already in services helping to discuss and input into cases presenting where the community offer could support. Coordinators will also link in with social prescribing locality meetings to share information about community opportunities to build local community networks and support with ongoing signposting.

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD Training).

Another one of our key focus areas at this moment is looking at securing a provider to deliver ABCD training to our community facing teams. Our initial plan is to roll this out across up to 20 community based workers while developing a wider training plan across the sector. We believe ABCD training will play a key role in assisting you to build and develop a strength based approach to community led development and help staff with key skills in how to work with their local communities to identify community strengths and feel more engaged in activities. We are currently looking for Champions to come forward to attend this training and be a core aspect of helping with the knowledge and delivery of our ABCD training. If this is something of interest to you please contact Jeff Patchett.

YLYW Programme- Key changes

Since last months update the YLYW Change Programme has had some key personnel changes of which we want to keep you up to speed with, these include... 

• Aimee Harper's maternity leave has led to Claire Salt joining the team, starting her role as Project Manager for the Maximising Independence workstream. 
• Following the departure of Lynne Froud and Anita Bingham, Jessica Cross has moved across to become our new Front Door Workstream Lead. As well as Jessica, Heather Tasker and Liz Hardy have both joined to support as Maximising Independence and the Discharge to Assess/ Short Term Offer workstream leads respectively. 
• We will also be saying goodbye shortly to Lisa Black from the YLYW Programme. Lisa is our current Early Intervention and Prevention Project Manager however is moving on to work within the Corporate Business Change team. We wish Lisa the very best of luck in her new role!

Programme Communication

As part of our ongoing communication and engagement, members of the programme team have attended staff team meetings to share up to date progress and to give you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have. We will continue to do this at regular intervals throughout 2021. As well as this, we’re keeping you informed via various channels including: Up to date YLYW intranet page where you can access the latest updates and relevant documents Email updates and the YLYW newsletter to inform you of progress. Our dedicated email yourlifeyourway@eastriding.gov.uk where you can provide feedback, raise concerns or request additional support.