Adult Social Care COVID-19 Bulletin Issue 259: 26 April 2022

East Sussex County Council sent this bulletin at 26-04-2022 01:41 PM BST

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Updates for providers.

Issue 259: 26 April 2022

The most up-to-date information from these bulletins can be found on our website.

For general advice about COVID-19 please go to: nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

This bulletin covers:

Infection prevention and control: working beyond COVID

Workforce: national minimum wage rate changes

Recruitment and retention: using Instagram to find and keep staff

Care home huddle: join us tomorrow

Infection prevention and control

Working Beyond COVID

Key infection prevention and control (IPC) working practice as we ‘work beyond COVID’ is the theme of this free online event, run by the community-based social care Infection Prevention Control Project.

If you are a:

  • personal assistant
  • Support With Confidence member/applicant (PAs and businesses)
  • unpaid carer
  • volunteer

or you are an unregulated adult social care provider or offer day services, you are invited to join this session.

It’s tomorrow, 27 April 7:00pm to 8:30pm, on MS Teams.

Register your place on Eventbrite

If you’d like more information, please email: PAIPCProtectCovid19@eastsussex.gov.uk

Workforce

National minimum wage and national living wage

The rates for the national minimum wage and national living wage changed from 1 April. ACAS has more information, tips and advice  about the changes.

You can also register for a joint ACAS and HMRC webinar about the rate changes. 

There is a choice of dates: 04 May 2:30pm to 3:30pm or 10 May 10:30am to 11:30am.

Recruitment and retention

Using Instagram to find and keep staff

Working with LikeMind Media, Skills for Care is offering a series of masterclasses to support you to use different social media platforms to find and keep staff.

Instagram is the focus for this session on 03 May 10:00am to 11:30am.

Register your place

Care home huddle

Join us tomorrow

Our next care home huddle is tomorrow, 27 April at 11:00am.

Ross Boseley, East Sussex Public Health Specialist, will bring the latest public health updates and there will also be a Q&A session with a clinical lead.

Join the meeting

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