The Department of Health & Social Care has announced an extension to the Infection Control & Testing Fund (ICTF) to cover the period from October 2021 through until March 2022. This third round of funding will enable providers to put in place key measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 within and between care settings, including restricting staff movement between settings, and ensuring that staff are paid full wages when required to self-isolate.
Once we are in a position to do so, we will be writing out to providers to confirm how your organisation can access this further grant funding so please look out for our e-mail about this.
Gloucestershire Health and Social Care 2020-4 Framework:
The Gloucestershire Health and Social Care 2020-4 Framework re-opened on the 6th of September 2021 and will be open until the 1st of November 2021, giving you 8 weeks to complete and upload your tender to us via Procontract. Successful entrants would be joining the framework 1st April 2022.
If you have any questions about accessing the framework information, please email christine.slade@gloucestershire.gov.uk
If you have a query about the Framework, please use the online portal messaging service.
Gloucestershire Community Opportunities 2020-4:
The Community Opportunities element of the Glocuestershire Health and Social Care Framework opened on the 20th of September 2021 and will be open until the 15th of November 2021. Tender documents can be found on Procontract and successful applicants with be joining the framework 1st April 2022.
If you have any questions about accessing the framework information, please email christine.slade@gloucestershire.gov.uk. If you have a query about the Framework, please use the online portal messaging service.
Proud to Care LIVE is a unique careers event designed to showcase the wide variety of health and social care career opportunities available in Gloucestershire working with people of all ages who have care and support needs.
It is an opportunity for local people to find out more about working in our county’s care sector, with over 34 employers on hand to welcome you to chat about career opportunities, and even conduct interviews with people ready to take their first steps into a career in care.
The event will be a great opportunity to:
- Find out what roles are available across the sector
- Learn what training and development opportunities there are
- Attend workshops to showcase the variety of roles and care settings
- Sign up to the Proud to Care jobs board
- Chat to prospective employers about the opportunities they have available and have interviews on the day
There is no need to book, you can turn up on the day.
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When: Sunday 17 October 2021
Time: From 10am to 1pm
Where: Gloucester Rugby, Kingsholm Stadium, Kingsholm Road, Kingsholm, Gloucester GL1 3AX
For more information on the event please click here.
Gloucestershire Care Providers Association are proud to announce, in partnership with One Gloucestershire, that a free employee assistance programme is now available to all independent adult social care providers and their staff.
VIVUP have been chosen as the organisation to support providers and their staff. They have vast experience in this area and are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days of the year.
Staff can contact VIVUP directly or managers can make referrals to the programme (with consent).
VIVUP offer the following support:
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Information is available on the members pages at www.gcpa.co.uk or t: 01452 767664.
On the 20th July 2021 the Department of work and pensions published a health and disability green paper. This paper explores how the welfare system can better meet the needs of disabled people and people with health conditions, now and in the future, enabling people to live independently and move into work where possible.
The green paper considers the options for addressing some of the short- to medium-term issues in health and disability benefits. It will also start a discussion about the opportunities for wider change to deliver on the objectives of the health and disability benefit system.
We are consulting on the following aspects of our support for disabled people and people with health conditions:
- Ways to provide more support to help meet the needs of disabled people and people with health conditions and allow them to more easily access and use benefits and services.
- Improve employment support for disabled people and people with health conditions, and how to encourage people to take up that support, where possible.
- Short-term improvements to our current services such as improvements to assessments and decision making, to improve the experience of disabled people.
- Changes to future assessments and alternative approaches.
- Changes that could be made to the structure of the main benefits claimed by working-age disabled people and people with health conditions.
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We would be grateful if you could spare some time to complete the survey which can be accessed here.
You may be aware of the local launch via Proud to Care of the Red Bag Scheme within Care Homes. Following its success, we are now pleased to confirm the availability of the scheme within Gloucestershire supported living services.
For your information, a short introductory video can be viewed here (please note the Gloucestershire bag differs slightly to the one shown in the video).
Benefits to the individual and the service
- Supports reduction in hospital admissions. Ambulance and hospital staff can determine the treatment an individual needs more effectively, as all essential information is in the Red Bag. This means the individual may not need to be admitted to hospital after they have been checked over.
- If they do have to stay, the Red Bag contents can help to reduce long and short stays in hospital, lowering the risk from deconditioning associated with hospital stays.
- The Red Bag stays with the individual from the time they leave home, go to hospital and return home with copy of discharge summary from hospital in bag.
- Identifies a patient as being a supported individual, improving communication between the service and hospital which supports the right care, in the right place, at the right time.
One Bag per property will be provided free of charge (more than one may be available if required). We would like to encourage all supported living services to consider having a Red Bag available to support the hospital admission process.
If you would like to be part of the Scheme please email disabilitiescommissioning@gloucestershire.gov.uk expressing your interest by Friday 22nd October so we can include your request in the order. It is unlikely we will be able to offer these bags for free again so we would strongly urge everyone to access one now. For further information please do not hesitate to contact them team.
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To support world mental health day MHELO (Mental Health Experience Led Opportunities) a project within Inclusion Gloucestershire, are launching their self-care toolkit. There are so many benefits to self-care such as reduced stress and anxiety, improved physical and mental health, improved self-compassion, support us to feel more rested and energised, alongside many others, that we want to promote self-care and give people tools to support in their own self-care. This toolkit has been designed by people with lived experience of mental ill health who use self-care in their daily lives to help support their wellbeing. It’s filled with tips and ideas for tools that you can use at any time.
You can download it on the Inclusion Gloucestershire website here and it will soon be available as an editable PDF.
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