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Supporting people who employ their own care and support staff
29th July 2014
Care Act 2014 &
Supporting people who employ their own care and support
staffOssie Stuart
Significance
• The Care Act 2014 is simply the most important piece of welfare legislation in generations because it is the first overhaul of the social care statutes in England for over 60 years.
• It brings into statute (that means give legal force) to a whole range of social care actives that did not enjoy this in the past.
• The Act is made up of 80 Sections, of which all but sections 15, 16, 28, 29 and 72, will take effect from April 2015. The remainder will take affect on April 2016.
The Care Act imposes seven new general responsibilities on local authorities.
1. Promoting individual well-being:
2. Preventing needs for care and support:
3. Promoting integration of care and support within health services:
4. Providing information and advice:
5. Promoting diversity and quality in provision of services:
6. Co-operating generally:
7. Co-operating in specific cases:
Other Sections that are important for the Individual Employer workforce
1. Eliminate the concept of ‘self-funders’:
2. Adult Safeguarding:
Individual Employer Resources
Helping you make the choice…
Range of small leaflets
PA Toolkit & CDs & downloadables
Videos around employing Pas
Vast library of other SfC materials – Dignity Toolkit, “Finders Keepers”
…helping you employ
Induction Standards
Common Induction Standards
Management induction standards
Qualifications and Training
Pre-entry, knowledge qualifications
Occupational Competency and Apprenticeship qualifications
Specific, professional development qualifications and training
Pre-entry, knowledge qualifications • Level 1-3 (very basic to intermediate difficulty)• All knowledge• Mapped against Common Induction
Standards• Can be done at college, often at nominal
fees, as evening courses
“Level x Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care”
Occupational Competency Quals
Occupational Competency = Diplomas (NVQ replacements)
Assessed on the Job with practical demonstration of knowledge
6 months to a year
Candidates must carry out a range of tasks at work
Mostly, these have to be paid for
Apprenticeships
Centered around the Diploma, with the Knowledge qualification added AND Maths and English training and tests
Often free for candidates 16-24, mostly have to be paid for above 25
Specific, professional development qualifications Qualifications of different sizes at different
levels, mostly delivered in weeks, around specialist areas like Physical Disabilities, food safety and nutrition etc
Accessed through colleges and training companies
Have to be paid for
SfC provide funding for individual employers to train their staff and themselveshttp://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Funding/Individual-employer-funding/Individual-employer-funding.aspx
SfC Funding Process
1. Identify what training you and your PA need
2. Find who can provide this and ask for a quote
3. Complete the SfC application form using the guidance
4. SfC will assess your application and send you the money
5. Have the training and pay your training provider
6. Send SfC the evidence of training
Who we are
• Local, user-led charity • Supporting individuals regardless of age,
disability, impairment, health, or capacity • To live independently at home and in the
community. • Wide range of services
Advocacy
GoLocal
New Horizons
YourSay
Pooling Budgets
Volunteering
Connecting Communities
Information and advice for
employers and their PAsfind-a-pa
Money Advice Project
Advice for Independent
Living Children’s Personal
Budget Pilot
Sitting and Befriending
Service
How it developed
• Paper based PA register in Richmond since 2004• Need to streamline matching • Online service launched 2011• Dating sites informed development• DP clients part of trials • Clients use independently or
Ruils supported • Gradual improvement of
functionality since 2011
What is it?
• Confidential matching service• Allows PAs and employers to add
their profile and details of support needed
• PAs and employers can search to find suitable matches
• Messages can be sent securely on line to make initial contact.
Who can use it?
• DP clients and self funders • Richmond, Kingston,
Hounslow • Licence with DASL in
Lambeth • Partnership with POhWER
in 4 areas
• Small charge to employers, free for PAs• Message protocol for efficient running• Upload facility for photos, references, DBS
and JDs• Employers responsibility for making
checks (employ-a-pa.co.uk supports this)• Emergency page for when employers need
help in a hurry (no additional charge)
How it works
• Register as a PA or employer• Employers pay via membership code or
paypal, debit card, bank transfer• Verify email address.• Make your profile • Upload references and job descriptions• Publish your profile • Search for PAs / employers• Save those you like in favourites.• Send messages to make contact.
www.employ-a-pa.co.uk Guides employers through the process of
interviewing, checking, employing and managing the PA relationship
New Look
New Facilities
• Improved accessibility - translation / visual • Admin facility for partners• Partner area branding • Partner information and news pages• Flexible payment options and memberships
Introducing our Personal Assistant Register
Supporting personal choice
About Vibrance
• We are a social care charity that provides a range of services
• We work across 11 Local Authorities
• We are celebrating our 25th birthday!
• We have been providing self directed
services in Bromley since 2012
• In March 2014 we launched LinkMeUp
Supporting personal choice
What is LinkMeUp?
• LinkMeUp is our online Personal Assistant register
• Aims to bring together people looking for support and PAs
• All PAs are referenced, and have DBS/Right to Work checks
• www.linkmeup.org.uk
Supporting personal choice
Our Film
Supporting personal choice
Why did we develop LinkMeUp?
Listening to our stakeholders...
• Finding PAs – particularly suitable ones
• Responsibility of being an employer can be overwhelming
• Finding work as a PA
• Isolated role
• Support from Skills for Care
Supporting personal choice
How did we develop LinkMeUp?
Worked with a wide range of partners...
• People employing or thinking about employing a PA
• People working as a PA or thinking about working as a PA
• Commissioners in Bromley
• Skills for Care
• Developers
Supporting personal choice
The future of LinkMeUp
• A ‘one-stop-shop’ for all aspects of Self Directed Support
• Support for self funders
• Easy access on the go
• The opportunity to network with peers
• Pooling budgets & community connecting
Supporting personal choice
Contact us
Website: www.linkmeup.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @linkmeup_UK
Telephone: 0208 290 6639
Address: Unit E, 216 – 218 Homesdale Road, Bromley,BR1
2QZ
Dignity
Introduction• at the centre of everything we do • focuses on the value of every person as
an individual• respecting other’s views, choices and
decisions• not making assumptions about how
people want to be treated• working with care and compassion
ActivityWhen do we think about our own dignity and what it means to us?
a)Think of a time in your life where you have felt embarrassed or you have felt like your dignity has been compromised
b)Think of a time when your dignity has really been upheld in your life
Media clip – ‘little things make a big difference’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueLqAJRxKpQ
Why is dignity important?
• Empowerment
• Choice
• Control
What do you see, what do you see?Are you thinking, when you look at me-A crabbit old woman, not very wise,Uncertain of habit, with far-away eyes,Who dribbles her food and makes no replyWhen you say in a loud voice,I do wish you’d try.Who seems not to notice the things that you doAnd forever is loosing a stocking or shoe.Who, unresisting or not; lets you do as you willWith bathing and feeding the long day is fill.Is that what you’re thinking,Is that what you see?Then open your eyes,nurse, you’re looking at me.I’ll tell you who I am as I sit here so still!As I rise at your bidding, as I eat at your will.I‘m a small child of 10 with a father and mother,Brothers and sisters, who loved one another-A young girl of 16 with wings on her feet,Dreaming that soon now a lover she’ll meet,A bride soon at 20- my heart gives a leap,Remembering the vows that I promised to keep.At 25 now I have young of my ownWho need me to build a secure happy home;
A woman of 30, my young now grow fast,Bound to each other with ties that should last;At 40, my young sons have grown and are gone,But my man’s beside me to see I don’t mourn;At 50 once more babies play around my knee,Again we know children, my loved one and me.Dark days are upon me, my husband is dead,I look at the future, I shudder with dread,For my young are all rearing young of their own.And I think of the years and the love that I’ve known;I’m an old woman now and nature is cruel-Tis her jest to make old age look like a fool.The body is crumbled, grace and vigor depart,There is now a stone where I once had a heart,But inside this old carcass, a young girl still dwells,And now and again my battered heart swells,I remember the joy, I remember the pain,And I’m loving and living life over again.I think of the years all too few- gone too fast.And accept the stark fact that nothing can last-So open your eyes, nurse, open and see,Not a crabbit old woman, look closer-See Me.
“Crabbit Old Woman” Poem
Becoming a Dignity Champion
• Dignity in Care network
• http://www.dignityincare.org.uk/
Thankyou
we help people who do a great job do it better
Skills for Care resources to support value-based recruitment
Laura Anthony – Area Officer (SW London)
Value-Based Recruitment Toolkit
• Developed in partnership with DH, NSA and McIntyre
• Toolkit launched July 2013 by Care Minister Norman Lamb
• Includes job descriptions, profiling tool, interview questions and links to further resources
• Supports the employer’s “usual” recruitment practices
• Results of evaluation due shortly
The Profiling Tool
• Online resource• Provides you with some indicators and
points to discuss around behaviours at the interview
• http://profiles4care.com/participate/
A Question of Care – A Career for You?
Interactive tool aimed at people considering a career in social care
Provides video clips and scenarios to test responses and assess values
Immediate feedback is given for each choice, to demonstrate sector values
Produces a report for the individual at the end of the test
www.aquestionofcare.org.uk
2nd Floor Westgate, 6 Grace StreetLeeds, LS1 2RPTel: 0113 241 1240
2nd Floor Westgate, 6 Grace StreetLeeds, LS1 2RPTel: 0113 241 1240
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2nd Floor Westgate, 6 Grace StreetLeeds, LS1 2RPTel: 0113 241 1240
Social Care Commitment An agreement between employers and
employees (including IEs and their PA), whereby both sides sign up to seven clear commitments to develop skills and knowledge
All those signing up will be given tasks and supporting resources to ensure they meet their commitment
www.thesocialcarecommitment.org.uk
Further information
http://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Finding-and-keeping-workers
Laura Anthony, Area Officer for SW London
07890 514106 / [email protected]
Thank you for attending