Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is learning of the pressures faced by conscientious led Care Providers striving to offer a caring and safe environment to both service users and staff. Safety monitoring is proving to be a invaluable care assist tool - bringing a more open and transparent culture into care homes as well as saving valuable resources within the care home sector and the NHS
CCFTV is very proud and excited to announce our partnership with UK CARE WEEK.
UK Care Week absorbs past healthcare brands (Dementia, Care & Nursing Home Expo and the Home Care Expo) into an event that is inclusive to the whole care industry.
In November 2021, the National Care Awareness Survey identified recruitment, retention and funding as the biggest challenges faced by the care industry.
The strength of the social care sector is its incredibly passionate and dedicated workforce; from care assistants to CEOs, they are heroes who want to make a difference in people’s lives. Unfortunately, it’s these very heroes that have suffered under the challenges of the industry. A lack of funding has stretched companies thin, leading to a lack of professional development opportunities and an uphill battle in recruitment and retention as other industries pay more and provide better support.
That’s where UK Care Week comes in. From solving staff recruitment and retaining existing staff, to providing staff support, accessing finance, offering training and promoting employee wellbeing UK Care Week hosts everything you need to succeed.
Keep Me Posted helps families do more for loved ones living with, or at risk of, dementia. Our picture postcard service helps families connect meaningfully with loved ones consistently, from a distance. Families use our product to ease elderly isolation, enhance loved ones’ sense of identity and well-being.
Through our digital platform, families rally to design weekly picture post cards for elderly loved ones. Using their account, they can also connect with curated content on the impact of dementia on the family as a whole and to learn more. All of this reassures families they are doing their part to care for their loved ones.
Grandparents receive a physical card each week which they collect in their personalised memory albums. They turn to them when they feel alone or with a carer to travel through their life experiences, all the while keeping them connected to family and active mentally.
My Life TV – the first video-on-demand streaming service designed to occupy, entertain and improve the wellbeing of people living with dementia, showing programmes that have been created and adapted for their cognitive needs – TV shows that they can follow and enjoy. My Life TV gives users at home or in a care setting easy access to our dementia-friendly platform via mobile or desktop, and it can be cast to a TV. The service has been developed by the UK charity My Life Films (No. 1157198) and is free to try for one month followed by a monthly subscription fee of £4 for up to three devices. '
Our vision is to support care homes to become much more of a community able to respond to the wide interests, skills and aspirations of people living there. We aim to reduce loneliness and support managers to prioritise meaningful engagements with their residents.
As part of this vision especially now in the extra pressure created by the Covid pandemic we are offering practical support for staff e.g. preparing care plans, workshops, audits and supervisions. These will help staff to keep well, prevent the danger of burn out and free up time for staff to really get to know their residents.
Biggest benefits for the homes when using our services:
? Improve residents' quality of life by listening to them and responding to their suggestions. By engaging with residents and responding to their interests staff can slow the cognitive and physical decline of the elderly people in their care.
? Provide access to partners in a whole range of fields who are able to meet the different expectations of residents in care homes and increase the variety of activities available.
? Improving the home's knowledge of skills, interests and aspirations of residents, families and their staff so the home is able to provide new opportunities to enrich the lives of all who live there.
? As the homes become more attractive places to live and work, it becomes easier to fill vacancies and operate at full capacity.
Care Campaign For The Vulnerable Ambassador Care Home Shedfield Lodge
Visit website I have worked in the health and social care sector for nearly 20 years, as a volunteer, Support Worker, Registered Nurse, Registered Manager, and in Senior Management. I have witnessed excellent practice and have worked in turnaround roles to rectify poor practice and culture.
I am extremely passionate about the work being done by CCFTV to support vulnerable people and those who care for them.
I am a business culture analyst, looking to support the care industry build strong communities through their culture. I will show how to bring permanent staff back in to the industry, save fortunes on wasted revenue and most importantly, provide the best care possible for all residents and service users. I look forward to connecting with other like-minded people to make the necessary changes that are well overdue.
We met Jayne Connery at her latest networking meeting and we were so pleased to talk to people who were as motivated as us to create real and meaningful change for the lives of the service users in care settings. We realised straight away that our goals were the same – keeping vulnerable people safe.
We are proud to be a supporter of the Care Campaign for the Vulnerable and applaud the fantastic progress being achieved by Jayne and her group of experienced and committed Health Care Professionals.
More and more progressive and forward-looking care providers are realising that to include all their staff in contributing and highlighting risk information can only lead to better overall performance and, specifically, greater safety for the service users. Notably, Say So can operate with existing procedures or technical installations such as CCTV safety monitoring and of course will not be limited by privacy considerations so has an access-all-areas deterrent capability. We believe the writing is on the wall, positive change is coming to communication in the workplace in the care sector.
With so many reviews, reports, studies and care staff themselves telling us of the concerns that they were unable to report, our service will unlock much more information than would otherwise be available to management concerning risks to the service user and ultimately to the care provider.
We believe that Say So is not only a tool for improving risk management – it also makes good financial and business sense in so many ways.
We look forward to working with Jayne and her campaign group to reach our common goal of keeping vulnerable people safe while receiving care. All details of our service are at www.say-so.co.uk and enquiries can be made at info@say-so.co.uk
Shaun Keep and Paul Adams
Directors - Say So Ltd
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Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is learning of the pressures faced by conscientious led Care Providers striving to offer a caring and safe environment to both service users and staff. Safety monitoring is proving to be a invaluable care assist tool - bringing a more open and transparent culture into care homes as well as saving valuable resources within the care home sector and the NHS