SeminarsCare Roadshow Gateshead will host informative seminars lead by important care industry experts. These educational seminars are FREE to attend and will provide you with the latest updates and advice.
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 | 10.30am: The Critical Role of the Manager in Good Social Care
Social Care Association
There are 28,000 managers of regulated care services in England alone. They are acknowledged to be a key influence on quality of service. They work between residents and service users, families, social workers, contractors, health professionals, health and safety staff, environmental services and CQC inspectors. They often manage large numbers of staff and millions of pounds worth of business. The SCA asserts they should be regarded as the lead professional among all of those who have dealings with the care home or domiciliary service rightly being regarded as ‘champion’, ‘leader’ and ‘protector’ for the service they manage. Come to this workshop to hear more and about our plans for building up a network of Registered Care Managers.
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| 11.30am: What does the CQC’s inspection programme around dignity and nutrition mean for the care homes sector’s nutritional standards?
Lee Sheppard, Divisional Manager - Care Homes, apetito
2011 saw a hugely increasing focus on Nutrition from the CQC. Starting with a 3 month inspection programme into 100 Hospitals, which found that 49% of Hospitals were not fully compliant, the CQC have announced that there will be a further 500, “Dignity & Nutrition Inspections” in 2012. The Inspections will take place from April to June, with a report expected in the autumn. With the NACC recently launching its best-practice guide, “How to Comply with CQC's Outcome 5: Meeting Nutritional Needs,” Healthcare Improvement Scotland publishing “Improving Nutrition...Improving Care” supported by a raft of other Nutrition initiatives, there is no doubt that Nutrition in care home catering has a far greater focus than ever before. Against this, BAPEN have recently announced that 41% of Care Home residents are at risk of malnutrition, so this seminar asks, “What is The Future for Nutritional Standards in Our Care Home Sector?”
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 | 12.30pm: Better Leadership, Better Quality: The Key Role of the Registered Manager
Debbie Sorkin, National Skills Academy for Social Care
The Skills Academy takes the lead in providing direction and guidance on leadership development in social care. We know from our experience that improving the quality of leadership in organisations makes a real difference to service quality. We also know this view is widely shared: in a recent pan-sector survey we commissioned, 94% of respondents linked quality of leadership with quality of service. And Registered Managers, as lead professionals in care homes or home care settings, are crucially important in delivering leadership. Here, we share our learning from Registered Managers themselves about where they most need support in order to be effective leaders, and how the sector can best support them. We will also provide practical suggestions about how organisations and individuals can develop their own leadership capacity and confidence.
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| 1.30pm: The Importance of Physical and Mental Stimulation in a Social Care Setting
Tony Duke, ReVitalyz
The idea will be to spend time exploring why the human mind and body needs both physical and mental stimulation, then look at the possible benefits, and continue the theme with simple ways of introducing physical and mental stimulation. The FUN workshop demonstration will demonstrate how we can change the mood of a group of people and individuals, by performing simple tasks. We will explore the five senses, using a small range of equipment to demonstrate shapes, sounds, lights, and aromas, and this will show how ‘anyone’ can be involved in a stimulating activity programme.
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 | Access 21 Interiors
Access 21 Interiors work exclusively for the care sector providing services which make your rooms easy to market, increase the value of your home and give you the edge over local competition. We can provide a full interior design service, with fit-out and project management where required saving care homes owners considerable time and costs. In addition to serving care and nursing homes we have a particular specialism in design for dementia including dementia auditing.
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apetito
With 50 years experience we have the expertise to partner you in creating an individual approach to food for your care home. We appreciate that every care home is different and understand the challenges catering within care homes; we provide great tasting food and a system that is efficient, cost beneficial, labour saving and space sensitive. apetito is also a leading supplier in the UK Community Meals and Healthcare markets and is at the forefront of frozen food innovation. We aim to provide our customers with the best quality, most nutritious food and to support them with innovative product, system and service developments.
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 | The Consortium
The Consortium Care offers the most comprehensive range of care home supplies and services in the care sector. With great value for money products and backed up with a service we believe is second to none we have everything your care home needs.
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 | danfloor Uk
danfloor Uk, manufactures of impervious backed carpets, will be attending all 5 Care Roadshows with their Healthcare Collection. The award winning range of carpets includes the Equinox collection, featuring the stunning new Equinox Stripe. danfloor's healthcare range incorporates Maedical an antimicrobial yarn treatment which offers a 4 log reduction of 99.99% in the presence of harmful micro-organisms, including the bacteria that causes MRSA. Come and visit danfloor's stand to view the collection and find out what makes our products innovative and ideal for the Care Sector.
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 | Essex Guardians
Essex Guardians specialises in managing money matters for people who no longer have the mental capacity to do so on their own. Its services include collecting and maximising state benefits, paying bills, looking after savings and investments and overseeing property and personal items. Essex Guardians can assist care home managers who are currently handling their clients’ personal finances by removing conflict of interest and freeing up workloads.
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 | Evac+Chair International
Evac+Chair International is the original manufacturer and the world’s leading supplier of evacuation chairs, designed to allow people who are mobility impaired to safely descend staircases in the event of an emergency, without the need for lifting or great physical strength. The chair can be used in all non-domestic building and commercial buildings to assist organisations in complying with health and safety regulations. Evac+Chair International has over 20 years experience in supplying organisations and worldwide distributors alike and continuously strives to maintain its existing reputation. As well as supplying quality products and training, we’re also experts in responsible evacuation planning.
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 | Fusion
With a low upfront cost and a budgeted monthly licensing fee Fusion enables providers to manage systems, processes and care with transparency, best practice and high standards. Home/Group data analysis will keep you in real time control of your employee and service user records including time management, multi contract invoicing, budgets and occupancy. Fusion is a reliable and flexible Care Management System backed up by in-depth training and support which is easy to understand and operate. A solution to your management issues including Time & Attendance, Rotas, Budgets, Resident Records, Invoicing, Occupancy Analysis, Training, Reporting Tools a Document Management System and much more.
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 | Intercall Nursecall Systems
Intercall is one of the most advanced ranges of nursecall system available today, coupling functionality with the most up to date reliable electronic technology. We pride ourselves on designing competitively priced equipment that will outperform practically all other systems available. Come and visit our stand for a demonstration.
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 | ipa Purchasing
IPA Purchasing Ltd are leading purchasing and procurement specialists to the Care industry, dedicated to reducing the cost of essential goods and services for organisations across wide range of industries. We provide our members with a tailor-made, industry-leading service and the best value possible, helping to significantly improve financial performance.
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 | LNT Software
LNT Software do one thing, we make Care Home Management software. Using the past 12 years’ experience of working directly with operators all over the UK, we have a product that does a huge amount, but makes it simple; from Care Plans and HR to complete CQC Compliance audits. Based on our ethos of Quality Value and Innovation we offer one complete set of products for a simple low monthly fee. We simply provide you with the vehicle to record care tasks, invoice, pay and improve your quality of care. We take care of all the technical side of things and leave you to do what you do best, manage your care home.
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| | National Skills Academy for Social Care
The National Skills Academy takes the lead in providing direction and guidance on leadership development in social care. We are employer-led and have sector-wide support through our membership. Our aim is to transform the quality of social care that service users experience through improving the quality of leadership, management and commissioning at all levels of the social care workforce. We work with employers through our extensive portfolio of leadership development; we provide a unique Endorsement Framework for social care training providers; and we support commissioners in improving their service commissioning practice.
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Niko Projects
Bloom care technology, developed by Niko Projects, offers one single powerful solution integrating nurse call and electronic care registration as well as direct integration into your administrative software solutions. The bloom Stations, the central hubs of the system, are installed in all resident rooms and communal areas and may also be used for home automation, such as the operation of sun blinds and lights.
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 | Opus Pharmacy Services
Opus Pharmacy Services are the experts in accredited medication training for the care sector. With pharmacist trainers based throughout the UK, Opus can meet the training needs of all care settings including residential, domiciliary (including personal assistants), extra care, supported living, learning disabilities, children’s services, prisons, schools, adult placements and foster care.
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 | ReVitalyz
Motivational activity training for health & social care. T/A ReVitalyz, Vitalyz Exercise Ltd specialize in Seated Physical Activity (SPA) training and combine this with appropriate, related topics such as Dementia & activities, Sensory & relaxation, Nintendo Wii and communication and new for 2012 - Living Well @ Home. Endorsed by the College of Occupational Therapists, workshops are usually 4hrs long but can be tailored to suit customer requirements. The popular L1 SPA course has been successfully attended by hundreds of carers and the team are currently working with Skills for Care to develop a L2 course as a progression route for this popular activity training.
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 | ShareCare
ShareCare Ltd. offer professional procurement services, helping hundreds of care home owners make informed decisions in the dynamic purchasing environment. Through providing a no cost, no contract solution incorporating effective supplier management, online food ordering, reporting packages, or nutritional analysis and training, we help our clients make the most of the possible savings and keep up with the quality of care services outlined by CQC. ShareCare can bring more value to your business than any other buying organization due to tailored approach, innovative solutions and product expertise that result in considerable savings and the peace of mind.
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 | Stanbridge Ltd
At Stanbridge we have over five decades of experience manufacturing and supplying a whole host of decontamination equipment to hospitals and care and nursing homes. Equipment that ranges from surgeons scrub up troughs to washer disinfectors. Visit our stand to find out more!
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