Seminars and workshops covering current issues within the care sector will be running throughout Care Roadshow Liverpool and are free for visitors to attend.
CPD certificates are available for seminar attendees upon completion of a Certificate Request Form which will be available at the show.
Seminars
10.30am – 11.00am: Recruitment and Retention: Best Practice, Trends and Innovation
Neil Eastwood, Founder & CEO of Care Friends and Author of #1 bestseller Saving Social Care
Join Neil to discover the latest research on which methods work best to recruit high performing care staff, the big trends affecting the social care recruitment market and the latest innovations to help you source more quality applicants. He will also share the retention secrets from the top-performing employers around the world. Come along to transform the way you find and keep care staff!
11.30am – 12.00pm: What’s the point of marketing?
Simon Bunegar, Director of Sales and Marketing, Quality Compliance Systems Ltd
Marketing can be a great way of wasting lots of money… when you lose sight of its objectives. If done right however it can the most powerful force multiplier for your salesforce.
The social and ethical dimensions that make the care sector so unique can also make effective marketing particularly hard to do. This session will look at how to choose the right marketing activities, channels and partners to deliver results. We will look at what types of marketing that may be right for your business, whether domiciliary care or residential, how much it can cost and what results to expect.
12.45pm – 1.15pm: Life after the COVID battle; your new bright tomorrow to OUTSTANDING
Jonathan Cunningham MBE, UK Care Managers Inner Circle
UK Care homes became the horrific ‘killing fields’ of the COVID conflict. UK Care Managers were thrown into battle with an unseen lethal enemy. Care managers learnt new skills and new levels of emotional and physical resilience. Now as the dust settles and a pathway out of the pandemic is before us a bright new route is available to care homes. In this session Jonathan Cunningham MBE will describe how all care homes can springboard to an incredible new level of CQC compliance. Only in his unique style he will enthusiastically entertain and dynamically deliver his ‘top tips’ on how your care home can become truly OUTSTANDING.
Be warned this presentation is not for the faint hearted. This will be highly interactive, lively but be cautioned may involve the use of a ukulele and interspaced with some terrible singing delivered to the delegates. [Ear plugs optional]. *
*Top tips handout will be handed to delegates on the day.
2.00pm – 2.30pm: An Update From the CQC
Stefan Kallee, Interim Inspection Manager, Care Quality Commission
Join this CQC session to get a better understanding of how we’re changing how we regulate to improve care for everyone with the publication of our new strategy in May 2021, as well an update on our work over the last 12 months and a chance to ask questions of your local inspection manager. We look forward to seeing you there.
Workshops
10.00am – 10.20am & 1.30pm – 1.50pm: TBC
Louise Rooney, Move it or Lose it
In this interactive workshop Move it or Lose it will demonstrate a programme of exercises created with the Centre for Healthy Ageing Research at the University of Birmingham. The exercises are aimed at the over 60s and will help everyone to stay more active for longer as it works on improving aerobic health whilst helping to build strength, improve balance (reducing the risk of falls) and coordination. A chair and standing class that is beneficial to health and well-being with lots of fun and games to keep the brain active whilst keeping fit to familiar music using resistance bands, bender balls and batons.
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