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Outstanding Medication Management For Care Homes and Community Settings Masterclass

Written by Juliet Smith on 31 December 2024. Posted in Policies and procedures for managing health and safety in services. Leave a Comment

Join The Medication Training Company online on Tuesday 18th March 2025, from 9:25am to 3:15pm, for a practical masterclass on medication management, led by pharmacist John Greene. Designed for care home managers and senior staff, this session covers:

1) How to manage and reduce the risk from medication errors

How common are mediation errors?
What is ‘Just Culture’
A focus on systems
Capturing error data
How the safest care providers achieve harm reduction.

2) How to attain and maintain top ratings from CQC for managing medicines

The top 12 medicines inspection areas targeted by the CQC
How to achieve good or outstanding ratings, and stay out of requires improvement / inadequate
An introduction to an exclusive medicines audit tool.

For more details or to pre-book, please click here.

MILE newsletter – Managing risk positively for person-centred outcomes

Written by Juliet Smith on 25 December 2024. Posted in Newsletter. Leave a Comment

How can we support individuals to live their lives as fully and independently as possible while at the same time staying safe? Achieving this balance is at the heart of positive risk management in adult social care. With the right training, resources, and knowledge-sharing, we can empower our staff teams to make informed choices about risk. This newsletter shares practical resources, tools, and insights to help you in positive risk assessment and management in care, helping the people we support to live more fulfilling lives.

Click here to read this week’s newsletter →

Wellbeing Programme for International Care Workers

Written by Juliet Smith on 19 December 2024. Posted in Prioritising the wellbeing of your team. Leave a Comment

Tresacare and SESCA are collaborating to offer a free wellbeing programme designed to support international care workers in the South East. The programme will run for 3 months from mid-January 2025 and will be held online via Zoom.

What does the programme include?

6 professional workshops (90 minutes each)
Weekly Wellbeing Gyms with Pastoral Care Circles
Regular wellness activities and support sessions

Who is this programme open to?

CQC-registered adult social care providers in the South-East who are SESCA members
International care workers who are registered with SESCA
Displaced care workers who are in contact with SESCA

Click here to find out more and register your interest →

Please note: Care providers wishing to register 3+ care workers should email [email protected].

Medication Errors – learning from errors to reduce harm

Written by Juliet Smith on 12 December 2024. Posted in Event. Leave a Comment

This course from The Medication Training Company aims to teach health and social care professionals how manage, report and learn from medication incidents. The course will run online via Zoom on 17th December 2024, 21st January 2025, and 5th February 2025 between 09:30am – 13:00pm.

Learning outcomes:

Understand why it’s best to focus on harm reduction rather than trying to reduce medication errors
See errors as opportunities to learn (OTLs)
See how some of the world’s safest care providers achieved a reduction in harm from errors
Create a reporting system to ensure the whole organisation learns from incidents
Outline what an ‘outstanding’ incident reporting system looks like to CQC (KLOE S6)
Explain which medication incidents need reporting to Safeguarding and CQC
Use the Incident Decision Tree to understand when staff need support vs intervention
And more…

Click here to book your place →

Supported sponsorship for displaced workers

Written by Juliet Smith on 12 December 2024. Posted in Human resource management in services. Leave a Comment

SESCA have implemented a scheme to connect identified displaced care workers with providers in the South East as part of the Department of Health and Social Care’s 2024-25 International Recruitment Project.

If you would like to find out more, visit the SESCA webpage or click here to watch ‘Real-Life Perspectives on International Recruitment’, their short film on the initiative.

Click here to register your interest →

Compassionate Leadership Training for Managers and Leaders

Written by Juliet Smith on 30 November 2024. Posted in Looking at great leadership in social care with compassionate and inclusive leadership. Leave a Comment

Compassionate leadership is associated with enhanced learning and innovation, lower staff stress, and improved patient care. Drawing on the research of Professor Michael West and other experts, this face-to-face training programme is for health and social care leaders who are looking to cultivate compassion for themselves and the people they lead.

If you want to find out about how this course could help you and your team, you can click here to access a short video sharing first-hand accounts from people who have done the training. There is also a document outlining the programme structure and content here.

Course format:
This course consists of six weekly sessions, each lasting two hours, along with several optional two-hour online consolidation sessions designed to reinforce your practice and learning. The curriculum integrates mindfulness and compassion practices during each session, fostering a space for reflection and discussion. Participants are also encouraged to engage in mindfulness and compassion exercises at home, aimed at nurturing compassion for themselves and the individuals they lead and collaborate with.

Course dates:
This course runs on Thursdays from 30th January 2025 – 13th March 2025 between 15:00pm – 17:00pm. There is no session on 20th February 2025.

Venue: East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre, Pankhurst Avenue, Brighton
Cost: £200
Suitable for: Anyone in a leadership or management role in a health and social care.

Click here to find out more about this course →

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