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Medicines Optimisation for Care Homes (MOCH) training

Written by Juliet Smith on 8 February 2025. Posted in Event, Managing regulation and governance processes in your service. Leave a Comment

These monthly training sessions focus on the Self-Care and Homely Remedies Toolkit, supporting care home staff in managing and administering medication. The sessions cover:

Self-Care medications
Homely Remedy medications
Personal Care medications/items

Participants will receive adaptable resources that can be tailored to their care home’s needs and have the opportunity to ask questions about the toolkit.

Upcoming sessions (all sessions held at 14:30pm): Tuesdays – 4th March, 1st April, 6th May, 3rd June, 1st July, NO August session, 2nd September, 10th October, 4th November & 2nd December 2025

How to join:
No booking required—simply click the link below to join the session via Microsoft Teams:
Click here to join the meeting

More information:
For additional guidance, visit the MOCH team’s resource page by clicking here. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

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.

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].

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 →

Big Conversation Partnership Event

Written by Juliet Smith on 19 October 2024. Posted in Event, Newsletter, The integrated system and partnership working in health and care. Leave a Comment

University Hospitals Sussex are hosting a series of in-person events to give health and social care professionals across Sussex the opportunity to help shape the future of their ‘Trust Strategy’.

Event description:
‘This event is a great opportunity for stakeholders to come together and think about how we can work together to tackle the problems that our health and social care system faces and how we can solve them together through partnership working, ensuring our strategy aligns with the needs and priorities of our local healthcare system and communities.’

Horsham: Monday 21st October 2024, 09:00am – 12:30pm
Roffey Millennium Hall, Crawley Road, Horsham, RH12 4DT
Click here to book tickets →

Worthing: Wednesday 23rd October 2024, 09:00am – 12:30pm
Field Place, Manor House and Barns, The Boulevard, Worthing, BN13 1NP
Click here to book tickets →

Chichester: Friday 25th October 2024, 09:00am – 12:30pm
Chichester City Council Hall, North Street, Chichester, PO19 1LQ
Click here to book tickets →

Please note:

Tea and coffee will be provided on arrival and mid morning.
There is free parking on site with disabled bays.