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Workshop: Understanding how older people can thrive in care homes

Written by Juliet Smith on 18 October 2025. Posted in Newsletter. Leave a Comment

Drawing on the Thriving in Residential Care research from My Home Life England, this two-hour online workshop explores how insights from the UK’s largest qualitative study of older people living in care homes can be applied to enhance quality of life and strengthen evidence-based practice. Participants will reflect on six key ‘Thriving’ themes and gain practical ideas to implement within their own services.

Workshop outcomes:

Understand what matters most to older people living in care homes
Reflect on how to enhance quality of life within your own service
Gain practical ideas to strengthen care practice and delivery
Build confidence in evidencing person-centred care during CQC inspections

Participants will receive a certificate of learning from City, University of London’s My Home Life England programme.

Date: Wednesday 19th November 2025.
Time: 12:00pm – 14:00pm.
Delivery mode: Online.
Cost: £66.
Suitable for: Managers, deputies, team leaders, and senior carers in residential/nursing care homes.

Click here to find out more and register →

Have you heard of ShiftWorks?

Written by Juliet Smith on 18 October 2025. Posted in Newsletter. Leave a Comment

ShiftWorks is an online learning platform from The King’s Fund, supporting people across health and social care to lead with kindness, inclusion and confidence.

For £35 a year, members gain access to short CPD-accredited courses, live workshops and practical tools designed to strengthen leadership, wellbeing and teamwork. Topics include compassionate management, anti-racism, clinical leadership and cross-sector collaboration.

Upcoming live workshops (exclusive to ShiftWorks members):

23rd October – How to spot a zombie: tackling leadership issues that just won’t die. Explore outdated ‘zombie’ ideas about leadership that persist despite evidence to the contrary, and learn how to challenge them.
27th November – How to overcome your feelings and get good at conflict. Discover how to handle workplace disagreements constructively and use conflict as a tool for better decisions and stronger relationships.
15th December – Introduction to ShiftWorks. A relaxed onboarding session exploring what ShiftWorks offers, how to make the most of it, and an opportunity to meet other members.

Click here to find out more and sign up →

Skills for Care – Creating a positive workplace culture seminar

Written by Juliet Smith on 27 September 2025. Posted in Newsletter. Leave a Comment

Date: Thursday 30th October or Thursday 11th December 2025
Time: 10:00am – 15:30pm
Delivery mode: Online via Zoom
Cost: £250+VAT per person – 10% discount is available for ASC-WDS account holders.
Suitable for: Leaders, senior leaders and managers.
Please note: Registrations for the October seminar close on Friday 24th October.

Seminar overview:
This session focuses on how to shape a culture where people feel included, supported, and able to thrive. You’ll explore practical tools like the Culture Iceberg model and the positive culture toolkit, and learn how to challenge unhelpful workplace habits while creating space for something better. It’s a chance to reflect, build confidence, and take away ideas you can start using with your team.

Benefits of attending:

Discover the core elements of a thriving workplace culture
Build your organisational culture in alignment with CQC’s Single Assessment Framework
Use the tools provided to analyse, implement, and document improvements.

Click here to find out more and register →

National Conference: #StrongerTogether

Written by Juliet Smith on 9 August 2025. Posted in Newsletter. Leave a Comment

Date: Thursday 18th September 2025
Time: 09:30am
Venue: Venue 360, Luton, Bedfordshire

This event brings together professionals from across the care sector to discuss the key challenges facing social care SMEs and explore collective responses. The programme includes panel discussions on some of the most urgent issues currently shaping the sector.

Discussion topics include:

#ProvidersUnite – unity, advocacy, and action
Workforce – recruitment, retention, well-being, and international recruitment
Fair Pay Agreement – exploring sustainable pay in social care
The Casey Report – what it means for care and community cohesion
Regulation – updates and provider challenges
Digital – how social care is adapting
National challenges – systemic issues impacting care SMEs

The conference offers a space for reflection, connection, and shared learning. Attendees will also have the opportunity to network and take part in thought-provoking discussions.

Delegate rates:

£40 – Members
£60 – Associate Members
£80 – Non-Members

Tea, coffee, lunch, and free parking are included.

To book or find out more, email [email protected] or call 01634 716615.

Click here to find out more →

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.

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 →

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 →

Evidencing CQC safe and effective staffing through workforce planning

Written by Juliet Smith on 16 November 2024. Posted in Workforce planning, transformation and commissioning. Leave a Comment

This online seminar is designed to help you implement effective workforce planning strategies, ensuring safe staffing levels and enabling your service to consistently deliver high-quality, person-centred care. Skills for Care will be running the seminar on 21st November, 18th December, and 14th January between 09:30am – 15:00pm.

What will this seminar cover?

What workforce planning is
The latest and most-up-to-date information about the factors that can affect an organisations workforce
How to workforce plan, using Skills for Care’s practical workforce planning tools and resources
How to use data to shape and refine a workforce plan.

Click here to find out more and book →

Leadership and management modules with the University of Chichester

Written by Juliet Smith on 5 September 2024. Posted in Accredited leadership developmen L5+, Continuing own professional development as a leader. Leave a Comment

The University of Chichester recently sent out their 2024/5 course brochure detailing some of the CPD options that are currently open for applications. The modules listed below are all available to study in-person at University of Chichester, Bishop Otter Campus as part of the MA Advanced Professional Practice offer and cost £740 per module.

Developing Professional Leadership (APP04)
Course dates:
Wednesdays, 10:00am – 16:00pm

26th February 2025
19th March 2025
9th April 2025
30th May 2025 (assignment hand-in)

Click here to find out more about this module →
Click here to apply to study module APP04 →

Developing Professional Practice (APP05)
Course dates:
Wednesdays, 10:00am – 16:00pm

29th January 2025
12th February 2025
5th March 2025
2nd April 2025 (assignment hand-in)

Click here to find out more about this module →
Click here to apply to study module APP05 →

Professional Agency and Identity (APP30)
Course dates:
Wednesdays, 09:30am – 15:30pm

25th September 2024
9th October 2024
23rd October 2024
6th November 2024
4th December 2024 (assignment hand-in)

Click here to find out more about this module →
Click here to apply to study module APP30 →

Professional Culture, Safety and Quality (APP31)
Course dates:
Wednesdays, 09:30am – 15:30pm

22nd January 2025
5th February 2025
26th February 2025
12th March 2025
9th April 2025 (assignment hand-in)

Click here to find out more about this module →
Click here to apply to study module APP31 →

Interprofessional Team Working (APP32)
Course dates:
Wednesdays, 09:30am – 15:30pm

14th May 2025
21st May 2025
4th June 2025
25th June 2025
23rd July 2025 (assignment hand-in)

Click here to find out more about this module →
Click here to apply to study module APP32 →

To find out more about any of the modules above please contact [email protected].
Click here to download the brochure to find out more about these modules →

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