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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].

Reminder to claim funding for training & qualifications

Written by Juliet Smith on 25 January 2025. Posted in Newsletter. Leave a Comment

The Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS) is a fund to support training and skill development for non-regulated care staff in England, including deputy managers, CQC-registered managers, and agency workers. Funding can be claimed for eligible training and courses that are both paid for and started between 1st April 2024 and 31st March 2025. The application deadline is 21st March 2025.

Click here to find out more →

Everyday English & Cultural Awareness for Overseas Carers – Level 1

Written by Juliet Smith on 5 January 2025. Posted in Event. Leave a Comment

This interactive 6-week course has been thoughtfully designed to address critical language and cultural challenges faced by overseas carers in social care settings. Originally developed to assist care providers with CQC compliance, the program has evolved to meet the needs of modern care teams and is now delivered online for maximum accessibility.

Through live webinars, participants will engage in dynamic, interactive sessions featuring clear presentations, comprehension exercises, real-life scenarios, and reflective discussions.

Date options:

Course 1: 10:00am to 11:30am each Wednesday for 6 weeks, from 5th February to 12th March 2025

Course 2: 10:00am to 11:30am each Thursday for 6 weeks, from 6th February to 13th March 2025

Course 3: 12:00pm to 1:30pm each Thursday for 6 weeks, from 6th February to 13th March 2025

Course 4: 2:00pm to 3:30pm each Thursday for 6 weeks, from 6th February to 13th March 2025

Learn more and book here

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].

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 →

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