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Supporting people who employ
their own care and support staff
29th July 2014
Care Act 2014
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Supporting people who employ
their own care and support staff
Ossie Stuart
Significance
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The Care Act 2014 is simply the most important piece of
welfare legislation in generations because it is the first
overhaul of the social care statutes in England for over 60
years.
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It brings into statute (that means give legal force) to a
whole range of social care actives that did not enjoy this in
the past.
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The Act is made up of 80 Sections, of which all but
sections 15, 16, 28, 29 and 72, will take effect from April
2015. The remainder will take affect on April 2016.
The Care Act imposes seven new general responsibilities on local
authorities.
1. Promoting individual well-being:
2. Preventing needs for care and support:
3. Promoting integration of care and support within health
services:
4. Providing information and advice:
5. Promoting diversity and quality in provision of services:
6. Co-operating generally:
7. Co-operating in specific cases:
Other Sections that are important for the Individual Employer workforce
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Eliminate the concept of ‘self-funders’:
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Adult Safeguarding:
Individual Employer
Resources
Helping you make the choice…
 Range of small leaflets
 PA Toolkit & CDs & downloadables
 Videos around employing Pas
 Vast library of other SfC materials –
Dignity Toolkit, “Finders Keepers”
…helping you employ
Induction Standards
 Common Induction Standards
 Management induction standards
Qualifications and Training
 Pre-entry, knowledge qualifications
 Occupational Competency and
Apprenticeship qualifications
 Specific, professional development
qualifications and training
Pre-entry, knowledge qualifications
• Level 1-3 (very basic to intermediate difficulty)
• All knowledge
• Mapped against Common Induction
Standards
• Can be done at college, often at nominal
fees, as evening courses
“Level x Preparing to Work in Adult Social
Care”
Occupational Competency Quals
 Occupational Competency = Diplomas (NVQ
replacements)
 Assessed on the Job with practical
demonstration of knowledge
 6 months to a year
 Candidates must carry out a range of tasks at
work
 Mostly, these have to be paid for
Apprenticeships
 Centered around the Diploma, with the
Knowledge qualification added AND
Maths and English training and tests
 Often free for candidates 16-24, mostly
have to be paid for above 25
Specific, professional
development qualifications
 Qualifications of different sizes at different
levels, mostly delivered in weeks, around
specialist areas like Physical Disabilities,
food safety and nutrition etc
 Accessed through colleges and training
companies
 Have to be paid for
SfC provide funding for
individual employers to
train their staff and
themselves
http://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Funding/Individ
ual-employer-funding/Individual-employerfunding.aspx
SfC Funding Process
1. Identify what training you and your PA need
2. Find who can provide this and ask for a quote
3. Complete the SfC application form using the guidance
4. SfC will assess your application and send you the
money
5. Have the training and pay your training provider
6. Send SfC the evidence of training
Who we are
• Local, user-led charity
• Supporting individuals regardless of age,
disability, impairment, health, or capacity
• To live independently at home and in the
community.
• Wide range of services
Advice for
Independent
Living
Advocacy
Connecting
Communities
New
Horizons
YourSay
Children’s
Personal
Budget Pilot
GoLocal
Sitting and
Befriending
Service
find-a-pa
Pooling
Budgets
Volunteering
Money Advice
Project
Information and
advice for
employers and
their PAs
How it developed
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Paper based PA register in Richmond since 2004
Need to streamline matching
Online service launched 2011
Dating sites informed development
DP clients part of trials
Clients use independently or
Ruils supported
• Gradual improvement of
functionality since 2011
What is it?
• Confidential matching service
• Allows PAs and employers to add
their profile and details of support
needed
• PAs and employers can search to
find suitable matches
• Messages can be sent securely on
line to make initial contact.
Who can use it?
• DP clients and self funders
• Richmond, Kingston,
Hounslow
• Licence with DASL in
Lambeth
• Partnership with POhWER
in 4 areas
• Small charge to employers, free for PAs
• Message protocol for efficient running
• Upload facility for photos, references, DBS
and JDs
• Employers responsibility for making
checks (employ-a-pa.co.uk supports this)
• Emergency page for when employers need
help in a hurry (no additional charge)
How it works
• Register as a PA or employer
• Employers pay via membership code or paypal,
debit card, bank transfer
• Verify email address.
• Make your profile
• Upload references and job descriptions
• Publish your profile
• Search for PAs / employers
• Save those you like in favourites.
• Send messages to make contact.
www.employ-a-pa.co.uk
Guides employers through the process of
interviewing, checking, employing and managing
the PA relationship
New Look
New Facilities
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Improved accessibility - translation / visual
Admin facility for partners
Partner area branding
Partner information and news pages
Flexible payment options and memberships
Contact us
Paula Buckton
Independent Living Advisor
[email protected]
0208 831 6088
Introducing our Personal Assistant Register
About Vibrance
• We are a social care charity that provides a range of services
• We work across 11 Local Authorities
• We are celebrating our 25th birthday!
• We have been providing self directed
services in Bromley since 2012
• In March 2014 we launched LinkMeUp
Supporting personal choice
What is LinkMeUp?
• LinkMeUp is our online Personal Assistant register
• Aims to bring together people looking for support and PAs
• All PAs are referenced, and have
DBS/Right to Work checks
• www.linkmeup.org.uk
Supporting personal choice
Our Film
Supporting personal choice
Why did we develop LinkMeUp?
Listening to our stakeholders...
• Finding PAs – particularly suitable ones
• Responsibility of being an employer can be overwhelming
• Finding work as a PA
• Isolated role
• Support from Skills for Care
Supporting personal choice
How did we develop LinkMeUp?
Worked with a wide range of partners...
• People employing or thinking about employing a PA
• People working as a PA or thinking about working as a PA
• Commissioners in Bromley
• Skills for Care
• Developers
Supporting personal choice
The future of LinkMeUp
• A ‘one-stop-shop’ for all aspects of Self Directed Support
• Support for self funders
• Easy access on the go
• The opportunity to network with peers
• Pooling budgets & community
connecting
Supporting personal choice
Contact us
Website: www.linkmeup.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @linkmeup_UK
Telephone: 0208 290 6639
Address: Unit E, 216 – 218 Homesdale Road,
Bromley,BR1 2QZ
Supporting personal choice
Dignity
Introduction
• at the centre of everything we do
• focuses on the value of every person as
an individual
• respecting other’s views, choices and
decisions
• not making assumptions about how
people want to be treated
• working with care and compassion
Activity
When do we think about our own dignity
and what it means to us?
a)Think of a time in your life where you
have felt embarrassed or you have felt
like your dignity has been compromised
b)Think of a time when your dignity has
really been upheld in your life
Media clip – ‘little things make a big
difference’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueLqA
JRxKpQ
Why is dignity important?
• Empowerment
• Choice
• Control
http://www.ccpdignity.com/
“Crabbit Old Woman” Poem
What do you see, what do you see?
Are you thinking, when you look at meA crabbit old woman, not very wise,
Uncertain of habit, with far-away eyes,
Who dribbles her food and makes no reply
When you say in a loud voice,
I do wish you’d try.
Who seems not to notice the things that you do
And forever is loosing a stocking or shoe.
Who, unresisting or not; lets you do as you will
With bathing and feeding the long day is fill.
Is that what you’re thinking,
Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes,
nurse, you’re looking at me.
I’ll tell you who I am as I sit here so still!
As I rise at your bidding, as I eat at your will.
I‘m a small child of 10 with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters, who loved one anotherA young girl of 16 with wings on her feet,
Dreaming that soon now a lover she’ll meet,
A bride soon at 20- my heart gives a leap,
Remembering the vows that I promised to keep.
At 25 now I have young of my own
Who need me to build a secure happy home;
A woman of 30, my young now grow fast,
Bound to each other with ties that should last;
At 40, my young sons have grown and are gone,
But my man’s beside me to see I don’t mourn;
At 50 once more babies play around my knee,
Again we know children, my loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me, my husband is dead,
I look at the future, I shudder with dread,
For my young are all rearing young of their own.
And I think of the years and the love that I’ve known;
I’m an old woman now and nature is cruelTis her jest to make old age look like a fool.
The body is crumbled, grace and vigor depart,
There is now a stone where I once had a heart,
But inside this old carcass, a young girl still dwells,
And now and again my battered heart swells,
I remember the joy, I remember the pain,
And I’m loving and living life over again.
I think of the years all too few- gone too fast.
And accept the stark fact that nothing can lastSo open your eyes, nurse, open and see,
Not a crabbit old woman, look closerSee Me.
Becoming a Dignity Champion
•Dignity in Care network
•http://www.dignityincare.org.uk/
Thankyou
we help people who do
a great job do it better
Skills for Care resources to support value-based
recruitment
Laura Anthony – Area Officer (SW London)
Value-Based Recruitment Toolkit
• Developed in partnership with DH, NSA and
McIntyre
• Toolkit launched July 2013 by Care Minister
Norman Lamb
• Includes job descriptions, profiling tool, interview
questions and links to further resources
• Supports the employer’s “usual” recruitment
practices
• Results of evaluation due shortly
The Profiling Tool
• Online resource
• Provides you with some indicators and
points to discuss around behaviours at
the interview
• http://profiles4care.com/participate/
A Question of Care – A Career for You?
 Interactive tool aimed at people considering a career in
social care
 Provides video clips and scenarios to test responses and
assess values
 Immediate feedback is given for each choice, to
demonstrate sector values
 Produces a report for the individual at the end of the test
www.aquestionofcare.org.uk
2nd Floor Westgate, 6
Grace Street
2nd Floor Westgate, 6
Grace Street
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2nd Floor Westgate, 6
Grace Street
Social Care Commitment
 An agreement between employers and
employees (including IEs and their PA),
whereby both sides sign up to seven clear
commitments to develop skills and knowledge
 All those signing up will be given tasks and
supporting resources to ensure they meet
their commitment
 www.thesocialcarecommitment.org.uk
Further information
http://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Finding-andkeeping-workers
Laura Anthony, Area Officer for SW London
07890 514106 /
[email protected]
Thank you for attending