Sharing the Caring A high quality domiciliary care service offered to family carers living in North Tyneside. A support worker provides stimulative support to the person cared for allowing the carer regular breaks from their caring role. Run from within Princess Royal Trust North Tyneside Carers Centre.

The big picture If someone depends on you… You can depend on us

Features, needs and efficiencies Features of your project Regular respite for family carers. Highly trained, experienced support workers. An established service known to carers in the borough. Efficiencies created Saves the client from becoming the employer but maintains the benefits of flexible use of the personal budget. Speeds up the process from allocation of the personal budget to support being accessed. Needs your project meets Respite opportunity for carers. Providing a high quality support service for those with complex needs. Making the existing service accessible to direct payments customers.

Features of your project

Regular respite for family

carers.

Highly trained, experienced support

workers.

An established service known to

carers in the borough.

Efficiencies created

Saves the client from becoming the employer but maintains the benefits of flexible use of the personal budget.

Speeds up the process from allocation of the personal budget to support being accessed.

Needs your project meets

Respite opportunity for carers.

Providing a high quality support service for those with complex needs.

Making the existing service accessible to direct payments customers.

Measures of success Growth in number of personal budget clients accessing the project. High client satisfaction. Clients receiving the support service more quickly than those who choose to become the employer directly.

Growth in number of personal budget clients accessing the project.

High client satisfaction.

Clients receiving the support service more quickly than those who choose to become the employer directly.

Support Clients opting to use their personal budget to access the service. Creation of a new financial system within the organisation to process personal budget funding clients Expansion of staff team within the project.

Clients opting to use their personal budget to access the service.

Creation of a new financial system within the organisation to process personal budget funding clients

Expansion of staff team within the project.

Please delete as appropriate. I am willing to attend the Festival of Ideas on 12 th November to talk about this project and to be signed up to the Innovation Exchange website to support this knowledge sharing after the event. I d0 understand that this event is the launch of the North East JIP’s Provider Development Fund and I am interested in the possibility of applying to this Fund in the future I do understand that this Fund will only support projects that involve collaboration between at least two providers of social care services and that funded projects will be part of an evaluation process to include both research interviews and knowledge sharing events. Your commitments

I am willing to attend the Festival of Ideas on 12 th November to talk about this project and to be signed up to the Innovation Exchange website to support this knowledge sharing after the event.

I d0 understand that this event is the launch of the North East JIP’s Provider Development Fund and I am interested in the possibility of applying to this Fund in the future

I do understand that this Fund will only support projects that involve collaboration between at least two providers of social care services and that funded projects will be part of an evaluation process to include both research interviews and knowledge sharing events.