These informative webinars are designed for busy professionals to support the dissemination and use of the publications in each mailing. They are an opportunity to learn more about our resources - the topic, target audience, links to key policy issues and how they can be used in practice.
From page to practice - what our resources can do for you support webinar
1. This webinar is not due to start until
12pm on Wednesday 17 June 2015
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From page to practice:
What our resources can do for you
webinar
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From Page to Practice: Support
webinar
Lisa Smith
Katherine Bishop
17th June 2015
3. Strategic Briefing: Achieving
outcomes through integrated
working
• Outlines Care Act
requirements
• Defines integration
• Explores enablers &
barriers
• Provides examples,
including learning
from Pioneers
3
4. Frontline Briefing: Successful
integration
• Policy background
• Clear questions for
reflections for
pracitioners
• Defines integration
• Idenitifies enablers
and barriers for
practice
4
6. Practice Tool – Supporting
emotional resilience within social
care practitioners
• What is emotional
resilience?
• How can teams
develop emotional
resilience?
• The positive role of
supervision
• Three practical tools
to use in practice
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7. Leaders' Briefing: Resource Allocation
• Colin Slasberg provides challenge to the
RAS in this briefing for leaders and
senior managers.
• Looks at what the law requires and
government policy sets out (Care Act),
in terms of resource allocation.
• Gives some stark questions for leaders
to consider in terms of spending control
versus personalisation
• You can also read Colin’s blog about the
RAS here www.ripfa.org.uk/blog
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8. Questions and comments?
• Who in your
organisation will
benefit from these
resources?
• How have you
successfully utilised
our resources in the
past?
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Editor's Notes
Emotionally resilience – sometimes described as inner strength or boucebackability
Relates to an individual’s and teams’ ability to cope with high pressure and emotionally demanding roles in front-line practice.
Key to creating stable teams, who feel supported in their practice (recruitment and retention)
The practice tool contains tools for:
Team Supervision Tool, based on Kolb learning cycle, to encourage group reflection and critical reflection amongst peers (can be used by a team to reflect on a specific case, and to collectively agree on learning actions to take forward as a result)
Individual Supervision Tool to be used in one-to-one supervision (again based on Kolb)
Managers’ Audit Tool - to assess where they exhibit the behaviours to support ERes
Uses
Team building/team meetings
Managers CPD
L&D programmes to support managers
ASYE supervision
SW supervision
Colin - originally trained as a social worker and is now an independent consultant working with a number of authorities on topics such as personalisation, assessment and resource allocation.
The new national eligibility criteria requires LAs to revise their approach to resource allocation, as part of a move to a person-centred approach to care and support planning as required by the Care Act.
Care Act sets out a new national eligibility threshold (NET) replacing FACS (fair access to care services) in which councils could set their own eligibility criteria, which led to concerns about postcode lottery, with people with similar care needs receiving very different levels of support.
Unfortunately, a review of the evidence indicates that the NET is unlikely to address this underlying issues leading to postcode lottery, meaning that there is a good chance that this aspect of the situation will be replicated.
The briefing presents presents the evidence on what hasn’t worked in the past, anticipate the possible pitfalls of a new system before they happen, and raise awareness of how this could be avoided through early intervention, as we move to a new system of resource allocation.
This Leaders’ Briefing asks leaders to consider new approaches to resource allocation, which are both person centred/needs led and offers best value.
You can also read Colin’s blog on the ripfa website
Examples:
Targeting relevant resources to team leads, heads of service, specialist teams (e.g. carers support workers or the DOLS team)
Distribute to managers, staff teams or individuals with a particular interest in a topic
Distribute at divisional events and all staff meetings
Ensure that copies are stocked in your internal library, if you have one, and that staff know how to request copies if they need them (more difficult if your in a large county with dispersed staff).
When circulating and publicising resources, include suggestions of how each resource can be used and by whom; this could also be done per team upon receipt of resources to highlight relevance and application
Hold a reading week around a particular topic (e.g. send practitioners a number of research articles or links to resources, so they may choose one to read and ask the team manager to allocate a slot within a team meeting to discuss the article/ resources’ relevance to their work
Visit frontline teams to introduce hard copy resources/website and help individuals utilise them
Link Officers role to disseminate our resources – can be difficult to ensure that these get to the right people and that they actually use them.
Targeting relevant resources to teams seems to work well (of resources / events etc) and cc in Professional Leads, L&D, Practice Development Leads.
Copy and paste relevant bits from the ripfa ebulletin, which helps to give advice and support for use and to explain why its relevant/important for that team – pick a trigger that’s relevant to them.
Embed where ever you get an opportunity – e.g linking resources to L&D programmes as pre-reading or course reading
Get people thinking about posting questions on the Ripfa forum
You can set up a library of resources in each service area – your regional lead can provide an index. More difficult of you have dispersed teams / spread over geographical area so it might be useful to use the RIPFA resource which groups the resources in their topic area and suggests an audience. We have dropped these into newsletters, could link from intranet pages, or from within internal procedures / policies / guidance etc.
Try and avoid just doing a blanket mail out of hardcopy resources as I suspect these just end up gathering dust.
Try and introduce them during ASYE sessions (evidence in their portfolios), earning events or other meetings / practice development sessions. The have the potential to increase the competence and confidence of staff and can improve services – finding a way to make them accessible that works in your area. Any ideas - share these in the chat pod – would be really helpful.
If you get resources and you aren’t sure how to use them just ask your Account Manager