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Conference 2008!!
26th September 2008
Sandy Park Conference Centre
Exeter
Speakers include:
Marie-Noelle Orzall, Director of Nursing, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital
'Patient Involvement'
Dr Tim Harlow, Exeter Hospice
'End of Life Planning'
Jennie Stephens, Assistant Director – Joint Strategic Commissioning
Workshops include:
Nutrition
End of Life Planning
Mental Capacity Act/Deprivation of Liberty
Supported Living
Investors in People
E-Monitoring/E-Brokerage
Facilities Management
CSCI
Dignity in Care
Fall Prevention/Chair based exercise
And many more….
Book now to avoid disappointment
There is a new programme of training dates regarding these imprtant topics. You can find more information and a link to the dates concerned by clicking here
There is a full programme of training events coming up. There are plenty of places available. This information can be found here
Please note that if you are based inside Torbay or Plymouth, the courses they run may be more relevent.
For more information you can contact Andy Luckraft on 01392 38 3388 or email him here
If you would like help with your NMDS survey, or have any questions, please contact the NMDS-SC project worker for Devon, Linda Prior, on 01752 242688 or by email at linda.prior@blueyonder.co.uk.
More information is available on the website; click here to create your account.
Train to Gain is a funding initiative coming through Business Link Devon & Cornwall. For businesses, getting the right skills advice is essential to choosing the best and most appropriate training. Train to Gain helps you to do this by using experienced Skills Brokers who can:
offer free impartial and independent advice to businesses
match any training needs identified with training providers
ensure that training is delivered to meet business needs.
One of the key goals of the service is to make sure that both the training and the skills advice are impartial, flexible, responsive, and offered at a time and place to suit businesses. This marks a cultural shift in how skills training will be delivered, and will ensure that the delivery of training is much more responsive to the needs of every business.
You can find out more by contacting Caroline Murphy by phone on 07747014254 or by email here
If you want to read more about Train to Gain please follow this link here
There is a Care Ambassador Event in Barnstaple on 16th August 2007. You can download the poster/flyer for it here
There is now a Care Ambassador section to the website - you can look at the pages here
This is a social care resource library located in South Devon in Dartington. There is now an online search facility of its resources. You must log in through the membership pages to access this. If you do not hvae your logon details please contact us and we can send them out. The resources are free to borrow and you can do the whole thing online and by phone and post. Alternatively you can arrange to visit the Gallery if you prefer. You must be a member of the Gallery to use it, but this is free to DCT members. You can download an application form here
The June 2008 Newsletter can be viewed here
(810KB - pdf help)
The members section will contain an archived section of all previous Newsletters soon. Once that is possible you will be able to access it through the members section. If you do not have your user id and passwords yet please contact us as they have recently been changed as the system has been updated.
It is stored in a .pdf format which can be opened with an Adobe Acrobat viewer (most machines have this already installed).
See below if you would like to contribute to the Newsletter.
If you have any ideas or wish to contribute an article to either the newsletter or to the website please contact Lynne (for Newsletter articles) and either Eoghan or Lucy (for website articles) at DCT on 01392 38 2071/ 38 3257/ 38 3591
If you follow the link here you can have a look at some of our member organisations and find out more about them.
The2008 Training Programme is now available on the Training page
You can book places on the courses by following this link here
The National Minimum Data Set is now online. For more information please look at the Skills for Care website or you can go here to see their new dedicated NMDS web site
Now you can set up your own blog to help pass on your learnings to people working in the same fields as you. This way we can all share our skills and knowledge in a public forum
We will maintain a semi regular blog at this address, but please add your addresses to this blog if you use the service at Blogger.com
Here is our blog address:
devoncaretraining.blogspot.com/
These are updated on a more regular basis now, so please do stop by and have a read, your feedback is always welcomed!
We are a consortium of many employers spanning all of Devon, currently there are over 100 member organisations, representing over 400 establishments and a significant proportion of staff working in care in Devon.