Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) support
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
The DSPT is a free online self-assessment toolkit that helps vidence that your organisation manages personal data, both digitally and in paper form, in a safe and secure way. It helps demonstrate compliance with data protection legislation, answers two of the CQC Key Lines of Enquiry and provides reassurance to residents, clients, families and professionals that you manage data appropriately. Importantly, it provides opportunities: ongoing use of NHSmail and potential sharing of care records. The CQC are taking a greater...
Housing with Support provider forum
10:00 am
The Housing with Support forum meets fortnightly on Wednesdays from 10am until 11am. It‘s a chance for organisations who provide supported living, enabling, extra care, shared lives and the homeless support services that are commissioned by DCC, to get together to discuss or raise any strategic or process issues rather than individual service users issues. The main aim is to unblock any blocks we encounter when working across this market, escalate issues appropriately and basically join up our work better....
Southern Care Homes Locality Support Forum
10:00 am - 11:00 am
These forums are engagement opportunities for care home providers and their registered managers, DCC Market Management Team and the locality Assistant Director/Social Care Operational team. If you have not received the calendar invite please email socialcarebusinessrelations-mailbox@devon.gov.uk stating which locality meeting you would like to receive invites for (North, East, South or West).
Free Connect 5 Training
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Public Health Devon is now offering Connect 5 training online. Connect 5 is a workforce training programme, created to upskill non-mental health staff to better understand and successfully address mental health issues. It takes a preventative approach to poor mental wellbeing. The training is in three sessions, each lasting three hours. The course is interactive with opportunities to practice your new skills. Completing all three sessions is recommended. Each session covers a different topic. The next training dates are on...
Free Employers Training (Personal Assistants, Direct Payments holders)
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Dear Direct Payments recipient, If you are an employer of Personal Assistant (PA), you will want to read further for some exciting news about free training! There is some free training available to Individual Employers (both: recipients of Direct Payments and Personal Health Budget holders) in Devon and Cornwall. Please be aware this is not for private care businesses who employ carers. The first session on this topic received brilliant reviews from the participants so we really encourage you to...
Devon Care Home Collaborative (DCHC) registered managers education sessions
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
DCHC is hosting a range of educational offerings for registered managers with support from Skills for Care. There will be a focus on leadership development and hot topics including workforce resilience and dismissal for non-vaccination. The first session will be on Wednesday 15 September from 2:0pm to 3:30pm, with subsequent sessions on 17 November 2021 and 16 February 2022. To book places or suggest topics please email DCHC.