SCIE resources Dr Shirley Ewart-Boyle Practice Development Manager (NI)

1. SCIE resources Dr Shirley Ewart-Boyle Practice Development Manager (NI)

2. About SCIE • SCIE identifies and disseminates the knowledge base for good practice in social work/social care across adults’ & children’s services • SCIE resources are free to use

3. How can SCIE’s resources be used? • Training & education • Discussions about practice issues – eg staff meetings • Audit of practice & identification of good practice • Service development & innovation • Evidence for PRTL & inspections

4. About SCIE resources • Publications • Practice & audit tools • E-learning • Social Care TV • Social Care Online

6. Practice tools • Support organisations to improve the way they manage and support their staff. • Guide 27: Leading practice - a development programme for first-line managers • Care Skillsbase • Induction Standards • People Management • Dementia Gateway

7. Care Skillsbase • Free online resource designed for employers and managers of care and support staff to help them address communication and number skills in the workplace.   • Audit staff competence • Discuss skills competence constructively • Identify training needs • Governance- safety & quality • Recently updated with NI context • (Homepage - developing skills and services- frontline practice) or • http://www.scie.org.uk/workforce/careskillsbase/index.asp

8. What is a Skills Checks? • Short, paper-based, learning activity • Simple & task orientated • Quick – 10 to 15 minutes • Suitable for UK and overseas staff • 38 checks (& 4 for PAs)

9. Topics covered • Principles of care • Working together • Safeguarding, equality & duty of care • Health and safety • Communication skills • Understanding policies & procedures • Complaints, recording, incidents • Reading & reporting

10. Some examples: • SC 2- principles of care • SC6- preventing abuse & neglect • SC11- understanding written policies • SC 13 filing records • SC 17- recording information on charts • SC 18- using numbers in care work • SC 25- speaking politely • SC 30- reading signs • SC 36- safeguarding

13. Format of Induction standard resource • Provide overview and information relating to how it impacts on the role of the staff member • Provide links to useful sources • Check your understanding • Look through all the resources in this standard and check that you know what to do (and what not to do) if you suspect someone is being abused. • Did you know? • If abuse is not challenged, it will continue. • Record what you have learned • Your organisation may have a Learning Record Form. If so, use that to write down what you have learned and any questions you might have. Otherwise you can use our Learning Record Form

14. E-Learning • Supported by evidence-based research & linked to SCIE publications

20. Social Care TV • 121 films- downloadable • Safeguarding adults in care homes • The dementia environment in a care home • Living in a care home: a positive outcome for a person with dementia • Avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions among older people: residential care homes • End of life care- 6 films • Defining excellence in residential settings (older people) • Others- restraint, nutrition, falls prevention, safeguarding

23. Further information • Sign up for SCIE email updates for new resources • www.scie.org.uk • shirley.ewart-boyle@scie.org.uk