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New! Living Well Care Presentation (09/05/2022)

Living Well Care Presentation

Press release about the new CaH model (01/04/2022)

Health and Social Care Partnership to launch new Care at Home model

Ways to help people live in their own homes for as long as possible will be considered as part of proposals to transform social care in Perth and Kinross when the Integrated Joint Board meets on Wednesday.

Care at Home aims to support people to live in their own homes as independently as possible for as long as possible.

 The new approach has been developed in conjunction with social care providers, community organisations and takes into account the views of people who rely on care at home.

 It has been developed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the increased pressure it has placed on social care services.

 Perth and Kinross has an older population and a large rural geography that requires greater flexibility in the delivery of social care services.

Key elements of the new model include:

• New community focused Wellbeing Team to address pockets of unmet need in rural locations  
• Improved marketing and information about social care at home and the difference this makes to people being able to live life well
• Improved recruitment, retention, and career pathways for social care workers
• Scottish Government funding will raise the minimum hourly rate for social care workers
• Developing a young social care workforce through work placements and apprenticeships
• A get into care academy to deliver training

Chair of the IJB Bob Benson said: "I have been immensely impressed at the tremendous contribution of our social care workers across the partnership who have provided a lifeline to very many people since the pandemic struck two years ago.

“It has been undeniably challenging and their skill and devotion to their work has never wavered. I am pleased to introduce this exciting new model as it takes account of the tough experiences over the pandemic and seeks to build a more sustainable and flexible model for care at home suited to the unique characteristics of Perth and Kinross.”

We are always happy to hear from people interested in working within Social Care, we have a wide variety of roles and flexible hours and working patterns available.  You may already have experience or not, but we are happy to discuss all options, may it be routes into social care or opportunities available now or that will be available in the immediate future. If you are interested, please email us at CareAtHome@pkc.gov.uk

For further information please contact: 01738475072

An update on the work we are doing  (03/03/2022)
The work for this was split into 3 workstreams (or phases). Workstream 1 has been completed where we reviewed our existing, internal processes & models. Consistency was prioritised as a key requirement, with our Quality Monitoring Officers (QMO’s) all now using the same templates, thus ensuring a clear framework for reporting to managers, this approach was also reflected across all 3 locality areas. It allowed for focused discussions around care at home to guarantee a more flexible approach to client visits ensuring their needs are met accordingly. Our QMO’s also now regularly attend daily huddles with PRI staff to aid in the improvement of the discharge pathways. Our other 2 workstreams are our immediate response to the pandemic & our long terms solution, a new approach to our care at home model. Some of this work is ongoing, but we have seen strong results already. In response to the pandemic a SWITCH (supporting with transition to care at home) team were created to support external providers while the new model is built. This team provided vital support and have been absorbed into HART/HART+ allowing care at home & reablement to be more effective. We have implemented a single referral pathway for reablement & care at home requests. We have created numerous resources for our service users including a customer journey map and a guide for accessing support. We have also created physical activity support packs that will be distributed in the coming months. For our long-term solutions, we are targeting local co-production groups to strengthen our community links, initial meetings for this have taken place. A lot of this work for workstreams 2 and 3 are ongoing. Updates will now be made regularly to this site to ensure everyone is up to date about the project. The Care at Home Resiliency Project was started in May 2020 to address some of current key challenges around rurality, recruitment & flexibility. Initially this was a project that was created as an immediate response to pick up the extra hours carried by HART, as these extra hours meant that they were unable to provide some valuable practices to service users but has since grown into something much bigger.