Adult Social Care

If you manage a care home for people with learning disability it may be that occasionally you find yourself justifying why residential group living is still appropriate for your client…

The care brokerage team have been on the phone constantly these past few weeks. There are lots of new cases to be sourced and urgently. The hospital is under huge…

Alongside our preparations for winter pressure planning and the Christmas and New Year service, it is also time to speak to staff about Flu vaccinations. Promoting infection prevention and control…

Last week’s highlight of my working week was a team meeting. The meeting was arranged for all the care staff working on a particular double up block in one area.…

Recently I attended a safeguarding seminar in London primarily because it promised information about recruiting staff and volunteers and how to use value-based interviewing. Whilst this was really interesting and…

I wrote a couple weeks ago about the huge amount of pressure I have been under recently to offer a service for new packages of care. I have never seen…

The cost of recruitment is expensive. Our staff turnover rate this year has been 10%, which is higher than it’s ever been before. The bottom line is the job is…

Anyone who has responsibility for a 24 hour care provision will have come across the challenges of using temporary staff. Although best practice is to recruit and retain a crack…