I was delighted to deliver a workshop for Sensio today to increase their UK-staff team’s knowledge of dementia. We covered topics including types, symptoms and experiences of dementia, how perception can change when a person has dementia and how to communicate well with a person who has dementia. Included in the workshop was the voice…
I’m delighted to be shortlisted as a finalist at tonight’s Women Achieving Greatness in Social Care (WAGS) awards in the ‘Talent Development’ category. The promotional material for the awards says: “Over 85% of the social care workforce is female. Many of these hard working, dedicated and talented women juggle the challenges of family life with their…
Having become double-winners for our co-designed and co-delivered Loss and Bereavement Training for ARC England in conjunction with MacIntyre, Jess Hiles, Nicola Payne and myself have loved being back together to deliver this training three times during October 2024. We began by delivering it in-house for MacIntyre staff before providing a closed-session for one of…
I am immensely proud to share that the Loss and Bereavement training I’ve co-designed and co-deliver with Jess Hiles and Nicola Payne in a collaboration with MacIntyre and ARC England won two awards at last night’s inaugural Palliative Care Awards. Jess, Nicky and I picked up ‘The Workforce Development Award’ and ‘The Bereavement Support Award’.…
Having created a highly acclaimed co-designed and co-delivered Loss and Bereavement Training for ARC England with my MacIntyre colleagues Jess Hiles and Nicola Payne, we’ve now adapted this course for NHS staff. Having run this healthcare-focused version twice recently, I’m delighted to share the fantastic feedback this course has had, including: “Excellent training thanks, covered…
A huge thank you to the Home Instead Norfolk teams for hosting me for a 2-hour dementia workshop last weekend. We covered supporting people at home as their dementia advances, how to support people who have lost sexual inhibitions and good practice ideas for optimising care. I had some fantastic feedback, including: …
I’ve had a great time today doing a takeover of the renowned social care show The Caring View. For my takeover I was joined by Rosie and Meg from MacIntyre (who I work with as part of the MacIntyre Health Team), and Chris Maddocks and Masood (Maq) Qureshi, two Experts by Experience that I deliver…
I’m extremely proud to share the work I’ve been doing in conjunction with MacIntyre to provide co-designed and co-delivered Loss and Bereavement Training for ARC England. We believe this is the first project of its kind in the UK. I’ve worked with Jess, a lady with a learning disability who is employed by MacIntyre, and Nicola…
I’ve expanded my training portfolio by becoming an Associate Trainer for 3Spirit UK Training and Consultancy. 3Spirit are a Skills for Care Centre of Excellence and they hold the Social Enterprise Mark. I have worked with 3Spirit previously, collaborating on a free equal opportunities infographic and reviewing their dementia apprenticeships. I am initially delivering 3Spirit’s Tier…
As one of 3 consultants on MacIntyre’s Dying to Talk Project, I’m pleased to be supporting the Project team this autumn as we deliver the Session 2 and Session 3 training for MacIntyre staff in our 4 pilot areas. In Session 2 I will be delivering the workshop on ‘Providing the Best Support’, and in…
Following a collaboration with Caroline Bartle from 3SpiritUK, please find below a free infographic that supports health and care services to practice equal opportunities. My thanks go to Caroline for the opportunity to collaborate on this resource. 3SpiritUK have produced numerous free infographics – follow this link to find out more: https://www.3spirituk.com/free-infographic/
I’ve been interviewed by Insequa Ltd, where I was asked: 1) What would you like the new government’s response to dementia care to be? 2) What are we getting right in dementia care? 3) Demographics determine that the ageing population in the UK will rise considerably in the coming generation. This will align with an…
MacIntyre, my longest-serving consultancy client of 5+ years, have published a case study on one of the roundtable training days I have facilitated for their staff . You can read the case study here: https://www.macintyrecharity.org/our-approach/resources/reducing-the-risk-of-falls-case-study-roundtable-event/ During the session staff learnt about: Factors that contribute to falls for people with a learning disability How falls impact…
Today one of my consultancy clients, MacIntyre, have published a guide to running roundtable training days with staff that they co-produced with me. You can read the guide here: https://www.macintyrecharity.org/our-expertise/resources/roundtables-best-practice-guide/ The roundtable format was originally developed by MacIntyre’s Dementia Project team, in conjunction with me, as a way of bringing staff together in regional locations,…
As part of their series of dementia-related content to support UK Dementia Action Week 2018, one of my consultancy clients, MacIntyre, have interviewed me about my work on their groundbreaking Wellbeing for Life toolkit. You can read the interview here: https://www.macintyrecharity.org/news-blogs/macintyres-wellbeing-for-life-toolkit/ In the interview I talk about how I wrote content, and reviewed the entire Wellbeing…
Thank you to the Oxfordshire Association of Care Providers (OACP) for asking me to share an example of my consultancy work for Issue 4 of their ‘Talking Care’ magazine. I chose to focus on my work with a Christadephian Care Home in Coventry, under the title ‘Improvement for all-time, not just crisis-time’. The feature includes…
Following on from MacIntyre’s successful application to the Department of Health for support from the Innovation Fund, I am looking forward to working with them as their external consultant to develop ground-breaking new resources to support people with a learning disability and dementia (or who are at risk of developing dementia) through their ‘Dementia Project’.…
I have enjoyed a successful morning training GP’s, with excellent early feedback on my training session. One of the GP’s in my training session, Dr Martin Brunet, has since gone on to write this article, published by The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/11222003/Dementia-I-dont-want-a-55-bribe-to-diagnose-patients.html In the article, Dr Brunet says: “Get someone like the fabulous dementia campaigner Beth Britton to…
