Resources and wellbeing
Resources
- A thank you letter for health and care staff - Winter 23/24
- Discharge from Hospital into bedded services chart
- RESTORE2 Training Sessions for care home staff
- Volunteering Best Practice Manual - Community First
- Choosing an internet connection for your care home
- Information for care home residents on what to do when capital depletes below £40,000
- Poster to print out and display in care homes about capital depletion
- Information about the Society for Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) - If you would like hard copies of this leaflet, email [email protected]
- Skills for Care eLearning
- Effective workplace assessment from Skills for Care
- Practical guides and factsheets from Homecare Association
- Home Care Management toolkit
- Resources – Hampshire Care Association
- Resources – Information Commissioners Office
- Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
- Digital record systems: achieving good outcomes for people using adult social care services
- Learning from safety incidents – information from CQC
- The Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman – assistance with managing complaints
Capacity tracker updates
- Home Care provider Capacity Tracker poster
- Capacity Tracker update April 24
- How to register for a Capacity Tracker account
Employing skilled workers from overseas
All employers in the UK have a responsibility to prevent illegal working. You do this by conducting simple right to work checks before you employ someone to make sure the individual is not disqualified from carrying out the work in question by reason of their immigration status.
- Employer’s guide to right to work checks
- Applying for health and care jobs in the UK
- Applying for health and social care jobs in the UK from abroad
- International recruitment toolkit – created by DHSC and Skills for Care to encourage good practice in adult social care international recruitment.
- SESCA international recruitment hub
Business continuity planning
- Prepare your business
- Business continuity planning guidance and template – The Care Provider Alliance
- Guide to safe staffing – Skills for Care
- Preparing for disruption
Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard (DoLS)
- Hampshire Safeguarding Adults Board (HSAB)
- Report a safeguarding concern
Mental Health Resources
- Mental Health information from CQC
- Independent Mental Health Advocates – Mind
- The Association of Mental Health providers
- Information from the NHS
Physical Disability Resources
Learning Disability Resources
- BILD supports people with complex needs
- Skills for Health resources
- Resources from Public Health England
- Constipation resources for those with a learning disability - NHS
Wellbeing resources for people we care for
- Connect to Support Hampshire - a website for Hampshire residents to remain safe and independent at home
- Live Longer Better
- Keeping warm in winter - information for the public
- Keep Warm, Keep Well - information from GOV.UK
- How to cope in a heat wave – information from the NHS
- Hydration in Older People free e-learning module
- Hydration at home toolkit
- Urinary Tract Infection prevention and awareness toolkit
- Hot water and surface temperature best practice
- Nutrition support tools and advice for care providers
- Urinary Tract Infection Resource Pack for primary care and home care staff from the NHS
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines to promote good health and improve quality of care and services.
- Tips to prevent falls from age UK
- Resources to help people live safely at home from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
- Respecting the dignity of those in our care – Dignity in care
- Medicine Management – guidance from CQC
Nutrition and hydration
- Information from the Alzheimer’s Society with products designed to support those with dementia
- Nutrition information from Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Information from the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative
- Hydration resources – Health Innovation Wessex
- Spotting the signs of hydration – video
- Hydration in relation to medicines, kidneys and urine – video
- Hydrate toolkit
- Mouth Care Matters resources
- Reliance on Care (ROC) care systems
Wellbeing resources for staff
Further guidance and support
If you are unable to find the relevant support, get in touch with Adult's Health and Care: