Care Matters: Wednesday 14 August 2024

Can you help put carers on the map?, British Dietetic Association Care Home Digest, a message from Councillor Barry Lewis – Leader of Sutton, Clinical Health Team Referrals, Sutton Carehub Reference Page and more. Please share.

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• Can you help put carers on the map?
• British Dietetic Association Care Home Digest
• A message from Councillor Barry Lewis, Leader of Sutton.
• Sutton Carehub Reference Page
• Clinical Health Team Referrals
• Learning to Better Care – Adult Health & Social Care Conference
• Peer Review Post Challenge
• Sutton Community Fund
• Gardening Activities
• South West London Social Care: Academy Coordinator – Secondment opportunity until March 2025
• Clare’s Checklist – A Checklist for people with Learning Disability who have Epilepsy
• Medicines Management Information and Support session is now available to book
• Community Equipment in Care Homes Guidance 2024
• New contact details for dementia support
• Outbreak contact
• NHS Health and Care Volunteer Responders: How to make referrals for people receiving care.
• Have your Say
• Good Infection Prevention Control

Can you help put carers on the map?

We’ve teamed up with Sutton Carers Centre as well as the NHS, schools and other community partners to make Sutton a better place for carers.

Together, we’re working with carers to develop a Carers Strategy for Sutton. The Carers Strategy will bring people together to look at what’s working locally, what can be improved, and what’s missing. 

We want to hear from unpaid carers of all ages, so if you’re supporting a friend or family member of any age who is disabled, has a physical or mental illness, a substance misuse issue or long-term condition, or perhaps who needs extra help as they grow older, we want to hear from you.

Please get involved by:

• Completing our survey
• Taking part in a listening session or focus discussion group (email [email protected] to register), and
• Coming to Sutton’s first Carers Conference on 27 September

British Dietetic Association Care Home Digest

Menu planning and food service guidelines for older adults living in care homes.

A message from Councillor Barry Lewis, Leader of Sutton.

Sutton Carehub Reference Page

Reference

Clinical Health Team Referrals

Anyone can refer an adult who is over 18 years of age with a diagnosis of learning disability, a Sutton GP and is struggling to access mainstream services
Tel: 0208296 4111Email: [email protected]Visit: www.suttonhealthandcare.nhs.uk

for further information visit the Sutton Community Learning Disability Health Team (formerly known as Clinical Health Team) at Civic Offices, St Nicholas Way, Sutton, SM1 1EA

or Email: [email protected]

Learning to Better Care – Adult Health & Social Care Conference

Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the conference yesterday. It was really great to see so many of you. We hope you gained something from the day, whether that was from networking, to hearing about a better way to care, or hearing the updates from the presenters. 

Thank you to all our speakers and those who hosted workshops

Material from the presentation will be shared through the normal channels soon.

Peer Review Post Challenge

Dear Providers,

The LGA Peer Challenge team has now completed their review of ASC and we wanted to share some of their initial feedback with you.

• The team recognised that we know ourselves and are ambitious for our people, place and partnerships – where we encounter challenges, we focus on solutions
• They noted the strength of many of our local relationships as well as our partnership approach to prevention
• We have some very good practice and performance in a number of areas, including how we safeguard people. They also noted that we are focused on continually developing our strengths-based practice which we will continue to take forward.

Over the coming weeks we will receive the full report and will use this to prioritise improvements to our services. This has been a great learning opportunity for us all to reflect on how we work together and to prepare for our CQC Assurance. 

We look forward to continuing to work together with you and our staff, partners, providers and residents to keep people safe from harm and meet their needs for care and support in a way that focuses on their strengths.

Kind regards,

Nick Ireland

Strategic Director of People Services

Sutton Community Fund

The Sutton Community Fund is a grant funding programme financed by Sutton Council with administered by Community Action Sutton. Each application is assessed and grants are awarded by an independent panel. 

Do you have an idea for a small and community focused project that would benefit Sutton residents and meet local priorities?

Your group could apply for up to £5000!

Need to know… 

• Applications for grants from £500 to a maximum of £5,000 will be accepted.
• Only voluntary and community groups and organisations with an income of less than £100,000 can apply.
• The funding is for a maximum of 12 months unless it is a multi-year bid and then it is 3 years with a grant of up to a maximum of £10,000

This year the independent panel are focusing on the following key areas:

• Cost of living – the project helps people to deal with the rising cost of living, particularly groups or communities who are more likely to be affected.
• An inclusive place for everyone – the project promotes equality, diversity and inclusion; this could be through delivering support for specific groups to reduce disadvantages, or taking actions to bring diverse communities together to make positive change or solve a problem.
• Action on climate change – the project promotes or delivers positive actions to reduce carbon emissions in Sutton and encourages people to adopt more sustainable behaviours (e.g. cycling, walking, recycling, reuse etc.).

Aviva and mixed-use developer, Socius are leading the development of the world’s leading district for cancer research and treatment at the London Cancer Hub in Sutton, London.

The proposals include new research facilities and on-site amenities, with the vision of creating a nurturing environment for collaboration, connectivity, and innovation.

As part of the ambitions of the London Cancer Hub, the team wants to think local, be sustainable and make a genuinely positive impact. Key to this commitment is supporting organisations, charities and groups locally.

The team is committing £14,000 towards the Sutton Community Fund to help deliver change within local communities. This will be allocated through the Community Fund Panel and will help deliver social, environmental and economic benefits to Sutton. 

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 9^th September

Please send applications to [email protected]

Download the guidance

Download the application form

https://www.communityactionsutton.org.uk/funding/sutton-community-fund/#:~:text=The%20Sutton%20Community%20Fund%20is,awarded%20by%20an%20independent%20panel

Gardening Activities

We are asking you to share your gardening activities, ideas and photos so that we showcase this online via the Care Matters monthly newsletter. Please share via [email protected]

Presentation from Linda Mamedy

South West London Social Care: Academy Coordinator

Secondment opportunity until March 2025 with a possible extension until September 2025.

This is a great and exciting role, for someone to lead a wide range of partners from across the six SWL boroughs, the social care sector, employment programmes, education, skills, and training providers, SWL NHS and London ADASS to work together to promote and ensure access to good jobs, training and career opportunities in the social care sector.

Click here to view job profile and specification

Medicines Management Information and Support session is available to book

The primary objective of these online sessions is to provide individuals with the knowledge they require to manage medication safely and confidently.

Dates:

• Monday 16 September 2024
• Monday 4 November 2024
• Monday 13 January 2025
• Monday 24 February 2025

Book here: https://www.aimsol.co.uk/event-details/free-medicines-management-2025-02-24-10-30

Community Equipment in Care Homes Guidance 2024

New contact details for dementia support

https://www.ageuk.org.uk/sutton/our-services/dementia-wellbeing-support/

From April 2024, dementia support in Sutton will be provided by Age UK Sutton. To access support, please contact 020 8078 0002 or email [email protected].

Carers of people with dementia can also contact the Sutton Carers Centre directly via [email protected] or 020 8296 5611.

Outbreak Contact

If you have a suspected or confirmed outbreak of COVID-19, please report it to the health protection team. Advice for outbreak management latest guidance can be found on the care hub.

Health Protection Team:

• HPT Email: ([email protected]) or call: (0300 303 0450)

Have your Say

We want you to have your say. This is an opportunity to ask questions that will be answered by Sutton’s Commissioners or Public Health Team. Please also use the link to the form below if you have any good news stories or activities your residents have taken part in that you would like to be shared on the Carehub.

https://forms.gle/6fY1pHirsC1gnDFAA

Infection prevention control for Adult social care sector

Good infection prevention and control (IPC) practice remains important throughout the year.

Good infection control practices can help reduce the risk of outbreaks occurring. It is important that adult social care providers refer to the guidance on infection prevention and control:

• Infection prevention and control: resource for adult social care
• Infection prevention and control in adult social care: COVID-19 supplement
• Winter-readiness (infection prevention) information for care homes winter pack 2022/23

If you require any infection control support or advise please contact the London borough Sutton public health team: [email protected]

Guidance changes? Help from London Borough of Sutton Public Health team

If you need any help or advice on the changes please contact the London Borough of Sutton Public health team. Send them an email [email protected] 

Webinars and training

IPC training can be found on Eventbrite

Skills for care – Care Certificate
Care Courses Online – Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare
Social care institute for excellence – Infection control e-learning course

Care home information sharing webinar

Fortnightly on a Tuesday 1:30 – 3pm

The webinar link;
Microsoft Teams meeting
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Sutton Care Hub Job Portal

To support Sutton’s care providers to recruit the best staff for all positions from management, to clinical staff, carers and administrative support, we have created the Sutton Care Hub Job Portal.