End of Life
Somerset End of Life Care and Bereavement Support: A new resource website for Somerset
We are delighted to bring a new resource to Somerset that brings together all the resources, information and education needed to help care and support the people of Somerset living with life-limiting conditions. This website has been a collaborative effort across organisations countywide and we hope you find it informative and useful.
https://somerset.eolcare.uk/
The website has information linked/specific to:
- Place of work
- Topic of interest within palliative and end of life care
- County-wide education
- A section for the public to inform them more about services and pathways in Somerset
If you would like a short 10 minute presentation for your staff/teams on the website and all its sections and functions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch, we’d be only too happy to help via Teams or face to face. Email EOLCEducation@SomersetFT.nhs.uk for more information.
Are you a Care Home interested in developing your knowledge of Palliative Care? Join the Somerset Care Homes Palliative Care ECHO network. Ten sessions via zoom. More information available here: Palliative Care ECHO Network Poster
St Margaret’s Hospice | Caring for the dying person (st-margarets-hospice.org.uk) – Video presentation for Healthcare Professionals
St Margaret’s Hospice | End of Life Information Leaflets (st-margarets-hospice.org.uk)
Health and Wellbeing
Staff Wellbeing
There are a number of resources available to support staff wellbeing.
Training:
REACTMH® Active Listening Skills conversation training enables Managers/Supervisors to identify and engage in meaningful wellbeing conversations, using “active listening” techniques, to identify and support colleagues struggling with pressures that are impacting their daily mental health.
We have training dates for both REACT90 MH training and REACT MH Train the Trainer for April and May 2022.
REACT90 MH Training Dates April – June 2022 and sign up details
REACTMH Train the Trainer session, a two and a half hour course to provide managers with the knowledge and skills to train other managers in the REACTMH techniques. REACT TTT Training Dates April – May 2022 and sign up details.
Going forward we will be looking to ensure REACTMH Active Listening Skills training becomes embedded within Somerset, and we would love to hear from any of you who have done the training and now would like to become a trainer within your organisation!
If you are interested in either the training or becoming a trainer (or both!) please email somccg.icsworkforceteam@nhs.net to book.
Thinking Pitstops– information leaflet and training flyer
Somerset’s Mental Health Training Offer
There are several mental health training opportunities provided in partnership with Public Health in Somerset including Mental Health First Aid, Connect 5, suicide awareness and more. Please visit the Healthy Somerset website to find out further information.
Managing deterioration (RESTORE2 and NEWS2)
Training available:
- RESTORE2 is a life-saving physical deterioration and escalation tool, used in nursing and care homes throughout the UK. RESTORE2mini online training, launched by South West Academic Health Science Network and Blue Stream Academy, enables care home and domiciliary care professionals to gain new deterioration management skills and improved knowledge and understanding of the people for whom they care.
South West AHSN have worked in collaboration with LARCH to present this important, free of charge, RESTORE2mini training resource for all carers to help provide better care across health and care environments. It’s available to access at any time – 24/7.
For more information, or to register for free access, please click here.
2. RESTORE2 & NEWS2 can be delivered face to face or online via MS Teams. It takes 2 hours & runs alongside basic STEP (Somerset Treatment Escalation Plan) education. New 15 mins video: RESTORE2 Training, Somerset LARCH Collaborative: Jude Glide – YouTube
3. Train the Trainer for the deteriorating Resident can be provided face to face or online via MS Teams. It’s a whole day workshop & is delivered at Yeovil Academy. It covers RESTORE2, NEWS2, ACP (advanced care planning) & STEP education.
For all enquiries please email LARCH@YDH.NHS.UK
Other resources can be found here on the official Restore2 website:
RESTORE2™ official (hampshiresouthamptonandisleofwightccg.nhs.uk)
The West Of England Academic Health & Science Network have produced these 2 videos:
RESTORE2 Mini : https://vimeo.com/436916799/a6411f306c
RESTORE2 including NEWS2 : https://vimeo.com/440098413/e50453b586
Get Sepsis Savvy – Sepsis Trust
Mental Capacity Act
We recommend the eLearning to providers for health which is free to access. There are 11 modules, and it can be accessed here: Mental Capacity Act – elearning for healthcare (e-lfh.org.uk)
Modules:
- Mental Capacity Act as Part of Human Rights
- Assessing Mental Capacity
- Making Decisions
- Best Interests
- Restraint
- Deprivation of Liberty
- Relationship between the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act
- Mental Capacity Act and Young People aged 16 or 17
- Research involving People who Lack Capacity
- Mental Capacity Act and Adult Safeguarding
- Settling Disputes and Disagreements
Bournemouth University has put together a Mental Capacity Toolkit: Mental Capacity Toolkit
DoLS/LPS
Content to be added
Nutrition and Hydration
Nutrition
Creating a Fortified diet – recipe book: PDF Link
This is a resource to support food fortification for those caring for people who have been identified as at risk of malnutrition, or who are malnourished. It is likely to be particularly useful for those working in, or supporting care homes for older adults, but could also be used to support people living in their own homes.
Hydration
Oral Health
New Oral Health Improvement training and development
Somerset Oral Health Improvement Service has launched a series of live webinar training sessions designed to upskill adult social care champions in oral health improvement. Oral Health Champions will be supported to cascade the information in their settings and improve awareness of and access to useful resources.
Session content: The session includes an overview of recent oral health guidance and responsibilities to oral health, it reviews the data and supports an understanding of need in Somerset, it will support you to act preventatively, identify oral health need and discuss how to implement evidenced-based interventions and promote resources and further pathways of support.
Frequency and times: There will be a 1-hour live webinar training session available each month, there is a range of start times with some twilight sessions.
View the available dates and sign up on Eventbrite.
Personalised Care
The South West Integrated Personalised Care Team would like to offer online training and other resources to care providers. Please see below for links to the PCI Institute and the South West Integrated Personalised Care You Tube Channel to share with your colleagues.
1. Register with the Personalised Care Institute and in ‘Training’ they will see e-Learning opportunities. A great introduction to personalised care, they can register for any one or all the short e-learning modules:
- Core Skills
- Shared Decision Making
- Personalised Care and Support Planning (PCSP)
Each module can be carried out in a single sitting or can be completed in more than one sitting when time allows for them to complete it. Completion and evaluation of these modules gives Continuous Professional Development (CPD) points for those who require them, and a certificate is produced for their portfolios.
2. Have a look at the South West Integrated Personalised Care You Tube channel – brilliant short films that say so much, you could start with The Girl Who Climbs and then discover more. We are happy to receive feedback about them. Tell us what you think and of these films help share what personalised care can be and what it means to you. Email us at swipc@nhs.net
3. The poster below can be printed or shared digitally by email to explain the benefits of Personalised Care and the shift in relationships between those who have caring roles with people as well as health and care professionals. The shifts in the type of conversations that are had with people can really enable and empower them to take control of their own care needs and life in general.
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If you have any questions about the PCI training or questions for the South West Integrated Personalised Care Team please contact us on england.swipc@nhs.net for the attention of the Right Skills Team.
