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ASC Provider Briefing - 10 February 2023


Dear Care Provider Colleagues,

Welcome to this week's briefing.

This week in the briefing: our Proud to Care campaign needs your vacancies for job-matching 203 candidates, a copy of the presentation from the Provider Consultation on Care Fees for 2023/24, a presentation and a survey about care homes accessing Shared Care Records, a poster and referral form for Marie Curie's Advance Care Planning Service, and a summary and recording of this week's Care Provider Learning Engagement Meeting, as well as the usual event reminders.

Don’t forget you can now access all latest news, information and events
via our provider-facing website: somersetprovidernetwork.org.uk

Please find the latest news and updates from Adult Social Care below:
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203 candidates waiting for Somerset-based social care jobs

Our My Time To Care campaign has got off to a great start, and we now have 203 candidates waiting to be matched with a role in social care in Somerset.
If you have vacancies in your setting and would like to be matched with a candidate, please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/iJ5rmV0vqm
Please note, we cannot release any candidates to you unless you complete the above form.
IMPORTANT: Some providers have filled in the candidate expression of interest form on our Proud to Care website. Please can we ask that providers do not do this as this invalidates our data for reporting.

Provider Consultation Event on 31 January – Care Fee Negotiations for 2023/24


On 31/01/2023 Somerset County Council met with the Somerset Registered Care Provider Association and individual care providers to discuss its proposed fee levels for 2023/24 financial year, which will be considered by a meeting of the full Council on 22/02/2022. The proposals are outlined in this presentation by Mel Lock (Director of Adult Social Services).

Shared Care Records

Shared Care Records Presentation

We are keen to understand what the need is from care homes/providers that want access to Shared Care Records.

Would you like to be part of the research process to help NHS Somerset Digital team understand what care homes/ providers expect from Shared Care Record?

If you can complete this form we would be very happy to discuss your responses in more detail: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=BvYktXr3okqNov5wNDsMzhpTpDVAFAxMm19Ydn7NoyRUMEFWVFJOU1ZMU0c5TlcxTTI0OElQSlBFWC4u
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Advanced Care Planning Information

Marie Curie have shared with us a poster about Advanced Care Planning, and a referral form for clients to use.

Somerset Care Provider Learning and Engagement Meeting 7th February 2023

A very informative meeting with lots of guest speakers and a fantastic audience.

Thank You

The LEM was recorded and you can view it here: https://youtu.be/QYGm_0DwmdY

Thank you to the Guest speakers. It really is great to have you attend and share your expertise and knowledge.

The guest speakers shared these resources:
Next month’s LEM:

7th March 2023 2-4pm

Guest speakers
1.Sarah Higgins and Tamsin Carey
Intermediate care discharge pathway and D2A process

2.Cindy Furse - Dementia Wellbeing Service

3.Kirsty Withers – Dementia overview and how to manage behaviours

LEM topics and transference of care discussion topics.

Please do get in touch if you would like to see certain speakers, have particular health and social care colleagues in attendance, provide topics for discussion or offer to be a guest speaker.

The LEM is the Care Providers of Somerset Resource so please get in touch: ASCContractsandQualityMonitoring@somerset.gov.uk

Rachel Caunce, Care Provider Support Officer

Upcoming Event Reminders

For more updates on upcoming events, see our website events page: Events (somersetprovidernetwork.org.uk)
Please continue to share or promote these briefings and our webpage to others in your organisations.

Our incident room mailbox and contact details (see below) remains operational during core working hours so please get in touch if you have any urgent concerns or queries we can look to assist you with.

Best wishes

Somerset’s Provider Engagement Team

Adult Social Care (ASC) COVID19 Response Team
Mailbox: ASCCOVID19@somerset.gov.uk
Phone: 07790 577338
Website: Somerset Provider Engagement Network
Somerset County Council
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