Teaching Best Ways for Care

27 May 2016 | Updated 01 January 1970

Teaching Care Home has been welcomed by Care England, the largest representative body for independent care providers, has welcomed the launch and has obtained funding from the Department of Health.

The scheme assists five Care England members from across the country to be able to take part in the scheme:

Millbrook Lodge, Orders of St John Care Trust in Gloucestershire.

Rose Court, HC-One in Bury.

Berwick Grange, MHA in Harrogate.

Lady Sarah Cohen House, Jewish Care, in Barnet.

Chester Court, Barchester in Bedlington.

“Care homes are an essential part of an integrated health and social care system and they have an important role to play in training and developing an integrated workforce,” stated Professor Martin Green, CEO, Care England. “We are confident that Teaching Care Home will be an important part of developing twenty-first century services that cross the continuum between health and social care. We welcome this exciting partnership with ILC UK, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Foundation of Nursing Studies.”

Teacher Care Home follows the introduction of the Care England/Nursing Times Microsite, a new resource for nurses working in the care sector. The website provides a community hub for nurses working in the sector and provides an opportunity for care homes and care providers to share best practice.

Integral role

The Teacher Care Home launch has been welcomed by Alistair Burt, Minister for Community and Social Care who believed it would play an “integral role” in meeting the growing workforce demands in social care.

He believed that by providing a vehicle for nurses and care workers to learn together, the initiative would foster strong partnerships and develop a sustainable workforce who would take pride in providing high quality, joined up care.

A further endorsement came from Deborah Sturdy, Visiting Professor at Bucks New University and Honorary Nursing Advisor to Care England. “The social care workforce provides complex care for thousands of people living in long term care settings. It is imperative that nurses and care workers share and learn together; we need to raise the bar.”

Professor Sturdy argued that home nursing teams delivered complex, skilled care in nurse led units across the country. The development of Teaching Care Home should be seen as one way in which the sector could change the development of nursing and how it was currently perceived. ”At a time when it is hard to recruit and retain nurses, Teaching Care Home is a way in which we can help encourage nurses into the sector by creating confidence about their roles, prominence in the wider nursing community and influence the next generation of the profession,” she concluded.

Picture: Berwick Grange, MHA in Harrogate is one of the five members taking part in the launch of Care England’s Teaching Care Home scheme

Article written by Cathryn Ellis | Published 27 May 2016