Dumfries and Galloway College

Short Term Assessment Reablement Service STARS An Integrated Health and Social Care Partnership

Health and Social Care: Promoting Reablement Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) Accredited

Partnership design and delivery leads:

Lyndsay McCourtney Lecturer Health and Social Care Dumfries College and Wendy Thomson Occupational Therapist/Development Facilitator STARS

“…to do it differently and better”transform – sustain – improve - share

Accreditation - background• 2007 -Transform roles, share learning nationally, sustain

performance, improve outcomes for people • 2011 - FE (14), SSSC, NES, Skills for Health• Employers working with education - provide solutions to

workforce development needs • Deliver nationally recognised qualifications in ways

which meet the needs of service delivery and employers• Mapped to National Occupational Standards (NOS)• 2012 Accreditation• 2012 ongoing delivery

Group Award StructureFor candidates to achieve the NPA Health and Social Care: Promoting

Reablement at SCQF level 6, they must achieve 4 mandatory Units, (5 credits) and 1 further credit from the optional section.

Dumfries and Galloway – ‘Learnnet’Unit Specifications, Information, Assessment, Chat, Forums and Podcasts

Hey!... I’ve still got it in me

Workshops, Podcasts and Placements

STARS 2013 – GraduationChief Executives NHS and D&G Council

Future Proofing our Assets Together

• Supporting and empowering ‘People’• Appreciative Enquiry / Learning Organisations• Contributing to Integration/National Outcomes• Celebrating success• Recognising and addressing challenges, solutions and

Impact• Building the evidence – outputs and outcomes• Facilitating Outcomes Focused Approach• Building capacity – Third and Voluntary sector• Exploring access to school learners – early years

Effective Resource

Support

Independent Living

AssessmentsAssessments are designed in line with:

•The Sectors Skills Council’s Assessment Strategy for work based qualifications creating clear partnership approach which supports Colleges using a variety of placements

•Maximising and strengthening the support between mentors, centres and Colleges affording strong, meaningful and lastingpartnerships

•Nationally the emphasis in the Health and Social Care sectors has been on the concept of nationally integrated and transferrable roles

•designed to support the skills needs of the changing Health and Social Care workforce

Learners• First in Scotland to undertake the Reablement National Progression

Award (NPA)

• A joint delivery approach with integrated full time class of College Health and Social Care students, merged with part time STARS, Social Work and NHS employees

• Employees - 133 awareness; 27 Qualification; Support Workers but also registered/regulated staff - 3 Social Work Care Coordinators, 1 Senior Charge Nurse, 1 Allied Health Professional; best retention; evaluations; ‘awareness’ training delivered in Care Homes 2014

• Effective partnerships offer solutions which enable effective developments and sustainable achievements

Recording and Reporting

Impact - Change• IoRN - universal role in measuring change and outcome in

rehabilitation/reablement/intermediate care/Ongoing Support• Phase 1 - working group agreeing a way to sub-divide the IoRN

groups for people who are relatively independent (IoRN groups A&B)

• Improvements to – guidance notes, the way the mental well-being questions are used

• Enhanced version – measure beginning and end – copies are available on the JIT website at http://www.jitscotland.org.uk/toolkits/information-resources/iorn/ or peter.knight@scotland/gsi/gov.uk

• Health and Social Care Data Integration - Data Sets

www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/GG0G46

McCourtneyL@dumgal.ac.uk

wendythomson@nhs.net wendy.thomson@dumgal.gov.uk