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Promoting Excellence:
bringing dementia
learning to life!Social Services Expo and Conference
18th March 2014
What should you leave with today?
•More awareness and understanding of the Promoting Excellence learning framework
•Some new ideas about how to use the framework and associated resources to plan for dementia learning and development within your own organisations
…what do you want to leave
with?
Can you rate yourself on the following statement?
“I am familiar with the Promoting Excellence framework and know how to
implement and embed dementia learning in my organisation”
(use the map on your table to record your answer)
Some history
• Created for ALL health and social services staff working with people with dementia, their families and carers
• Supports the educational change actions in Scotland’s first National Dementia Strategy (2010)
• Developed in partnership with NHS Education for Scotland and launched in 2011 alongside the Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland
Want to read more? www.nes.scot.nhs.uk.com/mental-health/dementia
www.sssc.uk.com/promotingexcellence
Why does it matter?
“Education and knowledge must be at the heart of changing any system”
Ann Pascoe, National Dementia Carers Action Network
“I have the right to be regarded as a unique individual and to be treated with dignity and respect”
Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland, 2011
What’s out there already?
Free to access at www.sssc.uk.com/promotingexcellencewww.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/promotingexcellence
Click for clip from Informed about Dementia DVD
Click for preview of social worker resource (working with carers section)
Activity
Planning ahead
Write down the different roles in your organisation- as many as you can in two minutes
Look at the levels of knowledge and skills in the Promoting Excellence learning guides- which level should each worker, or group of workers, aspire to achieve?
What makes you think this? How should you decide?
How can you make this happen?
What are the enablers and barriers?
Can we promote excellence together?
Rene Rigby, Development OfficerScottish Care
Edinburgh Dementia Training Partnership
Change fund moniesMembershipSCOTTISH CARECITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCILE.V.O.C.NHS LOTHIAN
Journey…Stage 1 Appreciative inquiry pilot•Team building, family involvement, action planning•Time, resources and trainingStage 2•Awareness raising and training•Resources•Ambassadors
• Impact• Outcomes
CITY OF EDINBURGH
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Contact us!
Kerry Cannon, Project OfficerWendy Johnston, Project Officer
Phone: 01382 346189
Workforce Development andPlanningScottish Social Services Council
Rene Rigby Independent Sector Development Officer
Scottish Care
Edinburgh Reshaping Care for Older People Partnership