Working with care providers and health professionals to identify training needs and delivery methods and develop a tailored apprenticeship training programme that is fully funded and sustainable
What is the Enablement Champion?
The Enablement Champion is an emerging role for experienced care staff who will act as the expert within their teams on particular health issues. They will work alongside key health professionals to support the implementation of specific care plans and interventions put in place for service users. The nature of their specialism will depend on the needs of their service users and could relate, for example, to support provided by healthcare professionals such as psychologists, dieticians, podiatrists and therapists.
We will work with care providers and health professionals to identify training needs and delivery methods and develop a tailored apprenticeship training programme that is fully funded and sustainable.
Care staff seeking to become Enablement Champions will be enrolled on a Level 4 Senior Practitioner Apprenticeship which will run for 18 months from April 2021. Enablement Champion apprentices will work closely with their Care Homes or Allied Health Professionals to support and deliver care plans with their residents. Through this collaboration and training, Enablement Champions will become competent in delivery of a number of clinical support skills. This will include understanding the principles of rehabilitation and reablement and specific clinical skills training relevant to their place of work (e.g. nutrition, behaviour management, physical rehabilitation). Supported by clinical staff this training will enable them to provide an enhanced level of care to those they care for.
Why is this important?
- There has never been a more important time to support the social care workforce. This programme recognises the value of care staff and provides a career development route to a high level, supporting recruitment and retention of high calibre staff. This project provides a workforce transformation opportunity – creating new roles for care workers, enabling care staff to extend their competencies and enhance the care they provide.
- Care recipients needs are increasingly complex with many living with multiple long-term conditions. Close collaboration between care providers and health services can result in significant improvements for care recipients, increasing their independence and avoidance of acute care.
- COVID-19 has shown how innovative deployment of the workforce can create solutions to increased health and social care demands. AHP capacity is limited and will be further stretched due to the rehabilitation needs of people recovering from COVID-19. This project will increase capacity and consistency of AHP rehabilitation and reablement within care homes in BHR
What benefits will this bring the healthcare workforce?
In many places, existing champion models exist, in which care workers informally partner with specific clinical staff to implement and support care plans. This project seeks to build on such successful examples and ultimately support delivery of healthcare, particularly where AHP colleagues have multiple demands on their resources. Enablement Champions and AHPs will benefit from the collaboration built through the alignment of AHP visits with the apprentice learning process. This new role could also offer opportunity of further progression into AHP careers.
Specifically, care recipients will benefit from:
- Increased quality of care due to acquired knowledge and understanding amongst champions
- Establishment of ways of working between AHPs and Enablement Champions that supports consistent delivery of individual rehabilitation/reablement plans
Who’s involved? The key stakeholders
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Care City : Care City is a centre for healthy ageing innovation, research, and education. It is based in Barking and works across the four boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, and Waltham Forest, with reach into Essex and surrounding areas through provision networks.
Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce.
Skills for Care: We’re a trusted independent charity with over 18 years’ experience in workforce development, working as a delivery partner for the Department of Health and Social Care. We also work closely with related services such as health and housing and are the membership organisation for registered managers.
NELFT provides an extensive range of integrated community and mental health services for people living in the London boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest and community health services for people living in the south-west Essex areas of Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock.
UCL Partners: We are a partnership of world-leading academic and clinical research centres, NHS organisations, industry, patients and others. We aim to harness research and innovation for excellent patient care and a healthier population.
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council (LBBD): LBBD are involved with supporting various aspects of the delivery of the Healthy New Towns programme within the locality.
The London Borough of Redbridge is a London borough in East London, England. Its administrative headquarters is at Redbridge Town Hall in Ilford.
The Academy will provide staff with access to training, a research hub, and opportunities for career progression, as part of our commitment to grow and develop our workforce.
The London Borough of Havering in East London, England, forms part of Outer London. It has a population of 259,552 inhabitants; the principal town is Romford, while other communities are Hornchurch, Upminster, Collier Row and Rainham. The borough is mainly suburban, with large areas of protected open space.
CEPNs are a resource for health and social care professional.
The network aims to coordinate primary, secondary and social care education and training across Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge, working with both the workforce and training providers to develop, source and commission integrated training that both meets your needs as an individual within your sector, and meets the needs of the health and social care community as a whole.
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How can I get involved?
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