A healthy, happy workforce in homecare
Michael Marmot started his talk with Alan’s story. This was the most impactful talk that I heard at the Hay Festival this year. Hay is the literary equivalent of Glastonbury,… Read more »
5 ways are approaching recruitment differently
Does this sound familiar? Jean was recruiting for carers for a homecare team. She shortlisted five people and invited them to come for interview. Out of the five, only one… Read more »
We did values based recruitment- but did we get the values we wanted?
Skills for Care tell us that values based recruitment and retention is about finding and keeping people who have the right values, attitudes and behaviours to work in social care…. Read more »
Uniforms and homecare
Dora was dressed in a purple cardigan and had a beautiful lilac tint to her hair. She is in her eighties, and her daughter was on holiday, and Geraldine was… Read more »
Eight ways to Wellbeing Teams work
This short animation describes how a Wellbeing Team supports Norma and Jean – but it is only half the story. Wellbeing Teams offer a fresh approach to home care, that is different… Read more »
Wellbeing Teams – what values look like in practice
Values and beliefs are powerful forces at work deep in our unconscious. Our everyday behaviours, choices and decisions all have their roots in these foundations irrespective of whether we know… Read more »
How can we work in ways that enable everyone to flourish?
The Guardian, in November last year, tells story of Jean. Jean works for a home care agency in the north of England. She starts work at 6.30 am, and completes 23… Read more »
Values in induction
All five Wellbeing Teams have now completed their induction and are up and running. Like our recruitment process, we realised that how we approached induction would need to be very… Read more »
3 reasons why we need more co-operatives and self-managed teams in health and care
Co-operatives have been around since the 19th Century, and still feel relevant today. I am interested in them because of my work with Wellbeing Teams: both share a common thread of… Read more »
Co-ops and Wellbeing Teams- a meeting of hearts and minds?
My colleague Jackie LeFevre is a values specialist, and part of the Minessence Values Framework co-operative. We have been working together to define and demonstrate values within Wellbeing Teams. Here… Read more »
