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 Structure
For 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 – Graduation
Chief Executives NHS and D&G Council
Future Proofing our Assets Together
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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
Assessments
Assessments 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 lasting
partnerships
•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/informationresources/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