Northern Health and
Social Care Trust
DEVELOPING THE SKILLS
OF OTHERS
Donna Morgan Head of Service
TYC NORTHERN TRUST
PRIORITIES
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More people cared for at home and within their local community
Develop choices and options on a range of providers
Access to generic services
Enhance Person Centred approaches
Ensure services are appropriate to individual need
Continue with resettlement from long stay hospitals
Reduce admissions to hospital for assessment and treatment
Develop community based options in day support and respite care and crisis intervention
Safeguarding
Develop supported living options
Developing the skills of others
Supporting those with the most complex needs only in
buildings based day care.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR NURSES
NOW
Developing the skills of others
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Delegate and train care givers to provide complicated interventions.
Have the skills competencies to meet complex needs.
Provide a service in different settings with differing levels of skill mix.
Have the skills and competencies to develop person centered individual
policy, procedures and protocols
Develop the skills regarding complex needs interventions if they don’t
currently exist.
Understand delegation and accountability
Understand capacity legislation, consent and best interests
Understand the roles of others
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR NURSES
IN THE FUTURE
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Developing confidence and competence in teaching others.
Develop relationships with integrated care teams.
Understand integrated care pathways
Mature the skills around contingency planning for individual clients.
Develop and understand the roles of stakeholders.
Raise the profile of the needs of the population through local commissioning
arrangements, stakeholder forums
Promote educate and share skills with generic services
WHAT EDUCATION AND TRAINING
WILL BE REQUIRED
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Training or education on developing integrated care pathways to encourage and develop
generic services input
Education on successfully planning and developing interventions with positive health
outcomes
Additional skills and expertise required for nurses to represent their profession and
subsequent services at commissioning groups, stake holder groups
Training in training others
Political awareness training
Knowledge and skills to be enhanced regarding supported living , alternative respite and
day support services and the roles other stakeholders have in this e.g. RQIA
Capacity Legislation training
Enhance and develop safeguarding skills
Knowledge ,skill and knowhow in delivering standards within the Learning Disability
Framework
Contemporary clinical interventions training
Enhance knowledge regarding responsibilities in delegation
THANK YOU
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Donna Morgan
Head of Service
Northern Health and Social Care Trust
Donna.morgan@northerntrust.hscni.net
Tel 028 9334 9797