Care Home Provider Guidance

All providers should register their services on the ASKLiON website.

ASKLiON is Nottingham City’s health, social care and community directory supported by Nottingham City Council and the CCG.

To register on ASKLiON please visit the ‘create a free account’ page and register. Once registered please go to ‘manage your listings’ and then to ‘create a new directory record’. From there you can create, own and edit your record/s and keep them up to date with any future changes. When you press save this will submit any information to ASKLiON for approval. Please feel free to add all services and events that are under your management.

Residential and nursing care home accreditation process

If you are opening a care home within the Nottingham City or Nottinghamshire County region, or you would like to provide continuing healthcare services for adults over 18, your organisation can apply for a contract with Nottingham City Council and for Continuing Healthcare placements that are funded by the NHS. Providers can apply to deliver these services by registering and completing the information via www.eastmidstenders.org. 

For further information and link to the accreditation form please click here

If you have any queries please email lion@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Training Survey Invitation for Nottingham City & Nottinghamshire Care Home Nurses

We are conducting a survey to gather valuable insights about the nursing staff, their current training, and future training needs in Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire Care Homes. Our goal is to ensure all nurses in the region can access funded, high-quality clinical skills training.

All information shared will be used solely for the purposes of:

• Better understanding the challenges faced by the nursing workforce.
• Identifying the steps required to support professional development.
• Providing evidence-based insights into the needs of the market.

This survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Survey Link

Your participation is vital in helping us shape a more supportive and effective training environment for our nursing community. Please share this survey within your networks to help us gain a full perspective of the workforce’s needs.

What is the EnRICH network?

• Supports care homes across the UK, providing information about the benefits of research to the care home and how to get involved.
• Part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), which is the largest funder of health and social care research in England.
• Brings together care home staff, residents and their families with researchers.
• Aims to make the most of research, helps researchers set up and run studies effectively and collaboratively in care homes.

What is the EnRICH network cont’d?  

Enabling Research in Care Homes (ENRICH) Network YouTube Video

Benefits for care homes signing up to EnRICH and getting involved in research?

• Receive information about up-and-coming research studies and opportunities in the local areas.
• Receive national and local monthly bulletins from the EnRICH network.
• Display a certificate to show interest and commitment to research in care homes.
• Supports and provides additional evidence for CQC standards.
• Gives residents the opportunity to take part in research, improving quality of life and wellbeing.
• Provides learning and development for care home staff.
• Gives an opportunity to bring about change and inform best practice.
• Direct access to a dedicated EnRICH link worker for support and potential for additional support from the Direct Delivery Team if recruited to certain studies.

Care Home sign up and getting involved in Research:

Getting involved in Research.

https://youtu.be/VYYqOlSs9bo?feature=shared

Sign up to EnRICH for care homes here:

https://enrich.nihr.ac.uk/

What is Clostridioides Difficile? Bacteria that can cause diarrhoea particularly in frail, elderly and in those that have been in hospital or had antibiotics. 

New Ribotype (Strain) 955

Following the pandemic there has been an increase in the numbers of Clostridioides infections and there doesn't appear to be any reason for the increase. However, UKHSA has identified a new strain 955 which so far has resulted in 50 cases. 

What is the concern?

It appears to be passed on easily, cause more severe disease and also in some cases death. 10% of the total number of cases identified have dies.

Guidance for Care Homes:

Prompt isolation of any individual who develops diarrhoea and inform IPC Teams. City 0115 8834902' County IPCT 01623 673081

Review resident information and identify if they have had antibiotics in the last 3 months, or been into hospital or had C. difficile previously. 

Obtain stool sample and monitor diarrhoea frequency and type using the Bristol Stool chart. 

If a resident is discharged or has been commenced on Vancomycin treatment for C. difficile infection and they are not responding to treatment and are still having regular episodes of diarrhoea then please escalate to the GP to review.

Ensure any resident with diarrhoea is not only isolated but that appropriate IPC principles are put in place to reduce the risk of transmission across the home. IPC can advise

Further information can be found on IPC principles in the documents below:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/national-infection-prevention-and-control-manual-nipcm-for-england/

Infection prevention and control in adult social care settings - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please click here to download an NHS issued information pack to support accessing the right response at the right time for people living in care homes.

COVID-19 treatments for care home residents - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB

The free Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) service helps providers to manage their teams and provides crucial intelligence to key decision makers such as Government, DHSC, CQC and local authorities. ASC-WDS provides access to funding for training, safe and free management of staff and training records and the ability to benchmark your workplace against similar providers. Users will also gain special offers and discounts from Skills for Care and some endorsed training providers.

Click here for further information

Student Placement Opportunities | Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub (NATH) (nottstraininghub.nhs.uk)

• Introduce potential new employees to social care
• The opportunity to educate healthcare professionals on how care homes works
• Upskill current staff to be mentors and supervisors
• Weekly tariff per student – placements vary from 2 – 7 weeks dependent on area
• Students have a range of skills that will provide extra support to your residents

Following placements available: -

• Student nurses
• TNAs
• Paramedicine
• OT and Physio
• Pharmacists
• The students are all from local universities

Contact michele.tuttle1@nhs.net,  steve.white6@nhs.net, or james.baillon@nhs.net for further discussions

Did you know that Notts Alliance Training Hub (NATH) can access apprenticeship levy funds which will fully fund the cost of apprenticeships for your staff?

Apprenticeship Levy | Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub (NATH) (nottstraininghub.nhs.uk)

• NATH will facilitate meetings between you and training providers to find the option that works best for you.  You can also continue to use your current training provider
• We will guide you through the very simple process to apply for levy funding
• Opportunity to upskill current staff or introduce new staff to your organisation
• Invest in your staff to improve retention
• Over 100 standards available from Level 2 – Level 7 from care assistants to degrees and everything between
• More information available - Apprenticeship search / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education

Want to know more?  Contact michele.tuttle1@nhs.net,  steve.white6@nhs.net, or james.baillon@nhs.net

Both care homes and homecare are mandated to update the Capacity Tracker every month. Care homes and homecare providers will be required to update their data by 11pm on the 14th day of each month – or the next working day when the 14th is on a weekend or public holiday. Data must be no more than a week out of date i.e. it must be correct to no further back than the 8th of each month.

If you need any assistance updating, please contact the Capacity Tracker Team.

Phone: 0191 691 3729 (Mon-Fri 8am-5pm)
Email: necsu.capacitytracker@nhs.net

React To Home Rounds provides training and information about the home round and wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT) processes in line with Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework guidance.

It gives best practice guidance around what ‘good’ looks like for care home and healthcare MDT working. Finally, it offers practical resources and process around how to identify if a resident is unwell as well as an escalation framework to support access to the right service at the right time.

Supporting Care Home Staff to:

• Start to identify signs of deterioration early and escalate appropriately - asking is my resident unwell?
• Know the options for local healthcares service provision
• Access the right healthcare service at the right time

Quality and Efficiency Outcomes Seen:

This training has helped us identify when our residents are becoming unwell at the right time and has meant we need to make fewer GP appointments as some queries can wait until the hoe round. - Care Home feedback

The number of care home contacts outside the care home round have significantly reduced - Lead GP feedback

How To Access Training

This face-to-face training is available NOW for all care homes, if you are interested please contact the trainer: michele.tuttle1@nhs.net

The resources are also available as part of an online training resource at: www.reactto.co.uk 

Every care home should have their own unique QR code access for the Care Home Companion or can access via the generic link on the QR poster – see below.  This resource will provide current expert guidance on a wide range of healthcare management issues such as hydration and nutrition, falls, tissue viability, dementia to name a few.  Take a look!!