South GloucestershireDignity in Care Network 12th Meeting

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Diet & Nutrition and Continence.

6th March 2015

Welcome & Introduction

Bernard WildsmithCEO, Aquila Partnership

(formerly Care Learning)

House Keeping

Fire Toilets Mobile phones Photographs

Programme

10.00 Welcome and introduction 10.10 Diet & Nutrition

Louise Chambers – Milestones Trust

11.15 Break – refreshments and networking

11.35 Continence Jan Cotter – Sirona

12.20 News, information & updates –12.30 Lunch and networking

1.00Home

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Diet & Nutrition.

Louise ChambersMilestones Trust

Improving diet and nutrition in the care home setting

Francine Russell Louise Chambers

Acknowledgement

• Without the initial financial support to South Gloucestershire S256 Funding Panel this project would not have been able to launch

• Thank you to S256 team• Soil Association

• Support of Milestones Trust

How did it happen?

• Let me tell you a story

How to achieve the goal• Milestones Trust launched a Good Food Group • Working with Hannah Coleman (dietician) from

Sirona making the bid a joint piece of work• Working with Francine Russell of ‘All About Food’• Hannah contacted 11 of the Milestones Trust

Learning Disability Homes in the South Glos area• 73 people were screened using the MUST Tool• 11 people found to be malnourished • 1 home required extra support of another dietician

All About Food & What We Did• 2 types of training developed and delivered:• In house for service users and off site training for staff• Improve knowledge and understanding of what a healthy

balanced diet means• Increase confidence and skills in preparing and cooking a range

of healthy nutritious meals and snacks appropriate to the setting.• Increase consumption of fruit and vegetables by modifying

recipes to include extra vegetables and/fruit• Increase awareness of what is in our food. – salt, saturated fats

and sugar• Improve knowledge of simple cooking skills that can be

replicated in the home and when facilitating work with service users

• Modifying recipes for specific dietary needs.

Any obstacles?

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Can’t cook / Won’t cook

What happened during the project?• Trust developed a good food group• Francine worked directly with 180 staff and 32 service users to train,

educate and provide practical hands on work with the staff (this is where the most of the success has happened)

• Cohort of 10 staff trained with Square Food Foundation – further planned• Working with the Soil Association to achieve the Bronze Quality Catering

Mark Award – 75% of meals to be freshly prepared• Publicity – local and national/catering magazines/dementia journal/• Working with Growing Support to enable homes to grow veggies to feed

the kitchens• Trust became Soil Association Food for Life Partner• UWE are now undertaking a research project on the work• Undertook work with Gary Brailsford – Dining with Dignity• Development of the Trust Food Procurement and using Suppliers who are

able to meet the Soil Associations Catering Mark Standards

Delicious Food

Staff From Mayfield Park

Outcomes

• Audit carried out in 16 care home settings to assess training needs• Bespoke nutrition and cookery training delivered to 180 staff members• Cookery sessions delivered to 32 services users in care homes and in flats• 12 homes have incorporated new recipes into their setting menu• Cooking clubs established by staff in 3 homes replicating recipes learnt• All have been supplied with a set of 12 recipes that were taught on the

course• Food culture in the Trust is changing and continuing to evolve positively.

Staff have demonstrated a higher level of interest in learning new recipes, handling unfamiliar foods and healthier cooking practice.

• Staff have requested follow up courses• Training cost per staff member = £110

Philip’s First Cookery Demo

Questions ?

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Break

networking and refreshments

Continence.

Jan CotterSirona

Week 20159th to 13th March 2015

ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR DIGNITY IN CARE

● Tuesday 21 April 2015 ● Wednesday 7 October 2015 ● Tuesday 9th February 2016

(9.30am-4.30pm)

Venue: Kingwood Civic Centre

To book a place on one of the above course dates: Please email your name, job title, workplace address, to hrworkforcedevelopment@southglos.gov.uk

The Partnership

Become a member Lots of benefits including free access

to The Grey Matter Group’s Care Certificate Assessments

See flyers and info in newsletter

Free Care Act & Care Certificate Workshops

Aquila Partnership will be hosting free workshops on: 25th March – at Scotch Horn Leisure Centre, Nailsea,

9.30 – 12.30 – Intro to the Care Act and Care Certificate (Skills for Care & WayAheadCare.

1.15 – 3.45pm – The Care Certificate and the assessment tool

Tuesday 16th June 2015UWE Conference Centre

The free health & social care course and qualification finder

Workforce Development Fund (WDF)

National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC)

Next network meetings:

Friday 3rd July2015Friday 6th November 2015

Friday 11th March 2016

Thank you

Lunch, networking and end.