Southern Trust Nursing Homes

The Care Home Support Team is a Southern Trust multidisciplinary team comprising of nursing, social work, occupational therapy and administrative staff, which supports the care of older people who are residents of the Trust and in permanent nursing and residential home placements.

The Care Home Support Team work in partnership with staff from the Care Homes and closely with the RQIA, Integrated Care Teams for Older People, Memory Services, Governance, Contracts and Finance Departments in order to support the delivery of high quality, safe and effective person centred care for older people in nursing or residential placements.
Care Home Support Team also have a role in the provision of education and training programmes for Care Homes and as part of the regional Care Home Transformation project, Southern Trust have employed 2 Clinical Nurse Facilitators within the Care Home Support Team to provide clinical advice and support to Nursing Home staff. The aim of these posts is to facilitate Nursing Home staff to develop their clinical nursing skills in order to become independent in the clinical care of their residents and therefore improve safety, quality and standards within Nursing Homes. This will reduce avoidable unscheduled hospital attendances and admissions reducing dependence on Trust services example: GP Out of hours and District Nursing.

Supporting the delivery of an ECHO® model of training for Nursing Homes will complement the Care Home Support Teams’ current training and education support for care homes. The use of the ECHO® model will encourage the nursing homes to shape the education sessions to meet their needs. The use of ECHO® may help overcome some of the barrier associated with care home staff availing of training including: release from the workplace to attend training, lack of funding to attend training and lack of availability of transport to travel to training.
Through the use of the ECHO® model, the Care Home Support Team will be able to engage with additional nursing home staff as staff will be able to attend the sessions within their own workplace and as the sessions will be recorded, staff will be able to access the training at a time suitable to them.

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Programme:

Session	Time	Topic
28/11/2019	10:30 – 11:30	Mental Capacity Act
09/01/2020	10:30 – 11:30	Dementia – Challenging Behaviours/Delirium
06/02/2020	10:30 – 11:30	Advanced Care Planning
05/03/2020	10:30 – 11:30	Frailty
09/04/2020	10:30 – 11:30	Speech & Language
07/05/2020	10:30 – 11:30	Staff Wellbeing
11/06/2020	10:30 – 11:30	Falls Prevention
10/09/2020	10:30 – 11:30	SRC – Continence Management
08/10/2020	10:30 – 11:30	Prevention/Wound Management