Working with an ethos of person centredness and an active nurturing of community asset based approaches, the range of quality services available from VCS include:
A high level of efficient quality assurance provisions which reflect an ethos in person centred care and the part they play in creating connected communities, which is vital when building positive compliance in an organisation with regulators and their bodies.
As a result VCS has created a menu of quality compliance supports that will ensure that your organisation is compliant on all levels. These include:
Each audit is supported by a full report detailing findings and the provision of additional services in order to complete a full Red/Amber/Green rated action plan.
Positive engagement is the opportunity to actively reach all individuals involved in service provisions, ensuring that all perspectives of delivery and/or change are brought together to sustain supports.
VCS support positive engagement, communication and involvement for all through including:
Social Care is an ever changing market and as such organisations need to be open to continuous improvement and change in order to stay up to date with current legislation and regulations, as well as developing services that meet the needs of people living within their own communities.
For too long change management has been driven by traditional means of introducing new laws and policies or being set by controlling commissioners.
VCS supports organisations to challenge and change that method and focus on another way, a way of 'Pro-active Positive Change Management'.
Using various methods and techniques to nurture positive changes include:
Working with organisations, their teams and people who receive services alongside communities supports the creation of 'Pro-active Positive Change Management' plans that really focus on understanding and meeting the needs of all involved.
If you want to know more about how these can work for your organisation then please feel free to contact me to discuss how this can be achieved.
Best practice highlights organisations’ strategic and operational business plans supporting appropriately outline business goals. From experience these tend to be very static documents that are only reviewed annually when a progress and delivery of outcomes report is requested.
VCS challenges this way of delivering business planning by creating a space to facilitate organisations in developing organic business plans that are nurtured and evolve throughout the working year whilst they meet flexible outcomes set.
Using this approach the organic business plan is a live document, highlighting continuous improvement actions and appreciates the current need of the business, the people receiving its supports and the whole service delivery at all times.
VCS know that from time to time organisations are looking to change direction but are unsure of how to set out goals or outcomes that are flexible enough to deliver positive valued change.
Again using the above approach with organisations, plans are developed and target outcomes that reflect service provision changes in a way that can be easily understood by people receiving supports, stakeholders, staff and the wider community.
One of the latest support services available from VCS is the requirement for positive mentoring at all levels of an organisation.
Often witnessed are senior management teams demanding changes within their organisation that they believe to be appropriate at the time, however have completely missed the focus or demand of the people delivering and receiving the service. Employees have stated that they wished the management had involved them or at least spoken to them about how to manage the change.
In supporting the CQC’s Well-Led KLOE regulation, it has been identified on many occasions that management leadership through external mentoring is vital in proving high quality service provision and delivery.
VCS quality mentoring programmes look to establish quickly how your organisation is being led, in terms of provision, and how this can be positively enhanced with external mentoring to management and their teams.
Use of positive person centred mentoring gains positive engagement with the individuals in need of mentoring support within your organisation whilst always ensuring that they understand the focus of what the organisation is wishing to achieve.
The very latest support service to be offered has been developed after being approached by a residential home client who wished to have external supervision and appraisals supports for their management.
They saw the benefit of having an independent external support for supervision of the main home manager and management team instead of it being completed in-house.
This service provides the home owner with an independent honest reflection of the management team in supervision and an annual appraisal. It also provides those in supervision a valued communication point (not the owner) in highlighting areas for improvement and change.
VCS can offer a range of supervision and appraisals services including:
VCS supervision and appraisal programme is linked directly with the Chartered Management Institute and Care Quality Commission guidelines on effective employee supervision and appraisal.
The above list is not exhaustive and through initial discussions a tailored support package can be developed for any area of service that your organisation considers is in need of quality improvement.