NEWSLETTERIvy Care Newsletter Sept 2018 Issue No: 12

In This Issue:

Pg 2: Ivy Lodge 10 year celebrations.

Pg 3: Mental Health week Curry and Chaat

Pg 4: Learning disability week ‘Health Hunt’

Pg 5: SAW - Online safety

Pg 6: SAW - Mate / Hate crime talk

Pg 7: The Warriors

Pg 8: Employment opportunities

Pg 9: Staff achievements

Pg 10: Autism awareness

Pg 11: Your new safeguarding trainer / The new MAPA team

Pg 12: Farewell / Management changes

Ivy Lodge celebrate their 10 year anniversaryThank you to everyone who came along on 11th June 2018 to

celebrate 10 years since Ivy Lodge first opened.Pictured left to right:Top row: Paula, Terry, Sue, Stacey, Janine, Janine, Kasha, Christina, Kerry, Karen,Neil, Sarah and Paul.Middle row: Audrey, Denise and CailumFront row: Alex and Alan

Ivy Lodge 10 year celebrations 2018

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Service: Ivy MeadManager: John Dossey

Feedback forms(a reminder):If you, or anyone youknowwould like to give usfeedback about any of ourIvy Care Services pleaseask a member of staff for afeedback form.Alternatively contact ClaireLee (see the ‘contact us’section on the last page).

Quarterly Quote(an opportunity to give youan example of the feedback

our services receive)

Congratulations to everyone at IvyLodge celebrating the 10 yearanniversary since it first opened.

Held on the 11th June, staff andservice users hosted a greatafternoon recognising theachievements at Ivy Lodge.

Ivy Lodge used this as anopportunity to share success storiesfor those who live there and it was aday for people to reflect on progressand goals for the future.

Thank you to the friend of KerryHollingshead for making such a

lovely cake. It looked andtasted great.

The day also marked the 10 yearservice anniversary for PaulLaycock, Registered ServiceManager.

Photo left: Paul Laycock beingpresented with his 10 yearService Award by Shane Parnell,Head of Operations.

Thank you for your commitmentand dedication to both Ivy Lodgeand Ivy Care.

Mental Health week 14th - 20th May 2018

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Using an idea launched recently by the Mental HealthFoundation, Ivy Cottage hosted this years Curry and Chaatevent.

This was an evening of food, music and above all anopportunity to get together and talk.

The aim of Curry & Chaat is simple: get together with friends, enjoy a delicious curry and raise moneyfor the Mental Health Foundation and a vision of a world with good mental health for all and for a lessstressed nation.

With this years theme being stress, the Ivy Cottage evening helped provide an opportunity to talkabout stress and how we take time for ourselves and each other.

Recipes for the evening were downloaded from the Mental Health Foundation Website and are stillavailable. Go to https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/get-involved/curry-and-chaat

For those of you who attended the evening I’msure you will agree that David Mitchell, RegisteredService Manager at Ivy Cottage made a greatwaiter for the evening.

Picture left with David, Laura, Tom and Andrew.

Pictured right:

Steven, Pauline, Andrew,Amanda, Ian, Caroline,David, Tom, David, Fleur,Laura, Terene, Tracy,Chrissy and Hannah.

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Learning Disability week - 18th - 24th June

With this years theme being ‘Health’ Ivy Dene hosted a fantasticevent .

The event started with a Health Hunt activity walk, everyone had tofind pictures of human body parts around the cricket club field, runback to their team and position the parts in the correct location.I'm sure the pictures will help demonstrate this wasn’t as gruesomeas it sounds.

This was followed by a game of Rounder's and it was fantastic tosee everyone getting involved. We obviously have some talentedrounder's players.

A huge thank you to everyone who took part and to staff memberswho made this event a success.

Safeguarding Adults week 2018

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Hosted by Ivy Lodge during this years Safeguarding Adultsweek Christopher Roddison, a representative from BarnsleyMetropolitan Borough Council held an on line safety session.

This session was aimed towards helping those who areactively accessing the Internet and social media bycomputer, tablet or smart phone.

A really informative and useful session for those who use IvyCare services to understand how they can keep safe andwhat to do if they need help and support.

A big thank you to Barnsley Council forproviding this event.

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As part of Safeguarding week Ivy Lodge alsohosted a mate / hate crime event.

This event was a great opportunity to meetthe newly appointed Mate / Hate crime liaisonfor South Yorkshire Police, Jayne Wynne.

Jayne Wynne and Mark Moxon from SouthYorkshire Police pictured right.

This event discussed the issue and helped raise awareness of:

● What Mate/Hate crime is.

● How to be able to identify a crime has been committed.

● Recognise why people don't report things.

● Know how, when and who to report an incident to.

Jayne was also a huge help in identifying some local training opportunities for our Safeguarding trainingstaff too.

Thank you to Jayne and Mark Moxon who attended the event and helped raise awareness of thisimportant issue.

Safeguarding Adults week 2018

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As newly found members of Xuberdance, take a look at the pictures of this year Gala in Airedale,Castleford.

A huge thank you to their Dance teacher Natalie Gibson (Tilly), pictured above centre.

Tilly has made every effort to make sure all members are involved in the class and Sharon, Andrew,Julie and Claire (pictured above) have all chosen to take part on two community events so far. TheDance Gala day, pictured above and below and a Dance show at Castleford Academy.

This has been excellent for service users confidence, health and enabled them to show off there danceand musical talent to their local community .

Well done (pictured right)Julie, Claire, Andrew andSharon on your first publicappearance.

Ivy Cottage Dance troop - The Warriors

My name is Thomas and I have recently landedmyself a very good opportunity. After having aninterview I have become part of the volunteerworking team at Pontefract Castle.

My job role includes weeding, emptying bins,showing visitors down the dungeons, maintainingfacilities, putting up gazebos and general tidying.

Since joining the team at Pontefract Castle I havemade some great friends and learnt a variety ofnew skills.

After getting more experience I hope the next stepis paid employment.

John Paul, known as JP has been looking around for ajob for a while and recently saw a sign in the churchwindow looking for volunteers in a local charity shop.

This was for 2 hours a week and would be a great startto get some experience.

JP asked for staff to support him with this and wevisited the shop and asked how he could apply.

After an initial chat, the lady in the shop asked JP forsome details and he was invited to give the job a trythe following Monday.

This was very exciting for JP and he was told what he was expected to do, includingkeeping the shop clean and tidy, serving customers and help with deliveries.

JP says ‘I love my job and look forward to going to work every Monday’.

Feedback has been great, JP is bright, cheerful and polite.

This has been great for JP’s confidence and he has also built a really good workingrelationship with his colleagues Pauline and Barry who run the charity organisation.

Well done JP, this is a great achievement.

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Employment opportunities

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It has been great to hear about a number of staff achievements over the last few months.

Hopefully we have captured a snap shot of these below, a huge congratulations to thoseof you who have completed training courses to further enhance your skills, confidence andcompetence.

Thank you for your continued hard work and commitment.

Julie Oldham (left) pictured above,receiving her level 3 diploma inAdult Social Care from her assessorSue Taylor (right) at AJB trainingin Barnsley

Kerry Hollinshead, Senior support workerand Sarah Jones Deputy Manager from IvyLodge receiving there level 5 Diploma’s inHealth and Social Care from Jane Richards

of ITS training.

Claire Lee, Business Managerfor Ivy Care proudly presentingthe certificate on being awardedthe designation of becoming a

Chartered Manager.

Robyn Sharpin (above) recentlycompleted her level 2 Diplomain Adult Health and Social Careand Tracy Leech (right)recently completed her level 3Diploma in Adult Health andSocial Care.

Pictures show them beingpresented with their certificatesby Registered Service ManagerDavid Mitchell at Ivy Cottage.

Well done.

Staff achievements

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New Autism Awareness Training

A huge thank you to Julie Lambert and Jonathan Cravitz (picture centre back row) onthe delivery of Autism Awareness training across Ivy Care.

As part of the 2018 Business plan objectives it was identified that Ivy Care needed tosource new Autism Awareness training. Ross Evans, training manager invested timereviewing the training available and contacted Autism Plus in Sheffield.

We look forward to staff sharing and implementing new ideas and knowledge in theirday to day practice as this training will be rolled out across all staff and will form part ofour continued training and development.

Feedback about the course has been excellent and staff have found Jonathan’s experienceas a person who has Autism an additional insight to the training.

Feedback includes:

“A really good course.”

“Very informative as will allow me to implement some things in my work environment.”

“Very knowledgeable and well spoken, liked sharing stories”

“Fab session lots of positive interaction.”

“Very valuable and I know a lot more than I did before”

Meet your new Safeguarding trainer

Meet your MAPA team(Managing Actual and Potential Aggression)

Well done to Cheryl Goodall, support worker at Ivy Dene(pictured right) on her recent selection to join our currentSafeguarding lead, Claire Lee (pictured below with Cheryl).

Cheryl's new role will be to assist in the delivery of Safeguardingtraining across Ivy Care, acting as a liaison with externalprofessionals regarding any updates, networking events andpublications.

Cheryl will now undertake ongoing training andco-delivery alongside Claire Lee over the next 2-3months to support this new role. I'm sure you willall join us in congratulating Cheryl and thanking herfor taking on board this training commitment to IvyCare.

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Paul Laycock, Registered ServiceManager at Ivy Lodge our existingexperienced MAPA instructor.Right:’Our New Instructors’Lee Bunting, Support Worker , IvyCottageRebecca Smith, Senior SupportWorker, Ivy Mead

You may recall an article in Issue 10 of our Newsletter from Paul Laycock (pictured aboveleft) talking about the importance of regular MAPA training and the introduction ofmonthly drills. To further support this ongoing essential training and development wecan now congratulate Lee Bunting ,support worker, Ivy Cottage and Rebecca Smith, Seniorsupport worker, Ivy Mead on their recent selection as MAPA instructors for Ivy Care.

Lee and Rebecca have now completed accredited Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) trainingand will be joined by Paul in some initial co-delivery sessions to help mentor this new role.

Congratulations to you both , I look forward to seeing the development of our MAPAinstructors team and how this continues to help the development of staff in the deliveryof quality support for those who use our services.

Well done.

Contact Us:If you have an ideas or want to put an article in this newsletter please send to:

Claire Lee, Ivy Dene,20-22 Doncaster Road, Ferrybridge, Knottingley, West Yorkshire, WF11 8NT

Farewell and Good LuckWe wanted to take this opportunity to bid farewell to ZoeJessop, recently supporting the Interim Service Manager roleat Ivy Dene (after her role as Deputy Manager at Ivy Mead).

Zoe leaves her role with Ivy Care on the 31st August and willbe leaving to develop skills as a trainer for the Hesley groupin South Yorkshire.

A huge thank you goes to Zoe for her hard work over thepast 6 years and commitment to Ivy Care.

We wish you luck and success in your new position.

Management changes

Mr David Mitchell, current Registered Service Manager at IvyCottage will be taking the Registered Managers Position at IvyMead, Barnsley.

If you have any query please contact David Mitchell at IvyMead on 01226 288277 or via email

davidmitchell@ivycarehomes.co.uk

Mr John Dossey, current Registered Service Manager at IvyMead will be taking the Registered Managers Position at IvyDene, Ferrybridge.

If you have any query please contact John at Ivy Dene on01977 671499 or via email

johndossey@ivycarehomes.co.uk

Supporting the ongoing development of the Ivy Care Management team you will seesome familiar faces moving around within the Company from early September 2018.

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