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WMCA News • December 8, 2022

West Midlands Care Association Members Newsletter- 8th December

Newsletter

8 December 2022

***WMCA Updates***

WMCA has experienced care workers looking for roles now!

WMCA recently heard the terrible news that Oaks Court Residential Care Home in Wolverhampton was closing and their staff were being made redundant.

With this in mind, WMCA supported Wolves at Work to discuss new opportunities for the staff in an open day type event at the home.

There are up to 25 experienced care staff looking for vacancies currenlty.

Do you have any vacancies that need to be filled?

If you wish to find out more about how you can support them back into work, please contact enquiries@wmca.care with any vacancies you may have available for them.

WMCA attends Black Country Recruitment into Social Care event

WMCA attended Skills for Care and Black Country ICB's event on 1 December to support providers in planning a recruitment and retention plan for their business.

The turnout was fantastic and the day saw presentations from Skills for Care, Black Country ICB and West Midlands Combined Authority.

The attendees were also encouraged to participate in group activities, where they were able to learn and develop new ideas with their colleagues around recruitment and retention methods.

Business Continuity Planning: a free checklist for members

Do you have a plan in place for emergencies?

Planning for the unexpected can be a difficult task but when the unexpected happens, it can have devasting effects. That’s why employers are legally obliged to take emergencies into account, but do you know where to start? The experts at Partner, Citation do. Download this handy free business continuity plan checklist to help you get prepared for any unexpected emergencies that may come your businesses way.

Download Here

Your West Midlands Care Association member benefit

If you’d like to chat about how Citation can help with the HR and Health & Safety side of your business, just give them a call on 0345 844 1111 , or fill in their call-back form , and they'll get right back to you.

Remember to quote ‘West Midlands Care Association ’ when enquiring to access preferential rates.

Energy tender for providers

Care England are working with Box Power to attempt a sector wide tender for gas and electricity. We believe that by combining our buying power, Box Power (a registered charity which gives its profits to good causes) can achieve better arrangements for care providers for 2023. This will also be sent to local authorities directly to cascade.

Care England's action to establish the largest Gas and Electricity Tender for Care Providers - Care England

This is an expression of interest process only and once expressions have been made, Box power will write to all parties directly to determine which tender they can benefit from, one of which will be commission free guidance toward the best market deal open to them.

NHS Pay dispute: first Nursing strikes announced

RCN members will strike on 15 and 20 December at employers across England, Northern Ireland and Wales after the UK government rejected our offer of formal negotiations. The strikes will happen in England, Northern Ireland and Wales with a list of employers where strike action will take place announced next week.

ASC-WDS Benefits Bundle - one year anniversary!

Skills for Care is celebrating one year of the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) Benefits Bundle which gives all users of ASC-WDS access to exclusive discounts and special offers across a range of products and services from Skills for Care and the training providers we endorse.

ASC-WDS is a free online data collection service that covers the adult social care workforce in England. It gives care providers access to funding for staff training and allows them to manage staff records and training in one place and the ability to benchmark performance with other providers. Join over 20,000 care providers already using ASC-WDS and discover the benefits. Find out more here