Skills for Care have created a range of resources to support organisations recruiting during the pandemic, ensuring that safety and wellbeing of people needing care remaining the priority.

These resources include;

Guiding principles on safe and rapid recruitment for organisations of all sizes which includes information on Values-based recruitment, recruiting from your local community, robust employment checks and distance recruiting/virtual interviews. You can access this information by clicking here https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Recruitment-retention/COVID-19/COVID-19-Safe-and-rapid-recruitment.aspx

Sharing recruitment solutions

Skills for Care have been working alongside the Local Government Association (LGA), the Care Provider Alliance and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) to share experiences and examples of local recruitment initiatives and solutions that may also work for you. You can access these examples by clicking here - https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Recruitment-retention/COVID-19/Sharing-recruitment-solutions.aspx

Skills for Care, LGA and ADASS will be holding webinars during February to showcase some of these initiatives in more detail sharing their learning. Details of these webinars will be shared in the Skills for Care fortnightly eNewsletter.

Care Friends App

Care Friends is an app that has been developed in partnership with Skills for Care and now has over 10,000 users. The app is designed to help employers with their recruitment and retention challenges by using existing staff.

Employee referrals have been proven to be the best source of finding quality staff. Care Friends enables staff to share jobs with friends using their existing phone contacts and earning cash instantly whilst also minimising the administration of inhouse referral schemes.

To help enable and facilitate this the Care Friends App was created, for more information, you can visit https://carefriends.co.uk/ 

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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recently published a new COVID-19 rapid guideline focused on the long-term effects of COVID-19 also known as ‘long COVID’.

The guideline, COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 (NG188), covers identifying, assessing and managing the long-term effects of COVID-19. It makes recommendations about care in all sessions for adults, children and young people who have new or ongoing symptoms 4 weeks after first experiencing acute COVID-19. It also provides information and advice on organising services for long COVID.

To find out more information and access the full guideline you can click through the link below.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/NG188