Is this festival for me?

Do you work within Healthcare or social care in St Helens Borough?

Do you work as part of the voluntary community sector within St Helens Borough?

Do you work within the NHS, local authority, CCG or commissioned services within St Helens Borough?

Do you work in any of the St Helens Cares Partners organisations?

If you answered YES to any of the above this event is for you!

What is the event about?

This innovative event is looking to collaborative with all of the St Helens Cares partners (and wider) across St Helens Borough on how we can build a more resilient community or, what we mean by this is, how we can build a stronger healthcare and social care community together.

The event will comprise of:

• Presentations on the key areas of focus under the resilient community priority

• Key speaker presentations related to resilient communities

• Interactive workshop sessions on each area of focus to understand how we can achieve these in St Helens

The St Helens Cares resilient community priority has been broken down into 4 key areas of focus which will be showcased at this event:

1. Care Communities

• To provide a seamless journey through healthcare and social support services within St Helens Borough.

• To always have the person at the heart of the services, ensuring a flexible and adaptable approach to individual needs.

• To ensure positive experiences of healthcare and social support services.

• To provide the right care first time with positive outcomes for people.

2. Health Innovation Hub

• To cultivate a sustainable ‘home-grown’ health and social care workforce to meet the demands of the sector in St Helens

• To make St Helens town a known contributor of innovative approaches to finding solutions within the Health and Social Care sector

• To stimulate economic growth and increased prosperity through growing our healthcare business sector, including via community wealth building activity.

3. Technology Enabled Care

• Technology is helping the way we provide health and social care services. Some examples of this technology are, you can now have motion and temperature sensors in yours or family members' homes. These sensors can be used to help provide care for people who are vulnerable to keep them safe in their own homes and can help in a variety of ways, for example:

- To identify if a vulnerable person has been taken seriously ill or has fallen at home and needs assistance

- To ensure vulnerable people are eating, drinking and taking their medications regularly

- To identify if a vulnerable person has a suspected urinary tract infection (UTI) before it gets worse and needs hospital admittance

- To ensure a vulnerable person's house is at a safe temperature

4. Social Isolation and Loneliness

• We live in a challenging time where social isolation and loneliness is at record high. We need to understand as a community how we can remedy this challenge within St Helens Borough.

If you want to find out more about each of these areas of focus and how you or your organisation can get involved then please register for this event – we look forward to seeing you there!

What will I get out of the day?

- you will understand what we mean by the St Helens Cares resilient communities priority and know what the 4 key areas of focus are within this

- you will feed into shaping each of the 4 areas of focus within the resilient communities priority

- you will learn insights from key speakers from different areas in the country

- you will have the opportunity to ask questions surrounding this priority and the 4 key areas of focus

- you will have a networking opportunity for yourself/your organisation

Proposed Agenda: (this may be subject to change)

• Introduction/open for the day – Mark Palethorpe (Executive Director of Integrated Health and Social Care & Accountable Officer CCG)

• Meet the leader – Steve Coffey

• What are the St Helens Cares Resilient Communities priority and the 4 areas of focus? Rachel Cleal (Director Adult Social Services)

• Schwartz Round - A Group reflective practice forum

• Lunch

• Assistive Technology - Learning form Hertfordshire

• Interactive Workshops:

1. Care Communities OR Technology Enabled Care

2. Health Innovation Hub OR Social Isolation and Loneliness (Voluntary Community Sector)

We really hope you can join us to shape how the St Helens Cares Resilient Communities priority will look within St Helens Borough.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us on Communications.ccg@sthelensccg.nhs.uk.