Community Care – The Excellence Network
JUDGING AND CRITERIA
Team categories
User Involvement
The judges will recognise teams that promote service user involvement in the development, delivery and evaluation of their services. Entries should detail how they have empowered service users and in turn improved outcomes.
Partnership Working
The judges will recognise teams that promote multi-agency working, which could include the use of pooled budgets, dual planning and commissioning, shared assessments, coordinated referrals and integrated services. Entries should detail how barriers to partnership working have been overcome and the coordinated care packages that are now being delivered.
Self-directed Care
The judges will recognise those teams promoting independence, choice and control among service users. Entries should detail moves towards greater personalisation of services and how direct payments and/or individual budgets are being introduced.
Early Intervention
Our judges will recognise teams that are embracing a preventative approach to service delivery. Entries should detail their creative responses to low level need and demonstrate how that is promoting health and wellbeing and preventing escalation.
Training and Development
The judges will recognise teams that are supporting the post-qualifying agenda, promoting PRTL and developing an evidence base to their work. Entries should detail how staff are being developed and/or evidence gathered in the pursuit of excellence.
Community Care Champions – honours for individuals
Community Care will recognise up to 15 frontline “champions” from within social care. They will be nominated by their team leaders, who will also provide a short citation. It’s easy to do – just being a short addition to the team entry form. The Champions can be from any discipline within social care, though there would be an emphasis on frontline social workers being recognised. The criteria for winning will be dedication, innovation, compassion, joint working and outstanding performance.
Who can apply?
The competition is open to any individual employed in social care across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Community Care welcomes entries from across the full spectrum of client groups within social care, including children in care, children and families, adults, mental health, disabilities and learning disabilities and substance misuse.
A team is defined as any group of worker – examples would be an area office, a community project, a child protection team, a community mental health team. Teams can include volunteers.
The objective of The Excellence Network is to share good practice around the profession. Commended teams will be expected to cooperate with Community Care to disseminate their best practice messages on-line, in print and at face-to-face events.
How will it be judged?
The general criteria for the judging panel will be based on the values of the Every Child Matters and Our Health Our Care Our Say policy agenda.
The ways of working should promote the following outcomes: promotion of healthiness, safety, independence, enjoyment and achievement, making a positive contribution and achieving economic well-being.
And the services provided should be easy and convenient to use; nearer to where people live and work; flexible; tailored; and give more control.
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