Care home owners, providers, investors and managers who want to succeed next year and get insights into putting themselves in the best possible position can now download a free eBrochure from expert care consultants, Fulcrum Care.
With rising costs and a legacy of post-Covid nervousness, recruitment and occupancy remain the two key challenges leading into 2023. Care homes are having to find new ways to look after vulnerable residents safely and effectively, protect staff and keep them motivated through the most difficult of circumstances, whilst ensuring compliance.
‘12 lessons we learnt in 2022 that will strengthen your care home in 2023’ is a 30-page guide for care home owners, providers, investors and managers in the adult social care sector. It provides a range of recommended strategies and solutions to tackle the challenges facing the sector and improve the quality of resident care, compliance and commercials, for care homes across the UK.
Tony Thiru, CEO of Fulcrum Care Ltd, said: “In too many cases, care homes have become complacent and slipped into bad habits, often as a result of having to find their own solutions through the pandemic. Others have adapted their processes and procedures so that they are good enough to get by within the changed landscape, but far from best practice. These poor practices are impacting further on staff recruitment and retention and occupancy levels, as well as adversely impacting commercials.”
He added: “Care home owners, providers, investors and managers who want to succeed in 2023 – providing commercially viable, high-quality care – need to introduce effective management, operational and QM systems, adapted to the new landscape.
As expert care consultants with a wide range of experience within different levels of the health and social care sector, from care home governance and compliance, to care management teams and staff, Fulcrum Care understand the challenges that the current state of recruitment and occupancy pose. The Croydon headquartered company has pulled together key observations taken from working closely with care homes of all shapes and sizes in 2022, from standalone independents to care home group providers. Analysing both the mistakes that Fulcrum Care witnessed being made on the ground and effective practices, the company has extracted the key lessons to put your care home/s into the best possible position for a successful 2023.
‘12 lessons we learnt in 2022 that will strengthen your care home in 2023’ covers:
- The most identified issues in care homes that could be improved both simply and effectively
- How to create a safe and considerate care home environment
- How to increase confidence through person-centred care
- How to secure and hold onto good care home ratings
- How to improve care retention rates of care home staff and occupants
- How to nurture and develop new and existing care staff
- How to always strive for a better quality of care for residents
- How to improve care home commercials
The key battlegrounds of recruitment and occupancy that Fulcrum identified in 20221 remain, with Skills For Care stating in its annual report, The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England,2 that total vacancies in the sector have increased by more than half in just 12 months, amounting to 165,000 vacant posts as of October 2022. These staffing challenges in turn impact occupancy and commercials.
“Those that tackle the core issues behind struggling recruitment and occupancy levels will remain the strongest in 2023. The eBrochure has been constructed as a guide to provide much-needed insight and strategic solutions as we prepare for next year,” said Tony Thiru.
The full eBrochure, ‘12 lessons we learnt in 2022 that will strengthen your care home in 2023’ can be downloaded for free from the Fulcrum Care website, at: https://fulcrumcareconsulting.com/12-lessons-we-learnt-in-2022-that-will-strengthen-your-care-home-in-2023/
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Charlie Jones, Sharp Minds Communications, charlie@sharpminds.agency, 07710 695794
Tony Thiru, Fulcrum Care Limited, tony@fulcrum.care, 07921 214438
REFERENCES
- Fulcrum Care, How to win the key battles for care homes in 2022: https://fulcrumcareconsulting.com/12-lessons-we-learnt-in-2022-that-will-strengthen-your-care-home-in-2023/
Skills for Care, The state of the adult social care sector 2021: https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/adult-social-care-workforce-data/Workforce-intelligence/documents/State-of-the-adult-social-care-sector/The-State-of-the-Adult-Social-Care-Sector-and-Workforce-2021.pdf
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