A workplace culture is the personality and character of your organisation, it encompasses your company’s mission, values, and beliefs. It’s essential that, as a care provider, your organisation carries a positive culture in order to deliver high quality care and support.
Skills for Care supports adult social care employers to deliver what the people they support need and what commissioners and regulators expect. They have recently produced a broad toolkit, outlining key elements that define workplace cultures. Skills for Care found that services with ‘outstanding’ and ‘good’ ratings had a culture that is fair, inclusive and transparent.
IDDSI – what is it? What does it stand for? All these questions must be whirring round your head, so we are here to help you understand just what IDDSI is. IDDSI is the ‘International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative’, developed by a handful of volunteers from professional backgrounds including nutrition and dietetics, medicine, speech and language therapy, nursing, food science and technology. Implementation of this framework is taking place in the UK from April 2018 – April 2019.
