Managing to Care: The Care Home Manager's Guide
Published on 6. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-906670-93-1 (ISBN)
Description
Are you a senior carer or team leader who wishes to progress to management? Or an existing care home manager interested in improving the standard of care you offer? Essential reading for anyone considering career progression to manager level, Managing to Care: The Care Home Manager's Guide explores the role of the care home manager, and the preparation, experience and training this involves.
This invaluable guide will navigate the reader through their journey to becoming a manager, from analysing their leadership abilities and interpersonal skills when delivering care, to examining their personal and professional qualities and exploring their management ambitions and the ways in which they can achieve these in the care home.
Honest, engaging and informative, with a foreword by Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, Managing to Care will help carers evaluate the experience they have gained from working in a home, reflect on where they are now and where they would like to be in the future. The helpful guide will provide all the encouragement and practical direction needed by carers - either to improve the level of care that they are currently offering, or to make the important transition to manager.
This invaluable guide will navigate the reader through their journey to becoming a manager, from analysing their leadership abilities and interpersonal skills when delivering care, to examining their personal and professional qualities and exploring their management ambitions and the ways in which they can achieve these in the care home.
Honest, engaging and informative, with a foreword by Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, Managing to Care will help carers evaluate the experience they have gained from working in a home, reflect on where they are now and where they would like to be in the future. The helpful guide will provide all the encouragement and practical direction needed by carers - either to improve the level of care that they are currently offering, or to make the important transition to manager.
Reviews / Votes
All of us who are concerned with providing the highest quality of care for the elderly are also concerned about how we can ensure that proper training is given to those to whom that care is entrusted. We have reviewed the [RDB Training] package and believe it has a major contribution to make by providing care home managers and staff with a comprehensive range of basic skills critical to giving elderly people the quality of care which we would like to see become standard in this country. -- Tom Breen, Director UK operationsMore details
Edition
International
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
black & white; 95 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-906670-93-1 (9781906670931)
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Persons
Sue Brand is Managing Director of RDB Star Rating. She trained and qualified at the Middlesex Hospital in London and started the Pembroke Group, her own group of care homes, in the 1970s. She has always been committed to 'quality care' , pioneering the first training videos and books designed for the care sector 1987. She was Chair of East Sussex National Care Association and Brighton and Hove National Care Homes Association from 1992 to 2000, when the care sector was in crisis. To address the serious issues facing the care sector at that time, she founded the RDB Star Rating System. Sue has always been passionate about residents being treated with dignity and respect and has spent many years campaigning to achieve this. She is very focused and highly tenacious and uses her significant experience, her intellectual abilities, and interpersonal skills to ensure that her objectives for quality care are reached and surpassed. Current Activities o Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts o Founder member of National Skills Academy o Represents Care England on the UKAS Policy Advisory Council o Member on the drafting panel of British Standards Institute (BSI) for Social Care o Member of Royal Society of Medicine o Trustee of the National Dignity Council o Board member of the Quality Care Campaign o Member of HASCAF (Health & Social Care Accreditation Forum) o Cranfield Alumni o Common Purpose Alumni. Sue is also the author of Learning to Care, published by St James's House in March 2021.