LEICESTERSHIRE & RUTLAND
HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE PROJECT
The Health & Social Care Team has been established to ensure that local community and voluntary groups are effective partners in the planning, commissioning and delivery of health and social care services.
The Health & Social Care team receives funding from the Primary Care Trusts to forge these positive links between Statutory provision in the fields of Health and Social Care and the Voluntary and Community Sector.
Where are we based?
The team comprises centrally based ‘specialist’ workers and locally based ‘generic’ workers.
What are we?
The specialist workers focus on specific client group conditions, including mental health, children and young people, older people, cancer & neurological long-term conditions.
The focus for the generic workers is working with local voluntary and community groups, drawing on their local expertise and knowledge.
This model of working enables the team to join up local and county planning levels, ensuring a much more coordinated approach between local work at a PCT and district level, with that at a county and sub-regional level. This two-way communication and consultation enables all voluntary and community groups to have an effective involvement in the development of health and social care services.
Our role is…
To encourage involvement…
· of voluntary and community sector (VCS) groups in planning and provision of health and social care services
· in consultation processes
· across geographical and client boundaries to ensure coordinated approaches
· and sharing of good practice
To raise awareness and understanding of………..
· the current and potential role of the VCS in providing health and social care
· services
· the knowledge and unique expertise of the VCS
· gaps in services and potential solutions
To support and enable ……
· the active involvement of VCS representatives on planning committees
· the development of forums and networks
· partnership work between VCS and statutory and private sector
· active involvement of ‘hard to reach’ groups
To provide information about…………….
· policy and local strategies
· voluntary organisation providers and self-help groups
· current news and developments
· funding sources
The role of Health and Social Care Link Worker for the Melton, Rutland and Harborough area is shared between Sheila Munnoch who is based at Voluntary Action Melton office and Bridget Cattell who is based at South Leicestershire CVS. You can contact -
Sheila on 01664 485302 or sheila@voluntaryactionmelton.org.uk
or Bridget on 01858 433232 or bcattell@slcvs.org.uk
or go to http://www.ccp.org.uk/healthandsocialcare.html