Care Home Management magazine's podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this special podcast with Towergate Insurance and Care England we provide some top tips to help care homes purchase the most useful and cost-effective insurance.

• Are you insured for the right things? Protecting revenue as well as the building?
• What about cyber insurance?
• What if you had a data health breach?
• Working with insurance brokers

Join our experts, Care England's social care advisor Richard Ayres and Towergate's head of care Jason Brown.

Podcast hosted by Alan Rustad.

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Care Home Management is the UK's leading media brand for care home providers and managers.

PR and marketing can boost your care home's reputation, which can boost occupancy.

In this special podcast we explore the benefits of promoting your home locally and how you can drive enquiries using strong  and relevant content in all your marketing.

Our experts provide some great top tips to help care providers improve their marketing straightaway.

Join Five On A Bike Group founder York Woodford-Smith and Chew PR's founder Colette Lowe.

Podcast hosted by Care Home Management's publishing editor Steve Hemsley.

Podcast sponsored by Rotacloud.

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In our latest Supplier Special podcast, we talk to The Care Home Interior Co's managing director Kerry Southern-Reason about how any refurbishment must take into account the needs of the residents and of the planet.

She discusses:

• How investing in better care home interiors boosts occupancy
• How taking pride in the look of your care home tells families that you care
• Thinking about sustainability – can you recycle furniture and furnishings?
• How the right look and furnishings help residents to feel safe and secure
• Remembering this is the residents’ home so does the interior and the furnishings used reflect this?
• Top tips for improving your care home interior on a set budget

Join host Alan Rustad.

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Care homes are always being encouraged to tell their positive stories.

You can only do this if you are on top of your PR and marketing. You need to know what to say and how to say it to different audiences across different media and marketing channels.

In our latest industry-leading podcast our experts discuss:

• Why care homes should focus on their positive human interest stories
• How to get the best value from any marketing and PR budget 
• How  video can bring any care home storytelling to life.
• Why positive marketing can be crucial in boosting a care home's reputation locally
• Finding and using good news stories from residents and their families.
  
  There is even some great advice to get your care home on local TV to share stories of great care.
  
  Join our experts; York Woodford-Smith, from Five On A Bike; Adam James, from Springup PR and Colette Lowe from Chew PR.
  
  Podcast hosted by Steve Hemsley and sponsored by soft skills training consultancy Hendrix Training.

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The Care Quality Commission outlines fundamental standards that should be provided for residents. These include person centred care, dignity and respect, consent, safety and safeguarding from abuse.

Join our expert panel to discuss what this all means for care homes today.

Our panellists discuss: 

• Why fundamental standards are as important as ever
• The CQC's  planned changes
• Why everyone in a care home organisation must understand the standards
• How the standards keep staff safe too
• The role standards play when recruiting 
• The role they play when planning a training strategy
• How the standards impact on care home equipment and premises
• Understanding the regulations and your obligations

Join our experts: Philippa Doyle, partner at Hempsons; Gary Hook, managing director at Edify Training;  Andy Backhouse, UK client services director CAS Recruitment, and Helen Buchan, head of product at JLA.

Podcast hosted by Alan Rustad and sponsored by Hendrix Training.

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Care Home Management is the UK's leading media brand for care home providers and managers.

Recruitment and retention of care workers is arguably the key challenge for most care providers in 2023. 

On our latest industry-leading podcast the experts discuss:

• Why the care sector cannot ignore the issue of pay when it comes to retention and recruitment
• How staff shortages impact on the quality of care
• Are there any short-term solutions to the long-term staffing problems
• The role of professional development and training
•  Why care homes need a Leadership Mindset
• How care can recruit people in other sectors who have the right transferrable skills
• What can care learn from other industries?
•  Why we need more innovation around staffing
• The importance of having real company value
• How employee wellbeing can play a big part in retaining your best people

This podcast is a must-listen for any care home owner or manager looking for solutions to its staffing challenges.

Join:  Dee Newton from Craven Consultancy Services; Charles Armitage from Florence and Zameer Nazarali from SimplifyER.

Your host is CHM's publishing editor Steve Hemsley and the podcast is sponsored by CAS Recruitment, a leading recruiter sourcing carers from the Philippines for more than 20 years.

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Care homes must - and they want - to avoid compliance breaches. 

But it is not always easy to stay on top of the latest regulations when delivering care or ensuring the care home building complies with the latest rules.

On our latest industry-leading podcast our expert panel discusses:

• How to comply with the latest legal requirements affecting care homes
• Which agencies you must interact with. It is not just the CQC
• Safe care and safe guarding compliance
• Do you actually know when you are breaching regulations?
• Training staff to understand compliance
• How care home compliance can vary across the UK
• Improving care homes' relationship with CQC
• Ensuring compliance with regulations that affect the care home building. Is your building safe?

Listen to our experts as they share free tips and advice.  Neil Grant from law firm Gordons Partnership Solicitors,  Bradley Lambert from First Choice Nursing, Kevin Groombridge from Care Inspections UK, and Josh Tedstone from Specialist Façade Inspections.

Podcast hosted by Alan Rustad and sponsored by Rotacloud.

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Why buy a care home? How do you sell a care home?

These two crucial questions are answered on our latest industry-leading podcast.

Our expert panel discuss:

• How healthy is the care home real estate market?
• How confident are banks and others in the lending market?
• What legal due diligence must you do?
• Who are the buyers and who are the sellers?
• How do you structure a care home real estate deal?
• What is happening in the new build market?
• How can a CQC report and rating can affect a deal?

Join our fantastic experts Faisal Dhalla, partner at Hempsons, Jimmy Johns, director at Christie Finance, and Rob Kinsman, regional director at Christie & Co.

Podcast hosted by Alan Rustad and kindly sponsored by Rotacloud.

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So much has changed in the area of infection control and prevention over the past three years and care homes are constantly looking for ways to improve.

In this special podcast we look at:

• The role of digital technology in infection control
• How care home teams can work more collaboratively
• How regulation is changing around disinfection
• The importance of training  for permanent and temp staff
• What should the policy be around wearing masks in a care home?
• Do residents and their families view care homes as safe?
• Keeping uniforms clean
• Ensuring the laundry operation runs efficiently

Join our two experts Robert Ackland, chief technology officer at JLA, and Fiona Millington, chief nurse at Florence.

Podcast hosted by Alan Rustad.

Podcast sponsored by Rotacloud.

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Care Home Management is the UK's leading media brand for care home providers and managers.

With recruitment and retention an on-going challenge, care homes often need to sponsor foreign workers.

However, it is important that they follow the rules and do not breach the terms of a sponsor licence.

In this special podcast Sundeep Rathod, partner Head of Immigration at law firm Edwin Coe LLP, guides care homes through the process.

• What are a care home's sponsorship and compliance obligations 
• Why care homes must read the Home Office guidance
• Avoiding breaches and what to do when there is a breach
• Integrating sponsorship within existing HR practices

This is a must listen for any care home provider looking to sponsor foreign workers.

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Care Home Management is the UK's leading media brand for care home providers and managers.