Direct Payments
This course aims to deliver training on the management of Direct Payments to Care Managers and Social Workers working with all adults. These staff will have duties that involve the assessment of eligible adults to apply for and manage their Direct Payments.
The course content can vary according to individual organisation's needs, therefore, discussions prior to the planning and delivery will be required to ascertain if the course should be one or two days.
The course will identify the processes involved and how this scheme differs in relation to Individual Budgets and the Independent Living Fund but will explain how these may be applicable within the whole Individual Budgets system. There will be the opportunity to consolidate learning through practice scenarios.
This course is designed to provide those key staff with the knowledge that they would need in order manage the process of assessment, agreeing eligibility, maintenance, support and review of service provision.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course participants should be able to:
- Identify the key provisions within Direct Payments and apply them directly to their professional responsibilities.
- Help to put people at the centre of the decision making process
- Understand how to promote the flexibility of the scheme in order for people to gain the right support they want and how to organise it from a broker, an advocate, family or friends.
- Understand the assessment processes involved and the role of the care manager/social worker
Course content:
- What is 'Direct Payment'? Its origins, its purpose, planned outcome etc
- Understanding different funding streams and the relationship of Direct Payments to them
- Council-provided Social Care services for adults
- Supported people funding
- Independent Living Fund
- Disabled Facilities Grant
- Integrated Community Equipment Services
- Access to Work
- Individualised Budgets
- Policy guidance DOH 'Guide to receiving direct payments from your local Authority'
- Identifying 'barriers' (existing or perceived) and 'motivators' to Direct Payments implementation
- Direct Payments - The wider context and its application
- Carers assessments under the carers (equal opportunities) Act 2004)
- Role of care managers and social workers
- Establishing eligibility under FACS criteria and principles of empowering users towards greater self determination using Direct Payments
- Creative risk management. Comparing reliance upon a care package and alternative solutions using Direct Payments
- Setting up Direct Payments reviewing effectiveness, one off payments, regular payments, combination care package/ Direct Payments
- How to manage the process of assessment, agreeing eligibility, maintenance, support and review of service provision.
- Supporting people to become an employer
Contact TCR for further information and quote price code: G