Wellbeing support line for social care workers in Wales
The Welsh Government has funded a new Samaritans helpline for the health and social care workforce in Wales. All calls are free and answered by trained volunteers who provide confidential, non-judgmental support. For more details, please visit the Samaritans website.
Social care workforce special payment scheme
On 19 June 2020 Welsh Government released interim guidance on the social care workforce special payment scheme. A one-off £500 payment has been introduced to recognise the hard work and commitment of social care staff who have provided essential care to our most vulnerable individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic.
We are currently working on how to get this to the care workforce in Conwy and will be in contact with you shortly about what information we need from you to make this happen.
Supporting your health and well-being
We're all aware how difficult and challenging these last few months have been and how you have been working under huge pressure in unfamiliar and rapidly changing circumstances. So it's more important than ever that you make sure you take time out to look after your own health and well-being. To help you stay well, we've pulled together a number of resources you may find useful:
Wellbeing support for social care sector during Covid-19 (PDF)
Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme
If you're an employer, find out if you can use the Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme to claim back employees' coronavirus-related Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
Advertising Vacancies
Please see the document below if you would like to advertise your care vacancy on the Conwy recruitment page.
Announcement from We Care Wales
We're busy working on a job portal to connect people to vacancies in #SocialCare across #Wales available right now.
If you are a social care employer who is looking for people to help the most vulnerable in our communities, post your vacancies to Twitter, using #WeCareWalesJobs.
We'll pull them through to the portal on the www.WeCare.wales website that will be ready as soon as possible.
Help us share your message far and wide. #WeCareWales
Beware of COVID-19 scams
National Trading Standards is warning people to remain vigilant following a rise in coronavirus-related scams that seek to benefit from the public’s concern and uncertainty over COVID-19.
Community Information
This website tries to map out lists of places doing food delivery, pharmacies willing to take medicines out to people, volunteer groups offering to help isolated people - all the community offers that have sprung up in to one website.
Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
We have set up a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) within Conwy which is now live. This is to support anyone within the community who cannot call on friends, family or neighbours to ask for help in collecting their shopping, giving medication, etc.
- The single point of contact telephone number (SPOC) is 01492 575544.
- This is a daily 9a.m - 5p.m service.
Voluntary Services Emergency Fund (VSEF)
WCVA has launched the Voluntary Services Emergency Fund (VSEF) application process. The purpose of VSEF is to enable those providing vital support to groups affected by Covid-19, such as: people in isolation, the elderly, carers, people struggling to access food etc so that they can be supported during this time.
VSEF will support not for profit organisations working at a community scale up to a national level in Wales and can be between £10,000 - £100,000.
More information can be found in the briefing and FAQs (Cwestiynau Cyffredin) documents and organisations can email vsef@wcva.cymru. Organisations can also be referred to the VSEF webpage and groups can use https://funding.cymru to find the COVID related funding most suitable to you.
HEIW Medication Administration Training
Health Education & Improvement Wales (Pharmacy) (HEIW) have produced an online training course to support people assisting others with taking their medication. This along with other resources are LIVE on HEIW Pharmacy website - https://www.wcppe.org.uk/
A new registration type “COVID-SOCIAL CARE” has been created, which will enable anyone to access the training once they have registered an account on the website. Apologies, registration is in English only at the moment. Please see the attached user guide for further information on how to register.
If you have any problems accessing the site and registering, please contact HEIW.Pharmacy@wales.nhs.uk