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Employee Appreciation Day: 5 Inspiring Initiatives in Social Care

Employee Appreciation Day is an opportunity for Social Care providers to recognise and engage their staff. Here are five inspiring initiatives.

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5 Benefits of Employee Retention in Social Care

The care industry's crisis needs to be solved. One of the solutions – maybe the most important – is improving staff retention. Learn why it’s important and how to do it.

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5 HR challenges for the Social Care sector in 2023

HR teams in UK Social Care will face many challenges in this post-pandemic and inflation-ridden year. Here are the 5 biggest HR challenges of 2023.

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Trailblazers 2023

PUBLISHED: February 2023

Social Care is on the brink of a digital revolution. We believe that’s because there’s a growing cohort of professionals across the sector with almost insatiable appetites for transformation.

So we created Trailblazers to celebrate some of those leaders and showcase the ways they are bringing fresh thinking and innovation to how care services are delivered and care providers are run.

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Appreciation Matters

PUBLISHED: November 2022

Employee recognition programs are no longer a 'nice-to-have' - they are a must.

Our survey of 500 UK Health & Social Care employees highlights both the pivotal role of recognition in improving retention rates and the urgent need to address a perceived lack of appreciation in the sector.

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Flex Appeal

PUBLISHED: October 2022

58% of care sector employees don't believe work-life balance exists in the care sector.

We surveyed 750 UK care sector employees to understand their attitudes towards flexible working and what these mean for providers looking to increase their ‘flex appeal’.

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Our regular online and in-person events tackle some of the biggest people challenges with the help of some of the sector's leading trailblazers.

Employee empowerment: How tech can help your staff deliver better care

13:00 19 April 2023

Our expert panel will discuss how care professionals can build adaptability and resilience within their teams to meet the challenges ahead. 

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Employee empowerment: How tech can help your staff deliver better care

09 March 2023

Our expert panel discuss how new technologies can support frontline teams to provide the best care possible and explore the growing importance of employee empowerment in modern care delivery.

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Digital Transformation: Bold predictions for social care in 2023

08 February 2023

Technology holds the power to transform Social Care services, but how do you decide what tech is worth the hype? We asked our expert panel where they think digital transformation is going to take the sector in 2023.

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Does Social Care need a new culture of employee recognition?

11 January 2023

Neil Eastwood from Care Friends and Adam Purnell from the Institute of Health & Social Care Management join Oli Johnson to ask whether Social Care needs a new culture of recognition and explore the critical steps organisations can take to make appreciation a consistent part of their workplace cultures.

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Why you should care about social care reports

13 December 2022

We joined The Caring View to look at at some real world examples of social care reports, the impact they have had on the sector, and why now more than ever it's important you engage and get involved with as many reports as possible.

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Keynote: Are you ready for the flexible working revolution in social care?

12 October 2022

In his keynote at the Care Show 2022, Sona Co-founder Oli Johnson highlights some of the key flexible working trends and preferences amongst today's care workforce. He also explores how providers can innovate to increase their 'flex appeal' and win and retain more talent.

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Rethinking Retention: How technology can help social care providers to reduce staff churn

01 February 2022

Almost 1 in 2 employees in the care sector are considering a role change in 2022. In this presentation for UK Care Week, Richard - our Head of Product for Health & Social Care - highlights the key findings and explores how technology can take a leading role in helping employers boost staff engagement, happiness and retention.

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