Coproduction and Personalisation
This blog was written recently for (and featured in) Skills for Care Registered Manager newsletter (February 2024 Edition). We thought it might be useful to share it with our wider audience here at Imagineer! Sarah Holmes is Director for Development and Communications at Imagineer, an independent organisation working towards self-directed support in the UK and […]
The changing shape of Imagineer
In the past few months, we have been responding to changes in the Health and Social Care sector and making decisions about the best way for Imagineer to continue offering Training, Support Brokerage and support for organisations in relation to Self Directed Support and Personalised Care. Since 2012, Imagineer has continuously flexed and changed shape […]
The 12 Days of Self Directed Support
For Christmas 2023, we are sharing our #12DaysOfSelfDirectedSupport with twelve top tips for Self Directing your Social Care and Health support. You can reference this as a complete tool kit for Self Directing your own support or you can select the sections which apply to your own personal circumstances. Day 1: Your Rights For people […]
Reflections from #coproweek
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog, and I seem to have a lot to write about! After a fantastic #coproductionweek I’ve taken a bit of time to reflect on all I’ve seen, heard and spoken with people about. First of all, it was great to be able to share some of the […]
Mollies Journey Through Imagineer
Do you have a work birthday? Do you celebrate it as big as your own birthday? I do, and I like to inform everyone and anyone (as well as my actual birthday) . This year on the 13th July 2023 I will have been part of team Imagineer for 10 years! Yes, that’s 10 years […]
Voting toolkit- May 2023 elections
We have searched for helpful information and resources which you can share with people you support or people in your relational network who may require support to vote. The links below are not Imagineer resources, but we have included them in one ‘toolkit’ so that they are easy to search and explore if you need […]
Why aren’t we seeing progress in Adult Social Care transformation?
Setting the scene In our recent conversations with other experienced and esteemed practitioners in the field of health and social care, a regular topic keeps coming up. Why aren’t we seeing real progress in Adult Social Care transformation? Why now is it still seen as ‘progress’ when a student Social Worker talks about a person […]
Change conversations
Our thoughts about the process of change We’ve been thinking a lot recently about how the neurological levels from Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) can really help to enable to change to happen authentically, and be lasting. Our founder, Liz Leach Murphy is a Neurolinguistic practitioner, and has incorporated her training and knowledge in this area into […]
Bringing Support Brokerage into Social Prescribing
In this blog, we share a reflection from Glen, who is a former Social Prescriber and Occupational Therapy Assistant, and an Independent Support Broker at Team Imagineer. Glen completed the Support Brokerage training and accreditation with Imagineer and later joined our Associate team. In this blog, he explains how he is using some of the […]
Support Brokerage and Self-funders
Support for self-funders in managing and arranging their social care There was a Government announcement in Sept 2021, with the intention of strengthening and enacting section 18 (3) of Care Act, which meant that anyone self-funding their social care could have access to local authority assessment and arranging their support (including residential care). This would […]
Celebrating Social Work Week 2022
It’s #socialworkweek2022 and we wanted to take some time to acknowledge and reflect on our work alongside social workers over the past 12 years at Imagineer. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, we regularly took social work students on placement from 4 different educational institutions: Huddersfield, Bradford, Leeds & Bradford College. It was really interesting watching […]
People at the Heart of Care- our summary of the new White paper
On the 1st December 2021, the British government published the long-awaited White paper: ‘People at the Heart of Care’. Here is a link for you to read or download the full document. We think it’s really important that people are able to access and understand clear information about things which affect them. Below, we have […]