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 […]
Small Supports programme- a Strengths-based approach to providing support
We talk about being person-centred in social care, but what does this mean in the context of supporting people with learning disabilities or autistic people to leave a long-stay hospital or assessment and treatment unit? When we talk to leaders in adult social care they openly admit “we can do better for people” with regards […]
How can Support Brokerage enhance the lives of people with life-limiting illness and their families?
People with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions face many barriers in accessing the right support to get the best quality of life and to achieve the outcomes that matter most to them. This is the case not just for health and hospice care — including the delays in referral to hospices and palliative care services and […]
When professionalism is disrupted by personalisation
Meet Angie- an OT with a passion for Person Centred approaches! Meet Angie….she’s been an Occupational Therapist (OT) for 30 years, working in NHS and (more recently), independent OT roles to support people with developing and maintaining their independence and well-being. The introduction of Personalisation within the Health and Social Care sector made absolute sense […]
Deaf Awareness Week 2021
In acknowledgement of Deaf Awareness Week 2021; we wanted to share the story of a lady called Emma who is registered as Deaf, that we’ve worked alongside to provide Support Brokerage with. How we work with Emma Emma is registered as Deaf; and she uses British Sign Language and an Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC) […]
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2021
At Imagineer, our day-to-day team consists of the three of us: Liz, Mollie & Sarah. Although we didn’t deliberately set out to be a female-only team (as we do have male board members, and have had male staff working in the organisation previously); we have landed here for now, and we are a formidable trio! […]
Support Brokerage in practice
What does Support Brokerage look like in practice? When we’re delivering training or webinars about Support Brokerage we often explain it using the analogy of a car and a journey. The car The car represents a person’s life. The person is the driver of their own car. This represents the core principle of Support Brokerage, […]
The potential and momentum of meaningful connections
How can we understand the potential and momentum of meaningful connections? We connect with the world around us via People, Places and Opportunities. People who receive Health and Social Care service-based support often have limited networks which mainly consist of paid workers, professionals who are in their life on the basis of their label or […]
How ‘Purpose’ supports Well-Being
People we work with often ask ‘What supports wellbeing?’ The Care Act 2014 has an emphasis on Wellbeing and therefore it is a key aspect of all assessment and planning work in Health and Social Care. In the practice of Independent Support Brokerage and Person-Centred Planning, we often talk about the concept of ‘purpose’. However, […]
What does ‘good’ look like?
Leaders and decision-makers within the health and social care sector generally grasp (and subscribe to) the concept of Personalisation and Self-Directed Support; but often feel ‘stuck’ in relation to the systems, structures and processes that they are required to work within. Having a simple lens by which to review policy and practice could be a […]