Outcome Focused Care Planning

Our outcome focused care planning course can be used a follow up to Person Centred Planning or as a stand alone training course for those staff involved in writing care plans for service users. The course covers the following learning
objectives:

*Have an understanding of the Unified/Single Assessment Process and the
emphasis on multi agency approaches to person centred assessments and outcome focused planning

*Have a knowledge of Person Centred Planning

*Develop awareness of the outcomes users and carers consider important, using research data ( Outcomes into Practice, Focusing Practice and Information on the Outcomes People Value, E. Nicholas et al, SPRU, The University of York, 2003)

*Have a knowledge of Outcome Focused Care Planning - Describing outcomes, measuring outcomes and monitoring/reviewing outcomes

*Consider the links between care planning and care programming

*Have consider how to prepare materials for a follow up workshop day in applying the principles of outcome focused care planning and programming.

Descriptive Content
*Have an understanding of the Unified Assessment Process and the
emphasis on multi agency approaches to person centred assessments and outcome focused planning
This section will explore an overview of the Unified Assessment Process,
emphasising the connections between users and carers perspectives, outcomes determined by the service user and assessments that are proportionate to need.

*Develop awareness of the outcomes users and carers consider important, using research data ( Outcomes into Practice, Focusing Practice and Information on the Outcomes People Value, E. Nicholas et al, SPRU, The University of York, 2003)

This section will outline a summary of the evidence from the research done by the Social Policy Research Unit at York University.

We also deliver Outcome Focused Care Planning as a module of our Enablement and Rehabilitation training programmes. This session is for those team supervisors and senior support workers involved in writing care plans for people using the Enablement service.