The last twelve months has been a really interesting and exciting time for me. In particular we have just celebrated one year of the Wolverhampton project, we have supported the RNID to begin their implantation of person centred approaches and we are about to begin work in East Lancashire with a person centred service. All of this has involved reflection not just on these projects but how we are doing with our approaches across MacIntyre as a whole.
To help you reflect on what is happening within your service I will be taking you on a journey over the next few months through processes you can use and the tools that will help you. To get you started here is an overview of the processes and the thinking tools to refresh you memory.
The starting point is to think about what you know about the person already. You can then use the thinking tools to organise this information in order to further develop your knowledge and understanding of the person. This process will lead to you having what I call good information about the person.
Good information is information that:
Comes from the person and those who know them well.
Has been gathered using thinking tools
Is based on a positive approach
Is based on new reflection and not old information
Once you have this information you can then use it to develop a persons plan or take it to their person centred review. Either way you should then find out what is working and not working for the person and develop an action plan to change what is not working and ensure what is working continues.
Catherine
