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Miss
Rowan
Jasper
rowan.jasper@york.ac.uk
Dr
Mark
Wilberforce
mark.wilberforce@york.ac.uk
Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders
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There are growing numbers of people living with dementia who also have social care needs. Many live at home,supported to live independently by care workers. However,there are not enough care workers to meet current needs. Also,the crisis in recruiting and retaining care workers means that people with dementia are not receiving continuity in care. They often find that care workers they get to know then leave,and they have to start again. To try and solve this problem,social care providers are trying to attract people to work in care,who might not previously have considered doing so. How can we be sure that these new care workers have the values and attitudes that make them suitable for care work with people living with dementia?
To help recruit people with the right values,some public services use "situational judgement tests" (or SJTs). They work by presenting candidates with a written or animated scenario,based on real-life work,in which values are being challenged or stretched. Then,the candidate rates how good (or bad) different actions would be in response. SJTs are used to help recruit police officers,teachers,nurses,and many others. Research says that SJTs can help with recruiting and retaining people with the right values for the job. However,they are not used
much in social care.
This new research proposes to design and test SJTs in social care. There are 5 stages.
1. What values? Experts-by-experience will lead a process to decide what values are most important for these SJTs to test. The panel will include people from different cultural backgrounds,and will be
supported by a specialist dementia charity.
2. Design. We will interview care workers and people living with dementia,to ask for examples where they feel that the chosen values have been stretched in real-life dementia care. We will turn these,anonymously,into SJTs. The scoring system for SJTs will be decided by experts-by-experience.
3. Implementation. We will invite homecare organisations to use the SJTs in employing care workers.
4. Evaluation. We will look at how homecare organisations used the SJTs. What did they find useful? How was information used to choose candidates? What factors helped and hindered how the SJTs were
used? Do good workers tend to do well on the SJTs?
5. Action. Together with service users,we will deliver workshops to help share the messages.
The final SJTs will be hosted (free of charge) on a website together with guidance on their use. We will work with a body called 'Skills for Care' to promote their use with homecare organisations. We will also write articles about the research,and we will talk about our messages at conferences.
Start dates may differ between countries and research sites. The research team are responsible for keeping the information up-to-date.
The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
Interventional type: Other;
You can take part if:
You may not be able to take part if:
Exclusion criteria for research activity 1 This study aims to be as inclusive as possible. It explicitly includes people living with dementia,with the support of (unpaid) carers,since to exclude those experiences may be to miss important examples of care values in practice. However,if the person living with dementia lacks capacity to consent then they will not form part of the study. Exclusion criteria for research activity 2: People unable to read the English language. Exclusion criteria for research activity 5: There is a language restriction for the psychometric evaluation,keeping it to English only. This is because the creation of parallel multi-language tests requires a psychometric approach that is beyond the scope of this study.
Below are the locations for where you can take part in the trial. Please note that not all sites may be open.
The study is sponsored by University of York and funded by NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) .
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