Learning Outcome 1: Review the role of research in health and wellbeing improvement strategies.

Learning Outcome 2: Develop a methodological framework for action research in health and wellbeing improvement.

Learning Outcome 3: Carry out action research towards improvements in health and wellbeing.

Learning Outcome 4: Examine the impact of research findings with regard to service improvement and own professional development .

Topic - Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disability

Transferable skills and competencies developed

The aim of this unit is to develop student's research skills further to be able to carry out an independent piece of action research using human participants to contribute to service improvement. Students will firstly develop a deeper understanding of the types o research conducted in Public health and develop their research skills further to carry out a research study using their own research questions. Students will then go on to design their research methodology and carry out a piece of action research and produce findings to a range of audiences. By the end of this unit students will be able to evaluate their research journey and its impact on their own practice and provision as well as its significance in contributing to wider public health service improvement. Students will be able to evaluate the success of their research and make recommendations for future research that extends or deepens understanding further.

Vocational scenario

Caring ltd is a small local domiciliary care agency, based in a semi-rural part of Sussex. The organization is a preferred provider of the local authority, which accounts for 30% of the business; the remaining 70% is made up of private packages. Most of the packages are for older people with a variety of conditions, including dementia, physical disabilities, Stoke and Parkinson's. There are also packages for younger service users with multiple sclerosis and learning disabilities.

The team consist of the registered manager, deputy manager, two care coordinators and 15 carers. You are working as a deputy manager in this care setting and responsible for planning land delivering training, including induction, health and safety, equality, safeguarding, stroke awareness and dementia training. The care coordinators also deliver training on communication skills. record keeping and infection control. Moving and handling training and first aid training are delivered by external training providers.

Prior to the Care Certificate the organization delivered the induction following the common induction standards (CIS). Staff who were responsible for the delivery of the CIS went on a one-day training course to help them understand the requirements of the Care Certificate so they could plan how the organization would then deliver it.

Alana 19 years old is new to care, she plans to go to university next year to become a nurse. She is available to work full time until she starts her course, and then continue to work part time whilst studying. Alana previously worked at the local animal rescue centre during weekends and school holidays.

Following her interview with Caring Ltd, it is clear she has the right attitude and presents as caring.
While Alana is waiting for her DBS to come back, she is keen to prepare for her new role. She is given a copy of the organisational handbook to familiarise herself with, which includes best practice and core policies.

Alana is the only new starter, the training plan was planned to reflect this. Lynn began by looking at the organisational training plan (see the Appendix demonstrating what was scheduled), and identifying sessions that would support the Care Certificate. Opportunities to engage with team and group activities would be more cost effective than 1-2-1 delivery, and would also help Alana feel part of the team.

Your report will include the critical analysis of data and the advantages and disadvantages of the research methods and approaches taken to data collection.

Main Body and Findings:
This is likely to comprise many paragraphs or sections. It is often useful to
break up your project into subheadings. This section should be structured around the key themes of your research. Use tables and charts if possible.

Your presentation of data is important. This section should bring together your secondary and primary research and your findings.

Conclusions

In this section you should say what your facts or findings mean i e discuss the key implications arising from the wealth of detail you may have collected. The conclusions should not incorporate any new facts.

Recommendations
Your recommendations should clearly spell out your ideas to enable them to be acted upon. If your proposals involve expenditure, you must supply a cost benefit evaluation to show what it costs and what management will get from it.

Finally, critically reflect on how you have conducted the project, the lessons. learned and the alternative you would consider in the future with recommendations for actions to be taken forward.

References and Bibliography
All references in the report should be listed in the correct Harvard format in a References list.