Co-ops and Wellbeing Teams- a meeting of hearts and minds?
My colleague Jackie LeFevre is a values specialist, and part of the Minessence Values Framework co-operative. We have been working together to define and demonstrate values within Wellbeing Teams. Here […]
A healthy, happy workforce in homecare

Michael Marmot started his talk with Alan’s story. This was the most impactful talk that I heard at the Hay Festival this year. Hay is the literary equivalent of Glastonbury, […]
5 ways are approaching recruitment differently
Does this sound familiar? Jean was recruiting for carers for a homecare team. She shortlisted five people and invited them to come for interview. Out of the five, only one […]
We did values based recruitment- but did we get the values we wanted?

Skills for Care tell us that values based recruitment and retention is about finding and keeping people who have the right values, attitudes and behaviours to work in social care. […]
Uniforms and homecare
Dora was dressed in a purple cardigan and had a beautiful lilac tint to her hair. She is in her eighties, and her daughter was on holiday, and Geraldine was […]
Eight ways to Wellbeing Teams work
This short animation describes how a Wellbeing Team supports Norma and Jean – but it is only half the story. Wellbeing Teams offer a fresh approach to home care, that is different […]
12 ways that Wellbeing Teams are different to traditional homecare

Carol works in the care sector visiting clients in their own homes for which she receives the National Minimum Wage and 7p a mile mileage. She has been doing it […]
Wellbeing Teams – what values look like in practice
Values and beliefs are powerful forces at work deep in our unconscious. Our everyday behaviours, choices and decisions all have their roots in these foundations irrespective of whether we know […]
How can we work in ways that enable everyone to flourish?

The Guardian, in November last year, tells story of Jean. Jean works for a home care agency in the north of England. She starts work at 6.30 am, and completes 23 […]
Values in induction

All five Wellbeing Teams have now completed their induction and are up and running. Like our recruitment process, we realised that how we approached induction would need to be very […]