Your DIY DMC - ways and means
More ways than means so far
The prime means = run in pilot format for a few weeks and then show "the right people" who will look after the project via a formal process. With a strong wind, your host will be the constituted body.
Vol = volunteer
1 Some preliminaries
1.1 Paperwork
1.1.1. The way the project and the host work together. For issue to everyone involved
- The aims of the project and how they are hoped to be achieved
- The host role
- DIY DMC Leader role
- Role of volunteers - some may come via the host
- Fire drill programme
- It needs to be clear to all that carers remain in the building at all times when their carees are within
- Need a sentence on carees prone to wandering - see FAQs - 3.5 here
- Need a sentence on personal liability and indemnity
- DBS - vols - There’s no charge if you’re a volunteer. here
1.1.2 For carers
- Important stipulations such as no personal care can be carried out. This involves use of the WC. Also medication.
- Emphasise 1.1.1.1 - The aims of the project and how they are hoped to be achieved
- The routine + parking
- The reg docs which they have prev been sent, to bring on Day 1
- Recommended. Medical aspects depend on source - GPs, DNs, OTs.
1.1.3 For members - carers and carees
- no list yet
1.1.4 For volunteers
- Ask them to read this set of pages and return a printed A5 with their interests
- DBS forms or online - as above
- An A4 sheet on the role, a "how to" section. It will include lifting carees, and other safety points. as above.
1.1.5 Documentation - Participant records
- See FAQs - 3.3 - 3.5 here
1.1.6 Documentation - Project records
- Daily finance
- Daily log - who attended, what was done, schedule maintained, recommended changes, costs, visitors, key points - + and minus
- Visitor book
1.1.7 Documentation - The relationship between the project and the host.
- T & C?
- Contract?
- Booking forms
- Insurance
- See 1 Some preliminaries 1.1.1.17 above - DBS - vols