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95 Staff Members Have Been Part of the Autism Plus Family for Over 10 Years! That’S a Whopping Combination of Over 1500 Years! I am writing to thank all staff for their hard work during 2020 despite significant challenges thrown up by Covid -19 and the new Digital CONTENTS Programme you have all worked extremely hard to ensure that all those we support, including families and our staff are kept supported and 2 Welcome safe. 3 - 4 News From Scarborough 5 - 6 Rocking Around the Christmas Tree We would like to thank you all for your individual 7 - 8 Digital Updates and team effort throughout the year and you can all be proud of what you have achieved. 9 - 10 Spooky Showdown 11 Nathans Story May I also take this opportunity to wish you all a 12 We Need You very happy Christmas and New Year! 13 - 14 Birthday Celebrations Philip 15 - 16 Specialist Employment Services 17 - 18 10 Plus Club 19 - 20 Welcome Back 21 Festive Fun 22 Thank You We have welcomed 25 new staff members to 23 - 24 News From Our Enterprises teams across the organisation. We're delighted to 25 News From Park House Barns have you all on board! 26 Great Achievements Abbie Croucher, Amy Crossland, Bradley Autherson, Caitlin Bone, Chloe Bytheway, Christine Bingham, Connor Mackinnon, Courtney Marwood, Debra Noble, Emma O’Shea, Fern Taylor, Julie Moffat, Karen Petch, Lavada Hart, Louise Jeffrey, Lyam Brownson, Margaret Swann, Mark Rotherford, Martyn Magill, Michelle Carrington, Nathan Pickles, Rebecca Adkins-Beety, Stephen Murphy, Tina Saynor, Yvonne Crisp News from Scarborough Fun In The Sun Coffee and Catch-ups! After not being able to meet for weeks, Paul and Jane met for Hayley and Jane enjoyed a lovely afternoon in the garden. Hayley had a great time doing a lunch! Despite sitting on different tables, they both enjoyed spot of gardening, whilst Jane chose to relax, however was keeping a keen eye on the job! their catch-up and loved seeing each other! Happy Anniversary! Thank You Key Workers! On the 3rd of August Jane and Hayley After seeing a thank you poster in a celebrated 5 years of living together! newspaper, Mark had a brilliant idea of cutting out the poster to showcase it proudly in his How amazing ladies! Hayley’s mum window! He even added ‘Autism Plus’ to the baked a cake, and they enjoyed some poster which was lovely for our staff to see! crafts to celebrate! Wildlife Jane has always wanted to visit Scarborough Library, and Walk this September she achieved Hayley is a huge animal lover this! Well done Jane, what a and was delighted to come fantastic achievement! across a swan on one of her daily walks! Rocking Around the Christmas Tree! We had a great time celebrating Move over Elf on a Shelf! The individuals we support and staff an early Christmas at Ashcroft members at Thorne House had an amazing time getting into the Cottage! After a difficult year Jess festive spirit whilst holding their own elf day! and Emma loved getting dressed up in their Christmas Jumpers, eating a Christmas Lunch and having fun with their staff team! Wow! We love seeing Christmas decorations, especially those that have been handmade! How great does this nativity scene displayed at Thorne Day Opportunities look? We would like to give a special shoutout to Bliss Cafe for providing such yummy christmas food parcels We have been loving the festivities here at Ashcroft Lodge! too. Thanks to everyone involved in What better way to kick off the festive season than putting the Christmas making such a magical day! decorations up and taking part in Christmas Jumper Day! Frank has been busy making Christmas decorations for the walls at the Ings centre! Due to Covid-19 restrictions there hasn’t been any public in the building, leaving Frank feeling a little lost. He has done an amazing job with decorations, all whilst cheering himself up! Huge well-done Frank! Digital Update Our Digital Champions “I’m really proud of myself as I’m not confident in using computers and new Head of Digital Transformation Sarita Kumari systems, but with Workday I have been able to enter my time and love its features!” We went live with our digital change programme Special thanks go to the IT, on 1st October digitising our HR, Finance, Rota HR, Finance, Marketing and business processes. Along with this we also Care teams who have all launched a new intranet site which hosts all our helped the programme be policies and latest company news for all staff. It a success! is now over 2 months and above digital processes I am amazed by how are now stabilised. quickly we have adapted I also want to share one of our first digital change and adopted new programme go-live back in July where Salesforce. processes and the staff Amie-Louise Potter Wesley Hazelhurst Rachael Moorhouse Gary Williams com was launched for Social Enterprises, surprises me with their Employment services, Marketing and Care ideas and usage of the new digital systems. This “It’s taken her so much patience but even after work she called me and Development business processes. We are now year has been a huge achievement for us in our helped me install it at home so her dedication has just shown how great working to extend Salesforce for the care admin digital change programme, especially during processes. Currently we are in process of testing the pandemic. We look forwards to seeing more she is and how lucky we are to have her in Sheffield activity choices!” care admin processes on Salesforce.com with digital champions emerge from the care team aim to go live early January 2021. next year! I want to thank everyone engaged in the digital Merry Christmas to you all, from the digital team. change process at various stages, helping us test and especially those who have emerged as digital champions! Lisa O’Neill Brenda Holmes Alison Shepherd Stacey Barber Connor Evans HR Digital Manager “It may seem scary at first, however as a team we can all help one My new role includes being the technical lead to be arranged, and further another to become confident. I am no expert, but I am more than happy on all HR elements of Workday. Continually guidance created to be to help anyone out with the knowledge I have gained from training maintaining and reviewing the digital platform accessed on the Autism Plus sessions and time spent creating rotas.” is key in ensuring we (including the people we Intranet (Sharepoint). support) are all reaping the benefits from the I would also like to thank new system. I will continue working with the managers across the digital team to advise and guide managers organisation who have through Workday, as well as the wider staff shown patience, and a team. Jack Ashbourne will also be working positive attitude towards the closely with me as a Digital Administrator, and new system as they learn have ownership of his own key areas, as well as to adapt to the new way of working alongside his day-to-day HR responsibilities. managing your usual duties! Please continue to Dawn Lyness Paul West There has been some great feedback already contact me with any feedback, thoughts, or ideas from staff using Workday, notably; the ease you may have in relation to the HR elements of of use on the mobile app, and the self-service Workday. Get Involved! elements whereby you can update your own I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a personal information. My next priorities are to Would you like to be a digital champion for your area? Happy New Year! ensure we are all comfortable and confident We’ll provide all the support you need, get in touch with using Workday, with drop-in training sessions the team to nominate yourself, or a colleague! Spooky Showdown! The very talented individuals we support, and their staff teams took part in a window dressing competition organised by Hillcrest and Bellwood! We had some amazing entries! We would love to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined in, and a special mention to our winners, Sheffield Day Opportunities and Hillcrest! Nathan’s Story WE NEED YOU! Have you ever been involved in a conversation with a Health Care Professional, for example a Social Worker, Nurse etc, and maybe... We wanted to say how much we appreciate all the hard work and care provided by Autism Plus for our son. He has been supported in residential living for just over four years now and in that time we’ve certainly had some ‘ups and downs’ but thanks to the dedication of the staff and the management, he has continued to develop and grow in ways that we must admit, we never thought possible when he first arrived. Whilst Nathan has been supported by Autism Plus, he has continually been encouraged to try new things and to explore his potential. In the previous care provisions he’s been in, he has sadly never been thought of as a person in his own right before. But that all changed when he came to Autism Plus, and it’s been wonderful to see the positive changes in him as a result. This type of information is really useful to us as it Perhaps the greatest compliment we can provide though, is how helps us to grow and develop our services! Autism Plus have managed his Mum and myself. Without going into If you have these conversations in the future and would like to pass any detail, we brought a lot of emotional baggage with us and the way comments on to the Development department, please email that the team have supported us as well as Nathan has been so very [email protected] or give us a call/send a text to 07471 997854! much appreciated.
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