Project Background
Walsall Council want to work with people with lived experience and with IMPACT to find ways to deliver better outcomes for older people and communities supported by Walsall’s Locality Teams and Intermediate Care Service. Some of the project aims are to further embed strengths-based and proactive and preventative approaches focused on building capacity and resilience within communities.
Support for staff to embed this approach will include better understanding the value social workers bring when working with older people, reviewing progression pathways for social workers, and considering how using technology can improve the efficiency of systems and processes.
Project Staff
Lorraine Mighty
Senior Strategic Improvement Coach, University of Birmingham
I have over 20-years’ experience of people and programme management, learning facilitation and organisational development in the private and education sector. I joined IMPACT because of the shared alignment between my values and approaches to work and those of the Centre and wider team. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to transfer my skills into supporting improvements in social care services and foster IMPACT’s coproduction and evidence-informed approaches.
Social work with older people