Relationship-centred care: the Senses framework

Developing Evidence Enriched Practice (DEEP) is a co-production approach to gathering, exploring, and using diverse types of evidence in learning and development using story and dialogue-based methods.

Understanding wellbeing and creating a good environment for care and learning

People supported by social care and health often experience challenging circumstances. Supporting their sense of wellbeing is a priority. Likewise, working in health and social care services can be emotionally demanding. Unfortunately, the concept of wellbeing is not always well understood or nurtured. While there is a lot of emphasis on practitioner learning and development activities, practitioner learning (and people’s wellbeing) is compromised if emotional wellbeing is not supported.

Relationship-centred care and the Senses Framework

Relationship-centred care and the Sense Framework were developed through research by Nolan and colleagues in 2006 that explored how to improve quality of life in care homes and hospitals. Nolan and his colleagues created a framework to guide the nurturance of interdependent wellbeing, focusing on the wellbeing of people supported by services, unpaid carers, and practitioners. The framework says that in enriched environments of care and learning, everyone should have a ‘sense’ of security, belonging, continuity, purpose, achievement, and significance.

This session

This half-day session will introduce the concepts of relationship-centred care and interdependent wellbeing. Through exploring the six senses in the framework, the session will introduce ways to create enriched environments of care and learning.

This conference is being run by Social Care Wales if you have any questions, please contact the event team.