Membership benefits
In the 20+ years I have been in social care I have never experienced such a committed group of people working on providers behalf as all of you. These meetings, the regular updates and the insight is incredibly useful for all of us in Anchor Hanover.
Take a look at just some of the membership benefits you receive as a NCF Member!
- 8 NCF Forums– regular hot topic meetings for senior directors in HR, Finance, Marketing & Communications, Practice & Quality, Digital Transformation, Learning Disability, Housing with Care, plus Governance Forum – for your trustees
- Real time peer support Q&A service across the membership
- Free promotion of your organisation and services – your dedicated member page on our website
- Free news promotion – your press releases and news stories promoted here for free!
- New NFP badge (see more details further down this page) to help people better recognise social care services operated by not for profit providers, as well as being part of a membership organisation that works together to offer great care. This has been developed exclusively for NCF members to display. The new badge is in response to a survey carried out with 1,500 adults in England in which 75% of respondents said they preferred not for profit organisations or local authority provision over that offered by other provision.
- NCF Consult – a service connecting you to expert support in fields such as coaching and mentoring, preparing for CQC inspections, supporting organisation transformation
- Digital Social Care – NCF has been instrumental in setting up a new helpline and website to support the adult social care sector with harnessing technology during the COVID-19 outbreak and has 3 Digital Transformation team members to support you
- Surveys – we create and administer two FREE confidential surveys focusing on benchmarking reports and rewards in the workplace
- Conferences – we organise two major conference per year – our CEO’s, Directors & Trustees Conference in the Autumn and our Managers Conference in the Spring – NCF members have access to exclusive delegate fees
- As the English Chapter of the Global Ageing Network NCF has organised study tours to European countries and Scandinavia
- Briefings and Publications – access to specialist sector information including: current legislation, regulation, quality issues, workforce issues, recruitment and retention, pensions, VAT, funding, supplier services, service developments and best practice
- NCF’s partnership with My Home Life England promotes a better quality of life for older people in care setting
Partner benefits
NFP Badge Exclusively for Members
NCF ‘s new NFP badge has been developed to help people better recognise social care services operated by not for profit providers, as well as being part of a membership organisation that works together to offer great care. This has been developed exclusively for NCF members to display. The new badge is in response to a survey carried out with 1,500 adults in England in which 75% of respondents said they preferred not for profit organisations or local authority provision over that offered by other provision.
Contact Laurie Monaghan, NCF Member Officer for more details on how to use the logo
Agenda Consulting Social Care Reward: Pay, Terms & Conditions 2021-22 benchmarking study includes the Pay, Terms and Conditions 21-22 Report and NCF Personnel report – free to NCF Members at saving of at least £700.
Contact Finn Turner-Berry, Policy, Research and Projects Officer for details on how to sign up
Anthony Collins Solicitors offer NCF members a reduced rate on legal fees, a fixed price package for housing with care and care home property development projects. Sign up to receive their e-briefing.
Free subscription to Care Management Matters magazine
Cohesion Care Character– use the tool to hire your next two hires for free.
Help with your staff’s retirement planning
Guiide is a holistic retirement planning tool to help your staff with pension planning and used by thousands of people each month. It is easy and simple to use, without the need for a financial adviser. If a situation is more complex, or your staff need more support and help, then they can find access to suitable, experienced financial advisers on the Guiide site.
80% of people using the Guiide consumer site for retirement planning say they do so because they do not get enough support from their employer. Guiide is now available personalised for individual organisations who want to demonstrate they care for their staff and want to offer protection.
Watch our film to see how Guiide provides better retirement outcomes for everyone.
Key benefits
- Improved staff financial wellbeing through better retirement planning and outcomes
- Increased staff engagement around their company pension scheme
- Adherence to regulatory requirements for retirement solutions
Testimonial from National Care Forum member
“It is important to recognise our colleagues have different financial priorities at different stages of life. Having our own branded version of Guiide complements our wider financial wellbeing approach and gives colleagues options to help them plan.” says Sarah Pickering, Reward and Benefits Manager at Anchor.
Thanks to a new partnership with the National Care Forum, Guiide has a number of special offers open to their members including a free branded Welcome Page and 25% off our Tuned and Tailored versions.
Contact us today
If you’d like to find out more, please contact jamesm@guiide.co.uk
About Guiide
Guiide’s retirement planning tool is the only fully holistic planning tool that can be used directly by individuals without expert input. Guiide’s tool answers the one question pension savers actually want answered, “How do I use everything I have, to get the after-tax income I want in retirement?”. Guiide is highly rated on Trustpilot and supports organisations in the healthcare and social care sector such as Anchor and Wyggestons.
Dementia support for care homes is a subscription service for care teams who are supporting a person living with dementia where behaviour is impacting their care. This non-pharmacological, relationship-based service delivers:
- A better understanding of the behaviour of a person with dementia (known as BPSD).
- Problem solving time with a specialist consultant to agree on the actions which can be taken.
- Personal and organisational confidence and capacity in response to dementia.
Subscribers can access a library of resources, an e-learning suite and dementia consultant support via live chat or phone/video consultation.
NCF members can access a 10% discount on their first annual subscription.
HC-UK Social Care CPD Conferences – NCF members receive 20% discount with code hcuk20ncf
Institute of of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM)
1 year free membership for 1 person from each NCF member organisation.In addition, a discounted membership rate of £100 (plus VAT) per year for another leader/manager from each NCF member organisation.
(IHSCM membership is on a rolling basis per person. Full membership – £156 per annum or £13 per month)
My Life TV is the first video-on-demand TV channel for people living with dementia.
NCF Members exclusive offer – get 3 months free subscription to My Life TV using the code NCFOFFER
Neil Eastwood’s Online Care Recruitment Masterclass Course now free for care providers
With employers in Adult Social Care across the UK facing unprecedented challenges filling vacancies, Neil Eastwood has waived the enrolment fee permanently on a 120-lesson online video recruitment training course to support the sector.
Oomph On Demand provides a whole World of wellbeing resources and support, whenever you need it. Engaging activity ideas, exercise inspiration and training tools all in one easy to navigate platform. Perfect for both activities teams and carers with completely flexible and constantly updated content.
Oomph On Demand is being offered at a discounted rate of £80 per month per home, for all NCF members. Find out more here
In addition on top of the discounted rate!
NCF members that are new to the Oomph! On Demand digital platform can have two months free access, as part of the national effort to improve rehabilitation and intermediate care and support for people leaving hospital.
Take a look at the NCF Partners pages to see how they can support your organisation
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