Introducing the founder of MPM Social Care Consultancy

I am thrilled and excited to introduce myself and my business venture. It is called MPM Social Care Consultancy, specialising in supporting private social care providers maintain and improve upon their governance systems. I work as a consultant with a small team of experts with a passion for quality in care. This could be performing a KLOE style audit or supporting providers with their admission process. (Details on my website https://www.mpmsocialcareconsultancy.co.uk/ )

What qualifies me to be a social care consultant?

I am a general and a mental health nurse by background. I also have a social science Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in political science. More recently, I gained an LLM in law. In addition, I have a management and leadership qualification. Continued learning enhances my ability to perform my consultancy role and ensures the organisations I support meet their own objectives. Because everything we do is regulated, I found my law studies to be of enormous benefit and gave me a whole different perspective. Its amazing how transferable this has been already.

Background

I worked within both general and mental health nursing within the NHS for many years before turning to the care home sector in 2005. Since then I have been a Registered Manager and a Clinical Operations Manager in several establishments including older age and neuro and brain injury units. Its been an incredible journey so far. Supporting people is so rewarding. I have met and stayed in contact with many wonderful people along the way. I am fortunate to have some on my team today.

Why change

I took the decision to change my career pathway so I could fully utilise my experience and qualifications and I enjoy change management. No easy task for a mature person. However, as a ’mature’ professional, I have much to offer and share as well continuing to learn and grow. Therefore, I decided what better way to share than to support others and enable them to achieve their objectives.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) tells us the world of Health and Social care is changing and ‘safety is still a key concern as it’s consistently the poorest area of performance in their assessments’.[1] ‘It says, We want everybody to have access to safer and better-quality care and we will champion this in everything we do. We want to understand why there is such variation across the country in how people get the care they need, so we can help to tackle it’. [2] Because of the rapid evolution in health and social care provision, accelerated by the Covid 19 Pandemic, the CQC is changing the way it inspects. It talks about working in partnership – as a system, which is a change to the 2009 ‘single service provider model’. The growth in technology and data analytics has also changed the way people receive care.

MPM therefore works with providers not simply to help meet fundamental standards but to embrace change. The CQC is changing the way it inspects using a four themed strategy that aims to improve people’s care by working in partnership.

We are ready for change. Change is inevitable and transformational. We will support teams to see change as positive and not something to resist. Because safety is a variable National problem, we can promote good practice when moving from place to place by sharing.

We want to be interactive as much as possible so will be ‘blogging’ regularly and discussing a variety of topics, which we hope will be thought provoking and mutually rewarding. We hope chat to you all very soon. Working in partnership helps to expand knowledge and experience. There is always more to learn.

Contact us on email on enquiries@mpmsocialcareconsultancy.co.uk or call 07538304353. Website https://www.mpmsocialcareconsultancy.co.uk/

Thanks for reading.

Best wishes for now.

Mary and Team.

[1] Care Quality Commission, The world of health and social care is changing. So are we (CQC, 20 May 2021) https://www.cqc.org.uk/get-involved/consultations/world-health-social-care-changing-so-are-we. Accessed 25 May 2021 [2] Ibid