Retirement Villages
With more people choosing to live in retirement villages, communities, and senior living schemes, ensuring high-quality, person-centered care is essential. The GSF Retirement Village Training Programme was launched in July 2018 to support retirement communities in delivering outstanding care, leading to Accreditation and the Quality Hallmark Award.
Designed to meet the needs of an ageing population, this training equips retirement village teams with the tools to deliver gold standard care for later life, ensuring residents receive compassionate, person-centred support as they approach their ‘golden years’. The GSF Retirement Village Programme equips care providers with the essential skills and knowledge to deliver outstanding home-based care, ensuring that individuals can live well at home until they die.
Why Choose GSF Training?
- Proven framework for high-quality care
- Provides evidence for CQC compliance with accreditation
- Improves client outcomes & reduces unnecessary hospital admissions
- Enhances staff confidence & skills improving staff wellbeing and job satisfaction
GSF helps drive National Policy into Practice
- GSF aligns with NICE Guidance
- Ambitions for palliative and end of life care
With an increasing aging population, quality end of life care is more important than ever. Knowing what truly matters most to the people we care for will inform their personalised care support plan, to fulfil their wishes and preferences for the future.
For more information, costs, and to register for a place on the GSF Retirement Villages Training, please click here.
What’s Included in the Training?
8 Live interactive Webinar Sessions
Covering the GSF 7 Key tasks (Identify, Advance Care Planning, Plan Living Well, Plan Dying Well, Family and Carer Support, Compassionate Care with a Systematic Approach) delivered by an experienced clinical team, capturing step-by-step progress, offering guidance and support and sharing of best practice.
Exclusive Tools & Resources
Access to the members area with all the teaching materials, tools and resources - everything you will need for successful implementation.
Measurable Impact & Benchmarking
Track organisational progress, improve client outcomes, and enhance staff knowledge and skill with intrinsic evaluations aligned to national standards.
GSF Accreditation Process
The GSF Accreditation Quality Hallmark Award is a nationally recognised kite-mark for excellence in care, co-badged by The Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO) and other leading care sector organisations, and is an information source for Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection process.
On completion of the training, organisations can register for accreditation to receive the Quality Hallmark Award. Registrations for accreditation open in November each year and the awards are presented the following September. GSF Accreditation lasts for three years at which point you would need to register for re-accreditation. Organisations that have re-accredited every three years achieve platinum status and can be nominated for Retirement Village Of The Year.
GSF is sustainable – there are retirement villages who have now been accredited for more than six years.
There are four parts to the Accreditation Process:
1
Key Outcome Ratios & Patient Audit
Demonstrating achievement in core standards, including Supportive Care Analysis of five residents to demonstrate that GSF is embedded in practice at the individual level.
2
Portfolio of
Evidence
Documenting implementation of the GSF 7 Key Tasks, with supporting evidence and a sustainability plan.
3
Assessment
Visit
On-site assessment by the GSF Team to evaluate implementation, team engagement, and long-term sustainability.
4
GSF Conference
Attendance
Celebrating success and receiving the Quality Hallmark Award.
Ongoing Benefits of Accreditation
- Continued Access to the GSF members' area with up to date information and resources.
- Free Quarterly Micro-Learning Events for continued professional development and our quarterly newsletter sharing good practice.
Achieving GSF Accreditation improves the quality of care, team collaboration, and resident experience and improved outcomes, reinforcing your commitment to gold-standard end of life care.
Impact of GSF in Retirement Villages
