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Advanced care home activity
This badge recognises activity organisers and care home staff who demonstrate an advanced understanding of the role of meaningful and inclusive physical, mental and social activities in enhancing residents' wellbeing.
Are you currently an activity organiser or care home staff member with experience in engaging residents and enhancing their quality of life?
This Open Badge will help you expand your skills, exposing you to advanced resources and innovative approaches to care activities for both group and individual activities. By earning this badge, you’ll gain insight into research-backed best practices, technological tools and techniques for creating a more dynamic, inclusive and meaningful care environment.
Completing this badge will help you:
- explore evidence-based approaches to physical, mental, and social activities
- implement research-informed practices in your care setting
- measure and evaluate the impact of activity interventions
- develop innovative solutions to activity challenges
- demonstrate advanced competency in activity leadership.
This badge has been developed in collaboration with the Scottish Care Independent Sector Leads for Aberdeen City and Perth and Kinross, National Meaningful Engagement Network (NMEN) and care home activity leads.
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To achieve this badge you must:
- explore the Activity Lead learning resources to enhance your understanding of advanced care home activities, selecting from physical activity, mental health, or social engagement areas
- choose an unfamiliar topic from the resources, research current practices online and implement new ideas in your setting with before and after measurements
- submit a reflective account describing your current care home activity programme including how it enhances resident wellbeing (200-250 words)
- reflect on your research implementation covering your chosen research topic, what you learned, how you implemented changes and the measured impact on residents (600-700 words)
There is a maximum word count for this badge of 950 words.
You will need to get at least one colleague or senior staff member who witnessed you putting your learning into practice to endorse your badge before it will become valid.
Your application will be returned to you for improvements if it does not meet all the above criteria.
You must achieve the Introduction to care home activity Open Badge before applying for this one or have equivalent experience in leading activity organisation within a care home.
You need to write between 800 and 950 words answering the questions in the criteria. You can write directly on the badge application form or share a link to your own blog or portfolio.
When writing your answers, think about:
Your current care home activity programme (200-250 words)
- Describe your current activity programme including both group and 1:1 activities.
- Explain how these activities enhance resident wellbeing across physical, mental, and emotional health.
- Include examples of how you tailor activities for various abilities and needs.
- Outline your approach to measuring resident engagement and satisfaction.
Your research implementation and impact (600-700 words)
- Identify the topic you chose to explore and explain why you selected this area.
- Detail what you learned from the resources and your additional research.
- Describe the measurements you took before implementing changes.
- Explain how you implemented your learning in practice (group or 1:1 activities).
- Analyse the impact on residents using your before and after measurements.
- Reflect on challenges encountered and how you addressed them.
- Evaluate your role as an activity lead and how this experience will influence your future practice.
We also accept audio or video submissions if you prefer not to write.
Remember: The evidence you submit will be viewable by anyone who views your badge. Don’t include private or confidential information.
Badge issuer
Scottish Social Services Council
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Badge standards
Wellbeing and support
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Terms and conditions
1. I have read, understood and completed all activities listed in the badge criteria. The evidence I have provided answers each question from the criteria.
2. I confirm that the evidence I have submitted is free from personally identifiable information of others. Nobody can be identified, directly or indirectly, from any examples I provide.
3. I wrote or recorded my evidence, and I have not copied it from anywhere else. The core content, ideas and examples are my own original work. I agree that I will only use AI tools under the rules outlined by the SSSC, and if I do so, I will explicitly declare this use in my submission and provide a valid link to the chat history for the assessor to review.
4. I give consent for the SSSC and the people I share this badge with to use plagiarism and AI detection tools to validate the authenticity of the evidence I have submitted.
5. I understand that it may take up to 28 days to assess my application and that feedback cannot always be provided if it is unsuccessful.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge