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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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You must not use any generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to plan, write or improve your evidence for this badge.
To achieve this badge you must:
- explore the Activity Lead learning resources for one of the three focus areas you are less familiar with: physical activity, mental and cognitive wellbeing, or collaboration and social engagement
- research current evidence-based practice in your chosen area and put a new approach into practice with one or two residents, or a group, recording what things were like before and after the change
- submit a reflective account of your current activity programme and how it supports resident wellbeing (200 to 250 words)
- describe what you researched, the new approach you tried and how you put it into practice (350 to 400 words)
- reflect on the difference your change made, using your before and after records. (250 to 300 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)
- The activities you currently run, including both group and 1:1 activities.
- How these support resident wellbeing across physical, mental and emotional health.
- One specific example of how you adapted an activity for a particular ability or need.
- How you usually gather feedback and notice whether residents are engaged and enjoying themselves.
What you researched and the approach you tried (350-400 words)
- Which of the three focus areas you chose and why it was new or less familiar to you.
- What you learned – name at least one resource from the learning page and one source you found yourself.
- The new approach you decided to try as a result.
- How you put it into practice.
The difference it made (250-300 words)
- Before the change – what the resident, residents or activity was like beforehand and how you recorded it (for example a short note, a count of who took part, or a simple rating of mood or engagement).
- After the change – what was different afterwards, set against your before record.
- The challenges you met and how you dealt with them.
- Your role in supporting activities and how this experience will shape your future practice.
We will also accept an audio or video submission if you prefer.
The evidence you submit will be viewable by anyone who you show your badge to. Do not include confidential or private information within your submission.
Badge issuer
Scottish Social Services Council
Our work means the people of Scotland can count on social work, social care and children and young people services being provided by a trusted, skilled, confident and valued workforce.
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 confirm that I have not used generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to plan or write any of the evidence I have provided. This is my own original work and I have not copied it from anywhere or anyone else. I understand that all AI assistance is banned under the rules for Open Badge applications.
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