June 2024: Neighbourhood Care in Rotherham

Presentation by Ben Anderson, Director of Public Health

1. Neighbourhood Care in
Rotherham
Ben Anderson, Director of Public Health
14
th June 2024

2. Overview
•Introducing our Thriving Neighbourhoods
Strategy
•Place-based working and strengths-based
approaches
•How this works in practice

3. Thriving Neighbourhoods Strategy
•The strategy was approved in
2018 and refreshed in 2022
•Our vision:
‘every neighbourhood in
Rotherham to be a thriving
neighbourhood, where people
are able to work together to
achieve a good quality of life’;

‘ensuring communities are at the
heart of everything we do to
make people feel happy, safe and
proud.’

4. Neighbourhood working model
•25 wards since May 2021
•59 elected members with
ward budgets
•Supported by the
neighbourhoods team
•Sit within three localities
(North, South and Central)
•Range of services and
partners aligned e.g.
neighbourhoods, housing,
social care, street scene,
South Yorkshire Police,
commissioned services

5. Ways of working
Place-based working: Partners work
together within a neighbourhood to:
•Co-produce services, activities and
solutions to tackle locally identified
issues (e.g. ward plans).
•Improve and integrate service-
delivery.
•Co-design physical amenities.
•Maximise local community assets.
•Bring communities together and
inspire hope and pride in
Rotherham.
Strengths-based approaches
•Focusing on what people and
communities have and how they
can work together.
•Drawing on people’s skills,
knowledge and experience to
improve things locally instead of
looking at what a community
needs or lacks.

6. Rotherham Place Partnership

7. How this works in practice

8. Setting ward priorities
•Ward plans are produced annually
•Include locally identified priorities
informed by:
–Ward data (e.g. small geographies
section of the JSNA)
–Input from services and partners
–Community intelligence/consultation
and engagement
•Provide the basis of the allocation of
resources (including ward budgets)
•Inform decisions on planning and
strategy, including the Council Plan

9. Engagement in Maltby and
Dinnington
•Survey of 2000 GP patients with LTCs in Maltby & Dinnington
•Over 50% response rate!
Poor Mental Health
Always/ Often Sometimes Rarely/ Never
Top five LTCs
reported:
•Hypertension
•Anxiety
•Asthma
•Depression
•Chronic Pain
Main findings:
•Over half found it difficult to
access healthcare
•Over a quarter were unsure how
to manage their LTC
•Family and outdoor activities
helped most
•Pain was cited as the most
important barrier to feeling healthy
•Dealing with pain was cited as the
most common single-issue
respondents most wanted to
address

10. Working with people in Maltby and
Dinnington
•Access to services is difficult and digital
solutions are not always acceptable.
•Community assets (physical and social)
play a key role in supporting health
•Exercise, especially outdoor activity is
seen as highly desirable and very likely
to have positive impacts on health, but
investment in local infrastructure is
needed
•Generally, high opinion of organised
health and care services and health
professionals contacted, but with a few
specific gaps around continuity or depth
of care for complex or fluctuating
conditions

11. Root ‘N’ Grow
•Led by Rother Valley South PCN in collaboration with the
local community, making use of a plot of green space within
Dinnington
•Early stages, but the project is focussed on creating a green
space for the community to use and develop, including:
–Supporting a Nurture/Nature Group
–Developing junior allotments for children and young people to
utilise
–Bringing local people together through a tea and chat once a week
•Exploring opportunities for collaboration across PCNs (i.e.,
with Maltby and Wickersley)

12. Peer support: menopause cafes
•Menopause cafes led by the libraries
service
•Run once per month
•Aim to break down stigma
•Open to people experiencing the
menopause, as well as friends and
family
“A menopause Café is not a lecture; it’s just a
very informal gathering for anyone who wants
to share their stories about how menopause is
affecting them or their families. Talking and
sharing with others who will understand and
empathise is a great way of helping with health
and wellbeing. All are welcome and
refreshments will be available!”

13. Family Hubs
We are working with
Neighbourhoods Teams,
Ward Councillors, VCS,
Partners to identify more
organisations to join the
Family Hub network

14. Community connectors
•Based within Adult Social Care
•Structured around the North/South/Central
footprint
•The role of the community connectors is
broad and includes:
–Signposting customers to preventative
support, community assets and regional
and national services
–Community engagement work to develop
sessions on topics such as health,
wellbeing, exercise, advice and information
and peer support
–Facilitating communities to come together
e.g., Homestead Luncheon Social group for
people aged 50+ (memory friendly)
•Role being realigned into first contact to
focus on preventative engagement at the
earliest opportunity

15. GISMO and RotherHive
•GISMO is overseen by Voluntary Action
Rotherham
•Information on local voluntary community
groups and services
•https://rotherhamgismo.org.uk/
•RotherHive is overseen by the ICB
•Advice and self-help information on different
topics, as well as details around local and
national services
•https://rotherhive.co.uk/
•Both support signposting in Rotherham

16. Summary
•Rotherham’s neighbourhood model is ‘real’ and
well-embedded – these are just a few examples
•Our best work is done in partnership – between
organisations and communities
•To make the biggest difference, we need to
come from the position of understanding
neighbourhoods’ strengths and needs
•We are proud to work in Rotherham
•There’s still more we can do

17. Thank you
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