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JEWISH CARE’S MAGAZINE FOR STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS<br />
Issue 01<br />
November 2012<br />
JEWISH CARE STAFF MADE THEIR FIRST<br />
STREET COLLECTION, RAISING £565 BY SELLING<br />
PURPLE THREADED BRACELETS IN NOVEMBER
WELCOME<br />
Welcome to the first edition of <strong>i<strong>Care</strong></strong>, our new internal<br />
magazine for <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong>’s staff and volunteers.<br />
An edition of <strong>i<strong>Care</strong></strong> will appear<br />
every other month and will<br />
include news, views and<br />
information about <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong>,<br />
featuring our dedicated staff and<br />
volunteers. I’m really excited<br />
about this new magazine, which<br />
will show real, positive examples<br />
of how we all work together as<br />
one team, making <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong><br />
such a wonderful organisation.<br />
I do hope you will get a lot out of<br />
reading it. Remember, it is your<br />
magazine so if there is anything you<br />
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think should get a mention, please<br />
don’t forget to send an email to the<br />
internal communications team on<br />
internalcommunications@jcare.org<br />
or call 020 8922 2809. I know they<br />
will be very happy to receive your<br />
news and photographs of what’s<br />
happening around <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong>.<br />
Congratulations to Dina Brawer<br />
for picking the name of this new<br />
publication… a box of chocolates<br />
is on its way to you.<br />
Happy reading!<br />
T<br />
he fundraising and marketing team is responsible<br />
for sending out internal communications<br />
at <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong>.<br />
So, along with this new magazine, you’ll be able to find<br />
out what’s going on through regular emails. We will make<br />
sure you are not bombarded with too many unwanted<br />
emails and get information more relevant to you.<br />
News about some of the things happening within<br />
<strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong> will go out on email on Tuesdays. General<br />
news and information on some upcoming events will<br />
Simon Morris<br />
Chief executive<br />
A BIT ABOUT INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS<br />
go out on Wednesdays. We will also send out updates<br />
on current staff vacancies and other HR news on Fridays.<br />
Volunteer vacancies will also be sent out. If urgent<br />
news has to be sent out, it will be done so immediately.<br />
We would like your help. If you have any news you<br />
want to share with others, please let us know about it<br />
at internalcommunications@jcare.org or call 020 8922<br />
2809. So keep us in the picture with any news, comments,<br />
ideas or photos – we look forward to hearing<br />
from you!<br />
LET’S MEET…<br />
VOLUNTEER<br />
SIMON DAVIES<br />
Simon has been volunteering in our Fundraising<br />
and Marketing department since November<br />
2004. He lives at Rela Goldhill Lodge, just around<br />
the corner from the Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus.<br />
As well as volunteering, Simon also runs his successful<br />
greeting card business, “Simon Says”.<br />
Being able to volunteer “makes me feel like anybody else<br />
my age,” he says. “It also allows me to give something back.”<br />
This year has been a really special one for Simon. In July<br />
he was one of Barnet’s Olympic torchbearers! It really was<br />
his chance to shine and lots of people from <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong><br />
turned out to support him on what was a very hot,<br />
incredibly happy day.<br />
STAFF MEMBER<br />
CHRISTINA BRAGO-NIMAKO<br />
Christina joined us 15 years ago in October 1997<br />
as a residential care worker. Based at Rubens<br />
House, she did various jobs from laundry<br />
assistant to carer to team leader. She is now social<br />
care coordinator and is always very busy organising<br />
lots to do for those living in the home.<br />
Christina says: “I love working with <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong> because<br />
there are opportunities for growth and development.<br />
This has enabled me to identify skills that I might not<br />
have thought of before. With <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong>, I feel a sense<br />
of belonging and part of the community.”<br />
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OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE<br />
Over the past few months we have been learning more about how we can work together to promote<br />
meaningful lives for all those who use our services.<br />
WHAT HAVE WE DONE?<br />
■ Over 800 people attended a three hour<br />
interactive session in the summer.<br />
■ Over 180 volunteers attended a 1 1 /2 hour<br />
session in November.<br />
■ More sessions have just been held for<br />
those who couldn’t attend.<br />
■ Every new member of staff and new volunteer<br />
will attend a session on induction<br />
MEETING THE MAYOR<br />
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Councillor Brian Schama, the<br />
Mayor of Barnet met <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
<strong>Care</strong> residents and staff in<br />
October.<br />
The Mayor and Mayoress were<br />
given a tour of the Holocaust Survivors’<br />
Centre and Ella & Ridley Jacobs<br />
House in Hendon by Daniel<br />
Casson, head of business development,<br />
before making their way to<br />
the Maurice and Vivienne Wohl<br />
about how they can work together in different<br />
ways to promote meaningful lives.<br />
■ Every team will have a further session<br />
with their manager to discuss what they<br />
can do to work together to promote wellbeing,<br />
enhance value and strengthen our<br />
community through their work.<br />
■ All volunteers have been invited to attend<br />
further sessions over the next 6-8 months.<br />
Together, we can make <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong><br />
a better place to work!<br />
Campus in Golders Green.<br />
There, the Mayor was met by<br />
Simon Morris and Neil Taylor, director<br />
of care and community services. He<br />
saw the campus including the Otto<br />
Schiff care home and the Selig Court<br />
independent living apartments.<br />
Simon said: “We wanted the<br />
Mayor to meet the residents and<br />
see the range and quality of care<br />
that <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong> provides in Barnet.”<br />
THE COLOUR PURPLE<br />
T<br />
ake a look at some of the<br />
places our purple thread<br />
has been spotted recently.<br />
The purple thread is a powerful<br />
symbol of <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong> and how it is<br />
the thread that runs through the<br />
community, reminding people that<br />
if they ever need our help, we will<br />
do everything in our power to be<br />
there. It features in our latest<br />
fundraising and marketing campaign.<br />
Are you remembering to<br />
wear it? Where will you take it?<br />
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ASK SIMON<br />
When Simon Morris meets staff at our new staff lunches, they have<br />
the chance to ask him some questions. Here are just a few, with his answers:<br />
Does <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong> have any<br />
plans to expand outside of London<br />
and the South East?<br />
Not directly. I see our role as acting<br />
as a coordinator and a convener<br />
of health and social care organisations<br />
within the <strong>Jewish</strong> community<br />
which could lead us to playing a<br />
role in advising. However, in terms<br />
of developing and operating services,<br />
I am not sure.<br />
CATCH THE COACH<br />
Our coaching and mentoring programme<br />
for staff will help you<br />
develop your career. Coaching will<br />
improve your skills, so you can do your<br />
job better.<br />
With mentoring, you work with a colleague<br />
who has specialist knowledge. Our<br />
coaches will be Sonia Douek, Sharron Grant,<br />
Alex Myers and Sandra Saintus. Mentors will<br />
be found to suit your own special needs.<br />
For more information on coaching, call<br />
Alex Myers on 020 8922 2432 or for mentoring,<br />
call Sonia Douek on 020 8922 2166.<br />
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Where do you see <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong><br />
in five years’ time?<br />
I would like to see us having developed<br />
more, being an even better<br />
place to work with a greater staff<br />
connection to the organisation,<br />
having built Asher Loftus Way, potentially<br />
redeveloped Rela Goldhill<br />
Lodge, the Sinclair House site, and<br />
be developing plans for The<br />
Princess Alexandra Home.<br />
Above Sonia Douek<br />
Right Sandra Saintus<br />
What do you think is the organisation’s<br />
biggest weakness?<br />
The organisation is historically<br />
very hierarchy orientated, and this is<br />
still increasingly difficult to change.<br />
How do we keep good people and<br />
get them to take responsibility? It is<br />
a two-way thing. We want people<br />
to feel pride in everything they<br />
accomplish and take responsibility<br />
as well.<br />
OUR AMAZING VOUNTEERS<br />
All our volunteers are dedicated, wonderful people, but five people<br />
deserve to be singled out in this issue…<br />
Congratulations to Geoffrey<br />
Morris and Philippa Ackerman,<br />
who have both been<br />
named as Diamond Champions<br />
for their outstanding volunteer<br />
work. They received their awards<br />
from actress Patricia Routledge<br />
at a reception in October (Geoffrey<br />
is pictured with Patricia, on<br />
the right).<br />
Congratulations, too, to Michael<br />
Brown, who has received an award<br />
from the London Gardens Society<br />
for his work in the garden at Lady<br />
Sarah Cohen House.<br />
A huge mazeltov to Stanley<br />
Comras, who volunteers at Clore<br />
Manor and is the winner of this<br />
year's Community Hero Award, run<br />
by the <strong>Jewish</strong> News. Well done,<br />
Stanley, and congratulations also<br />
go to Francesca Marks, volunteer at<br />
Rubens House, who was shortlisted<br />
for the award.<br />
OUR SUPERB STAFF<br />
The Great London <strong>Care</strong> Awards<br />
2012 were held earlier this<br />
month, and we had finalists in<br />
two categories.<br />
Well done to Hilary De Martino,<br />
from Vi & John Rubens House, who<br />
was a finalist in the Dementia <strong>Care</strong>r<br />
GIVE AS<br />
YOU LIVE<br />
Please pledge to raise money<br />
for the <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong> every time<br />
you shop online.<br />
When you download Give as<br />
you Live thousands of brands<br />
have signed up to donate to <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
<strong>Care</strong> a percentage of everything<br />
you spend online, at no cost<br />
to you. An extra £5 will be raised<br />
for every shopper who spends a<br />
minimum of £10 online.<br />
To register go to Give as you<br />
Live at www.jewishcare.org/giveas-you-live.<br />
If you do most of your<br />
shopping at home you may wish<br />
to sign up using your personal<br />
email address and download Give<br />
as you Live onto your own computer.<br />
Thank you!<br />
Award section, while Susan Nahum,<br />
Max Bianconi and Sudene Powlette<br />
were finalists in the <strong>Care</strong> Team<br />
award. They are based at Rela Goldhill<br />
Lodge.<br />
Congratulations to all the finalists<br />
on doing such an amazing job!<br />
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DIWALI DELIGHTS<br />
Congratulations and thanks<br />
go to Mina Mistry, Usha<br />
Parmar, Darshna Patel and<br />
Meeta Badiani from the Finance<br />
Department, who were the<br />
driving force behind November’s<br />
amazing Diwali celebrations at<br />
Amélie House.<br />
Staff entered into the spirit of<br />
the festival by dressing up and<br />
enjoying typical Indian food.<br />
Above Staff dress up in style and get ready<br />
to party at the Diwali celebrations<br />
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Diwali is the Hindu festival of<br />
lights. It is traditionally marked by<br />
placing decorated oil lamps (each<br />
called a ‘deepa’ in rows (‘avali’) –<br />
hence the Sanskrit name, ‘Deepavali’.<br />
The festival celebrates the<br />
victory of good over evil, light<br />
over darkness and knowledge<br />
over ignorance. Diwali is also celebrated<br />
by Jains and Sikhs. Happy<br />
Diwali!<br />
REMEMBER:<br />
Pension auto enrolment<br />
starts for us on 1 October<br />
2013. There will be more<br />
details about how this<br />
affects <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Care</strong> staff<br />
over the coming months.<br />
Charity Reg No. 802559