A quality experienced consultancy and training provider for health, social housing and care professions
At CareVista we pride ourselves on providing quality, bespoke training and consultancy in the health, social care and housing charitable sector.
We are a South West based business providing support across Devon, Cornwall, Avon, Somerset and Dorset.
Whether its specialist dementia care training; governance for trustees for their social housing provision; networking between private companies and care homes; CareVista is here to support your organisation.
We provide services for profit and not for profit organisations.
About Us
Paul Boult
RGN, DN, FRSA – Owner
With over 40 years of experience in the health, social care and social housing charitable sector, Paul brings a wealth of experience, knowledge and expertise to all CareVista training and consultation programmes.
The business draws on Pauls’ desire for delivering exceptional consultancy and training in all ‘caring’ settings to ensure that every person receives the very best from those who govern and to their managers and front line staff.
Paul has worked his whole working life in care and housing. He trained as a Registered Nurse and District Nurse, before taking senior NHS management roles including running community hospitals and community services in Devon. Having owned and run a domiciliary care service for 10 years he understands the pressures on providing services, managing staff and supporting clients in their own homes. He has managed a Learning Disability Care Home, when he was drafted in and took the service out of special measures with CQC. Paul worked at the Department of Health consulting with NHS CEO’s and Council Directors of Social Care on programmes to improve better collaboration across health and social care. This then led to a joint role with Wiltshire County Council and the NHS as a consultant on a specific project to improve rehabilitation after acute hospital stays and reduce hospital bed days and better long-term outcomes for patients.
All of the above needed good communication and change management skills to understand service cultures and take staff and customers on a change journey. His most recent work over nearly 9 years has been as a consultant with the Abbeyfield Society working with trustee boards of member societies of the Abbeyfield. The changes needed in this sector have provided Paul with the expertise to work at all levels of governance and accountability, sustainability for the future, etc. Partnership working has been the key to build trust and openness to address the changes needed.
Paul will work with your organisation to provide bespoke training; consult on change management and work together on how to be sustainable for the future. He understands the challenges facing organisations with regulations, financial pressures, buildings needing to be fit for the future, health and safety and training compliance and all of this particularly in the charitable sector.
Developing Dementia Friendly Churches
What would a dementia friendly church look like? How welcoming and friendly is your church for those living with dementia?
It’s an interesting and important question for all church ministers and leaders. Many churches have congregations with senior people who may have dementia, so how can CareVista help you to support your congregation? Not just those living with dementia and their loved ones, but those who serve, minister or support pastorally, and also including everyone in the congregation.
How fit for purpose are your church buildings and meeting spaces for those living with dementia?
How well equipped are you as a minister or leader to support your ministry in care and nursing homes where you or a team may lead communion with residents living with dementia?
Care Vista is here to help your church find solutions to support those living with dementia, whether in worship and praise spaces; for pastoral support; in your sermons and presentations that can be made dementia friendly etc.
For more information contact Paul Boult by email – paul@carevistaconsultancy.co.uk, phone or via the contact form at the bottom of the page.
CareVista in Partnership with Living Memories and Linking Lives
These two charitable organisations are special to CareVista and we believe that working in partnership with them helps to improve the lives of older people who are lonely and isolated and also to enhance the lives of those and their carers living with dementia.
Living Memories CIC provide a subscription service for their unique online streaming service with over 2500 film clips, documentaries, adverts and much more from all over the world and relating back to the early 20 th century.
CareVista endorse their Tea and Memories sessions which bring such joy, life and fun to people as they meet and watch short clips which bring back memories of their younger years.
For an example of how Tea and Memories works, please click here to see a session run with Abbeyfield.
For more information about the subscription service please click here
Linking Lives is a charity https://linkinglives.uk/
They aim to improve the quality of life for those experiencing loneliness and isolation through friendship by setting up Befriending Services, running webinars and specific training for volunteers, churches and organisations.
In some areas of the UK they are working in partnership with Living Memories CIC bringing folk together for special interactive times.
Testimonials
“The Dementia Training session delivered by Paul covered information about different types and stages of dementia, practical tips on what sorts of things not to say to someone living with dementia, and instead what things are far more sensitive and reassuring”
– Abbeyfield Tavistock Society
“All staff that took part in the virtual dementia training felt that this was extremely powerful and really helped to give a window into the mind of someone who is living with dementia”
– Drake Lodge
“The Virtual Dementia Training session was a very powerful experience and gave such an insight into the challenges faced by anyone living with dementia. I would recommend that every member of staff takes part in this training session”
– Abbeyfield Tavistock Society