Live-in migrant carers and user-centred practice: priorities for research.

This is a pre-application award covering salary 0.3fte for 12months, supervisors time+PPIE activities (tot max £3000), training (max £5000), conferences (max £1000)

This project will explore the complexity of live-in care in home settings in a context of Government priorities of delegation of duties, training workforce for home care support, and reducing public resources use.
This can be addressed in different ways, therefore is important to identify priorities for research, research questions and appropriate methods using a participatory framework and organising a workshop with stakeholders to discuss:
Population – people with MMLTC in need of complex care and their relatives (see as employers), migrant live-in carers (seen as direct employees or providing services for agencies), agencies (which may employ or find carers), public services professionals (that may support carers and users).
Potential priorities for research:
-The system surrounding users and carers, using system thinking or realist approach to evaluate policy and practice, identifying stakeholders, their unmet needs, gaps and potential co-design interventions to address them.
-Understanding the different perspectives of complexity in care for people with MMLTC, in order to understand if the micro-meso system surrounding vulnerable users is rooted in a common understanding of needs, duties, and capabilities: qualitative or mixed methods approach (survey + interviews)
-Potential implementation of a strength-based approach practice framework, as the one endorsed by the DHSC for social care workers (10). This may involve the use of a behavioural intervention.
-Identifying the features of a future interventions, to be tested for efficacy in homecare and implemented for establishing effectiveness. This may entail the creation of training packages and platform for matching the appropriate carer with the recipient of care.