This observership is for health and social care professionals seeking to gain special knowledge and experience of Time Banking, in particular in a health setting. Over a period of two weeks the observer will acquire a significant understanding of the benefits of time banking, by being immersed in the day to day activities of the multi-award winning Rushey Green Time bank and its members.
Rushey Green Time Bank was the first time bank set up in a health centre, over 11 years ago, at the Rushey Green Group Practice in South London. Over this period of time, the time bank has accrued a high level of experience and knowledge of working with and motivating - often isolated - health patients, to ‘coproduce’ their wellbeing.
The observership will equip and envision the health and social care professional who is looking for something ‘extra’ and effective to empower clients to be pro-active to reduce the isolation and dependencies that can prevent them from experiencing a sense of being in control, of wellbeing and belonging.
Areas of observation and study
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Rushey Green Time Bank - history, performance, benefits
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Values that underpin the success and integrity of the time bank
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The function of the time bank ‘broker’
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Activities of the time bank, members, groups
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The role of stakeholders in health and social care
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Impact on the Rushey Green Group Practice
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Systems and administration
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What makes a thriving time bank?
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How to set up a time bank in a health centre?
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How to maintain a time bank in a health centre?
The programme is designed to include a variety of activities that are scheduled to inform the observer in a step-by-step way to build knowledge upon knowledge, towards a significant understanding of the workings and benefits of the time bank. At the end of the two weeks programme the observer will be sufficiently equipped to initiate a time bank, with the know-how of the building blocks required to build a time bank in a health setting.
