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The end-to-end process for day care centre managers and workers regarding weekly COVID-19 testing. It covers the identification of eligible workers, ordering and receiving test kits, conducting tests, registering results, and returning kits. The process aims to ensure the safety and health of day care centre attendees and staff.
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WEBINAR AT-HOME REGULAR TESTING FOR ADULT DAY CARE CENTRES IN ENGLAND
**1. Introduction
How am I involved? A “day care centre manager” You are the manager of a day care centre, responsible for a team of day care centre workers or you have been delegated responsibility for testing by your organisation Your key responsibilities are to:
1. Attend a webinar to understand the process 2. Register your centre on the Self Referral portal and obtain centre’s Unique Organisation Number (UON) 3. Order test kits for day care centre workers for every 28 day testing cycle 4. Communicate your UON to day care centre workers so they can register kits online 5. Distribute test kits to day care centre workers 6. Encourage and support your day care centre workers to complete weekly testing. This must happen between Thursdays and Sundays A “day care centre worker” * Workers include full-time, part-time, volunteers, specialists and private transport drivers. You are a worker within a day care centre and you work with adults with vulnerabilities. Your key responsibilities are to: 1. Collect 4 test kits from your day care centre every 28 days 2. Conduct tests weekly between Thursdays and Sundays 3. Register tests same-day, and as soon as you have completed your weekly test, register it online through the 'organisation' registration route using your day care centre’s Unique Organisation Number (UON) 4. Return your test kits at least one hour before the last collection at a Royal Mail priority post box on the same day that you take the test 5. If you test positive: self-isolate immediately, NHS Test & Trace will be in touch for contact tracing. 6. Regardless of your result, continue following all IPC measures such as wearing PPE, washing your hands and socially distancing where possible
We are aware that some staff and service users may have already been offered a first dose of vaccination. There should be no change in recommended behaviour and IPC measures both pre and post vaccination, until we have a better understanding of the vaccination programme and its effects. Day care centres should therefore continue to test staff regularly. Any changes in IPC policy, including the use of testing and PPE will be communicated out and published in our online guidance.
Testing during vaccine rollout
Day care centre manager identifies the number of day care centre workers Day care centre manager receives Unique Organisation Number (UON) via email and orders test kits Day care centre manager shares UON with the day care centre workers Day care centre manager takes delivery of the kits and arranges for day care centre workers to receive them Day care centre worker picks up four kits from the centre Day care centre worker takes their own swabs using test kit Day care centre worker registers test kit online, providing the UON from their day care manager Day care centre worker receives results via email and text message (SMS) Repeats process every week Day care centre worker returns test kit on the same day of testing via their nearest royal mail priority post box Summary: Testing for day care centre workers Day care centre manager registers the eligible centre on the Self Referral Portal *your application will be reviewed within 7-10 working days by Local Authorities to ensure eligibility
Unique Organisation Number (UON) Day care centre managers will need to register their day care centre on the self referral portal to receive a UON for their centre: https://request-onboarding.test-for- coronavirus.service.gov.uk/ Your application will be reviewed to ensure eligibility. Once accepted on our system, day care centre managers will receive their UON via the email address they enter into the self referral portal. Please make sure that the person who receives these emails understands the importance of this message and knows who to contact. The referral UON to gain access to the portal is 99915258. Please note this is only a referral code, this is not the code used to order your test kits. What is a UON How to receive a UON There are two UON’s involved in this process:
1. The referral UON – to gain access to the self referral portal 2. Your day care centres UON – The UON you will be granted once you are accepted on our system (the UON used to order test kits) Day care centre managers will need to use the UON for:
Register Centre on Self-Referral Portal The day care centre manager is responsible for registering your organisation on the GOV.UK self-referral portal at https://request-onboarding.test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk/ Order kits STEP 1 : Referral UON (99915258) STEP 2 : Select Adult Day Care Centre STEP 3 : Enter your organisation details including the *local authority of the centre Do not leave this blank Include all workers (I.e. full and part-time staff, volunteers, specialists, transport drivers) Enter the estimated number of people who attend your centre monthly only for our records
Ordering test kits
(https://request-testing.test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk)
number of test kits you are sent as we are only sending test kits to your staff, however this information will be used only for our records.
Order kits Screenshot of entering a UON
Communicating to your day care centre workers
Communication When to do this? Recommended form of communication 1 Share your location’s Unique Organisation Number (UON) with day care centre workers in the team Before test kits are delivered, day care centre workers will need the UON to register their kits Send an email to all day care centre workers including the UON 2 Make the team aware of the process Before the test kits are delivered Email relevant links to the team 3 Share all relevant support materials Before testing begins Email relevant links to the team 4 Inform the team that the kits have arrived, and distribute them or arrange collections As soon as the kits are delivered Most appropriate channel for your team, e.g. Microsoft Teams channel Communicate
Distributing test kits
Distribute