R601/1436 Unit 11 R601/1436 Unit 11 Principles of Implementing the Duty of Care in Health and Social Care in Children and Young People Settings Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice 1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role Duty of care is defined simply as a legal obligation to : Always act in the best interest of individuals in care and others Not act or fail to act in a way that results in harm Act within own competence and not take on anything not believe we can safely do As a care worker, we owe a duty of care to the people we support, colleagues, employer and ourselves and the public interest. Every one have a duty of care that we cannot opt out of. Peoples we care support should be treated with respect, involved in decision making about their care and treatment and able influence how the service is run. People should receive safe and appropriate care that meets their needs and support their rights. A negligent act could be unintentional but careless or intentional that results in abuse or injury.
They have to ensure that they are providing vulnerable adults with the right quality of care. With professionals they have no choose but to work within the legislations. The cored of practice for professional is to maintain a personal centred care to preserve dignity, promoting individuals with independence of making choices and treating vulnerable adults with respect. Personal centred need to approach individuals by listening and supporting them with problems which will reduce the chance of being abused. Core principles of care was set for the health and social care services to ensure that principles, guidelines and values was followed to promote standards of equality and diversity toward individuals, making sure that personal information was maintain privately and ensuring that individuals had rights.
1.2 Summarise the main points of legal requirements and codes of practice for handling information in health and social care The main points are as follows: * data must be followed in a fair and lawful way. * data must be processes for limited purposes. * data must be accurate. * data must be kept no longer than is required. * data is kept secure * datat is processed within the persons rights.
Unit – HSC025 The role of the health and social care worker NCFE NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care HSC 1.1 Explain how a working relationship is different from a personal relationship? 1.2 Describe different working relationships in health and social care settings? 2.1 Describe why it is important to adhere to the agreed scope of the job role? 2.2 Explain how would you access full and up-to-date details of agreed ways of working? 3.1 Explain why it is important to work in partnership with others?
P2 and P3 Explain different psychological approaches to health and social practice Cognitive learning theorists believe that learning is an internal process in which information is combined into one as cognitive structure. Learning occurs through internal processing of information. One example of cognitive perspective that is used in healthcare practice can include supporting individuals that have learning difficulties. On a day to day basis, individuals with learning difficulties can find skilled tasks very difficult and confusing; because of this they are likely to get very frustrated. The cognitive perspective can help people with these learning difficulties and support them to help make sense of these tasks by identifying basic thoughts
Code of Practice for Social Care Workers Social care workers must: be accountable for the quality of their work and take responsibility for maintaining and improving their knowledge and skills. Care Standards Act 2000 (CSA) created a new regulatory framework for all regulated social care and independent health care services. The Act has two fundamental aims, to: • protect vulnerable people from abuse and neglect; and • promote the highest standards of quality in the care that people receive The standards and benchmarks you are evaluating your knowledge and performance against are Codes of practice, National Occupational standards and minimum/essential standards etc (See above) By following your workplace standards you will be ensuring best practice, which is used to maintain quality and can be used as a benchmark. When working in social care, to be effective and to provide the best possible service for those you support, you need to be able to think about and evaluate
1. A duty of care is the requirement in my job role as a support worker i must put the interests of the service users first and do everything i can to keep them safe from harm i do this by following support plans and risk assessments. To provide a dignified, safe and stimulating service where service users are encouraged to exercise choice and to promote their independence. To ensure individuals’ rights and responsibilities are retained by treating them with dignity and respect. To provide care services which are appropriate to the needs of the service users and that have been agreed with them.
Understanding person-centred approaches in adult social care settings:- 1 understands person-centred approaches in adult social care settings:- Person centred approaching is crucial in providing quality care and support, this helps professional care and support workers find out what is important to the person they support and enables services to be built around the individual. The values must influence all aspects of social care work as it is the service user’s needs who we are there to meet and that include personal care. For example any specific requirements or adaption needed, this could involve their ability or inability to help them. Detailed care planning and risk assessing. 2 understand how to implement a person – centred approach
UNISON duty of care handbook For members working in health and social care ‘‘ At a time of change, patients and service users depend more than ever on the integrity of care professionals. This handbook is a valuable guide to health and care professionals’ responsibilities and rights, and to sources of help when it may be hard to know the right thing to do and even harder to do it. Harry Cayton, chief executive, Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence Professor Dickon Weir-Hughes, chief executive and registrar, Nursing and Midwifery Council ‘‘ Marc Seale, chief executive and registrar, Health Professions Council ‘‘ The Health Professions Council (HPC) is committed to protecting the public and ensuring that professionals
Research is extremely important in the health and social care sector. It is necessary for the following reasons: * Research identifying needs * Research highlights gaps in provisions * Research plans provision of services * Research informs policies and practise * Research extends knowledge and