I am responsible for admin like students computer passwords, attendance and lunch and bus pass statistics. I also help the tutor by teaching mindfulness classes, arts and crafts and helping with IT classes. I must ensure I work within all company policies and procedures such as health and safety, confidentiality, equality and diversity, grievance and complaints. I must also ensure I work within the codes of practice set by the care quality commission. My mentor is the tutor Paula and my manager is Sam Nolan.
I also must follow all rules and regulation policies within the work setting and keep up with any relevant training I may need to keep me up to date and informed. It’s also my responsibility to build trust with the service users and also my colleagues and make sure I stick to the confidentiality policies. The duties I under take on a day-to-day basis are personal care, recording information, assisting with feeding and mobilising and keeping the service users entertained. 2. Identify the standards that influence the way the role is carried out: • Care standards act 2000 • Health and safety at work act 1974 • Manual handling operations 1992 • Codes of practice • National occupation hazards 3.
R/602/2954 Understand Employment Responsibilities and Rights in Health, Social Care or Children and Young People’s Settings Assessment Workbook The Workbook Purpose The purpose of this workbook is to support you, the learner, in gathering and recording evidence towards your LAO Level 2Award in Employment Rights and Responsibilities in Health and Social Care or Children and Young People’s Settings. Content This workbook covers important aspects of your work, and helps you to understand your rights and responsibilities as a person employed in the Health and Social Care Sector. In the modern world there are many laws which protect us at work, they ensure we are treated fairly and paid properly by an employer. At the same time, everyone who works has to take care that they also behave well in work, looking out for their own and other people’s safety, being reliable and trustworthy. Because this is so important all learners, whatever job they are doing, are now including employment rights and responsibilities (ERR) in their studies.
This covers safeguarding, suitable people, suitable premises/equipment, organisation and documentation. Ofsted will come to the setting to check that the setting are following this framework correctly. There is also health and safety legislation in place that sets out legal requirements to keep all adults and children safe. These are: Health and safety at work act 1974 All employment settings have responsibility as laid down in the health and safety at work act 1974 for Great Britain. This act places overall responsibility for health and safety with the employer but also duties on employees, so everyone in a setting has some responsibility for the health and safety of anyone who is there.
2. Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care 3. Know how to respond to complaints Question- (1.1) Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role Answer: My duty of care as a care worker means it is my responsibility to deliver the services I was employed to do to service users. By following my organisational policies, and also adhering to the code of practice laid down by GSCC codes of practice, I will be exercising my ‘duty of care’. The Health & safety at Work Act 1974, states that : Employer Duty of Care under the Health & safety at Work Act (Employer’s duty of care) Licensed to kevin hewitt of , , , .
The standards which influence the way our job role is carried out are: Codes of Practice Codes of Practice for Social Care Workers and Employers General Social Care Council Standards of Conduct Health Professionals Council Regulations Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 Care Standards Act 2000 Manual Handling Operations Regulations NHS & Community Care Act Food Safety Act Management of Health and Safety at Work. Minimum Standards The National Minimum Standards (NMS) are designed to
CU1531 Engaging in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s setting 1.1 Describe the duties and responsible of your own work role? My role is to support the service users with their daily living skills and support them as necessary. Ensuring all paperwork is clear and concise and is in line with the company’s guild lines to adhere to and follow care plans of each individual / helping and supporting individuals achieve their short and long term goals towards living more independently. 1.2 Explain the expectations about own work role as expresses in relevant standards. To work within and adhere to the companies framework that has been set out though legal guidelines such as the Care Quality Commission, My contract that the company has put in place that I signed on accepting the job role and the job description.
If there are any screening or tests that need to be done or need to be discuss that will take place during the first meeting. Also the helper will go over what will happen in the second meeting so the client can be prepared. According to, An Introduction to Human Service, on the second visit, “you will address the current status of the problem or problems, the client’s aspirations and desires, and the client’s personal and social resources. Should the helper find the client’s problems call for an expertise or experience that the helper do not poses, the helper should refer the client to another professional who has the necessary knowledge and skills (Wood & McClam
- Please describe your experience working as a trainer and how you feel that will assist you in the position of Training Coordinator. I have had the opportunity to provide trainings on a variety of different topics ranging from Clinical development like common clinical diagnosis, behavoiral de-escalation and emergency response to process and procedure like how to complete a referral and company policy and procedure all the way through professional growth and development like how to avoid burn out and how to provide customer service. I facilitated multi-disciplinary treatment team meetings where content experts present information and I facilitate professional discussions. I have provided group trainings on topics such as life skills
In my work role I also have a responsibility to provide a duty of care to all patients receiving care. This is `The legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services or exposed to your activities`. (Collins 2015) I am required to work to an excellent standard and quality of care, adhering to my organisations policies in my everyday practice. The trust value that I meet are; `We put our patients at the centre of everything we do’ `We focus on our people’ `We involve our people in making decisions’ and `We deliver excellence’ (Trust values booklet.) I am expected to ensure that all patients are treated fairly and with dignity and respect, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and diagnosis, and always act in the best interests of the individual whilst allowing them to be as independent as possible.