4. As a social worker, you must respect the rights of service users while seeking to ensure that their behaviour does not harm themselves or other people by recognising that service users have the right to take risks and helping them to identify and manage potential and actual risks to themselves and others, following risk assessment policies and procedures to assess whether the behaviour of service users presents a risk of harm to themselves or others and taking necessary steps to minimise the risk of service users from doing actual or potential harm to themselves or other people. 5. As a social care worker, you
Implementing Duty of Care 1. Explain what it means to have duty of care in your job role. Duty of care as a care assistant refers to your role and responsibilities in care such as health and safety of individuals and yourself, protection from harm and abuse or unnecessary risks. This includes responsibilities to act in the best interest of individuals and to do everything possible to keep them safe from harm, may it be physical or emotional. Your duty of care is also that you act within your own competence and do not do anything which you cannot do safely.
In my role I have a duty of care to raise any concerns I may have about any aspect of my work. These can range from inadequate working conditions, poor equipment, and poor practice by other staff; to raising concerns about potential abuse cases and situations of neglect. It is my duty of care to safeguard individuals from harm. All employees should report any concerns of abuse they have. These might include evidence or suspicions of bad practice by colleagues and managers, or abuse by another individual, another worker or an individual’s family or friends.
It is my duty of care to safeguard individuals from harm. Within my role I have a duty of care to raise any concerns I may have about any aspect of my work. These can range from inadequate working conditions, poor equipment poor practise to other staff; to raising concerns about potential abuse cases and situation of neglect. 2.1 Describe potential conflict or dilemmas that may arise between the duty of care and an individual’s rights. In situations where the in conflict of interest or dilemma between an individual’s rights and my duty of care, it is best practise to make sure the individual is aware of the consequence of there choice and they have the mental capacity to understand the risks involved in their choice.
Common Signs of Stress and Possible Triggers. Stress can cause changes in those experiencing it. In some cases there are clear signs that people are experiencing stress at work and if these can be identified early, action can be taken before the pressure becomes a problem. This may make it easier to reduce and eliminate the causes. It is important that everyone looks out for changes in a person's or a group's behaviour.
1.1 Having a duty of care means to care for anyone that i come across within my line of work. It is my duty of care to make sure that all of my clients have everything they need, they get proper care and are respected and keep their dignity. Also that they maintain as much independence as possible and we promote independence as much as possible. It is also my duty to safeguard each service user and protect them where possible from harm. We have a duty to follow all risk assessments for each service user, attend all mandatory training and to report any unsafe practises that i see.
You could lose your job and you could have legal action taken against you. | 1.2 Describe how the duty of care affects own work role and how it contributes to the safeguarding and protection of individuals Duty of Care contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals | In your role you have a duty of care to raise any concerns you may have about any aspect of your work. These can range from inadequate working conditions, poor equipment, poor practice by other staff; to raising concerns about potential abuse cases and situations of neglect. | It is your duty of care to safeguard individuals from harm. All employees should report any concerns of abuse they have.
The term “duty of care” in my mind best describes the way in which you treat the persons in your care. You should always be willing to be supportive to people in your care and enable them to live free from prejudice and keep them safe from abuse. It is your duty to do everything reasonable in your job role to make this happen. In essence, “duty of care” means you must provide care and support individuals within the law, including those defined in your employers’ policies, procedures and agreed ways of working. The company and you will have a duty of care to ensure that the service users you care for are safe and protected from abuse by other service users, staff, carers, friends and family.
2.1 Describe how to find out the history, preferences, wishes and needs of an individual We could find out such information relating to an individual by working in a way that puts the individual at the centre of any planning and support, we can do this be communicating with them to find out about their history, preferences and wishes. It is important that we appear and work in a non – judgemental way in order to eliminate any prejudices and / or personal feelings as to not discriminate in any way against the individual. By promoting independence and autonomy, we can also ensure equality and inclusive practice; we can do this by actively encouraging and thus empowering individuals to use their strengths and potentials. Effective communication is also vitally important as this ensures
• To know what must be done to make any job as safe as possible. If I have any concerns about the client’s needs, colleagues I would need to make these concern known. Describe dilemmas that may arise between duty of care and