. - Individual care plans for each service user in your care, which includes details of a person’s health and social care needs and the support they require. - Risk assessments which are in place to determine a level of risk and the likely outcome. - Health and safety policies, to ensure a safe and healthy working environment to protect the employee, employer and service users. Aii How the duty of care affects the work of a social care worker The social care worker must: * Adhere to the set rule of standards laid out by the organisation and not work outside their capabilities as this could lead to negligence, incompetence or abuse and cause harm to the service user, colleagues or self.
U N I T 7 1. Explain how and why person-centered values must influence all aspects of health and social-care work It is very important that we as care workers apply person-centered values in every aspect of the work we do. Some of the key values include: -Treating people as individuals. That is very important, because people we support they have their likes, dislikes, strength and personality. -Supporting people to exercise their rights-the rights of people are protected by law and in particular by the Human Rights Act 1998.Sixteen basic human rights have been incorporated into UK law.
Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role. All service users should be supported and enabled to live in an environment which is free from prejudice and safe from abuse. My responsibilities under the duty of care is to do everything reasonable within the definition of my job role to make this happen. A duty of care is a legal obligation imposed on a carer requiring that they adhere to a good quality and standard of care. It is my duty to take care of vulnerable adults and to ensure that their needs and well-being are looked after.
The right to respect for private and family life - this means the right to live as a family. The right to dignity and being part of the community - this means you should get the care and support you need to have a good life. You should be able to join in with things in your community along with everyone else. Human rights are to help groups like councils, the police and hospitals protect you by making sure they respect your human rights. For government it means they should protect all of us from groups or individuals who would take away our rights.
WRITTEN QUESTIONS Unit Title: Principles for implementing duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings Unit sector reference: SHC34 Candidate name: ……… ……………………………………………………………. Answer the following questions, give examples where necessary. Question | Answers | 1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role | As a professional working within health care, it is necessary and very important that we follow a code of practice which is set out by each employer in all work settings; this involves putting the needs and interests of those that we care for first. It is vital to keep everyone in our care safe from harm and unnecessary risk, which means we need to ensure that no individual in our care is abused or neglected. Also planning the day and having a routine which best fits around each individual ensuring that their best interests and personal choices come first.
Inclusion This is a universal human right. It means to embrace all people irrespective of their differences to one another. It is about ensuring the same opportunities and rights are available to all people and putting a stop to intolerance and discrimination. Inclusive practice promotes equality by making sure each individual is offered the same opportunities and it supports diversity because of this. The three practices are interlinked and can not work without each other.
Summarise the main points of legal requirement and codes of practise for handling information in health and social care The Human Rights Act 2000 Article 8: the right to respect for private and family life; Everybody has the right to have respect for their private and family life. The right to a private life includes the right for all of our personal information, medical notes, photographs and anything else personal to ourselves keep safe and protected by confidentiality. Only in certain circumstances can private information be let out and that is if someone or the public is in danger. Data Protection Act 1998 This act is in place to protect the rights of individual’s information and how it is processed, disclosed and destroyed. It applies to information that is held in letters/writing or on computerised records these include things such as x-rays, photographs, CCTV images telephone calls etc.
QCF Health and Social Care – Level 3 Unit 305 Promote person centred approaches in health and social care Outcome 1 1.1 Explain how and why person-centred values must influence all aspects of health and social care work. Health and social care should be based upon person centred values, and should be individualised, as this is a law requirement (Human Rights Act 1998, Health and Social Care Act 2012, etc.) The Principles of Care are a set of standards which form the foundation on which to build your practice. You need to be aware of why you must promote the values in your day-to-day practice; why you must consider the people you are supporting in promoting these values – their culture, their means of communication, their likes and dislikes, their family, other professionals you may be working with and also your colleagues. These are some of the principles of care: * Individuality * Rights * Choice * Privacy * Independence * Dignity * Respect If person centred values, which should be at the heart of all work in the health and social care sector, are followed as they should be, then all individuals should feel that they are being supported in accessing their rights.
NVQ Unit 1 – Introduction to Duty of Care in Health, Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings. 1.1 – Define the term ‘Duty of Care’. A moral or legal obligation to ensure the safety or well-being of others. 1.2 – Describe how the duty of care affects your own work role. The duty of care in my work role is based around looking after the residents in our care and maintaining their safety and dignity.
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.