HSC - ERR unit worksheet Unit 1: Understanding Employment Responsibilities and Rights in Health, Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings (The numbers after each question relate to the assessment criteria in the standards) 1. Imagine you are a newly appointed supervisor/manager within your service. You need to update your staff handbook to reflect current employment law. Where would you get this information to enable you to do this? List three different ways.
It is vital for management to be aware and up to date with relevant legislation and information, as it is a part of their role to guide, support and influence other staff to do well in their own roles. As a member of management your own professional development not only impacts on yourself but also other staff, the Agency and the people who use the service. Staff must also ensure continuous professional development through reading policies and procedures to ensure they are working within the Agency’s set guidelines, attending and participating in team meetings in order for them to have input in to possible changes and discuss with colleagues good and bad working practices to ensure continuity in care. Staff must also be provided with training opportunities to update knowledge and ensure understanding as well as reading materials for informational purposes. In regards to the care industry, improving knowledge and practice ensures a happier, productive and more effective workforce and provides a sense of happiness, comfort, safety and well-being for service users therefore personal development is extremely important.
I need to be aware of the most up to date legislations and guidelines, including the EYFS and welfare requirements. As a room leader it is within my role to ensure the staff within my room are also up to date with any changes and to guide and support them. Reflective practice is effective and a huge part of professional development. It enables me to look at my practice and see what we are doing well and the changes that need to be made. Improving my own knowledge and practice is valuable not just for myself but for my staff, my setting and the children within my care.
Assignment 307 Task B Guidelines: GUIDELINES FOR BEST PRACTICE IN HANDLING INFORMATION. Recording information about clients in our care is an important part of our role. It’s essential that social care workers implement good practice when writing and handling records. The following are a set of guidelines to remind us how to handle information. First ensure that you know the policy of your work-place towards the writing and handling of records.
They enable you to provide a good quality service working within the legal framework and most importantly aim to keep you and the individuals you support, safe from danger or harm. To implement agreed ways of working you follow the Policies and Procedures and the service users care plan, where the management of the individual's daily care needs are agreed and documented. It is extremely important to have up to date agreed ways of working as there may be changes in policies within the law. Our company may have to implement them to help protect the vulnerable. You have a duty to keep service users safe by following policies, procedures and working within your job role.
UNIT CU2942 PROMOTE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Understand principles of professional development 1.1 – Explain the importance of continually improving knowledge and practice Within my professional role as a Health and Social Care Trainer, I have a responsibility to engage in continual professional development. I must continually improve my knowledge so I have the skills to pass on to our social care workers and other staff members. I need to know what I am aiming for and what I need to do to meet my objectives. I need to be a positive role model to all staff members. Working in the Health and Social Care industry I think the most important thing is the service users and our health and social care workers and their happiness.
A person’s values will include their individuality, rights, choices, privacy, independence, dignity and respect. 1.3 Eplain how person-centred values should influence all aspects of social care work. Health and social care should be based on person-centred values, and should be individualised as this is a requirement by law (Human Rights Act 1998, Health and Social care Act 2012, Codes of practice for Social Care Workers, etc). 2. Understand how to implement a person-centred approach in an adult social care setting.
Sometimes you may have to work in best interest and instinct to fulfil your job role. To follow the agreed ways of working to its fullest you must refer to care plans, following the care plans ensures that you are implementing these rules. Working within the policies and procedures of your job description and working in agreed ways are very important because it ensures that you are doing your job correctly and to a high standard. It covers you from legal issues as you are completing tasks correctly and professionally. It is important to follow the agreed ways of working so you are certain to be working under the legislations that apply to the role you are undertaking, these could include the data protection act 1998, care home regulations 2001, care quality commission regulations 2009, care standards act 2000, health and safety at work act 1974 and many more.
1.1 Explain how legislation, frameworks, codes of practice and policies relating to positive behaviour support are applied to own working practice. We have a legal and moral duty to follow the standards, legislation, frameworks, codes of practice and policies within the organisation. Which means that we all have the responsibility to make sure it is a priority that we promote positive behaviour support as expected from standards and frameworks such as Care Standards Act 2000, Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Equality Act 2010. In our care setting, we have team meetings regularly to make sure that we know what is happening within the organisation and to make sure that our service users are receiving the best care and are being treated with dignity and respect. In other words, the way we support our service users should reflect and illustrate what has been written in the legislation.
the code of practise explain the way that we should be working, I can use them to think about the way i work and compare them to my own work and decide if I need to make any improvements. They enable us to gain professional development and provide a way to identify good practise. Below is a list of example legislations, which are relevant to domiciliary care, and residential services. You should be aware of these laws, and how they relate to your role. These make up standards to follow for good practice in your working practices.