Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings Task A Ai: Line manager HR Department ACAS Citizen Advise Bureau Aii: a) Equality Act Occupational Health and Safety Act Discrimination Act b) Whistleblowing legislation Sexual discrimination Human Rights Act Aiii: To protect Service User, Employee and Employer and even Service Users families. It is to regulate the contractual relationship between two parties of unequal bargaining power, the employer and the employee. To protect the rights of employers and employees by providing rules and regulations that must be followed. Task B Your work role Bi: My employment is conditional to a clear CRB carried out by my employer. Bii: Name, Employer, Employee number, Tax period, Date paid, Pay method, Tax code, Tax reference, NI contribution letter, NI number, Grade, Spinal point, Pay and Allowances, Deductions, Balance and Totals to date Biii: Change of Name Change of Address Biv: I go to office and explain my grievance.
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.
they also cover the disability act, health and safety and manual handling operations regulations. (1.2)the main features of current employment legislation are to protect employers and employees, to guide, regulate and set standards, to provide rights and restrictions on workers and management through a legal relationship. these regulations feature- Pay, payslips, company sick pay rights, national minimum wages and rates of pay, time off and holidays, working hours and working time limits, rest breaks, overtime,part time work, sickness absence and time off for dependants. (1.3)Legislation relating to employment exists to protect the rights of employers and employees by providing rules and regulations that must be followed. it prevents employers from abusing or taking advantage of employees.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 The Act sets out the general duties which employers have towards employees and members of the public, and employees have to themselves and to each other. Under the Act, employer’s duties include: • Protect health, safety and welfare of employees; • Provide and maintain safe systems of work; • Ensure safety in the use, handling, storage and transportation of articles and substances; • Provide information, supervision and training; • Provide safe places/environment for work, with safe access and egress; • Provide adequate welfare facilities and arrangements; • If five or more people are employed at any one time for a single undertaking - produce written health and safety policy; • Protect people not in their employment that may be affected by their operations; • Consult safety representatives and establish a safety committee when requested by two or more safety representatives; • Provide free of charge items required by statutory provisions. Employees’ duties
Workbook. Define the term ‘duty of care’ in relation to your work role and explain what this means in principal: All residents 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 are to do everything reasonable within the definition of my job role to make this happen. Duty of care means providing care and support for individuals within the law and also within the policies, procedures and agreed ways of working of my employer. Within our work setting we carry out regular checks to ensure our working environments are safe before carrying out any tasks.
Introduction to personal development in Health, social care or childrens and young peoples settings On commencing employment, I received a job description that sets out the main functions of my role and what I will be doing. I also received a person specification which was attached to my job description and sets out the knowledge and skills required to do the job. Codes of practice are a valid list of statements describing the standards of professional conduct and practice required of every worker as they go about their daily work. My employer also has to abide by the Codes of Practice. My employer must give clear information about my role to ensure I understand and can carry out my work to a high quality and standard.
1.1 Duty of care means that they must do everything they can to keep the people in their care safe from harm. It is not only the care establishment that needs to prioritise the safety, welfare and interests of the people using its services, but also the care workers of the establishment. My employer also has a duty of care for staff members, to ensure that working conditions are safe, and suitable to deliver the service. 1.2 The duty of care affects own work role by making sure you keep yourself safe and your service user safe. It means being updated on any new training, following all and any security procedures in order to keep things safe.
3 What are the responsibilities of the employer in WHS? The employee? EMPLOYER provide a safe and healthy workplace identify any hazards reduce risk support the health and safety committee provide training in workplace safety define and set guidelines of safe practise for each task to be undertaken in the workplace Provide equipment to protect workers as needed (personal protective equipment – PPE). EMPLOYEE work safely take care to consider the safety of others when working report any health and safety concerns to a supervisor or to the health and safety committee assist and support employers to follow health and safety provisions Wear PPE whenever needed. (Safe Work Australia, 2011, np) 4 Define the following terms – a.
Unit 306: Promote and implement health and safety in health and social care Learner Name: Enrolment No: Relates to Unit 306 outcomes 1 What is the name of the main piece of legislation that covers the general health and safety that applies to your work setting? Health and safety at work act 1974 Explain the main areas this act covers including your responsibilities. To ensure that both staff employed by employers and clients/residents remain safe by working in a sensible risk free manner. To make provisions for securing the health, safety and welfare of persons at work, to ensure all individuals are carrying out tasks in a safe correct way-continually keeping risks minimalised.To ensure employers make sure their staff receive the adequate training neccessary to the health and safety this is a legal requirement set out in the act. All employees must inform mangement of any training needs they may have in relation/line with the health and safety at work act.
Our policies and procedures within the work place protect the rights of individuals by making sure that we follow a person-centred approach and treat each case individually, but most importantly equally to any other case. Agreed ways of working help to ensure that all staff work in a standardised way which should mean we automatically focus on the rights of every individual, rather than those of a select few. The risk assessments that we have in place govern the day to day procedures that we use in the work place. In end of life care, the time may come when it is no longer