Unit 26 Task 3 Health and Social Care

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Unit 26, Task 3 Positive Working Practices Sabbah Shaheen In this assignment I will explain and discuss positive working practices with individuals with additional needs and evaluate working practices and their potential for breaking down barriers and improving the well being and life chances of individuals with additional needs. I interviewed a lady called Kerry Kaur who is a deputy manager for a domiciliary care. She spoke about how she promotes positive working practices through her work. The positive working practices are: * Equality and diversity: Being fair and impartial * Respect: A feeling of deep respect for someone or something obtained by their abilities, qualities or achievements * Dignity: Quality of being worthy of honour and respect * Person centred planning: It is a set of approaches considered to assist someone to plan their life and support. It is used as a life planning model to enable individuals with disabilities and improve their own independence * Appropriate care: Health care in which the expected clinical benefits of care to balance the expected negative effects to such a level that the treatment is necessary * Safeguarding: Protection from harm or damage * Promoting independence: Encouraging the person in your care to do as much as they can for themselves * Aids to communication: A communication aid that helps a person to communicate more effectively with those around them * Legislation and guidance: A law or a group of laws The questions that I asked to Kerry were: 1) How do you promote Equality and Diversity in your role? 2) How do you maintain a service user’s dignity? 3) Are you support plans person centred? How often do you update these? 4) How do you know if the care is appropriate for the individual? 5) How do you ensure that documents are kept private? 6)
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