This unit is part of the Manager Induction Standards and has the following learning outcomes and assessment criteria:
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- 8.1. Promoting safeguarding and protection
- 8.1.1. Define your role in providing information to others, including people you support, carers, relatives, staff and other colleagues on: ■ indicators of abuse ■ measures that can be taken to avoid abuse taking place ■ steps that need to be taken in the case of suspected or alleged abuse
- 8.1.2. Describe the importance of the balance between respecting confidentiality and ensuring protection and well-being
- 8.1.3. Identify how to promote service provision that supports people to assess risks and make informed choices
- 8.2. Responding to suspected or alleged abuse of children and young people whilst working with adults
- 8.2.1. Explain why everyone has a responsibility to act on concerns about the abuse of a child or young person
- 8.2.2. Explain the actions to take if: ■ there are concerns that a child or young person is being abused ■ a child or young person alleges that they are being abused 8.3. Health and safety
- 8.3.1. Explain your role in policies and procedures relating to health and safety in the organisation
- 8.3.2. Explain how you might support others to comply with health and safety policies and procedures
- 8.3.3. Explain how you might develop systems to evaluate health and safety policies, procedures and practices
- 8.4. Use of restrictive practices
- 8.4.1. Explain how to meet an individual’s needs with dignity and respect in a way that minimises the risk of harm to the person being supported and the person implementing the intervention
- 8.4.2. Explain definitions of restraint and when it should be used, including the issues of ‘hidden restraint’
- 8.4.3. Identify potential situations where restraint might be used acknowledging that it should only be used only in proportion to the risk of harm and wherever possible should be a last resort
- 8.5. Performance management of the service
- 8.5.1. Identify the regulatory requirements, codes of practice and relevant guidance for managing concerns and complaints including the role of the Local Government Ombudsman
- 8.5.2. Describe how to support individuals who might be reluctant to raise concerns and make complaints
- 8.5.3. Explain the system used within your organisation to ensure concerns and complaints are addressed effectively
- 8.5.4. Explain your role in supporting workers for whom you have responsibility to deal with concerns and complaints
- 8.6. Positive risk taking in the context of personcentred and outcomebased practice
- 8.6.1. Define the values, principles and standards that need to be considered in developing a model risk-taking policy
- 8.6.2. Explain how to support others to balance individual’s rights and choices with delivering duty of care
- 8.6.3. Explain how to create and lead a culture that manages risk effectively rather than becoming risk averse
- 8.6.4. Identify how to evaluate own practice in promoting a balanced approach to risk management
- 8.6.5. Explain how the effectiveness of policies and procedures for positive risk taking can be evaluated formally rather than anecdotally
- 8.7. Mental capacity
- 8.7.1. Explain what support you may need to assess mental capacity and ability to give consent
- 8.7.2. Explain the key factors of the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards that would need to be addressed in your organisation
- 8.7.3. Explain the role of advocacy under the Mental Capacity Act
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