Unit 411 - PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Working as a support worker for young adults‚ among other responsibilities‚ solely requires maintenance of a safe environment for the young adults to be cared for‚ while promoting wellbeing. Maintaining a safe environment involves a series of inter-twined activities which include monitoring and reporting the activities of the individuals in care on a day-to-day base. Considering that the activities are carried out by multiple individuals in
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Unit 048 Outcome 1 1‚ It is vital that children are protected at all times. The nursery and local authorities are provided with legislations that they must abide by to ensure complete protection to all children and young people in their area. The Children Act (1989) and (2004) is set out to ensure that people who work with children have a duty to keep them safe and free from abuse. The legislation is reviewed an changed continually to ensure that there are no possibilities of child suffering
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individual patients/clients. Identify opportunities for health promotion and make best use of these either directly or through referral to other professionals or agencies. Contribute to the implementation of a programme of health care and health promotion that has been designed by a registered practitioner. Recently in the care home I reside in‚ an elderly patient became concerned about her weight gain. As a new patient to the care home she had undergone relevant tests and her weight and
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demonstrate: the implications of duty of care. understanding the support available for addressing dilemmas that may arise. the knowledge to respond to complaints. The implications of duty of care. Duty of care Health and social care organisations have what is called a duty of care towards the people they look after. That 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
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Contribute to Children and Young People ’s Health and Safety. 1.1 Outline the health and safety policies and procedures of the work setting; Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 The Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) is an essential piece of legislation to have within a work setting. Employers are legally obliged to follow all regulations of the HSWA in order consistently maintain a safe setting‚ and ensure all employees and service users are protected. The HSWA states that employees must
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CU1530 Promote Communication in Health‚ Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s setting. Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting. 1.1 Identify the different reasons people communicate. People communicate to: * Share information such as ideas and thoughts * Build and maintain relationships * Express one another’s needs and feeling * Give and receive information 1 We communicate to understand and to be understood. These are important
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they must conduct themselves in a healthy and appropriate manner applying good hygiene in everything they do‚ whether it be ensuring they wear personal protective equipment (PPE)‚ good food hygiene‚ cleaning up after themselves or supporting an individual take medication. 1.2 Employers also have a responsibility to their staff‚ clients and other people who come in to contact with their services. employers need to ensure that staff are trained in how to prevent and control infection‚ have the equipment
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improves business efficiency. Communication is about passing messages between people or organisations. Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place to another. A skill is the ability to be able to do something well‚ it is something that an individual can learn and improve on. An example of a skill would be being able to ride a bike or lift an elderly person properly within a care home setting. A quality is something that an individual has; it is part of an individual’s
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Unit 516 Understand Safeguarding of children and young people (for those working in the adult sector) P5 The UK Government has defined the term ‘safeguarding children’ as: ‘The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect‚ preventing impairment of their health and development‚ and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.’ To be able to safeguard
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P2 – Task 3 Health and Social care settings - Describe the following settings. Residential Care Residential care home is a place where a person leaves their home to be cared for in a safe environment. People who use this kind of care may not be able to live on their own or either it might be their own decision to leave their home to be cared for in a health and social care setting. Sometimes with that kind of decision come up their own family members‚ who decide for them to be cared not
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