1 Understanding the implications of duty of care. 1.1: Define the term ”Duty of Care”. The definition of “duty of care” is a legal obligation and a requirement to work in a way that offers the best interest of a child‚ young person‚ or in my case vulnerable adult‚ in a way which will not be detrimental to the health‚ safety and wellbeing of that person. 1.2: Describe how the duty of care affects own work role. Carrying out my “duty of care” in accordance with my Role‚ Responsibility and Competence
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Introduction to Duty of care in Health‚ Social care or children’s and young people’s setting. • To keep individuals safety‚ welfare and interest within the environment • To keep individuals free from harm • To give a choice Working with patients with Dementia‚ duty of care is a key concept. Some times the patient can be confused and violent. Firstly I would introduce myself to the patient and I would ask them if I could take their bloods while I am asking the patient for their consent
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Support Children and Young People’s Health and Safety Outcome 1 1) When planning for young people you need to take several factors into account to make sure the environment and services are safe. The first factor is the individual needs‚ ages and abilities of the children and young people. This requires you to work out staff to children ratio’s to make sure there is legally enough staff for the number of children present and to ensure all children will have supervision. Ratio numbers will
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SHC 34 what does it mean to have a duty of care in my work role? To have a duty of care means you must aim to provide a high quality of care to the best of your ability‚ not act in a way that could case harm and always act in the best interest of the individual. In my work role I do this by keeping my knowledge up to date‚ such as attending weekly house meetings‚ attending young adult support meetings and attending training sessions provided by my employer. i make sure that i am in a position
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Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice. 1. Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role. To have a duty of care in my own work role is to ensure that the young people and other colleagues I work with are kept safe and free from harm. This is from the basic needs of the young people I support; to ensuring that they are well provided and looked after‚ to making sure they have their medication that they need at the right time and dose etc. For each young person we
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SHC 32: Engage in personal development in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s setting. 1.1 Describe the duties and responsibilities of own work role & 1.2 Explain expectations about own work role as expressed in relevant standards. As a qualified level 3 practitioner I am responsible to fulfil my duties and work role to the best of my ability. In other words I always like to try to give my position my full attention and give it 100% of my time and dedication. I believe
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SHC 34 Principles for implementing duty of care The fundamental obligation that anyone working in child care has is to keep children safe. The legal term duty of care refers to this obligation and has major implications for a setting and the operation of its services. “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 your employer. It is about avoiding abuse and injury to individuals‚ their
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SHC 31 1.1 Different reason why people communicate Personal life: • Express felling • Building and maintaining relationship • Exchange info • Offer support • Feedback Settings children and young people: • Building and maintaining relationship • Offer support (transitions) • Building confidentiality • Meet child or young person need • Gain knowledge • Giving instruction children dunning activities • Inform parents and staff • Talk to children to encourage positive behaviour
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ASSIGNMENT 204 Introduction to duty of care in health‚ social care or children ’s and young people ’s settings Task A Dear friend I have heard that you would like to work as a care worker and need to know more about “duty of care”. I wish to help and want to try clarify the term to you as much as I can. “Duty of care” is a phrase used to describe the obligation in your role as a care worker. You owe duty of care to your patients/service users‚ your colleagues‚ your employer‚ yourself and
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to this unit. The learner will: 1. Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice 2. Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care 3. Know how to respond to complaints Duty of care is the obligation to exercise a level of care towards an individual‚ as is reasonable in all the circumstances‚ to avoid injury to that individual or his property. The duty of care is therefore based on: the relationship of the different
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