Caring for the elderly – Introduction to Common Induction Standards

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  • This course is suitable for those wishing to work in Elderly Care in a home setting
  • Days 1 Day attendance plus completion of course work (approximately 6 hours)
  • Hours Session 0900 to 1700

£100 per person, per session

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Description

  • This course is suitable for those wishing to work in Elderly Care in a home setting
  • Days 1 Day attendance plus completion of course work (approximately 6 hours)
  • Hours Session 0900 to 1700

Course Contents

1. Role of the health and social care worker

  • Responsibilities and limits of your relationship with an individual
  • Working in ways that are agreed with your employer
  • Working in partnership with others
  • Be able to handle information in agreed ways

2. Personal development

  • Competence in your own work role within the sector
  • Reflective practice
  • Evaluating your own performance
  • Producing a personal development plan
  • Using learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development

3. Communicate effectively

  • Importance of effective communication in the work setting
  • Meeting the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
  • Overcoming difficulties in promoting communication
  • Understanding principles and practices relating to confidentiality.

4. Equality and inclusion

  • The value and the importance of equality and inclusion
  • Providing inclusive support
  • Access information, advice and support about equality and inclusion.

5. Principles for implementing duty of care

  • Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
  • Know how to address dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care
  • Know how to recognise and handle comments and complaints
  • Know how to recognise and handle adverse events, incidents, errors and ‘near misses’

6. Principles of safeguarding in health and social care

  • Recognising signs of harm and abuse
  • Ways to reduce likelihood of abuse
  • Responding to suspected or disclosed abuse
  • National and local context of protection from harm and abuse.

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