Risk-taking and risk management in adult care
In this lesson, you will learn:
- That a key factor in protecting others from accidents and injury is understanding what the risks might be
- That balancing health and safety needs with a client’s rights can be a delicate exercise
- That most accidents are avoidable if only people take care and have more awareness
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Learning to live with risk: An introduction for service providers – full edition with notes on further reading’ on the Skills for Care website
- ‘Health and social care workers: Mental Capacity Act decisions’ on the UK Government website
- ‘Managing risk positively: A guide for staff in health and social care’ by NHS Isle of Wight
- ‘Positive risk and shared decision-making’ by Social Care Wales
- ‘Risk assessment’ on the SCIE website
- ‘Sensible risk assessment in care settings’ on the Health and Safety Executive webpage
- ‘The right to take risks: service users' views of risk in adult social care’ by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- ‘Adults at risk, confidentiality and disclosure of information’ on the British Medical Association (BMA) website
- The Department of Health has published a number of guides for health and social care practitioners on supporting the individual’s right to make choices.
- ‘Assessment of need and managing risk’ by the Department of Health
- ‘Personal health budgets guide: Choice, risk and decision making’ by the Department of Health
- ‘Independence, choice and risk: a guide to best practice in supported decision making’ by the Department of Health
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Keeping risk person-centred’ by Skills for Care.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Understanding the Mental Capacity Act’.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Tips on managing risk in social work’ on the Community Care website.
- Click to read ‘COVID-19: adult social care risk reduction framework’ by the Department of Health and Social Care.
- ‘Risk assessment in adult social care’ on the Croner-I website.
- ‘Enabling risk, ensuring safety: Self-directed support and personal budgets’ by the SCIE.
- ‘Positive risk-taking: Practical ways of working with risk’ by the Southern Health NHS Trust.
- Click to read ‘Adults at risk, confidentiality and disclosure of information’ on the BMA website.
- ‘Regulation 11: Need for consent’ on the CQC website.
- Think And Challenge
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