Table of Contents

1. Tutorial Video
2. Reading Materials
• ‘Manager induction standards’ by Skills for Care
• ‘The leadership qualities framework: For adult social care’ by Skills for Care
• ‘Developing decision making skills’ by the CMI
• ‘Top 5 decision making models’ on the Free Management e-Books website
• ‘Problems in decision-making’ on the Very Well Mind website
• ‘Adult social care: Best practice guidance in the application of defensible decision making’ by Telford and Wrexham Council
• ‘Making decisions: A guide for people who work in health and social care’ by the Office of the Public Guardian
• ‘Shared decision making’ on the NICE website
• ‘Improving decision-making in the care of older people’ by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
3. Presentation
4. Good Practice Example
5. Interactive Quiz
6. Evidence Opportunities
• NCFE CACHEIf you are studying the 'NCFE CACHE Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care' qualification, please click to open this 'Evidence opportunities' sheet.
• PearsonIf you are studying the 'Pearson BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care (England)' qualification, please click to open this 'Evidence opportunities' sheet.
• HighfieldIf you are studying the 'Highfield Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF)' qualification, please click to open this 'Evidence opportunities' sheet.
• TQUKIf you are studying the 'TQUK Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care' qualification, please click to open this 'Evidence opportunities' sheet.
• iCQ If you are studying the 'iCQ Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care' qualification, please click to open this 'Evidence opportunities' sheet.
7. Extended Learning
• ‘How to strengthen decision-making skills for managers’ on the Indeed website. Click to read more.
• Click to read ‘Decision making’ on the Skills You Need website.
• ‘Important decision-making skills that employers value’ on The Balance: Careers website. Click to read this guide.
• Click to read ‘Reasons why you make bad decisions’ by Very Well Mind.
• Click to read ‘Adult safeguarding concerns: Decision making’ by Gloucestershire County Council.
• ‘The ethics of sustainable health and social care: Towards a framework for decision-making’ by the SCIE. Click to read about making sustainable decisions.
• Click to watch ‘Making ‘best interests’ decisions’ produced by the SCIE. A short video drama in a residential school depicting scenes between a young man with severe learning disabilities, and both his key worker and social worker. The video introduces the principles of the Mental Capacity Act and emphasises the importance of consultation in best interests' decision-making.
8. Think And Challenge