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In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to compare different uses of risk assessment in health and social care
- A person-centred approach to providing care and support is as important for people who receive services (and their family or significant others) as it is to staff
- Risk assessment and reduction enables practitioners to minimise the risks to individuals that they may not be capable of managing for themselves
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Self care’ 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. Click on the icon to the left of the below to read these guides.
- ‘Assessment of need and managing risk’
- ‘Personal health budgets guide: Choice, risk and decision making’
- ‘Independence, choice and risk: a guide to best practice in supported decision making’
- 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
- 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.
- 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. This ‘At a glance’ briefing highlights some of the emerging findings from research and practice regarding risk taking and safety in the implementation of self-directed support and personal budgets. Click to read more.
- ‘Positive risk-taking: Practical ways of working with risk’ by the Southern Health NHS Trust. Click to read this guide.
- Click to read ‘Confidentiality, consent and capacity’ on the Royal College of Nursing website.
- ‘Regulation 11: Need for consent’ on the CQC website. Click to read about the regulation.
- Think And Challenge
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