Safeguarding Adults

Strategy meetings are an essential part of the safeguarding adult at risk process. Crucial decisions are made at strategy meetings around whether a Section 42 enquiry needs to take place and, if so, what this will look like. Therefore, it is essential practitioners` are clear around what their roles and responsibilities are, if they have to attend such a meeting

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• Examine your role in the strategy meeting
• Discuss relevant Government legislation
• Outline your role in a Section 42 enquiry
• Examine issues regarding the involvement of the alleged victim and source of harm in a Section
  42 enquiry
• Demonstrate an ability to complete a safeguarding adult at risk report
• Identify your role in the decision making process at Outcome Meetings

Learners should have previously attended safeguarding adults at risk awareness training.

Having the role of Designated Safeguarding Officer is a vital one, regardless of the environment/organisation you work in. Designated Safeguarding Officers need to be familiar with their roles and responsibilities as well as developing the competence and confidence to carry out this role. This course will support you to do this.

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• Describe the roles and responsibilities of the DSO
• Consider their own value base and how these may impact on professional practice
• List key legislation and guidance relevant to the role
• Explain how their organisation works in order to support potential adults at risk
• Take appropriate decisions about actions to take if staff are involved in an incident
• Explain what is likely to happen following a referral to Adult Social Care
• Consider issues around recording and sharing of information

 

Learners should have previously attended safeguarding adults at risk awareness training.

Social Care work can be a challenge. Depleted resources and yet more demands may mean practitioners` become tired, find themselves under pressure and then stressed. Stress can be carried but only for a short time before it begins to impact negatively on our health and well-being. How can we develop resilience?. This one day course will explore these issues and support individuals being able to recognise and manage unhealthy levels of stress.

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• Identify the importance of maintaining their own health and wellbeing
• Describe the terms `emotional health’ and `emotional resilience’
• Recognise stress, its causes, the signs and indicators
• Identify practical insights, tools and techniques to manage stress and recognise our own emotional state in the workplace
• Manage and promote their own wellbeing and emotional resilience

 

Learners do not need to have previously attended safeguarding adults at risk awareness training.

Working with potential adults at risk can be challenging. What communication skills may support this process and improve the records you keep, which can be used as evidence in court? This one day course considers some essential aspects of different kinds of communication and recording.

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• • Outline the importance of communication
  • Give examples of effective barriers to communication and how to overcome them
  • Explain how communication affects work relationships
  • Consider the importance of listening, when communicating
  • Describe how record making can be improved
  • Identify principles and practices regarding confidentiality

Learners should have previously attended safeguarding adult at risk awareness training.

Hospitals and care homes have to be acutely aware of their responsibility if service users are subject to a DoL. The correct procedures must be followed, appropriate paperwork in place and systems open to scrutiny.  This course helps practitioners to consider responsibilities placed on Managing Authorities.

By the end of the session, learners should be able to:

• • • Explain the difference between restraint, restriction and DoL
    • Identify a possible DoL
    • Appreciate the process to follow if a service user is deprived of their liberty
    • Identify the correct Supervisory Body
    • Describe the purpose of a DoL authorisation
    • Apply this learning to different scenarios

 

Learners do need to have attended prior safeguarding adult at risk awareness and MCA training

Working with challenging, challenged and unpredictable adults at risk can present practitioners` with potential issues. The most positive outcome is that any interaction does not result in physical intervention. This one day course will support practitioners` in managing challenging behaviours in the workplace.

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• • • Define what constitutes physical and non-physical violence
    • Discuss the law and its implications when dealing with challenging behaviours
    • Identify the warning signs and the means by which violence or aggression can be anticipated
    • Demonstrate the communication skills used in de-escalation
    • Demonstrate break away techniques that can be used in the workplace

 

Learners should have previously attended prior safeguarding adult at risk awareness and MCA training.

Mental capacity is a core consideration when working with potential adults at risk. Best interest decisions can be made, on behalf of an individual, but these have to be justified to ensure there are no safeguarding issues. Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards allow individuals to be held under more rigid circumstances to ensure both theirs and others, safety. This one day course will explore both MCA and DoLS, allowing practitioners` to explore their legal responsibilities, in respect of both.

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• • • Explain the difference between MCA and DoLS
    • Identify a possible mental capacity concern
    • Appreciate the process to follow if a service user is deprived of their liberty
    • Consider the implications for accountability, care planning, risk assessment and recording

Learners should have previously attended safeguarding adults awareness training

Professional boundaries are a vital part of working with potential adults at risk.  A shared understanding of boundaries is essential in order that appropriate support and intervention can be given, resulting in positive outcomes for service users.  Blurred or inappropriate boundaries can result in confusion, a lack of clarity, avoidance and unacceptable risk to adults.  This course seeks to explore some of the issues that are central to this important aspect of safeguarding adults at risk.

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• • • • Define theirs and others roles and responsibilities
      • Explain what personal/professional boundaries are
      • Outline the characteristics of a competent worker
      • Consider what boundary crossings/signs may involve
      • Consider case study examples and identify potential issues
      • Describe models supporting the development of assertiveness, in order to reduce potential boundary issues

                                  

Learners do not need to have attended prior safeguarding adults at risk awareness training

Along with the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), an awareness of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), is vital if practitioners` are to ensure adults at risk are cared for and protected properly. Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards can happen if restraints and restrictions happen that are over and above what is acceptable in law. How might we recognise a DoL and how can we ensure our practice is lawful, compliant and compassionate? This course will work through some of these issues.

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• • • • Explain the difference between a restraint, restriction and DoL
      • Identify a possible DoL
      • Appreciate the process to follow if a service user is deprived of their liberty
      • Consider the implications for care planning, risk assessment and recording

 

Learners should have previously attended safeguarding adults at risk awareness training.

Ensuring adults risk are safeguarded, is a vital role for anyone coming into contact with this group as part of their work. Recognising abuse and passing this to the appropriate person within your organisation supports an adult at risk to receive the protection they need and ensures you remain compliant. This course explores some of these key themes.

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• • • • Define what abuse is
      • Define types of abuse
      • Recognise potential indicators of abuse
      • Explain what needs to be done if abuse is disclosed or suspected
      • Discuss their own and others role within safeguarding adults policies and procedures

 

Learners do not need to have previously attended safeguarding adults awareness training. This course will count as such.

Mental Capacity is a fundamental consideration for those charged with safeguarding adults at risk. Capacity is key to being able to make a particular decision at the time it needs to be made, but what happens if the adult in question is unable to do this? This course explores and explains some of these issues..

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• • • • Define and apply the principles of the MCA
      • List different ways to support decision making
      • Assess and record capacity within your job role
      • Describe how to act in a person’s best interests
      • Explain the meaning of restrictions and Deprivation of Liberty (DoL)

 

Learners should have previously attended safeguarding adults awareness training.

This one day course is designed for those professionals who may work, or come into contact with,  both children and potential adults at risk.  The day is split into 2 half days, one focussing on safeguarding children, the other, safeguarding adults..

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• • • • Outline the legal context of safeguarding children/adults
      • Identify the official categories of child/adult abuse
      • Describe possible signs and indicators of child/adult abuse
      • Consider our attitudes and values in relation to possible child/adult abuse
      • Identify if a situation may be abusive
      • Consider what happens after a referral is made to Children`s/Adult Social Care

 

Learners do not need to have attended prior safeguarding children awareness training.  This training will fulfil that requirement.

Strategy meetings are an essential part of the safeguarding adults at risk process.  Crucial decisions are made at strategy meetings around whether an investigation needs to take place and what this will look like.  Therefore, it is essential practitioners are clear around what their roles and responsibilities are if they have to attend such a meeting.

By the end of the session, learners should be able to:

• • • • Examine your role in the strategy meeting
      • Discuss relevant Government legislation, policies and procedures
      • Outline your role in a safeguarding investigation
      • Examine issues regarding the involvement of the alleged victim and perpetrator in an investigation
      • Demonstrate an ability to complete a safeguarding adults report
      • Identify your role in the decision making process at Case Conference

 

Learners do need to have attended prior safeguarding adults at risk awareness training

Directly supervising safeguarding practitioners` is an essential role and one that many supervisors’ feel ill-equipped for. This course explores many issues that will affect the nature and quality of the supervisory relationship, potentially affecting safeguarding adults at risk outcomes.

Please contact us to discuss this course further. Due to the nature of the course, the minimum length would be 2 days.

Learners should have previously attended safeguarding adults at risk training to Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO) level.

We appreciate some organisations’, agencies and groups will wish to up skill and develop staff, allowing future safeguarding adults at risk training to take place in-house. This course is extremely flexible and can be delivered EITHER in-house, as an open course OR by materials being developed for a specific organisation to deliver themselves. You choose, according to what best suits your requirements.

Course content will include:

• • • • Learning styles – what they are and how to identify them
      • Managing groups and their dynamics
      • Adult learning theory
      • Co-training and how to prepare for it
      • Learner preparation and delivery of a mini training session (micro teach)

 

Learners should have attended prior safeguarding adults at risk training, to Designated Safeguarding Officer Level. Please contact us to discuss your precise requirements.