Health and Wellbeing in Adult Care, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Rights Leading Person-centred Practice (Unit 17-18-and-16) - Brief:

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Section One:

Culture: May include but not be limited to involving an individual in identifying their medical/social history, preferences, wishes, social, religious, and spiritual needs to support and enhance their level of independence. This will include them in the design of their care requirements, meeting individual needs.

Factors: Factors affecting health and wellbeing will differ for different people. Factors can include environmental, physical, social, and psychological.

Training: The importance of training to support the development of the team, enabling them to monitor the individual’s health and wellbeing from induction, through mentoring, supervision, appraisals, and talent management.

The Care Act 2014 concept of wellbeing is comprehensive and relates to the following areas: personal dignity, protection from abuse and neglect, physical and mental health and wellbeing, control by the individual over everyday life care and support provision, participation in work, training, or recreation.

Section Two:

Legislation and codes of practice:

• Codes of practice of the sector
• Policies of the workplace setting
• Human Rights Act 1998
• European Convention on Human Rights
• Race Relations (Amendments) Act 2000
• Equality Act 2010
• Care Act 2014
• Discrimination Act 2018

Closed cultures: A closed culture is a poor culture in a health or care service that increases the risk of harm, including abuse and human rights breaches.

Section Three:

Person-centred practice: An approach that sees the individual accessing social care services as an equal partner in their care and support, who is at the centre of all decisions relevant to them.

Inclusive approaches in outcomes-based practice: Policies and training; evaluation and review of policies, role modeling, effective feedback, complaints procedure, accessible processes, service user feedback.

Co-production: An equal relationship between individuals accessing a service and the people responsible for the service. They work together to decide the best way to design and deliver services and implement those decisions together.

Key aims of positive risk-taking: Empowering people, working in partnership with adults and/or carers, developing trusting working relationships.

Effectiveness of policies and procedures: Policy development and review, evidence-based practice, sensible risk assessment aimed at enablement, proportionate approaches: ‘defensible’ decisions based on clear reasoning, regular mandatory training program.

KNOWLEDGE TASKS

Section One:

• Evaluate the range of factors that may influence an individual’s health and wellbeing.
• Analyse own role, and the role of others, in monitoring, assessing, and promoting individuals’ wellbeing.
• Describe own role in providing sufficient training, support, and supervision to enable others to monitor the individual’s health and wellbeing.
• Analyse how to ensure lines of accountability and responsibility are understood for delegated healthcare tasks.

Section Two:

• Summarise the legislation underpinning equality, diversity, inclusion, and human rights.
• Analyse the societal and historical influences underpinning equality, diversity, inclusion, and human rights.
• Analyse the impact of legal, societal, and historical influencers on own role in promoting a culture that values equality, diversity, inclusion, and human rights.
• Evaluate the impact of discriminatory or closed cultures on individuals and others.
• Analyse how own and others’ values, beliefs, and experiences can impact practices and behaviours relating to equality, diversity, inclusion, and human rights.
• Evaluate own and others’ ability to positively respond to people’s differences to achieve better outcomes.
• Evaluate how the service promotes, values, and celebrates equality, diversity, inclusion, and human rights.

Section Three:

• Evaluate the features, principles, drivers, and values of strength-based approaches, person-centred practice, active participation, and outcomes-based practice.
• Analyse the relationship between strength-based approaches and person-centred practice on outcomes-based practices, and the individuals’ health and wellbeing, independence, choice, and control.
• Analyse the role of partnerships, collaboration, and co-production with individuals and others in enabling individuals to achieve their desired outcomes.
• Evaluate own service’s role in enabling individuals to build and maintain relationships and connections to their community.
• Explain how integrated service provision that crosses traditional boundaries achieves better outcomes for individuals.
• Evaluate the importance of proactive approaches in supporting individuals to build and maintain relationships.
• Analyse how open, proactive cultures that support individuals’ rights to have the relationships they choose can reduce or minimise risks.
• Explain the range and types of support an individual may need to maintain and build relationships, and when external services may be required.
• Analyse how positive risk-taking can contribute to the achievement of positive outcomes for individuals.
• Evaluate the impact of a risk-averse culture on person-centred practice and the wellbeing of individuals.
• Evaluate the considerations which need to be applied in the management of positive risk-taking.
• Analyse how supporting others to balance risks and rights promotes person-centred practices.
• Evaluate own and others` practice in leading a balanced approach to risk-taking.