ZUnconscious Bias

Date & Time:

Wednesday 8 September 2021 (10:00 - 13:00)

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Venue:

Virtual,

Detail:

Target Group

This course is targeted to adults and children health and social care staff in a wide range of setting which includes foster carers, family support workers, children home staff, and those in residential care, nursing care, home care and supported living settings, personal assistants and other frontline practitioners and volunteers who have regular contact with service users/patients and their families or carers in the London Borough of Sutton. 
 
Professional within Group Level 1 (awareness) 2 (regular contact with children, young people and/or parent/carer) or Level 3 (predominantly working with children) or above (including strategic leads), and NHS Inter-Collegiate Standards 2 and above for health professionals.  

Staff Groups A, B, C, D, and E as per the Bournemouth University National Mental Capacity Act Competency Framework.  Level 2 staff and above (ref: NHS Intercollegiate document 2018 - Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies for Healthcare Staff).     

Aims

This course aims to raise awareness and improve the understanding about the layers of
unconscious bias that may negatively affect those with protective characteristics under the
Equality Act.
It will provide an opportunity to critically reflect on our own bias, how such biases potentially affect
behaviour negatively and influence decision making in the professional social care context.
Values and ethics are the underpinning ethos of the session to consider how we each are part of,
and influencers in, the systems in which we live and work and how our own biases impact on the
professional role. The session will provide a safe, reflective space for discussion and shared
learning across disciplines and includes group exercises.

Learning Objectives 

After attending this course you will have:

  • An improved awareness about the theory behind implicit bias, and how such biases might
    potentially affect behaviour negatively towards those with protective characteristics under
    the Equality Act.
  • An increased knowledge and understanding about the importance of being open to
    challenge bias;
  • An improved ability to identify and critically reflect on your own as well as group biases,
    and be able to recognise how these impact on the accessibility and experience of
    individuals and their help-seeking behaviour;
  • An improved ability to develop strategies to recognise and address implicit/unconscious
    bias;
  • An increased knowledge and understanding about the influence of our biases on decision making.

Booking:

Booking has now closed for this event.

Further Information:

Trainer:

Karen Budd

Venue Details:

Virtual,