Professional boundaries 24/25

Target Group:

This course is targeted to adult social care staff and those in residential care, nursing care, home care and supported living settings, personal assistants and other frontline practitioners who have regular contact with service users/patients and their families or carers in the London Borough of Sutton. 

Staff Groups B, C, D, and E as per the Bournemouth University National Mental Capacity Act Competency Framework. 
Level 3 staff and above (ref: NHS Intercollegiate document 2018 - Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies For Healthcare Staff): registered health care staff who engage in assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of adults where there are safeguarding concerns (as appropriate to role). 

Aims:

The aim of this course is to:

• Help participants understand the boundaries between good and poor practice in health and social care work. The exact content will be fully agreed in advance and will be linked to appropriate company policies.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the course participants will have:

• An increased awareness of how to distinguish between being friendly towards a service user and being a friend;
• An improved knowledge of the professional boundaries policy through practical scenarios;
• An ability to identify risks of boundary violation and explain the reasons why;
• An ability to identify situations where offering advice is appropriate, and the ways in which to do this;
• An increased understanding of the relevance of legislation, for example the Mental Capacity Act, to their own work situations;
• An increased understanding of the link between company policies and professional boundaries;
• An improved knowledge of how to apply professional boundaries practice in an assertive way;