Safeguarding Adults at Risk Awareness 24/25
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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:
- Give participants an overall understanding and appreciation of what safeguarding adults is all about, and what responsibilities each participant has in safeguarding their service users.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course participants will have:
- An improved knowledge of the meaning of the term “adult at risk” (formerly a “vulnerable adult”);
- An increased understanding of the importance of the Care Act Statutory Guidance for Safeguarding Adults;
- An improved knowledge of adults at risk by discussing examples of the main types of abuse;
- An improved knowledge of how to find the policies and procedures that are relevant to their own workplaces in relation to Safeguarding;
- An increased awareness about the various alternative terms that are sometimes used for safeguarding (e.g. POVA, Adult Protection etc.) and be able to explain these to practice;
- An improved knowledge about common signs and symptoms which indicate that abuse might be occurring and how to respond to these within a multi-agency context;
- An increased understanding about the importance of actions in their own workplaces to reduce the risk of abuse occurring;
- An increased understanding of the difference between confidentiality, secrecy, and collusion;
- An increased understanding about the importance of recording: what, when and how;
- An increased awareness of how to respond if an adult at risk makes a disclosure of abuse, or if there is any suspicion that a vulnerable adult may be being abused;
- An increased understanding about the importance of following procedures, and when to call the emergency services;
- An improved understanding about how to support the alleged victim, as well as how to deal with the alleged abuser.