Mental Capacity Act Awareness 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:

• Give participants an overall understanding of how the Mental Capacity Act applies to their day-to-day work settings.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the course participants will have:An increased awareness of why and how the Act was introduced;

• An increased awareness of the 5 principles of the Act’s Code of Practice;
• An improved understanding of what the Act means by “capacity”, and how to assess whether someone does or does not have capacity;
• An improved knowledge that the Act has introduced a new criminal offence of “ill-treatment or wilful neglect”;
• An improved knowledge how the Act protects health and social care workers from being prosecuted, and service users from being abused;
• An increased awareness on how to describe the purpose of an Advance Decision;
• An increased awareness of the purpose of a Lasting Power of Attorney;
• An increased understanding on the functions and powers of the Court of Protection and the Office of the Public Guardian;
• An improved understanding of the role of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA);
• An increased understanding of how the Mental Capacity Act 2005 links to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS);
• An improved understanding of the importance of record keeping to support all decisions;
• An increased knowledge of case law examples that have been heard in the Court of Protection;
• An ability to apply knowledge to everyday situations that they may face at work.