Safeguarding Adults – Level 3
This CSTF-aligned course highlights relevant competencies required where the staff engage in assessing, planning, and evaluating the needs of adults where there are safeguarding concerns. This includes appropriate supervision of staff involved in actual or potential safeguarding issues, information gathering and making informed decisions. This is viewed within the context of the Care Act 2014 and related legislation and how each aspect fits within the safeguarding adult’s enquiry process.
Registered healthcare staff who engage in assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of adults where there are safeguarding concerns (as appropriate to role).
This course is made up of the following modules:
- Identifying Safeguarding Concerns
- Person-Centred Approach
- Documenting Concerns and Managing Risks
- Safeguarding Adults Referrals and Reviews
- Learning From Experience
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify possible signs of sexual, physical, or emotional abuse or neglect using a person-centred approach.
- Undertake, where appropriate, a risk and/or harm assessment.
- Apply the lessons learnt from audit and serious case reviews/case management reviews/significant case reviews to improve practice.
- Deliver and receive supervision within effective models of supervision and/or peer review and be able to recognise the potential personal impact of adult safeguarding on professionals.
- Document concerns in a manner that is appropriate for adult safeguarding protection and legal processes.
- Contribute to inter-agency assessments by gathering and sharing information.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the issues surrounding suspicion of adult abuse, harm and neglect and how to effectively manage uncertainty and risk.
- Contribute to / formulate and communicate effective care plans.
- Communicate effectively with adults at risk; in particular those with mental capacity issues, learning disability or communication needs.
This course is aligned with Subject 8: Safeguarding Adults, Level 3 of the Core Skills Training Framework.
Subject 8: Safeguarding Adults, Level 3
The learner will:
- be able to identify possible signs of sexual, physical, or emotional abuse or neglect using a person-centred approach
- be able to identify adults experiencing abuse, harm or neglect who have caring responsibilities, for other adults or children and make appropriate referrals
- be able to demonstrate a clear understanding, as appropriate to role, of forensic procedures in adult safeguarding and knowing how to relate these to practice in order to meet clinical and legal requirements as required
- where undertaking forensic examinations as part of their role, be able to demonstrate an ability to undertake forensic procedures and know how to present the findings and evidence to legal requirements
- be able to undertake, where appropriate, a risk and/or harm assessment
- know how to communicate effectively with adults at risk in particular those with mental capacity issues, learning disability or communication needs
- know how to contribute to, and make considered judgements about how to act to safeguard an adult at risk
- know how to contribute to / formulate and communicate effective care plans for adults who have been or may be subjected to abuse, harm or neglect
- demonstrate an understanding of the issues surrounding suspicion of adult abuse, harm and neglect and to know how to effectively manage uncertainty and risk
- know how to appropriately contribute to inter-agency assessments by gathering and sharing information
- be able to document concerns in a manner that is appropriate for adult safeguarding protection and legal processes
- know how to undertake documented reviews of your own (and/or team) adult safeguarding, as appropriate to role. This can be undertaken in various ways, such as through audit, case discussion, peer review, and supervision and as a component of refresher training
- know how to deliver and receive supervision within effective models of supervision and/or peer review, and be able to recognise the potential personal impact of adult safeguarding on professionals
- know how to apply the lessons learnt from audit and serious case reviews/case management reviews/significant case reviews to improve practice
- know how to advise others on appropriate information sharing
- know how to appropriately contribute to serious case reviews/case management reviews/significant case reviews, and domestic homicide review processes
- know how to obtain support and help in situations where there are safeguarding problems requiring further expertise and experience
- know how to participate in and chair multidisciplinary meetings as required
- demonstrate the skills required to participate in a safeguarding enquiry.
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