Duty of Care Health and Social Care

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Course Overview

CPD Approved

Duty of care health and social care is the requirement that all health and social care professionals, and organizations providing health and care services, must put the interests of service users first.
Working in the health and social care sector involves working with lots of different people with a
variety of needs, dependencies, backgrounds and wishes. As a care worker, you have a duty of care
towards all the people you are involved with, during your working hours. This means you have to
employ a reasonable level of care, to ensure they are kept safe from harm, abuse and injury.
This course will give you an introduction to the concept of duty of care, cover how duty of care
affects your work, what to do if you come across a duty of care dilemma and where to go for support
or advice along with some practical examples of duty of care situations.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the main counteraccusations of duty of care in the plant.
• Identify some common duty of care dilemmas that directors face.
• Apply a person- centered approach when managing brigades and individualities.
• Resolve plant dilemmas and deal with complains instantly and professionally.

Duration: 50 minutes (Note: This is based on the amount of video content shown and is rounded off.
It does not account in any way for loading time or thinking time on the questions).