Specific responsibilities of people who work in health and social care settings (Pearson's BTEC)

Define Equality

•Equality-everyone is given the same resources, resources may be distributed evenly but it leads to some unfair outcomes

Define Equity

•Equity-each person has the resources that they need which leads to fairer outcomes

What is the aim of Anti-discriminatory practices?

Anti-discriminatory practice aims to ensure that the needs of service users are met, regardless of any protected characteristics and that any prejudice by staff or other service users are appropriately challenged.

What is Discrimination?

•Discrimination is where someone is

•Treated unfairly because of who they are

•Treated unequally because of who they are

•Experience prejudice that has been put into practice

Types of Discrimination

• Direct discrimination

• Indirect discrimination

• Discrimination by Association

• Harassment

• Victimisation

• Discrimination by Perception

What are protected Characteristics?

What are the Protected Characteristics?

• Age

• Disibility

• Gender

• Race

• Religious belief/political opinion

• Sexual orientation

• Pregnancy/maternity

• Gender reassignment

• Marriage and civil partnership

What is Direct discrimination?

•Treating someone worse, differently or less favourably because of their characteristic.

•Examples include race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, etc

What is Discrimination by Perception?

•Being discriminated because of a perception.

•Relates to stereotypes as well

•This is usually direct discrimination

•An example of direct discrimination by perception

What is Indirect discrimination?

•When an organisation’s policies, practices or rules have a detrimental effect on a specific group of individuals but no others.

What is Discrimination by Association

•Also known as Associative Discrimination

•When a person is treated unfairly because of someone else’s protected characteristic. This could be a friend, spouse, partner, parent or anyone with whom they associate.

What is Victimisation?

What is Harassment?

What are 3 examples of Anti-Discriminatory Practice?

•Have policies such as Anti- Bullying in Schools/Colleges or Patient Centre Care in health settings

•Longer appointments for people with learning disabilities

•Home visits from GPs and Nurses to the elderly and housebound people

•Disabled access to buildings, toilet facilities adapted

•Providing translators and interpreters to those unable to communicate in English

•Translating written information into Braille or other written language

•Offer quiet spaces for those with sensory needs

•Sign language or non-verbal communication for deaf people

•Dietary requirements met and religious and cultural needs met

What Legislation covers Northern Ireland?

•Disability Discrimination Act 1995

•The Human Rights Act 1998

•Policies such as Anti-Bullying, Harassment, Equality and Diversity, etc

What is Moral Responsibility?

What is Empowerment?

• supporting people to take control of their lives and futures by taking a full part in discussions and decisions about their care and
  treatment”.

What is the Importance of Empowerment?

It can be a tendency for the experts to take over which can cause service users to become over-dependent on their care workers and lose confidence. It ensures dependence isn’t enforced but instead support is provided.

Where can Empowerment go wrong?

• when empowerment becomes dependency it can lead to the atrophy of a persons skills and person

What needs to be thought about when promoting Empowerment

Empowering service users means that they are more likely to be treated as individuals. Their needs and preferences will be known and respectfully considered, promoting independence and boosting their self-esteem.

What is the importance of promoting individualised care?

• In most situations, practitioners have to gain their client’s consent before carrying out a care procedure, a treatment or making arrangements for a client’s care (Mental Capacity Act (NI) 2016)

• If service users are empowered, they will be fully involved in discussion about and planning of their care, and they will fully understand the options open to them so they can make an informed choice.

What is positive risk taking?

• Performing tasks that may usually be difficult or intimidating for service user,

• examples: using the stairs by themselves, going outside unsupervised, set a table for themself.

What is the importance of positive risk taking?

• It encourages confident in the service user

• It allows independence (within reason)

• It prevents feeling of hopelessness

Why is it important to support beliefs, cultures, preferences?

• To encourage diversity.

• To prevent discrimination amongst service users and staff

What should be done if a service user speak little to no English?

• Provide a translator or interpreter

• Find alternatives to speech (images)

Why may careers need to provide a wide range of foods for people with different religious requirements?

• To respect their culture and make them feel comfortable

• To ensure you are showing support of their religious beliefs and make them feel welcome and accommodated.

What religious observances may need to be considered?

Name some examples of H&SC Regulators.

General Medical Council

Northern Ireland Social Care Council

Royal college of Nursing

Nursing & Midwifery Council

HCPC registered

What is a regulated profession?

A job role that someone in the UK is doing and is required by LAW, to have a qualification or training in.

The qualifications and training MUST meet a set of national standards for the UK.

Once qualified/trained the professional’s details MUST be found on a national register (that is relevant to that occupation)

What is Regulation?

A regulation is the law which sets the standards of professional conduct required of people who work in health care social care settings.

Are regulations required?

Regulation is mandatory. This means that they MUST be followed by LAW.

How do regulations vary?

Regulations vary depending on profession but each monitors

Level & content of initial training

Ongoing professional development (CPD)

Standards of professional practice

Standards of professional conduct

Why do we regulate professions?

Public safety

Safeguarding

Monitoring the quality of the work being delivered in health and social care organisations

Accountability

Ensures properly qualified and trained staff who can be tracked and traced.

How is regulation is carried out?

Codes of conduct for each profession

Following procedures for raising concerns (whistleblowing)

Making sure revalidation procedures are followed e.g. nurses must produce a portfolio of evidence that show continued learning, fitness to practice, enhanced DBS every five years.

Via inspection by RQIA for relevent professions.

How often is safe-gaurding training?

approx. every 3 years

What is Access NI

All staff must have enhanced Access NI certificates specific to the role and organisation they work for.

What legal duty do employers have?

Employers have a legal duty to report any concern about fitness to practice and breach of safe-guarding law to the relevant regulatory body

What details are employers required to factcheck

Employers have a legal duty to check qualifications and background information on overseas staff.

What are the procedures of Whistleblowing?

Raising concerns at work, often known as whistleblowing, is the act of reporting a concern about a risk, wrongdoing or illegality at work, in the public interest.

• Employers have their policies and procedures

• NMC, NISCC, GMC and HCPC have their own policies and procedures

• RQIA take whistleblowing seriously, it can result in unannounced inspections if needed.