Care Planning

Winner of the Greater London Training Award

Course Profile: Care/Support Planning (1-2 days)

In addition to being a registration requirement in the residential care task, care and support planning remains the major professional tool in the provision of quality support services. This practical course focuses on the knowledge base and skills required to create a support plan, including the elements of assessment, goal setting, planning, implementation and evaluation. Various support plan formats and models of approaching support planning are reviewed

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course learners should have understood:
• How to approach Care/Support planning in a positive and structured way
• How to draft a care plan using the 5 stage model
• A range of ethical and good practice issues that relate to Care/Support Plans

Course Content:

• Understanding human need
• The structure and components of a basic model of planning
• The process of support planning
• A systematic approach to support planning
• A basic approach to making an assessment
• Facilitating goal setting
• A practical approach to planning
• Options for ongoing evaluation
• Reviews
• Maximising service user involvement
• Maximising team cooperation and input
• Harmonising the aspiration of the service user, the worker and the aims and objectives of the organisation
• Working with resistance
• Working in a Person Centred framework
• Community resources and networking
• Anti Discriminatory Practice
• Linking support planning with Key Working
• Issues that inhibit support plan implementation
• Separating staff needs
• Identifying workers need for ongoing development

Working methods:

• Group work • Role Play • Discussion
• Presentations • Demonstration • Case studies

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