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Course profile: Working Alone & Working with Risk

This course aims to provide awareness of safer working practice for lone working. Participants will be familiar with the principles of risk assessment as well as risk management within this context. At the end of the course participants should be ‘Risk Aware’ with the ability to identify risks to service users, self and others. They should be able to implement safety measures using provided Assessment tools.

Learning objectives:

By the end of the course participants should be able to:
  • Understand the legislation that underpins risk assessment and management
  • Understand some of the tensions that exist when needing to work with risk in person centered services
  • Carry out a risk assessment
  • Understand the principles of the organisation’s working alone policy
  • Plan for safer working practice
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    Content:
  • The difference between ‘Hazards & Risks’
  • What do we mean by “reasonable risk”?
  • Why do we take risks in life (in general) and in social care and support in particular?
  • What do we mean by “Risk Assessment” and why is important to “Risk Assess”?
  • The personal implications of working with Risk and managing these
  • The value of Risk Screening and compiling Risk Events History
  • Areas of Risk relevant to the Service Group i.e. Suicide, Self Harm, Exploitation etc.
  • Legislation that underpins risk assessment and lone working
  • How Risk Assessments integrate with individual support plans
  • What we mean by generic risk assessments and when these are appropriate
  • Developing an analytical approach regarding Risk Events using critical incident analysis model
  • Crisis and Contingency Planning
  • How risk management may conflict with the promotion of independence
  • How to record and the usage of the organisation’s documentation
  • What Lone Working means to workers within the organisation
  • Why have safe working practices policy?
  • The objectives of a ‘Working Alone’ policy
  • How the core objectives of Supporting People links with the organisation’s Policy
  • Boundary and Good Practice issues when working alone
  • Developing contingency plans
  • Effective recording and communication
  • Reducing the possibility of challenging situations leading to crisis

    • Working methods:
  • Tutor presentations
  • Chalk and talk
  • Wordstorm method
  • Large and smaller group work
  • Pairs work
  • OHP
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