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Safeguarding in Healthcare

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Course Overview

Format

Intermediate
5-6 Study Hours
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

3 CPD Points
CPD Certified

Course description

This wide-ranging course includes safeguarding knowledge for anyone working in a healthcare environment working with both children and adults.

Throughout this training learners will cover a wide range of topics including, multi-agency working, best practice, consent and confidentiality, and recruitment, which will help learners apply their knowledge to all areas of their workplace.

Anyone working in healthcare needs to maintain a wide knowledge of safeguarding concepts and best practices, to ensure anyone they encounter during their work is protected from abuse or neglect.

The aim of this training course is to provide learners with practical and applicable knowledge to help them in their working lives. This includes such areas as, confidentiality and consent, a wide range of information and guidance to help professionals working with vulnerable children and adults. It includes the following topics in more detail:

The definition of both children and adults at risk
The definition of confidentiality and how to achieve it, maintain it, and protect an individual’s information
The safe practices included in safer recruitment, including pre-employment checks
Applicable legislation for consent and confidentiality such as GDPR 2016 and the Data Protection Act 2018
The definition of consent, when you need to ask for it, and how to establish mental capacity to give consent
Reporting your concerns – who to and how
Recording consent; when to share information without consent if necessary
Overview of safeguarding for children and adults
The importance of safeguarding
Multi-agency working
Types of abuse, recognising abuse, how to deal with suspected/disclosed abuse
Jargon and key terms
How to create and use risk and harm assessments

The course also contains challenges, case studies, and immersive real-world scenarios to help professionals apply their knowledge and skills in everyday working.

You will learn

Outline what is meant by safer recruitment

Know the six NHS employment check standards and their processes

Define confidentiality and consent

Know when you need to ask for consent from individuals you support and what is needed for consent to be valid, and outline when information can be shared without an individual’s consent

Know how consent is gained when an individual lacks mental capacity

Identify why some adults, children and young people are ‘at risk’ of abuse

Outline how person-centred care promotes dignity, empowers and protects individuals

Who is it for?

Roles including:

Nurses

Receptionists

Admin

Doctors

General Practitioners

Mental Health Nurses

Legislation

Legislation covered in this course includes:

Human Rights Act 1998
Access to Health Records Act 1990
Crime and Disorder Act 1998
GDPR 2016
Data Protection Act 2018
Mental Capacity Act 2005

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Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.
If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.
Take the course

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Your Certificate

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College and will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable.
If you have bought the posted certificate option (available on select courses), a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out at the beginning of the following working week.