Nvq Unit 2

The main aim is to make sure that no one gets hurt or becomes ill. Accidents and ill health can ruin lives, and can also affect business if output is lost, machinery is damaged, insurance costs increase, or if you have to go to court. Therefore carrying out risk assessment, preparing and implementing a safety statement and keeping both up to date will not in themselves prevent accidents and ill health but they will play crucial part in reducing their likelihood.

UNIT 2 PRINCIPLES OF DIGNITY IN ADULT HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTICE BY MARIE BROWN

One page profiles and action plan. An effective way to identify somebody 's needs and wishes leading to a full and Persian centred action plan is to complete a one page profile with them. One page profile can be developed generally or around a specific area, such as their health, they provide the person and others with an at a glance snapshot of the most important aspects of the person life. You can support a person to put together a one page profile in two ways.

1.1 I communicate with a wide range of groups and individuals on a daily, weekly, and less frequent basis within my role as care home manager. These include other managers, operations manager, managing director and company owners as well as support workers, clients, team leaders, social workers, care managers, families, health and educational professionals, learning disability team members from 6 different boroughs etc.

1. UNDERSTAND KEY LEGISLATION AND AGREED WAYS OF WORKING THAT SUPPORT THE FULFILMENT OF RIGHTS AND CHOICES AND THE MINIMISING OF RISK OF HARM FOR AN INVIVIDUAL WITH DEMENTIA.

A range of factors can impact individuals with sensory loss, such as blind or partly sighted individuals struggle to read peoples facial expressions, which are important for communication. Also not realizing someone is talking to an individual if they are walking past or stood behind them can be frustrating. Written communication can also be problematic for partly sighted individuals. Larger font may help overcome these issues. People who are hard of hearing can also become frustrated as they can’t hear day to day noises such as the doorbell, telephone ring or people talking to them directly. This may make them feel with drawn from others and lonely.

Equality and Discrimination: understand the basics – This identifies with and outlines the essentials of what employers, and employees and their representatives need to know, and must and should do to make their workplaces a fair environment and act in accordance with equality law.

As a worker it’s your responsibility to have equality of opportunity that involves ethnicity, age, sexuality, race, gender, religion, and social class. This is an important way how to treat a person through equality not to be discriminated. Throughout your work you should actively promote equality of opportunity as a value and principles. For example: in St.

1. Explain why it is important to recognise and value an individual as a person

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Equal opportunities - These policies are set out to say how employees should be treated in

Its purpose is to reduce the risk of individuals suffering harm at the hands of those employed (in either a paid or voluntary capacity) to work with them.

6. Briefly explain the benefits of making sure equality and diversity procedures are followed in a business environment. Your answer should include one benefit for the employer, one benefit for the employee and one benefit for the overall organisation.

2.1. Explain how legislation and codes of practice relating to equality, diversity and discrimination apply to own work role.

You have been given the job of producing a prospectus into the work of a science technician focussing on methods of communication in the workplace and reasons why communication is important.