P1

• Environments for Health:

  • Gp surgery
  • Dental practice
  • Nursing home
  • Hospital ward
• Environments for social:

  • Adult day centre
  • community transport
  • residential care home
  • homeless shelter
• Environments for Child:

  • breakfast club
  • Rainbows/Brownies
  • beavers/cubs
  • childminder
  • day nursery
  • after-school club
• Types of relationship:

  • Individual that requires care and support
  • Families and advocates
  • Colleagues
  • Senior workers
  • Health and social care professional
• Qualities of a Carer:

  • Caring
  • Approachable
  • Reliable
  • Empathetic
  • Respectful
  • Supportive
• Value of care:

  Ensure that all individuals using health, social and child care environments receive appropriate levels of care, attention and treatment, and they have equal opportunity’s and are free from discrimination. Their diversity is valued and rights supported.

  The values of care provide clear guidelines to inform and improve practice so that the staff know hoe to provide effective care. They also guide staff about legal requirements. Applying the values of care also helps to maintain or improve the quality of life.
• promoting equality and diversity:

  • Non-discriminatory language
  • Don‘t be patronising
  • Service users choose
  • Challenge discrimination
  • Care should meet SU’s individual needs
• Individuals rights and needs:

  • Providing care environments that support religious beliefs
  • right of choice during pregnancy and birth
• maintaining confidentiality:

  • don’t talk about service users
  • don’t leave personal information around
  • documents should be locked away
  • only be shared on a need to know basis
• Welfare of the child paramount:

  • child centred approach
  • make the child needs a priority
  • never make them feel humiliated
• child safety and maintaining a healthy environment:

  • safe guarding procedures are in place
  • All staff are DBS checked
  • Staff have ID
  • H&S legislations are followed
  • appreciate staff to child ratio
• working in partnership with parents/guardians:

  • two way relationship
  • value each others opinion
  • child’s best interest at heart
• Encourage child’s learning and development:

  • activity’s should be stimulating for the children
  • suited for the child’s development
• Valuing diversity:

  • Celebrate a range of holidays
  • learning many different cultures
  • provide a range of dietary options
  • provided books in different languages
• Ensuring equality of opportunity’s:

  • Meeting all the needs of children
  • Staff should be awarE of the equal opportunity’s policy
  • Activity’s should be accessible for all
• Anti-discriminatory practice:

  • staff should be good role models
  • use non discriminatory language
  • discrimination should be challenged
• Maintaining confidentiality:

  • information only shared on a need to know basis
  • children’s personal information kept securely
  • important that staff don’t talk about children where they can be over heard.
• working with other professionals:

  • It can be necessary to work with other professionals
  • However information can be shared but sensitively
• promoting equality and diversity:

  • the careers alway use non discriminatory language
  • always challenge discrimination by other staff
  • the care provided should always meet individuals needs