A1 - Working Within the Health and Science Sector

• What are reasons to have policies that cover equality, diversity and inclusion?

  Ensuring work and employees comply with legislation

  Ensures fair and equitable treatment

  Prevents prejudice and discrimination

  Tackles the cycle of disadvantage

  Promotes social inclusion

  Promotes respecting, celebrating and valuing individuals
• What are the reasons to have safeguarding policies?

  Provides guidelines on what an organisation should do to protect individuals' health, wellbeing and human rights

  Ensures protection from harm of individuals

  Outlines the roles of agencies involved with safeguarding

  • Local authority social care services
  • GPs
  • Hospitals
  • Education settings
  • Ofsted
  • CQC
  • DBS
• What is the reason to have employment contracts?

  Sets out employment conditions, rights, responsibilities and duties
• What are the reasons to have performance reviews?

  Evaluates work performance against standards

  Gives feedback to improve

  Provides opportunities to raise concerns and issues

  Contributes to CPD (continuing professional development)
• What are the reasons to have disciplinary policies?

  Setting and maintaining expected standards of work conduct

  Ensuring fair and consistent treatment

  Establishes sequence for disciplinary action
• What are the reasons to have grievance policies?

  Provides opportunities for employees to raise and address grievances

  Establishes sequence for raising grievances
• Why is it important to adhere to quality standards, management and audit processes within the health and science sector?

  Ensures consistency

  Maintains health and safety

  Promotes monitoring of processes and procedures

  Facilitates continuous improvement

  Facilitates objective, independent reviews
• What is beneficence?

  Doing good

  • Will this resolve the medical problem?
  • Is this proportionate to the problem?
  • Is it compatible with the patient's circumstances?
  • Is the option and its outcomes in line with their expectations?
• What is nonmaleficence?

  Not doing harm
• What is autonomy?

  Everyone has the right to make the final decision about their care or treatment
• What is informed consent?

  Before making the final decision, the patient has the right to be given all relevant information about their care or treatment
• What does 'having capacity' mean?

  Can understand given information

  Can retain information long enough to make a decision

  Can weigh/asses information to make a decision

  Can communicate their decision
• What is the purpose of following professional codes of conduct?

  Clarifies missions, values, principles and standards that everyone must adhere to by:

  • outlining expected professional behaviours and attitudes
  • outlining rules and responsibilities
  • promoting confidence
• What are some professional societies/organisations/councils in the science and healthcare sector?

  The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

  The Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

  The Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

  The Science Council

  The Royal Society of Biology (RSB)

  The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

  The Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS)
• What is a technical occupation?

  Skilled occupations a college leaver or apprentice would be entering

  Typically requires qualifications at levels 2 or 3
• What is a higher technical occupation?

  Occupations that require more knowledge and skills, acquired through workplace experience or further technical education

  Typically require qualifications at levels 4 or 5
• What is a professional occupation?

  Occupations with a clear career progression from higher technical occupations

  Occupations with a degree apprenticeship