Course overview
Why do I need this course?
- Protect patients and service users from harm and abuse
- Comply with legal obligations for all healthcare staff
- Align with the Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF)
- Align with the Care Certificate Standards
What will I learn?
- Key concepts and principles of safeguarding adults
- Potential signs of abuse, harm and neglect
- How to accurately document and raise safeguarding concerns
- How and when to make a referral
- Key statutory and non-statutory guidance and legislation for safeguarding adults
- Principles of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA)
- Risk factors for radicalisation
- Effective advocacy
- Roles, responsibilities and professional boundaries in a multidisciplinary team / multi-agency setting
Who is this course for?
- All healthcare professionals (as part of statutory training requirements)
- All staff working with adults in the health and social care sector
- Anyone who has safeguarding responsibilities
- Anyone who has regular contact with the general public
Part of the CSTF
The Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) is a framework created by Skills for Health and sets out minimum learning outcomes, frequency of refresher training and links to relevant legislation or expert guidance.
It can be used by any healthcare employer in the UK including NHS, independent and voluntary providers.
All our CSTF-aligned courses can be purchased as part of a bundle here.
Learn more about the CSTF on our website, or read the Frequently Asked Questions.
Part of the Care Certificate
The Skills for Health Care Certificate bundle provides a set of high-quality eLearning courses aligned to the Care Certificate standards. The bundle is designed to complement work-based assessment of skills by a competent assessor, and forms the core e-learning component of the certificate
All courses aligned to the Care Certificate standards can be purchased as part of a bundle here.
Course details
This CSTF-aligned course centres around preventing, identifying and responding to safeguarding adults’ concerns by applying the principles of the Mental Capacity Act.
It also provides knowledge about responsibilities to raise concerns, maintaining a professional awareness of how your own values and beliefs may affect your judgement, and keep detailed records of your concerns and actions.
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Recall the aims and principles of safeguarding
- Understand what constitutes as, and be able to identify, harm, abuse and neglect.
- Document safeguarding concerns in a way that informs the relevant staff, teams and agencies.
- Identify how and when to refer someone to social care.
- Understand and apply Making Safeguarding Personal.
- Identify your professional role, responsibilities and professional boundaries in a multidisciplinary team and a multi-agency setting.
- Ensure effective advocacy is provided where required.
- Understand key statutory and non-statutory guidance and legislation, including the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
- Recall the risk factors for radicalisation, and know who to contact regarding preventive action and to support people who may be at risk.
This course is aligned withSubject 8: Safeguarding Adults, Level 2 of the Core Skills Training Framework.
Subject 8: Safeguarding Adults, Level 2
The learner will:
- understand what constitutes harm, abuse and neglect and be able to identify any signs of harm, abuse or neglect
- be able to ensure effective advocacy is provided where required (for example where there are mental capacity or communication issues, in line with the legislation and professional guidance)
- be able to identify your professional role, responsibilities, and professional boundaries and those of your colleagues in a multidisciplinary team and multi-agency setting
- know how and when to refer to social care in accordance with organisational policies if you have identified an adult safeguarding concern
- be able to document safeguarding concerns in a format that informs the relevant staff and agencies appropriately
- know how to maintain appropriate records including being able differentiate between fact and opinion
- be able to identify the appropriate and relevant information and how to share it with other teams
- understand key statutory and non-statutory guidance and legislation including Human Rights Act and mental capacity legislation in country of practice
- be aware of the risk factors for radicalisation and know who to contact regarding preventive action and supporting those persons who may be at risk of, or are being drawn into, terrorist related activity.
- Course Length: 120 mins
