TRAINING

This Basic Life Support training course also meets the Skills for Health’s UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF), Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Care Quality Commission (CQC) recommendations for health and social care providers.

We are also fully committed to ensuring our staff work in an environment that is free from discrimination. Equality, diversity and inclusion, and treating people with dignity and respect is central to our values and to the quality of the services we provide. We recognise that sometimes people receive unfair treatment and particular people may experience prejudice and/or disadvantage. We want to ensure that fair treatment and social inclusion is at the heart of everything that we do.

Infection prevention and control is vital to the wellbeing of people who need care and support and is even more crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to receive safe and effective care, infection prevention and control must be part of everyday practice and be applied consistently by everyone. Standard infection prevention control precautions include: good hygiene (hands and respiratory) personal protective equipment (PPE) environment: cleaning, disposal of waste staying safe – social distancing, testing, self-isolating.

Manual handling injuries can have serious implications for the employer and the person who has been injured. They can occur almost anywhere in the workplace and heavy manual labour, awkward postures, repetitive movements of arms, legs and back or previous/existing injury can increase the risk. To help prevent manual handling injuries in the workplace, you should avoid such tasks as far as possible. However, where it is not possible to avoid handling a load, employers must look at the risks of that task and put sensible health and safety measures in place to prevent and avoid injury.

Food Hygiene, otherwise known as Food Safety can be defined as handling, preparing and storing food or drink in a way that best reduces the risk of consumers becoming sick from the food-borne disease. The principles of food safety aim to prevent food from becoming contaminated and causing food poisoning.

An adult at risk is any person who is aged 18 years or over and at risk of abuse or neglect because of their needs for care and or support. Where someone is over 18 but still receiving children’s services and a safeguarding issue is raised, the matter should be dealt with as a matter of course by the adult safeguarding team.

Child safeguarding is important because when trust is exploited and standards for safeguarding children fail, immense damage is caused with long-term effects on the lives of children, their families, and communities. Abuse can take many forms and its effect on a child’s physical, emotional and mental health can be severe and long lasting. We need child safeguarding to ensure that children’s rights and well-being are at the center of everything we do.