Leading safely and managing risk

As a caring, proactive leader you should communicate the function and importance of risk management and work with your team to enhance their skills and competencies in this area. . Effective teams discuss potential risks and proactively think about how they support the best outcomes while enabling people to live the most fulfilling and independent lives possible. Least restrictive practices and promoting freedom is a goal for every leader in social care to champion the values and behaviours that the very foundations of outstanding care sit on.

Resources for Leading safely and managing risk

Advanced Combined Safeguarding Lead Level 4 Training

Provider: Care Business Associate Training

Our Combined Safeguarding Lead Level 4 training course is carried out over two days. We can provide this training either face-to-face or online in an engaging virtual classroom.

Our trainers have extensive practical knowledge in safeguarding and our course is trusted by some of the largest healthcare organisations in the UK.

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Creating a safeguarding culture

Provider: Care Tutor

This is a short free course for social care managers with advice on how to create a Safeguarding Culture in your care organisation. Adapted from guidance available from National Institute for Health and Social Care Excellence (NICE) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).

Safeguarding adults in care settings means protecting their right to live in safety and acting to prevent abuse and neglect. Working together to achieve this is everyone’s responsibility

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Infection Prevention Lead Training

Provider: Care Business Associate Training

Our course covers everything you need to know about preventing and controlling infection outbreaks and carrying out infection control risk assessments responsibly and according to the latest regulations and legislation

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Involving people to manage risk

Provider: Skills for Care

Protecting people from harm should be a priority for adult social care services. Practical and proactive approaches can help services quickly assess risks and regularly review and adjust them.

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Risk Assessment in Care Training

Provider: Care Skills Academy

This course is designed to enable you to increase your understanding of risk assessment and risk management in health and social care.
Level 2 & 3.

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Safeguarding & Recording Skills Workbook

This training has been produced in line with the revised 2018 Sussex Safeguarding
Adults Policy and Procedures.
The Policy sets out the approach taken to adult safeguarding across Sussex. The
Procedures explain how agencies and individuals should work together to put the
Sussex Safeguarding Adults Policy into practice.
The Procedures represent the standards for good practice in adult safeguarding
in Sussex and have been endorsed by Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, and West
Sussex Safeguarding Adults Boards.

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Safeguarding Introduction, Refresher and Recording

Provider: East Sussex County Council

The procedures represent the standards for good practice in adult safeguarding in Sussex and have been endorsed by Brighton & Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board

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The Little book of Violence Prevention

What this little book tells you
As the title suggests, this Little Book is about preventing violence. We
have written it intending to contribute to an ongoing national and transnational debate on how to secure safe environments for everybody, regardless of their background or beliefs.

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Mile Pathway

Enhanced Leadership Pathway