Overview

All care and support should be delivered using person centred principles. This course explains what this means and gives examples throughout of how to achieve it. It considers physical and emotional wellbeing and how to increase these, while reducing discomfort and distress.

Audience

This course is aimed at:

New members of staff in Healthcare Support Worker roles

New members of staff in Adult Social Care Worker roles

Any staff members who provide direct care to patients or individuals needing support

This course will also be useful for:

Staff moving into new roles within their organisation

Refreshing the knowledge of any member of staff

About this course

This course contains seven bite-sized modules that use practice-based scenarios, videos and engaging questions to bring the subject to life.

The seven modules are:

Understand person centred values

Understand working in a person centred way

Demonstrate awareness of the person's environment

Make others aware of actions causing distress

Support individuals to minimise pain or discomfort

Support the individual to maintain their identity and self-esteem

Support the individual using person centred values

Each module takes between five and ten minutes to complete; the modules that contain video clips take a little longer. The knowledge element of standard 5 of the Care Certificate is covered in this course. 

Objectives

In this course you will learn: 

What 'The 6 Cs' are

About the importance of person centred values

How to promote a person's dignity

How to control the environment to make a person more comfortable

What is your role in reducing and reporting distress and discomfort

How to promote wellbeing

Content

Here are some of the topics covered in this course:

The 6 Cs: Using person centred values| Reading the care plan| Promoting wellbeing| Controlling the environment to ensure the person is comfortable| Being aware of actions that might cause distress or discomfort| Helping people to develop self-esteem| Examples of using person centred values.