Policy Updates
Supported Living - operator owned accommodation
Management Meetings Policy and Procedure
Updated to include a terminology section, details on appointing a meeting coordinator and information regarding incorporating discussion of the new Stakeholder Surveys.
Risk Assessment Policy and Procedure
This policy has been updated with a new procedure flowchart to assist you with hazard identification and risk management.
Casual (“Bank”) Workers Policy and Procedure
Additional guidance for the service provider has been added to the procedure to assist you with effectively managing casual employment. The forms have also been updated with new fields.
Quality Meetings Policy and Procedure
This policy has been updated to give additional instruction on how to empower and involve all workers in the continuous improvement of quality of service, and the reduction of costs.
Child Protection Policy and Procedure
This policy has been updated to comply with safe practice where children visit a registered premise or the service user’s own home.
Resuscitation Policy and Procedure
This policy has been revised to incorporate guidance regarding best interests decisions where service users lack mental capacity and advance decisions and advance directives regarding life-sustaining treatment in the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics
Updated to include additional information pertaining to the “Standards of conduct, performance and ethics” published by the HCPC.
Access to Information Policy and Procedure
The policy has been revised to incorporate requirements of mental capacity legislation regarding third-party requests for information and to clarify Information Commissioner’s Guidance regarding entitlements of subject access.
Mobility Policy and Procedure
This policy has been updated to assist you in promoting optimum physical health and independence of movement for all service users.