Unit_9_P4

BENJUN BALAHADIA GROUP 4 BTEC – National Certificate Level 3 Title: Ethics and Values in Social care Practice Grading Criteria: Unit 9 Task 1 (P4) Describe the values that underpin social care practice. The care values are set of rules and guidelines that every care practitioner has to follow in order to provide services to their clients. Promoting anti-discriminatory practice * Treating every client equally considering the fact that they are different individual. Each client must receive equal attention and care despite their gender, race, beliefs, religion, mental capacity etc. For example in our care home having 40 residents from different places here in the UK and having different beliefs. Every staff are trying to avoid anti-discriminatory practice and we assure that we have enough time to every residents who needed some help and to communicate in their everyday living in both Nursing and Dementia floor. Each residents have different needs and each and every staff needs to attend every individuals need to make sure that where not discriminating people by having favouritism to residents. Acknowledging people’s personal beliefs and identities * In this value, it is having giving time to listen and respecting them on what they believe in and that they are unique individual having their own identity. Example is in the religion we have residents who have bible in their room because they believe and it symbolise how they respect God and how faithful they are to God. Sometimes they read us some page of the bible and we making sure that we have time to listen and not to ignore what their doing. Protecting Individuals from abuse * Resident has the right in the protection of abuse. There are many kinds of abuse not only physical abuse, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, neglect and sexual abuse. Each one of us being their care assistant, we attend mornings on how to improve and give the best as possible quality of care. Luckily I haven’t seen anyone from my workplace doing that kind of abuse. Maintaining Confidentiality of Information * It is not to divulge or to give information of a client to one person who you doesn’t know and who’s not related to the resident. It is because we are maintaining the confidentiality of every resident record or file and we are preventing for copying the file from others. Also we are not sharing this information to others who is not part of the team and we are not talking this information to the public so that the confidentiality of the record has been kept. Giving information to another person is alright if the residents itself giving them a permission for their files. Promoting and Supporting Individuals Right to Dignity, Independence and Safety * Every clients/residents have the rights to do the things that they want. Providing dignity is giving the client choice and privacy but having all this opportunities their safety must be the first priority. In our care home where I work, as being assigned to nursing floor, some of the residents are still able to get dress and undress but giving them time to do it. By doing it, closing the curtains and door is very important for their privacy and dignity and let them choose what they want to wear. As help to our resident, we’re making sure that there is no hazard that could harm our residents especially when bathing. Dealing with the residents, we must always put in our mind the principles of human rights and we must also take into consideration what the residents can do and what you can do to help them and support their rights. Promoting all this rights means so much to the residents as you giving those values for everything you do to your clients. Reference www.wikipedia.org www.educationforum.co.uk