Adult Support and Protection Level 2

A multi-agency one-day workshop, provided on-line or in-person, aimed at

Target Audience:

This level is mandatory for all members of staff, volunteers and subcontractors who work in customer-facing environments, in particular:

• Community Care Assistants
• Newly qualified Social Workers and Occupational Therapists
• Care Providers and Support Workers
• NHS staff working with patients in Edinburgh (Doctors, nurses & Allied Health Professionals) with line management responsibility, caseload responsibility for actual or potential adults at risk, and/or have significant contact with adults at risk.

This training must be completed once every 2 years.

Aims:

• Understand the potential impact of harm and neglect on the adult at risk and how issues relating to capacity can affect the investigation.
• Gain confidence in identifying Adult Protection concerns.
• Gain knowledge of roles and responsibilities of agencies and professionals under Adult Protection.
• Understand your role in an Adult Protection Case Conference.

 

Adult Support and Protection Level 3  – Council Officer and Other Specialists  (2 Sessions)

Target Audience:

• All social workers, occupational therapists, nurses employed by the EHSCP;
• who’ve more than 1 years’ experience of working with people at risk of harm.
• who’ve not previously completed ‘Council Officer’ training within Scotland.
• who’ve not previously completed ‘Council Officer’ training within Scotland within the last 3 years.

*Managers in Care Home, Homecare or Support Services, should attend Adult Support and Protection Level 2 training, NOT this course.

Content:

• Adult Protection procedures and how to implement them
• Using T.I.L.S. to identify S.M.A.R.T. protection plans and action points
• Statutory duties and roles of agencies and professionals
• Alternative risk assessment frameworks and approaches to manage risk.

 

Adult Support and Protection Level 3 – Multi-Agency (Advanced) Training

Target Audience:

Mandatory for all social workers, occupational therapists, nurses employed by the Health and Social Care Partnership who have more than 1 years’ experience and are eligible to act as a ‘Council Officer’, and who have previously undertaken Council Officer training within Scotland. It is also for NHS and Police staff who are involved in undertaking Duty to Inquires and Interagency Referral Discussions.

Aims:

To increase understanding of legislative duties under the Adult Support and Protection Act.

• The ASP Process
• Roles & responsibility
• Risk analysis and protection planning
• Recording
• Case studies from referral to Protection order