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Level 4 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Communicating and supporting EDI across teams

HSC401 · Promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Health and Social Care — Week 6 of 16

CourseHSC401
Week6 of 16
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This week’s topics

Communicating and supporting EDI across teams

  1. Inclusive workplace communication channels
  2. Facilitating EDI briefings and training sessions
  3. Mentoring and coaching staff on inclusive behaviours
  4. Fostering an open team culture
  5. Communication and Inclusive Culture
  6. Acas Webinar - Inclusive workplaces: Making changes to better support neurodiversity

What you will be able to do

  • 3.2 Demonstrate how to communicate to others methods of promoting equality and inclusion within the workplace.
  • 3.3 Demonstrate how to support others to actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion within the workplace.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: demonstrate how to communicate to others methods of promoting equality and inclusion within the workplace.

Study materials

Videos

  • Communication and Inclusive Culture · YouTube · Chartered Management Institute · 31 min · for registered students
  • Acas Webinar - Inclusive workplaces: Making changes to better support neurodiversity · YouTube · acasorguk · 44 min · for registered students
  • Acas Webinar - Inclusive workplaces: making changes to better support neurodiversity · YouTube · acasorguk · 36 min · for registered students
  • Why are staff networks important? · YouTube · acasorguk · 6 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Leadership for a collaborative and inclusive future (Messenger review, 2022) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 12: Diversity in Organizations · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 341–374 · for registered students
  • The Cavendish Review: healthcare assistants and support workers in NHS and social care (2013) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Core concepts of EDI
  • Week 2: Legislative frameworks in health and social care
  • Week 3: Models of practice and systemic barriers
  • Week 4: Policy and procedure evaluation
  • Week 5: Human rights approaches and individual outcomes
  • Week 6: Communicating and supporting EDI across teams
  • Week 7: Challenging discrimination and exclusion
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Principles of informed choice and mental capacity
  • Week 10: Ethical dilemmas and duty of care
  • Week 11: Strategic risk management and rights enablement
  • Week 12: Applying Promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Hea…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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