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Level 4 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Person-Centred Assessment Practice

HSC405 · Assessment Processes in Health and Social Care Settings — Week 4 of 16

CourseHSC405
Week4 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Person-Centred Assessment Practice

  1. Facilitating active participation
  2. Alternative and augmentative communication
  3. Independent advocacy
  4. Respecting user choice and autonomy
  5. 001 LO3 Understanding how to use person centered approaches Video
  6. What is an appropriate person

What you will be able to do

  • 2.1 Explain how to use person centred ways of working to support individuals to participate in the assessment process.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain how to use person centred ways of working to support individuals to participate in the assessment process.

Study materials

Videos

  • 001 LO3 Understanding how to use person centered approaches Video · YouTube · Connective Care Education · 16 min · for registered students
  • What is an appropriate person · YouTube · Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) · 11 min · for registered students
  • What is independent advocacy? · YouTube · Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) · 18 min · for registered students
  • The outcomes of independent advocacy · YouTube · Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) · 12 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • People's experience in adult social care services (NICE guideline NG86, 2018) · Reading · Nice, guidance · for registered students
  • Strengths-based approach: practice framework and handbook (DHSC, 2019) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • Care and support statutory guidance (Care Act 2014, DHSC) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Assessment Models and Theoretical Frameworks
  • Week 2: Assessment Tools in Practice
  • Week 3: Partnership Working in Assessment
  • Week 4: Person-Centred Assessment Practice
  • Week 5: Conducting the Assessment Process
  • Week 6: Referral Pathways and Triggers
  • Week 7: Co-Producing Care and Support Plans
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Evaluation and Action Planning Post-Assessment
  • Week 10: Staff Instruction on Assessment Frameworks and Tools
  • Week 11: Assessing Staff Competence and Family Impact
  • Week 12: Applying Assessment Processes in Health and Social Care Set…
  • 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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