Informed Decision Making & Risk Management (ASC)

Learning Outcomes:

To enable delegates to:

• Revisit wellbeing and outcomes and understand their importance in the context of the Care Act.
• Further understand and assess needs and record outcomes and ensure assessments/reviews are effective and robust.
• Ensure the range of ways a person can be as fully involved in their assessment/review as they can be and wish to be is part of each process.
• Identify the importance of key aspects of the Care Act in informed decision making.
• Expand on the use of powerful questioning techniques within the strengths based approach.
• Consider the overlap of the Mental Capacity Act and the Care Act in supported decision making.
• Expand use and effectively analyse information gathered during the assessment/review to make appropriate decisions.
• Conduct risk assessments within a positive risk taking framework.
• Revisit facts, opinions and unconscious bias and clearly articulate and record information.
• Ensure that decision making is defensible, that clear, factual evidence is provided to support decisions and includes reasoning for decisions and recommendations and considers risk, capacity, options and the person’s wishes and feelings.

Target Audience: Practitioners in Adults Social Care