This unit must be assessed in line with the relevant assessment principles.
Learning outcomes 4, 5 and 8 must be assessed in a real work environment.
Care settings eg. Adult, children and young people’s health settings and adult care settings
Policies and procedures may include other agreed ways of working as well as formal policies and procedures.
Health and safety This could be in relation to the safety of yourself, your colleagues or the people you support
Others may include:
• team members
• other colleagues
• those who use or commission their own health or social care services
• families, carers and advocates
Work setting may include one specific location or a range of locations, depending on the context of a particular work role.
Tasks that the learner should not carry out without special training may include those relating to:
• use of equipment
• first aid
• medication
• health care procedures
• food handling and preparation
Use of Personal, Protective Equipment (PPE)
The learner must know the different types of PPE and how to use PPE correctly and appropriately in their work environment. Appropriate use may, in some cases, mean after consideration PPE is not required.
Agreed ways of working will include policies and procedures where these exist; they may be less formally documented with micro-employers.
Stress can have positive as well as negative effects, but in this unit the word is used to refer to negative stress.
Sources of support may include:
• formal support
• informal support
• supervision
• appraisal
• within the organisation
• beyond the organisation