Key Policies in a Domiciliary Setting
Key Policies in a Domiciliary Setting
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Care and Support
- Access to service users homes policy
- Advance care planning in domiciliary care
- Advocacy policy
- Autism policy
- Care and support plans policy
- Communicating effectively with service users and achieving the accessible information standard policy
- Consent to care and treatment policy
- Dementia care policy
- End of life in domiciliary care policy
- Equality diversity and inclusion policy
- Gender related care issues
- Human rights and DoLs in domiciliary care
- Hydration in home care policy
- Information provision for potential service users
- Intimate personal care
- Involving service users in their care policy
- Mental capacity policy
- Meeting communication needs
- Mobility policy
- Needs assessment in domiciliary care policy
- Nutrition in domiciliary care policy
- Oral health in domiciliary care policy
- Personal and sexual relationships
- Personal care and support
- Providing culturally appropriate care
- Privacy and dignity in domiciliary care
- Regulation 11: Need for consent policy
- Risk assessment and management for service users in domiciliary care policy
- Social isolation and loneliness policy
- Supporting people with autism policy
- Learning disability policy
Staff and Employment
- Absence management policy
- Alcohol and drug use- employees
- Agency workers policy
- Annual holidays policy
- Bullying policy
- Code of conduct policy
- Disciplinary and dismissal process policy
- Disciplinary and dismissal appeals policy
- Dress code
- Employing people from abroad policy
- Equal opportunities policy
- Family leave policy
- Fixed term contracts policy
- Giving and receiving references policy
- Grievances policy
- Harassment policy
- Induction policy
- Maternity policy
- Medical reports policy
- Paternity leave policy
- Personal development policy
- Job descriptions and person specification policy
- Lone working in domiciliary care policy
- Racial harassment policy
- Recruiting and selecting staff
- Redundancy policy
- Referring employees to the DBS service
- Right to work checks
- Volunteers policy
- Induction programmes policy
- Professional boundaries policy
- Sickness and absence policy
- Staff appraisal policy
- Staff deployment and retention policy
- Staff supervision policy
- Staff training and development
- Staff vaccination and immunisations policy
- Voluntary redundancy policy
Health and Safety
- Adaptations and equipment home care policy
- Accident reporting in domiciliary care policy
- COSHH policy
- Fire safety in domiciliary care policy
- First aid policy
- Health and safety in domiciliary care policy
- Health and safety of shift workers policy
- Health and safety risk assessment policy
- Keeping staff safe from aggression and appropriate response policy
- Moving and handling of service users policy
- Moving and handling bariatric and plus size service users policy
- Personal safety
- Pets: assessing and managing risk
- Safety, availability and suitability of equipment policy
- Serious incidents reporting policy
- Sharps policy
- Winter weather in domiciliary care policy
Safeguarding
- Adult safeguarding overall policy
- Anti bribery policy
- Complaints policy
- Cyberbullying policy
- Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Safeguarding service users at risk of adopting extremist and radical ideologies policy
- Safeguarding service users who are at significant risk of harm policy
- Regulation 13: Safeguarding service users from abuse and improper treatment
- Safeguarding domiciliary care service users from abuse or harm policy
- Safeguarding a person missing from their home
- Safeguarding service users from abuse and harm: rights, risks and restraint in domiciliary care
- Safeguarding interventions
- Safeguarding vulnerable service users from financial abuse, gifts and legacies in domiciliary care
- Supporting service users who lack mental capacity to take decisions policy
- Whistleblowing policy
Infection Prevention and Control
- Decontamination, disinfection and sterilisation policy
- Food hygiene in domiciliary care policy
- Handwashing policy
- Infection prevention and control in domiciliary care policy
- Legionnaires disease
- PPE and infection control
- Sharps in domiciliary care policy
Health care
- BLS, resuscitation and DNACPR policy
- Medicines errors: identifying, reporting and reviewing medicines related problems policy
- Healthcare and clinical procedures policy
- Medication management: home care policy
- Promoting mental wellbeing and health policy
- Care and welfare of people who use services policy
Governance and Management
- National data opt out policy
- Delays and missed visits contingency planning and arrangements policy
- Emergency planning policy
- Business plan policy
- Commissioning and contracting policy
- 7 ways to beat the heat
- Heatwave policy
- Professional boundaries policy
- Public holidays policy
- Winter weather policy
- Duty of candour policy
- Regulation 20: Duty of candour
- Financial procedures policy
- Fit and proper person
- Good governance, leadership and management policy
- Good governance and organisational structure policy
- Regulation 17: Good governance
- Quality assurance
- Responding to experiences of service users policy
- Working with other agencies policy
Records Management and Data Protection
- Access of records policy
- Accessing records of a deceased service user
- Accessible information policy
- Computer security
- Confidentiality policy
- Confidentiality of service users information policy
- Contracts, agreements and termination of service policy
- Data protection policy
- Display of quality ratings policy
- Information for service users in domiciliary care policy
- Record keeping policy
- Sharing information with other providers or agencies policy