Key Policies in a Supported Living Setting
Key Policies in a Supported Living Setting
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Care and Support
- Accessibility policy
- Advocacy policy
- Autism policy
- Behaviour that challenges assessment tool for positive support
- Care and support plans policy
- Communicating effectively with service users and achieving the accessible information standard
- Community links and social inclusion policy
- Consent to care and treatment policy
- Developing services for people with a learning disability
- Oral health assessment form
- Monthly oral care monitoring form
- Gender related care issues
- Information provision for potential service users policy
- Intimate personal care
- Involving service users in their care policy
- Learning disabilities policy
- Meeting the care and support needs of people with a learning disability
- Meeting communication needs
- Mental capacity policy
- Personal and sexual relationships
- Providing culturally appropriate care
- Regulation 11: Need for consent
Staff and Employment
- Absence management policy
- Agency workers policy
- Alcohol and drug use- employees
- Annual holidays policy
- Bullying policy
- Code of conduct policy
- Cyberbullying policy
- Disciplinary and dismissal process policy
- Disciplinary and dismissal appeals policy
- Dress code policy
- Employing people from abroad policy
- Equal opportunities policy
- Family leave policy
- Fixed term contracts policy
- Giving and receiving references policy
- Grievances policy
- Harassment policy
- Medical reports policy
- National data opt out policy
- Job description and person specification policy
- Paternity leave policy
- Racial harassment policy
- Recruiting and selecting staff
- Referring employees to the DBS service policy
- Right to work checks
- Volunteers policy
- Induction programmes policy
- Professional boundaries policy
- Redundancy policy
- Sickness and absence policy
- Staff appraisal policy
- Staff deployment and retention policy
- Staff supervision policy
- Staff training and development
- Staff vaccinations and immunisation policy
- Smoking in residential care policy
- Workplace mediation policy
- Voluntary redundancy policy
Health and Safety
- COSHH policy
- First aid 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 of bariatric and plus size service users policy
- Personal safety
- Safety, availability and suitability of equipment policy
Safeguarding
- Anti bribery policy
- Complaints policy
- Cyberbullying policy
- Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Safeguarding service users who are at significant risk of harm policy
- Safeguarding service users at risk of abuse and harm including physical controls and restrictive practices
- Regulation 13: Safeguarding service users from abuse and improper treatment
- Safeguarding interventions
- Safeguarding behaviour from peers
- Safeguarding service users who lack mental capacity to make decisions policy
- Whistle blowing policy
Infection Prevention and Control
- Decontamination, disinfection and sterilisation policy
- Food hygiene policy
- Infection outbreak management policy
- Infection control management policy
- Infection control and cleanliness of invasive devices policy
- Infection control and cleanliness of laundry and linen policy
- Infection control and cleanliness of single use medical devices policy
- Isolation of services users with infectious illnesses policy
- PPE and infection control
- Handwashing
- Safe use and care of reusable medical equipment and devices policy
Health care
- Aseptic techniques policy
- BLS, resuscitation and DNACPR policy
- Medicines errors
- Covert medicines
- Healthcare and clinical procedures policy
- Promoting mental wellbeing and health policy
Governance and Management
- Autonomy policy
- Business plan policy
- Commitment to upholding Human Rights policy
- Commissioning and contracting policy
- Displaying quality ratings policy
- Duty of candour policy
- Emergency planning policy
- Financial procedures policy
- Fit and proper person policy
- Good governance, leadership and management policy
- Heatwave policy
- 7 ways to beat the heat
- Quality assurance
- Regulation 20: Duty of candour
- Regulation 17: Good governance
- Responding to service users policy
- Severe winter weather
Records Management and Data Protection
- Access to records policy
- Applications to access deceased service users records
- Computer security
- Confidentiality policy
- Data protection policy
- Quality assurance policy
- Record keeping policy
- Sharing information with other providers policy