Safeguarding Adults Level 4: Named Professionals Training

Course Outline:

One of the most important principles of all types of safeguarding is that it is everyone’s responsibility, and for leaders and managers in organisations it is vital that this principle is modelling, cascaded and quality assured if both effective strategic and operational delivery of safeguarding is to be realised.

The Intercollegiate Guidelines (published August 2018 by the Royal College of Nursing on behalf of a number of professional colleges and associations including BASW) set out the competencies and standards of practice for health care staff, from front-line support workers to executive directors and board members, and this programme is aligned to the level 4 Named Professionals competency requirements.

All providers of NHS funded health services should identify a named professional for safeguarding within its structure. Named professionals have a key role in promoting good professional practice within their organisation, providing advice and expertise for fellow professionals, and ensuring safeguarding training is in place. This one-day programme, delivered as two half-day interactive virtual sessions, is designed for Named Professionals working in provider services, commissioning services, and Safeguarding Leads and Board Members.

Learning Methods:

A combination of learning methods will be used throughout the day, including lecture, workshop, and group work. Interactive and experiential methods, group and pair work, and interactive activities in the form of quizzes, polls, case studies, and reflection dilemmas will be used, to inform participant learning and support application to practice.

Resources Required:

This course will be delivered by MS Teams, please ensure your IT equipment is updated and is running audio/visual and the latest version of Teams – please use the joining instructions provided.

Learning Outcomes: This course will provide participants with the following learning outcomes:

• To be able to discuss, share and apply the best practice and knowledge in adult safeguarding, able to work effectively with colleagues in regional networks and effectively communicate local safeguarding knowledge, research and findings.

• Increased confidence in the development of robust internal adult safeguarding policy, guidelines, and protocols as a member of the organisational management team.

• To be able to provide advice and information about safeguarding to the employing organisation both proactively and reactively – this includes the board, directors, and senior managers, demonstrating a greater depth of understanding of the role, purpose and mechanism of case reviews and increased confidence in leading service reviews.

• To be able to know how to provide specialist advice to practitioners, both actively and reactively, including clarification about organisational policies, legal issues and the management of adult safeguarding.

• To be able to support colleagues in challenging views offered by other professionals, as appropriate.

• To be able to lead/oversee safeguarding quality assurance and improvement processes and undertake risk assessments of organisational ability to safeguard adults. 

Programme Outline:

SESSION 1:

9.15 Session 1 Login - Please log on to MS Teams and join the meeting in the general channel

9.30/13.30 Safeguarding adults in context • Safeguarding and the strategic context – the role of the named professional in law and policy • Understanding the Intercollegiate adult safeguarding roles and competencies framework • Evidence-based safeguarding practice – what is the research telling us?

11.00/15.00 COFFEE BREAK / SCREEN BREAK

11.15 Level 4: The Named Professional Role and Competency Expectations • Contribution of the named professional role to strategic and operational safeguarding in locality contexts. • The Core Competencies – an overview • The Knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values – an overview • Leadership for safeguarding within organisations

12.15 Feedback and Questions 12.30 CLOSE

SESSION 2

13.15 Session 2 Login

13.30 The Core Competencies in practice • Roles and responsibilities at level 4: Self-assessment and development planning

15.00 COFFEE BREAK / SCREEN BREAK

15.15 Assessment & Quality Assurance of Safeguarding in organisations: Leadership for practice quality. • Assessing competencies – setting and assuring standards • The role of Audit in quality assurance. • Safeguarding supervision – core skills and knowledge

16.15 Evaluation and Feedback

16.30 CLOSE

The Trainers:

The programme will be facilitated virtually on MS Teams by Chloe Whittall from Daisy Bogg Consultancy Ltd (DBC), a BASW and OCN accredited training provider.

Chloe Whittall, Professional Development Manager

Our Professional Development Manager, Chloe Whittall is a qualified SWE registered Social Worker who has been qualified for over 20 years and has held a range of therapeutic and managerial roles in both voluntary and statutory sector organisations. In addition to her Social Work Degree, Chloe holds the ILM Change Management and Leadership award, the Practice Teaching Award in Social Work, Certificate in Counselling, an AFT Advanced Diploma in Systemic Practice and a Level 3 ITG Award in delivering Adult Education.

Chloe has significant experience of coaching and mentoring in both the substance misuse sector and statutory children’s services, having undertaken the role of Practice Educator since 2006, Practice Educator/PEP’s Assessor since 2008 and ASYE Assessor since 2014. Since joining DBC Chloe has continued to undertake these roles in an off-site capacity supporting Social Work Students, NQSW’s and their assessors in both adult and children’s voluntary and statutory settings.

Since joining DBC Chloe has also led on two significant pieces of evaluation and implementation project work relating to supervision and staff support. The first involved supporting 2 Local Authorities and 2 via the Teaching Partnership to evaluate 3 models of supporting Social Work Students on Placement. The second involved the evaluation of the Welsh national post-qualifying qualifications for Social Workers. Both pieces of work involved consulting with students, managers and educators to gain feedback on the most effective way of supporting students and staff and publishing reports with recommendations on a positive way forward.

Chloe’s particular area of interest lies in supporting organisations to connect with cohorts of staff to develop their skills and commitment to providing exceptional outcomes for service users underpinned by the values, ethics and working approach of the organisation.