“Health & Safety, Equality & Diversity, Mental Capacity & Dementia” | Maggie Heath | Friday 07 February 2025

For: Managers,

“Health & Safety, Equality & Diversity, Mental Capacity & Dementia”

Description

Maggie will present three essential training courses in one day, engaging delegates with real life examples and discussion.

Aims

• Health & Safety Basics:
• To inform or refresh those employed within the Healthcare sector, on health and safety risk management “Current knowledge and best practice”
• To highlight health and safety risk management systems that should be in place within healthcare practices
• To identify current health and safety risks being faced within the healthcare sector
• To highlight Employer and Employee duties in relation to Health and Safety
• Mental Capacity Act & Dementia awareness:
• To understand the principles of the Mental Capacity Act
• To be aware of what having capacity is
• To know what needs to be recorded
• To demonstrate how to assess capacity
• To understands the term 'Best Interests'
• To be able to identify who can make decisions
• To be able to explain what dementia is and describe the effects it has on people
• Equality & Diversity - to have an understanding of:
• Equality and diversity at work – why it’s important
• Key anti-discrimination legislation
• The impact of discrimination on individuals and the community
• Their legal rights and responsibilities
• The benefits a diverse workforce can bring to healthcare organisations.

Objectives

• Health & Safety Basics:
• Being able to identify Health and Safety requirements in day to day working.
• Being aware of risk management systems that should be in place within your healthcare practice?
• Understanding common health and safety risks faced within the healthcare.
• Being able to identify Employer and Employee duties in relation to Health and Safety?
• Mental Capacity Act & Dementia awareness:
• Understanding the principles of the Mental Capacity Act
• Being aware of what having capacity means?
• Identifying what needs to be recorded
• Understanding how to assess capacity
• Understands the term ‘Best Interests’
• Identifying who can make decisions
• Having an awareness of dementia and how it affects people
• Equality & Diversity:
• Understanding why equality and diversity at work – why is so important?
• Being able to identify the key anti-discrimination legislation?
• Being aware of the impact of discrimination on individuals and the community?
• Know what employers and employee’s legal rights and responsibilities are?
• Realising what benefits a diverse workforce can bring to healthcare organisations?

Speakers

Maggie Heath

Maggie Heath is the founder and the lead Specialist Health and Safety Trainer & Compliance Consultant at Rosette CPD. She has many years of experience as a first aider, CPD trainer and specialises in providing training in an ever-increasing and diverse portfolio of CPD topics, aimed at the healthcare sector and specifically the dental industry, across the South West.

Training from Rosette CPD is provided in-house to healthcare staff, but also to larger groups in venues such as universities and lecture theatres.

Rosette CPD provides training covering several of the specified CPD topics that should be undertaken by Dental Professionals as recommended by the CQC and the GDC.

Sessions

09:30 - 11:00, session 1

11:15 - 12:45, session 2

13:30 - 15:00, session 3

15:15 - 16:30, session 4

GDC outcomes

A, B, D,