7918: Application of MCA and DoLS in Care Settings

Course Duration: 09:15  Registration 09:30 - 16:30 (1 hour lunch break)
Target Audience: Care Home Managers and experienced staff in Provider Services Teams within the Communities service.
Lesson Aim(s):
To ensure Care Home managers/Care Staff in all settings, who have a role to play in all aspects of application of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, understand their responsibility to promote a positive culture and greater autonomy for people they care for.

Lesson Outcomes: at the end of the session, delegates will be able to:

Describe the importance of the values of wellbeing, respect choice and dignity.
Highlight the five guiding principles of the MCA and how to apply them in day-to-day work.
Recognise the importance of assisting a person to make their own decisions.
Describe the process of assessing a person's mental capacity in day-to-day situations in line with the care plan.
Describe when a formal assessment of capacity may be required and who will undertake this.
Recognise a person has capacity to make decisions regardless of an illness, diagnosis, age or disability.
State where to find the assessment of capacity in a care plan, and recognise the implications this assessment may have for providing care.
Recognise that a person may lack capacity to make one decision whilst having capacity to make another. Consider fluctuating capacity.
Describe the importance of capacity in ensuring people are enabled to take positive risks.
Recognise that the decision is time specific and who might be the decision maker.
Explain how and why it is important to show actions are in a person's best interests.
Describe the importance of involving the person in the decision-making process even when they lack the capacity to make the decision.
Demonstrate an understanding how Care Act and the Mental Capacity Act work together
Describe the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards purpose and process, to ensure this is in the adults best interest and the protection it gives
Brief overview of Deprivation of Liberty in the community
Understanding how the Care Act and MCA Act work together and how applying legislation and guidance encourages empowerment and stops abuse (Whorton Hall, Yew Tree Hospital)
Understand the importance of keeping accurate and appropriate records in relation to all aspects of the Mental Capacity Act
Price
No future sessions