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General Health, Social Services and Voluntary Sector Programmes
Clients risk of suicide or serious self harm:
Managers' roles and managing risk
No. participants:
Duration:
Aims:
- To enable staff to undertake risk
assessments within their own workplace using recognised
techniques when working with people at risk of suicide or
serious self-harm.
- To enable them to understand the process of
risk assessment
- To engender safe working practices.
- To enable staff to complete actual
departmental/agency assessments for their resource.
- To help staff to acquire skills in
recording this information.
- To help staff develop the skills to develop
risk management plans and strategies by means of understanding
the link between risk assessment information and the known or
potential interventions.
- To help staff formulate crisis responses to
real situations of clinical risk
Objectives:
- To enable all staff to undertake basic risk
assessment and risk management plans and strategies for both
department and job function when working with people at
risk of suicide or serious self-harm.
- To understand the legislation, agency
policies and practice guidance which need to be followed and
their implications for their roles, their responsibilities and
potential liabilities and how these can managed effectively
- To understand the formal methods of
calculating the risk, likelihood and potential severity of an
incident techniques to be used.
- To enable staff to complete risk
assessments and risk management plans with strategies for
intervention for both departments and job functions for their
resource.
- To understand the type of task and
situation which require risk assessment at their resource and
in the community.
Skills:
- To provide staff with the skills to
determine risk potentials and strategies to prevent poor
outcome when working with this client group.
- To provide staff with the skills to
complete risk assessments and risk management plans and
formulate possible intervention strategies.
Knowledge:
- To create awareness of the need for
continuous risk assessment and reformulation of risk
management plans for all critical situations involved in this
work.
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