Safeguarding Adults Level 3

This Safeguarding Adults Level 3 online course will give an overview of safeguarding and covers competencies required where staff engage in the assessment, planning, and evaluating the needs of adults where there are safeguarding concerns.

At the end of this course, the learner will be able to:

• Identify signs of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse or neglect
• Undertake risk or harm assessments
• Understand how to communicate effectively with adults at risk, especially those with mental capacity issues or learning disabilities
• Contribute, formulate, and communicate effective care plans
• Describe how to contribute to inter-agency assessments by gathering and sharing information
• Know how to document concerns appropriately for protection and legal processes

Course Content

Unit 1

• Safeguarding Adults Level 3 – Course Introduction
• Introduction
• Achieving the Aims of Safeguarding
• Six Principles
• Identifying Abuse
• Physical, Domestic, Sexual, and Psychological Abuse
• Financial, Modern Slavery, Discriminatory and Organisational Abuse
• Neglect, Self-Neglect, Extremism, and Radicalisation
• Being Alert

Unit 2

• Person-Centred Care
• Key Steps in Person-Centred Care
• Supervision
• Supervision Tips
• Informed Decisions
• Factors to Consider
• Positive Risk Taking and Risk Enablement
• Defensible Decisions
• Significant Harm
• Poor Practice and Possible Abuse

Unit 3

• Further Action
• Correct Mindset
• Taking Immediate Action
• Who to Notify
• Safeguarding Adults Enquiry Process
• Your Role
• Decision to Make Enquiries
• Initial Conversation
• Enquiry
• Safeguarding Planning Meeting
• Review Meeting

Unit 4

• Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs)
• Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs)
• What Happens in a Review?
• Types of Statutory and Mandatory Reviews
• Opportunities to Learn
• Overriding Confidentiality
• Requesting Information
• Rules for Information Sharing
• Duty of Candor

Unit 5

• Benefits of Partnership Working
• Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH)
• Guidelines for Report Writing
• The Mental Capacity Act
• Assessing Mental Capacity
• Assessing Capacity
• Stages of Assessing Capacity
• Human Rights Approach
• Supporting People
• Risk Assessment and Enablement
• Tools and Templates

This online course has been written at an introductory level 3 for all levels that fit the criteria to take training as part of their role. This includes

• Refresher training
• Inductions
• Awareness
• Knowledge enhancement

It is suitable for the following:

• All individuals who want to improve their knowledge and understanding of safeguarding adults
• Education Workers including Physical Education, Teachers and Support Staff
• Health Care workers including Nurses, Doctors, Ambulance services, clinical and non-clinical workers
• Social Care Workers including Councils, Carers and Care assistants
• Youth workers including activity leaders, passenger transport services and volunteers

Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included