Chairing Skills for Safeguarding Adults
The course outline can be modified for:
- Single group training
- Multi agency approach
- Those co-ordinating the Safeguarding Adults assessment / investigation and protection planning process (this would be along the lines of managing case conferences)
- Chairing / convening safeguarding meetings / discussions
- Chairing disciplinary / appeal hearings scheduled hear allegations against staff
This one day course is designed for managers chairing / convening meetings to deal with safeguarding adults with the essential skills and techniques to run structured and meaningful meetings. Participants will be actively encouraged to draw on observed practice.
Aims & objectives
The course examines the procedures essential to chairing safeguarding adults meetings and provides ideas, hints and tips enabling participants to chair such meetings.
At the end of the course participants will:
- Have an understanding of the meeting rules
- Have an understanding of the role of the chairman in managing and concluding the meeting
- Be able to plan for the meeting (pre, during and post meeting activities)
- Consider the key behavioural characteristics of effective chairmanship
- Be clear of the role of the minute secretary
Course content
- Law and procedure (organisational / multi-agency policies / protocols)
- Ground rules for working with the minute secretary
- Communication skills to facilitate & manage meetings
- Impartiality
- Assertiveness
- Staying on course
- Summarising
- Maintaining order
- Asking questions
- Preparation for such meetings
- Issues to attend to / resolve pre-scheduling meeting
- Pre-meeting preparation (agenda; determining who should be called as witnesses / participants; documentation required from relevant people; giving attendees sufficient notice of meeting & time lines)
- Consider if witnesses will require support to attend and give evidence
- Venue for meeting & for parties called to give evidence
- Conduct of hearings
- Pre-meeting of panel members
- Timing
- Managing people giving evidence
- Ensuring high levels of participation by using language to enhance witnesses' ability to give evidence
- Keeping order & focus
- Ensuring that attendees are clear about the purpose of the meeting and why s/he is there
- Presentation of case / evidence
- Decision making
- Preparing & disseminating report
Contact TCR for further information and quote price code: H