Mental Capacity Act Awareness
The Course
This course aims to deliver basic awareness training on the introduction of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to all front line staff working with all adults. These staff will have duties that involve the care and support of people who lack capacity (those unable to provide informed consent in many areas of decision making)
Learning Difficulties
We have a course outline for the Mental Capacity Act awareness for delegates working in the Learning Difficulties field. Please note that the following aims and objectives can be applied and made sector specific for all areas. Please discuss your particular requirements and our trainers will adjust their training material to suit. Where appropriate a trainer with the relevant specialism will carry out the training.
Related Courses
More extensive courses for more senior personnel or those with specific responsibilities with regard to the mental capacity act are available and will be designed to requirements.
Aims and Objectives
The course will identify issues of capacity and consent and address those issues which have hitherto been questions of the 'common law' alone - best interests, necessity and duty of care. The training will outline the scope of the new legislation, the supportive guidance and its implications for professional practice. There will be the opportunity to consolidate learning through practice scenarios.
Aims:
- Confusion over the law
- Decision making processes
- Who's right to decide what?
- Capacity and incapacity - consent
- Common law - necessity and best interests
- The rights of the incapacitated person
- Essential principles of the Act
- Determining capacity and best interests
- Identifying pitfalls for professional practice
- Managing an incapacitated persons affairs
- Acts in connection with Care or Treatment
- Lasting Power of Attorney
- New Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)
- New Court of Protection
- Appointment of Court of Protection Deputies
- Advance Decisions to Refuse treatment
- Research (Research Ethics Committees)
- New Public Guardian
- Code of Practice
- Local authority responsibilities
- Case studies to facilitate learning
Objectives:
By the end of this course delegates should have awareness in the following areas and be able to:
- Identify the key provisions in this new legislation and apply them directly to their professional responsibilities
- Promote the well-being of those who lack capacity within a positive rights-based perspective
- Recognise the best practice approaches to decision making in the lives of those who lack capacity
- Determine concepts such as capacity, consent, best interests and apply these to their work with users of health and social care services.
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