A1 Working within the health and science sector Flashcards
What is the purpose of the equality, diversity and inclusion policy?
- complying with legislation
- ensuring equality
- eliminating discrimination
What is the purpose of the safeguarding policies?
ensuring the protection from harm of individuals, including those working within the organisation and visitors
What is the purpose of the employment contracts?
setting out employment conditions, rights, responsibilities and duties
What is the purpose of the performance reviews?
- evaluating work performance against standards and expectations
- facilitating feedback to improve
- providing opportunities to raise concerns or issues
- contributing to continuing professional development (CPD)
What is the purpose of the disciplinary policy?
- setting and maintaining expected standards of work and conduct
- ensuring consistent and fair treatment
- establishing a sequence for disciplinary action
What is the purpose of the grievance policy?
- providing opportunities for employees to confidentially raise and address grievances
- establishing a sequence for raising grievances
Why is adhering to quality standards, quality management and audit processes important?
- ensuring consistency
- maintaining health and safety
- monitoring processes and procedures
- facilitating continuous improvement
- facilitating objective, independent review
What are the key principles of ethical practice?
- autonomy and informed consent
- truthfulness and confidentiality
- beneficence
- nonmaleficence
- justice
What is the purpose of following professional codes of conduct?
- clarifies missions, values, principles and standards that everyone must adhere by
What are the principles of professional codes of conduct?
- outlining expected professional behaviours and attitudes
outlining rules and responsibilities within individual organisations - promotes confidence in the organisation
What are technical occupations?
skilled occupations that a college leaver or an apprentice would be entering, typically requiring qualifications at levels 2/3
What are higher technical occupations?
occupations that require more knowledge and skills acquired through experience in the workplace or further technical education, and typically require qualifications at levels 4/5
What are professional occupations?
occupations where there is a clear career progression from higher technical occupations, as well as occupations where a degree apprenticeship exists
What are the opportunities to support progression?
- undertaking further/higher education programmes
- undertaking apprenticeship/degree apprenticeship
- undertaking continuing professional development (CPD)
- gaining professional registration
- undertaking an internship
- undertaking a scholarship
