Safeguarding employees Flashcards
What is meant by safeguarding employees?
Organisations that provide and deliver health and social care services must ensure that their employees are safeguarded in their day to day routines. they must follow protocols of regulatory bodies should safeguard employees day to day. In addition, membership of trades unions help to safeguard their interests. The BMA British Medical Association is the trades union and professional association for doctors and medical students. The trades union and professional association for nurses is the Royal College of Nurses or for midwives the Royal College of Midwives. The union Unite and Unison protect people who work in all occupations across health care.
Trades unions and professional associations?
Trade unions are organised associations of workers in a trade, group of trades, or profession. they protect and promote the rights and interests of their members. Trade union may be involved when employees make complaints about how they are safeguarded. They offer advice and legal support to protect members who work in health and social care.
Professional associations carry out similar roles to trades unions but usually represent one group or type of worker, such as doctors or teachers. in addition, they also represent and protect the interests of the general public.
How are internal and external complains dealt with properly?
Complaint is made against health and social care employee
Employee has the right to be accompanied by a trades union representative or work colleague.
Where feasible, employee continues to work while complaint is investigated.
Employee should not experience direct or indirect discrimination.
Informal resolution e.g. with line manager
Formal resolution, e.g through human resources department
What do regulatory bodies do?
Following the protocols of regulatory bodies safeguarding employees. Some complaints may be dealt with using the organisation internal procedures. More serious breaches may involve external agencies such as regulatory bodies or the police.
How can employees safeguard employees?
Whistleblowing, if an employee is concerned about unsafe work practices or lack of care by professionals they have a professional duty to promptly raise concerns if they believe patients’ or clients’ safety is at risk, or that service users’ care or dignity is being compromised. Whistleblowers are protected by law as they are acting in the public interest.
