MH 4 Support positive risk taking for individuals

1. Understand the importance of risktaking in everyday life

2. Understand the importance of a positive, person-centred approach to risk assessment

3. Understand the framework which underpins an individual’s right to make decisions and take risks

  • 3.1 Explain how legislation, national and local policies and guidance provide a framework for decision-making which can support individuals to have control over their own lives
  • 3.2 Describe how a human rights based approach supports an individual to make decisions and take risks

4. Be able to support individuals to make decisions about risks

  • 4.1 Support individuals to recognise potential risk in different areas of their lives
  • 4.2 Support individuals to balance choices with their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing
  • 4.3 Describe how own values, belief systems and experiences may affect working practice when supporting an individual to take risks
  • 4.4 Record all discussions and decisions made when supporting the individual to take risks

5. Be able to support individuals to take risks

  • 5.1 Complete a risk assessment with an individual following agreed ways of working
  • 5.2 Communicate the content of the risk assessment to relevant others
  • 5.3 Support the individual to take the risk for which the assessment has been completed
  • 5.4 Review and revise the risk assessment with the individual
  • 5.5 Evaluate with the individual how taking the identified risk has contributed to that individual’s wellbeing

6. Understand duty of care in relation to supporting positive risk-taking

  • 6.1 Explain how the principle of duty of care can be maintained while supporting individuals to take risks
  • 6.2 Describe what action to take if an individual decides to take an unplanned risk that places him/her or relevant others in immediate or imminent danger

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