Mental Health & Wellbeing
Mental Health & Wellbeing
Mental Capacity
Delivery:
eLearning
Level:
2 & 3
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About this course
This Mental Capacity course is designed to help you to learn about the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and to show you how you can put the requirements into practice in your role as a health and social care worker and meet the expectations in Health and Social Care.
Health and social care workers are involved in supporting individuals with their daily living and the decisions that they make. It is important that you understand the individuals’ rights in making choices and decisions, knowing how to enable them to make informed choices and decisions.
Mental Capacity is not mandatory but an expectation of Stakeholders, including the Care Quality Commission.
It is recommended that this course is completed alongside all mandatory subjects.
Course Syllabus Includes
- The MCA and Code of Practice
- Mental capacity
- ‘Poor’ decisions and mental capacity
- Types of decisions
- Who is affected
- Making decisions
- Five principles of the MCA
- Supporting the individual to make decisions
- Good communication
- Assessing capacity – Stages 1,2 & 3
- When to assess capacity
- Who should be involved
- Formal assessment of capacity
- Making complex decisions
- The court of protection
- Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)
- Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCA)
- Defining ‘Deprivation of Liberty’
- Restriction and restraint
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS)
- HL vs United Kingdom
- DOLS authorisation
- Best Interests
- No refusals criteria
- Making a DOLS application
- Court of Protection
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