Rights based and ethical practice

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

Data protection, UK GDPR, confidentiality, recording and reporting

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Person-centred / outcomes focused approaches

Human rights

Integrated working - agencies and contacts

Restrictive Practice and Restraint

UNCRC

Child centred approaches and key worker system

Communication and relationships

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

Trauma informed care

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.

Trauma skilled care

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.  If you have not completed the informed level of trauma practice in the National Trauma Transformation Programme, you should concentrate on working through these learning activities prior to undertaking any skilled level learning activities.

Communicating with, and supporting people

Establishing relationships, understanding roles

Working with families

Working with communities

Managing conflict

Communication Support Needs

Adverse Childhood experiences

Early language and literacy

Person centred / outcomes focused approaches

Wellbeing and Support

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

Drug and alcohol use

Eating and drinking

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL.

End of life care

Fire safety and evacuation procedures - lead role

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL.

First aid

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You may need to complete training or certification as required by your role and organisation.

Food hygiene

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL.

You may need to achieve a food hygiene qualfication or training as required by your role and organisation.

Health and safety and risk assessment - lead role

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You may need to complete training as required by your role and organisation.

Health and safety and risk assessment

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You may need to complete training as required by your role and organisation.

Infection prevention and control - lead role

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL.

Infection prevention and control

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL.

Medication - Lead role

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You may need to complete training as required by your role and organisation.

Medication

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You may need to complete training as required by your role and organisation.

Medication (paperwork and storage)

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You may need to complete training as required by your role and organisation.

Moving and assisting

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You may need to achieve a moving and handling qualfication or training as required by your role and organisation.

Nutrition

Personal Care

Being up to date with your workplace policies and care plans is an important part of your CPL.

Suicide prevention

Technology Enabled Care

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL.

Transitions and life events

Allergies - lead role

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You may need to complete training as required by your role and organisation.

Allergies

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You may need to complete training as required by your role and organisation.

Children and Young People's Mental Health

Food and nutrition

Looked after children and young people

Supporting children and families through transitions

Supporting wellbeing through supervision

Protection

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

Adult support and protection - lead role

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You will need to complete training on a regular basis as determined by your role and organisation.

Adult support and protection

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You will need to complete training on a regular basis as determined by your role and organisation.

Child protection - lead role

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You will need to complete training on a regular basis as determined by your role and organisation.

Child protection

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You will need to complete training on a regular basis as determined by your role and organisation.

Safer recruitment and safe staffing

Violence against women and girls

Getting It Right For Every Child and Wellbeing indicators

Knowledge for my role

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

Dementia

Diabetes

Legislation

National Health and Social Care Standards

Neurodiversity

Record keeping, and care planning

What people need to do the job role e.g., tools and technology

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL.

Additional support needs

Child development and attachment

Curriculum, assessment, and planning

Documents

Learning for Sustainability

Outdoor play and learning

Play strategy

Play

Setting up and maintaining an environment

Knowledge for specific setting as defined by my employer eg policy, frameworks

Please refer to the areas identified with your employer that are specific to your role from this core learning element.

Theory of child development and childhoods

Reflective practice

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

CPL

Leading and modelling reflective practice

Professionalism

Reflective practice

Leadership and Quality assurance

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

Care Inspectorate Quality Frameworks

Culture

Inspections and regulatory requirements

Leading a team

Policy and regulation

Quality assurance processes

Quality improvement

Service development

Supervisory duties

Understanding leadership

Mentoring and coaching

Ethics, values and rights-based practice

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

These activities are mandatory in your NQSW Supported Year.

Challenges to restrictions and liberty

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Ethical dilemmas and compulsory detention

Ethical and emotional tensions

Human Rights and UNCRC

Intersectionality, anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice

Social inequality and systemic oppression

Use of professional power and authority

Application of human rights legislation, statutory care/scrutiny standards and professional codes of Practice to ethical Scrutiny and Improvement Practice

Critical application of rights-based, ethical practice and philosophical perspectives

Definition and Historical attitudes/context to values

Ethical data gathering/sharing and decision-making

Human rights

Key concepts affecting citizenship, asset-based development, and user/carer/stakeholder involvement

Models of power, partnership, involvement, collaboration, and stakeholder relationships

Outstanding Customer Focus: Meeting and exceeding customer needs and expectations

Preparing those you work with for your departure

SSSC and professional registration and codes of practice

Understanding personal, professional and organisational values in scrutiny through systems thinking

Understanding the Care Inspectorate approach to participation

Understanding scrutiny and assurance roles

Communication, engagement and relationship-based professional practice

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

These activities are mandatory in your NQSW Supported Year.

Trauma informed practice

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.  If you have not completed the informed level of trauma practice in the National Trauma Transformation Programme, you should concentrate on working through these learning activities prior to undertaking any skilled level learning activities.

Trauma skilled practice

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.  If you have not completed the informed level of trauma practice in the National Trauma Transformation Programme, you should concentrate on working through these learning activities prior to undertaking any skilled level learning activities.

Collaborative working with families and carers

Co-production with individuals

Developing respectful relationships that are supportive, collaborative and challenging

Multi-agency, interprofessional collaborative working

Supporting and facilitating the learning of others

Prevention of social isolation

Building and maintaining relationships

Collaborative practice and joint inspection theories

Concepts of internal and external scrutiny

Developing relationships

Diverse communication strategies and skills and effective methods of conflict resolution

Effective and ethical communication and engagement strategies

Effective feedback

Effective People Management: Creating a culture of empowerment and engagement among employees

Good information governance and data security

Inter-agency collaboration

Passing on knowledge to others

Preparing those you work with for your departure

Process and skills in feedback – decisions and outcomes, accountability, effective recording and reporting processes, and skills essential to effective scrutiny and improvement

Report writing

Trauma informed practice

Trauma skilled practice

Critical thinking, professional judgement and decision making

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

These activities are mandatory in your NQSW Supported Year.

Assessment and management of needs, care and risk

Evidence informed risk assessment and interventions

Risk awareness

Understanding of capacity

Legislation and policy analysis and development

Achieving Results: Delivering excellent and sustainable performance in various aspects, such as financial, operational, and customer-related outcomes

Application of Proportionality, Responsiveness, Accountability, Transparency

Application of systems modeling to policy/legislation/scrutiny

Benchmarking and baseline measures

Critique and application of historical and contemporary policy and legislative frameworks for care delivery and its scrutiny (both national and international)

Critical understanding of scrutiny roles and responsibilities to improving outcomes, safety, and assurance for the public

Defensible decision-making and professional judgment

Defensible and evidence based decision-making relevant to my role

Exercising professional judgment for outcome-focused practice

The legislative and policy framework relevant to my role

Reflecting on practice and sharing experiences

Tools relevant to professional practice in my role

Promoting wellbeing, support and protection

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

These activities are mandatory in your NQSW Supported Year.

Adult support and protection

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.

Adult support and protection

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You will need to complete training on a regular basis as determined by your role and organisation.

Child protection

This mandatory section is required for your CPL, but you are only required to complete one learning opportunity within it each year. You can do more, but your learning needs should be discussed with your supervisor or manager.

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL. You will need to complete training on a regular basis as determined by your role and organisation.

Leading planning and management of adult protection

Leading planning and management of child protection

Leading planning and management of public protection

Legislation relating to mental health rights

Legislation relating to rights and responsibilities of individuals

Legislation relating to rights

Legislation relating to rights of those with disability

Mental wellbeing and mental disorder

Supported decision making

Strength based approaches

Substance use

Drug and alcohol use: evidence based policy and interventions

Refugee and trafficked children

Child Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse

Getting It Right For Every Child and Wellbeing indicators

Safer recruitment and safe staffing

Violence against women and girls

Adult support and protection

Child protection

GDPR in relation to scrutiny practice

Personal Wellbeing

Planning for the future

Primary or Secondary authorised officers

Public and individual protection and welfare

Regulatory risks - Procedural Justice and regulatory capture

Role of sanctions and/or strategies

Strong Partnerships and Resources: Managing resources effectively and building beneficial partnerships

Understanding health and wellbeing relevant to my role

Working with complexity in unpredictable and ambiguous contexts

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

These activities are mandatory in your NQSW Supported Year.

Children with additional support needs

Cultures and systems

Information sharing

Being up to date with your workplace policies is an important part of your CPL.

Lead partner in community justice

Multi agency practice - connections and relationships

Powers and Duties under MHO legislation

Specialist children and young people services

Dealing with difficulties in supervision of others

Quality assurance and improvement

Interviewing people with additional support needs

Developing understanding of regulating within a complex system

Historical and contemporary approaches to Risk – types, thresholds, enablement/aversion, measurement, management

Intelligence and risk

Planning, developing, implementing and evaluating improvement activity through scrutiny practice

Primary Authorised Officer

Recording and passing on knowledge to others

Reflecting on practice and sharing experiences

Robust Processes: Optimizing operational processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness

Secondary Authorised Officer

Understanding scrutiny, quality assurance and improvement methodologies and activities relevant to my role

Use of knowledge, research and evidence in practice

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

These activities are mandatory in your NQSW Supported Year.

Current intervention practices

Factors influencing mental wellbeing and mental disorder

Factors influencing mental health and wellbeing

Legislation, policy and guidance for wellbeing and protection specific to mental disorder

Legislation, policy and guidance for wellbeing and protection

Brain injury

Environmental, place-based and technological approaches and interventions

Factors impacting children and young people's development

Application and analysis of current and emerging scrutiny methodology and quality frameworks

Critically analyze the meanings and significance of leadership when scrutinizing and improving services

Enhanced Strategy: Developing and implementing strategic plans that drive sustainable performance

Evidence gathering/synthesizing and triangulating evidence

Keeping up to date with developing policy, practice and legislation

Recording and passing on knowledge to others

Understanding how and where to access relevant research and knowledge

Self-awareness and reflexivity

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

These activities are mandatory in your NQSW Supported Year.

Demonstrating application and critical evaluation of knowledge and skills from across the course (promoting protection, participation, empowerment, equality, and diversity of people using services through leading and managing the scrutiny and improvement process

Impact on Society: Demonstrating social responsibility and contributing positively to the community and society

Reflecting on practice and sharing experiences and knowledge

Strategies to support resilience and wellbeing in relation to myself and others

Tensions between accountability and flexibility in scrutiny roles and practice

Utilising supervision and support for development

Professional leadership

These are suggested themes and learning activities. You are not expected to complete all of these under a core learning element, but to choose a learning opportunity that reflects your role and development needs in discussion with your supervisor or manager.

These activities are mandatory in your NQSW Supported Year.

Leading practice - personal leadership styles

Contribution to improvement focussed activities within the Care Inspectorate

Contribution to service development with services

Critically analyze the meanings and significance of leadership when scrutinizing and improving services

Improved Leadership: Enhancing leadership capabilities and effectiveness within an organization

Leading a team

Planning and managing capacity

Quality Assurance and Quality Management

Role modelling professional codes, values and good practice

Roles and responsibilities in scrutiny and improvement

SSSC Return to Practice information

Succession planning

Understanding my role

Return to practice framework