Delegated healthcare activity
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Together with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and partners, Skills for Care has co-developed voluntary guiding principles to support person-centred, safe and effective delegation of healthcare activities to paid care workers and personal assistants.
Delegation to social care workers isn’t new and has been happening for several years, to enable people accessing care and support to have more choice and control, with an opportunity to have a better experience of care. The principles are designed to be adapted locally to complement existing best practice and local protocols. We’ve also created supporting resources, videos and sample policies.
Delegation and upskilling of social care workers is a positive step forward, however it’s important that delegation remains person-centred, rather than a one-size fits all approach, and with the right learning and development, support and supervision in place.
Find out more at www.skillsforcare.org.uk/DelegatedHealthcareActivity
Expression of Interest
Our next steps between now and January 2024 are to test how the principles and associated products work in practice, gathering feedback, local intelligence and best practice through an iterative approach to make continuous improvements.
We would like to work alongside up to 6 delegated healthcare initiatives across geographical areas and across a variety of service provision, for example where person-centred delegated healthcare activity is happening within mental health services, service for people with a learning disability and/or autistic people, dementia care or delegation to personal assistants.