Organisational Safeguarding Update for Managers

This training fulfils the additional role specific competencies of Practice Safeguarding Leads and Practice Managers as per the RCGP Safeguarding Standards.

Learning Objectives:

• Consider the organisational safeguarding requirements of a GP surgery
• Consider practical implementation of these requirements with examples.
• Share and discuss organisational safeguarding tools that can be used to guide surgeries to achieve best practice safeguarding.
• The future of organisational safeguarding in primary care

Contents:

• Overview of the different areas of organisational safeguarding:
  • Safer Recruitment
  • Safeguarding leadership
  • Safeguarding policy
  • Safeguarding registers including a template spreadsheet
  • Information sharing both to and from the surgery as well as to patients (including online access)
• Document storage
  • Induction and training of staff and upcoming changes
  • Recommended internal audit to ensure that safeguarding is effective
  • A tool for a surgery to evaluate their own organisational safeguarding
  • Threshold documents and where to find them, significance of these
  • Named GP for Safeguarding and their role in supporting surgeries
  • Time allocated to safeguarding work
  • Safeguarding administrators / nurses – the potential / the future
  • Safeguarding in a PCN

Previous Delegate Feedback

“Interactive audience and very relevant to needs of all participants as both clinicians and managers”

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