Undertaking A Review Of Policies And Procedures In Healthcare And Community Service Workplaces

From here there is information on the types of policy documents in the organisation and access to an alphabetical list of all organisational policies and related supporting documents.

I reviewed the health policies and procedures of Victoria via internet. While searching for the required documents and policies, I used specific key words like child-protection AND Victoria Victoria’s Child Protection AND government policy. This brought all the policies and procedures that were most relevant and I got ideas and points which I needed. From the many options brought, I selected the one I needed.

Child protection is the policy for my in-depth review.

My job role is social work and the policy for in-depth review is child protection. My job and the child protection policy go hand in hand. Being a social care worker, it is my duty to help the children and their families in difficulties and challenges they face like child labour, child malnutrition, child physical assult, child trafficking and other accidental incidents. It is also my duty to asses if the policies and procedures of child protection are fully met and undertake any investigation required. Another responsibility under my social worker resume is to check the needs of the children and work towards their needs to keep the children safe and where their families are unable to care for. All these responsibilities go hand in hand with my job specification

If a person in charge of child’s care does not exercise proper control to protect the child from a misconduct about which he or she is aware of like physical, emotional or psychological abuse and neglect then this act of ignore or staying indifferent is considered guilty. For instance, where the child is discriminated on the basis of race by the caretakers who are expected to prevent them from such incidences.The consequence of breaching this policy is imprisonment up to a period of 10 years. Such cases should be reported by calling the Child Abuse Report Line on 131478 which is open in 24 hours a day or one can make emergency call on 000 .

HAND HYGIENE

Keep your hands clean, keep your health safe.

Time  – 50-60 seconds

ü Apply water to make your hands wet to the wrist

ü Apply soap or soap solution to your palm

ü Rub your hands, palm against the palm

ü Rub hands palm to palm with fingers interfaced

ü Rub left palm with right hand dorsum with fingers interfaced and repeat vice versa

ü Rotational rubbing frontwards and backwards with clasped fingers of left hand in right palm and vice versa

ü Rotational rubbing of right thumb clasped in left palm and vice versa

ü Rub backs of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked

ü Rinse with clean water

ü Wipe with serviette, drier or single use towel

ü Use towel to turn off faucet

ü Your hands are now clean and safe

BhatiN. (2017).

When to wash your hands?

ü After using toilet

ü After cleaning up a child who has defecated

ü Before having food or serving food to others

ü After coming from outside

ü Washing hands after coughing or sneezing

To circulate my hand hygiene document, first I will revise the document into an image and make brochures. The first platform is placing the brochures in the health centres’ noticeboards. Here it will be accessed by both the community and health service members. The brochures will also be given to members in person to help them take it personal and make a point of going through it.

The other platform to make use of is the school website. Here it will be accessed by various groups of people, those in school as well as those visiting the school website from different parts of the world. All these should be considered especially in publishing digital communication because many will be in a position to get access to the idea being promoted and thus worth considering.

The publishing the brochures in the healthcare notice board or making community based campaign will be important to spread awareness among the Australian aboriginals because social-economic, physical and cultural barriers in remote communities make it challenging to promote hand washing regime among child and adults with soap via television advertisements.

The approval guidelines as proposed by the Government of Australia in the domain of digital communication include process

The position description includes all the requirements in my job industry and is hand in hand with my job role. For instance, the PD provides the class of clients that I am likely to work with and the typical tasks accompanied with the job. Furthermore, the PD provides the general salary scale and the options of work hours.  I can as well obtain the same information from the various social workers unions, department of labour or the human resource department of various community centres.

Maintaining accurate records and preparing reports for legal action. Accredited by the Australian Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics and Standards. AASW provides Accreditation Standards to ensure that social workers practise is legal and law abiding

Other healthcare professionals that work hand in hand with Social Work include field of paediatrics, psychiatrics, palliative care as well as maternal health. Having gone through the initial training of being a Social Worker, with direction one is fit to work in these areas within the same level and sector of health industry. Furthermore, the social worker works hand in hand with the respective physiologists for offering guidance and counselling

Emotional responses, lack of cooperation especially from parents who have psychiatric illness and lack of confidence from the affected person while explaining him or her. The personal level issue that is frequently encountered among the social workers is compassion fatigue and burnout. In case I find an area which needs improvement among these, the best thing is to try to tackle the issue as long as it is within my care and ability otherwise I will write a proposal and forward it to the management of the health centre. In case of compassion fatigue, experience by my co-workers, I will try to motivate them so that they can work with more empathy.

Social work in the domain of children welfare demands a wide variety of psychological and emotional skills along with formal academic training. While knowledge and practices are two main domains which define the profession, some of the most important skills that are require sustaining in the profession and to deliver care in a comprehensive manner is developed during the course of internal practice. Some of the personal skill maintenance that I feel will be relevant for continuing in this job role include

1. Taking detailed note: this will help to track the experience of the client and develop appropriate interventions and strategies.

2. Organisational skills: Being organised is an important criterion to work under the hectic schedule of a childcare worker. This will help to multi-task in an effective manner and thereby helping to reduce compassion fatigue

3. Proper knowledge in developmental strategy and interventions: This is critical in understanding the psychology of the child through the various developmental stages and thereby developing interventions accordingly.

4. Developing a sense of empathy: empathy is extremely an important skill for a social worker however, it may increase the chances of developing compassion fatigue.

5. Critical thinking skills: This will helpful to make effective decision

6. Verbal and written communication skills: This will help to easily interact with a diverse group of population. In my domain it will help to interact with the child and their parents and thereby helping to understand their problems and address the situation accordingly.

I would access the relevant information in the grounds of child social care for the proper planning of skill and development from the website of the Australian Human Rights Commission. This website contains detailed information in the domain of role of social workers. Via going through this website, I will be able to understand the human rights of children in Australia and this information will be extremely helpful while addressing the needs of the children suffering from mental or physical abuse or are the victims of the child labour. It will also help me to get a detailed insight about the rights and the sufferings of the Australian aboriginal people and their children along with the rights against racism and discrimination. I will also go through the Speech to Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Queensland State Social Work Conference by Mr. Edward Santow, Human Rights Commissioner in order to plan my future goals accordingly.

My future planning in the domain of social work will include

1. More focus on Community based social work. It will help me to identify the areas of improvement for communities and thereby creating and implementing plans to remedy the problems and then accordingly measure the effectiveness to foster new growth. Moreover, working in community based care setup will help to address the problems and sufferings of the aboriginal people and their children,

2. I will design awareness campaign in community setup directed towards importance of mental health and issues related to mental illness, child abuse, child trafficking and importance of education in a children life.  This awareness campaign will mostly be generated via pictorial poster presentation in order to attract the mass especially the aboriginal people residing in Australia.

3. I will also target advance care planning (acp), including related concept of anticipatory care planning. Such ACP will mostly involve process of finding out simultaneous recording of client’s preferences on how they want to be cared for are liked to be treated by the health and social care services in future. I will also make sure that these processes are distinguished from the other care planning regime as part of case or care management in providing care services.