Description
Each local authority must name a director-level manager who has personal responsibility for deafblind service duties as part of the Care Act 2014.
This specialist course is offered in partnership with Hi-Vis UK and gives attendees a Level 5 OCN.
Course content
The eight course modules will include:
- Deafblindness and Care Act assessments including the Level 3 specialist deafblind assessor qualification
- Market-shaping duties
- Working with LSPs, congenital syndromes and the toolkit concept
- Deafblind children assessment
- Advocacy
- Safeguarding
- Legislation
- Individual complex case study assignment.
Learning outcomes
Participants will:
- Be able to offer assurance to their named director-level manager of legislative compliance
- Lead/manage a specialist deafblind assessor team
- Gain all the necessary insights into the impacts deafblindness has on individuals
- Understand how key legislation impacts on deafblind adults and children
- Gather evidence for analysis and make defensible decisions
- Ensure appropriate level of care and support
- Protect deafblind people’s human rights.
Who should attend?
The course is aimed at both adults’ and children’s social work and allied care professionals.
Duration
The course is delivered in a very flexible way in agreement with each participant, in bite-sized segments without the need to cram or produce copious amounts of work.
The 2025 cohort starts in July, and the duration is based on timings agreed with individual participants for each of the sections except module eight, which is ‘launched’ at the end of module seven when you have as much time as needed to complete and submit the assessment.
