Work with children and young people with additional requirements to meet their personal support needs
Overview
Who is this unit for?
This unit is for those who provide personal care to pupils with additional needs.
What is this unit about?
This unit is about contributing to assessing and developing plans to meet the personal support needs of children and young people with additional requirements, and then implementing and evaluating the plans.
This unit contains three elements:
1. Support children and young people with additional requirements to identify and develop plans to meet their personal support needs
2. Support children and young people to address their personal support needs
3. Contribute to evaluating the effectiveness of activities to meet children
andyoungpeople'spersonalsupportneeds
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Support children and young people with additional requirements to identify and develop plans to meet their personal support needs
P1 support children and young people, parents, families, carers and others, to identify children and young people's personal support needs
P2 seek information and advice to help you understand and address children and young people's personal support needs
P3 examine, with children and young people, parents, families, carers and others, different ways their personal support needs can be met
P4 support children and young people to identify their views and preferences about how their personal support needs should and could be met, taking account of their age, abilities and level of development and understanding
P5 contribute to developing plans to meet the personal support needs of children and young people
P6 seek and acquire specialist advice and support, to help you to meet the additional personal support needs of children and young people
Support children and young people to address their personal support needs
P7 identify the personal support needs of children and young people for whom you are responsible
P8 provide active support to enable children and young people to:
P8.1 identify and use their own skills, abilities, experience and knowledge to help meet their own personal needs
P8.2 participate as much as they are able
P9 assist children and young people to meet their personal support needs, taking account of and managing risks
P10 provide active support to enable children and young people to carry out activities that support their personal needs, taking account of:
P10.1 their expressed wishes and preferences P10.2 any risks
P10.3 care plan requirements
P11 work sensitively with children and young people to help them understand, cope with and minimise the frustrations they may feel when seeking and accepting help
P12 support children and young people, parents, families, carers and others to identify any changes to children and young people's personal support needs
P13 take appropriate action to deal with any changing personal support needs of children and young people
P14 seek extra support and advice when you are having difficulty supporting the personal support needs of children and young people
P15seekadditionalhelptoaddressyourownpersonalandemotionalneeds when working with children and young people with additional requirements to meet their personal support needs
Contribute to evaluating the effectiveness of activities to meet children and young people’s personal support needs
P16 encourage children and young people, parents, families and carers to provide feedback on the effectiveness of activities to meet children and young people's personal support needs
P17 work with others to identify and carry out your own responsibilities to evaluate the effectiveness of activities to meet children and young people's personal support needs
P18 support children and young people, parents, families, carers and others to evaluate aspects of your support that:
P18.1 achieved positive results P18.2 could be improved
P19 support children and young people, parents, families, carers and others to evaluate activities to meet children and young people's personal support needs, that:
P19.1 have been beneficial to the child/young person P19.2 need improving
P19.3 need amending to meet changes in the child/young person's needs, age, abilities and level of development and understanding
P20 work with children and young people, parents, families and carers within the evaluation process in ways that respect their views, wishes and preferences
P21 identify, with others:
P21.1 where and what additional expertise is required to meet children and young people's current and future personal support needs
P21.2 how any additional help and support can be accessed and who should be responsible for this
P21.3 any changes that need to be implemented when supporting children and young people's additional personal support needs
P22 support children and young people, parents, families and carers to understand:
P22.1 any changes that will be made to children and young people's personal support needs
P22.2 when and by whom any changes will be made
P22.3 how any changes with resource implications will be resourced
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
Values
K1 legal and organisational requirements on equality, diversity, discrimination, rights, confidentiality, sharing of information and the rights of children and young people nationally, and through the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
K2 how to provide active support and place the preferences and best interests of children and young people at the centre of everything you do when working with children and young people with additional requirements to meet their personal support needs
K3 how to ensure that you protect the rights and the interests of children and young people taking account of any limitations on their rights and those of parents
K4 how to work in partnership with children and young people, parents, families, carers and those within and outside your organisation to enable the children and young people who have additional needs to communicate and meet their needs, wishes and preferences
K5 dilemmas between:
K5.1 the children and young people's views, preferences, aspirations and expectations, and your role and responsibilities for their care and protection
K5.2 your own values and those of children and young people, their parents, families, carers and key people
K5.3 your own professional values and those of others within and outside your organisations
K6 methods that are effective in promoting equality and diversity and dealing with and challenging discrimination when working with children and young people with additional requirements to meet their personal support needs
Legislation and organisational policy and procedures
K7 codes of practice and conduct, and standards and guidance relevant to your own and the roles, responsibilities, accountability and duties of others when working with children and young people with additional requirements to meet their personal support needs
K8 current local, UK and European legislation and organisational requirements, procedures and practices for:
K8.1 data protection, including recording, reporting, storage, security and sharing of information
K8.2 health and safety
K8.3 risk assessment and management
K8.4 dealing with comments and complaints
K8.5 promoting the well-being and protection of children and young people
K8.6 parental rights and responsibilities
K8.7 working with parents, families and carers to promote the well- being and life chances of children and young people
K8.8 working with children and young people with additional requirements to meet their personal support needs
K9 frameworks and guidance on: K9.1 assessment
K9.2 education K9.3 health
K10 practice and service standards relevant to your work setting and when working with children and young people with additional requirements to meet their personal support needs
K11 how to access records and information on the needs, views, wishes and preferences of children and young people, parents, families and carers
K12 the purpose of, and arrangements for, your supervision and support
Theory and practice
K13 how and where to access information and support that can inform your practice when working with children and young people with additional requirements to meet their personal support needs
K14 government reports, inquiries and research reports into serious failures to protect children and young people with additional needs
K15 theories relevant to the children and young people with whom you work, about:
K15.1 human growth and development related to children and young people, including factors and conditions that can benefit and/or inhibit development
K15.2 identity and self-esteem K15.3 loss and change
K15.4 conflicts and dilemmas
K15.5 power, and how it can be used and abused when working with children and young people with additional requirements to meet their personal support needs
K15.6 the effects of stress and distress
K15.7 working with children and young people with additional requirements to meet their personal support needs
K15.8 positive and negative sources and reinforcement that can affect the children and young people's confidence, identity and self- esteem
K15.9 observing children and young people's progress
K15.10 the additional needs and conditions of children and young people with whom you will be working
K15.11 motivation and enabling children and young people to participate to their utmost abilities
K15.12 using, maintaining and disposing of hazardous and non- hazardous materials and equipment
K16 working in integrated ways that promote children and young people's well-being
K17 the responsibilities and limits of your relationships with children and young people
K18 methods of effective communication and engagement of children and young people ,their parents, families and carers
K19 factors that cause risks and those that ensure safe and effective care for children and young people with additional needs
K20 the importance of stable family, adult and peer relationships and the impact of disruption, including placement disruption
K21 how to work with, and resolve, conflicts that you are likely to meet K22 conditions and issues you are likely to face in your work with children
and young people and parents, families and carers
K23 methods of supporting children and young people with additional needs to:
K23.1 express their needs, wishes and preferences K23.2 identify how their care needs should be met
K24 methods of:
K24.1 effective communication and engagement with children and young people generally, and specifically with those with whom you are working
K24.2 involving children and young people in activities in ways that are appropriate to the age of the child and young person, their level of development and understanding and their additional needs
K24.3 working with parents, families and carers to support children and young people
K24.4 working with children and young people who have been abused, bullied, persecuted, who are at risk of harm or danger, of becoming involved in offending behaviour
K25 how children's different needs might require different techniques
K26 the type of equipment and aids children and young people with whom you work may use, how to use them, how they should be maintained and who to contact if they are defective or need upgrading
K27 methods and formats for planning, monitoring, observing and recording for evaluation purposes
K28 the importance of identifying if children and young people are distressed or uncomfortable when their personal support needs are being met
K29 how to support parents and carers to manage the risks to children and young people with their development and independence
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Active support
support that encourages children and young people to do as much for themselves as possible to maintain their independence and physical ability and encourages people with disabilities to maximise their own potential and independence
Carer
any person who cares for the physical, social and mental well-being of the children
Children and young people
children and young people from birth to 18 years of age who require health and care services; also where the children and young people are still eligible through legislation or policy to receive children's/young people's services, until they reach 21. Where children and young people use advocates/ interpreters to enable them to express their views, wishes or feelings and to speak on their behalf, the term child/young person within this standard may cover the children and young people and their advocate/interpreter
Communicate
communicate using: the child/young person's preferred spoken language; the use of signs; symbols; pictures; writing; objects of reference; communication passports; other non- verbal forms of communication; human and technological aids to communication
Families
include the people who are legally related to children and young people and those who through relationships have become an accepted part of their family
Others
are other people with whom the child/young person has a supportive relationship
Parents
people with legal parental responsibility
Personal support needs
the needs of the children and young people relating to their personal activities such as going to the toilet, meeting their personal care needs, washing etc.
Rights
the rights that children and young people have to:
- be respected
- be treated equally and not be discriminated against
- be treated as an individual
- be treated in a dignified way
- privacy
- be protected from danger and harm
- be cared for in the way that meets their needs, takes account of their choices and also protects them
- access information about themselves
- communicate using their preferred methods of communication and language
Risks
the likelihood of danger, harm and/or abuse arising from anything or anyone
Links To Other NOS
Origin of this unit
This unit is taken from the National Occupational Standards in Health and Social Care where it appears as unit HSC315.