Mental Capacity
Course Aims:
This Mental Capacity course is designed to help you learn about the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and to show you how you can put the requirements into practice in your role as a health and social care worker, meeting the expectations in Health and Social Care.
Health and social care workers are involved in supporting individuals with their daily living and the decisions that they make. It is important that you understand the individuals’ rights in making choices and decisions, and know how to enable them to make informed choices and decisions.
Mental Capacity is not mandatory but is an expectation of stakeholders, including the Care Quality Commission.
It is recommended that this course is completed alongside all mandatory subjects.
Accreditation: This course is CPD certified, links to Level 2–3 Health and Social Care Diploma and to Care Certificate Standard 9: Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disability.
Course Price:
£18.00 Inc VAT
Learning Outcomes:
Explain the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Code of Practice.
Recognise each key principle of the Act and how this relates to your role.
Understand the importance of assessment.
Understand what fluctuating capacity is.
Recognise what an advance care plan is and when to implement it.
Know the safeguards in place to protect individuals who lack capacity to make safe choices and decisions.
FAQs
Courses are fully certified. Once a learner successfully completes a course you are able to contact us directly to receive your Certification.
Courses are delivered online and work on any internet enabled device. As long as you have access to an internet connection you can complete courses when and where you like 24 hours a day.
Yes, our Courses are CPD Certified.
Some of our shorter courses will typically take between 30 minutes and an hour to complete. Some of the bigger ones will take longer and depends largely on each individual’s learning speed.
Course Price:
£18.00 Inc VAT
Level:
2 & 3
Course Syllabus Includes:
The MCA and Code of Practice
Mental capacity
‘Poor’ decisions and mental capacity
Types of decisions
Who is affected
Making decisions
Five principles of the MCA
Supporting the individual to make decisions
Good communication
Assessing capacity – Stages 1, 2 & 3
When to assess capacity
Who should be involved
Formal assessment of capacity
Making complex decisions
The Court of Protection
Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)
Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCA)
Defining ‘Deprivation of Liberty’
Restriction and restraint
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS)
HL vs United Kingdom
DOLS authorisation
Best Interests
No refusals criteria
Making a DOLS application
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