Support Positive RiskTaking for Individuals

Learning outcomes

1 Understand the importance of risktaking in everyday life

1.1 Explain ways in which risk is an integral part of everyday life

1.2 Explain why individuals may have been discouraged or prevented from taking risks

1.3 Describe the links between risk-taking and responsibility, empowerment and social inclusion

2 Understand the importance of a positive, personcentred approach to risk-assessment

2.1 Explain the process of developing a positive person-centred approach to risk-assessment

2.2 Explain how to apply the principles and methods of a person-centred approach to each of the different stages of the process of riskassessment

2.3 Explain how a service-focused approach to risk-assessment would differ from a person-centred approach

2.4 Identify the consequences for individuals of a service-focused approach to risk-assessment

3 Understand the legal and policy framework underpinning an individual’s right to make decisions and take risks

3.1 Explain how legislation, national and local policies and guidance provide a framework for decision-making which can support an individual to have control over their own lives

3.2 Describe how a human rights-based approach supports an individual to make decisions and take risks

4 Be able to support individuals to make decisions about risks

4.1 Support an individual to recognise potential risk in different areas of their life

4.2 Support the individual to balance choices with their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing

4.3 Describe how own values, belief systems and experiences may affect working practice when supporting an individual to take risks

4.4 Record all discussions and decisions made relating to supporting the individual to take risks

5 Be able to support individuals to take risks

5.1 Complete a risk-assessment with an individual following agreed ways of working

5.2 Communicate the content of the risk-assessment to others

5.3 Support the individual to take the risk for which the assessment has been completed

5.4 Review and revise the risk-assessment with the individual

5.5 Evaluate with the individual how taking the identified risk has contributed to their wellbeing

6 Understand duty of care in relation to supporting positive risk-taking

6.1 Explain how the principle of duty of care can be maintained while supporting individuals to take risks

6.2 Describe what action to take if an individual decides to take an unplanned risk that places him/herself or others in immediate or imminent danger