Working with risk
Explore how to work effectively and positively with risk.
Understand how to work effectively and positively with risk in the context of strengths-based working.
During this workshop, participants will explore the core professional skills to make confident and defensible decisions about risk and relate this to safeguarding practices.
Participants will recognise and challenge the importance of legal literacy in relation to working with risk and how case law can inform risk enablement in practice. They will also explore how diversity, intersectionality and power can impact risk and how to create a positive risk culture.
Designed for
Social care practitioners working directly with adults
Learning outcomes
As a result of attending this workshop participants will be able to:
- Understand what a ‘risk positive approach’ and ‘risk enablement’ mean, and why they are important to adult social care practice.
- Define the difference between ‘simple’ and ‘complex’ risk.
- Make links between working with risk and person-centred practice.
- Identify the skills, knowledge, and values that they need in defensible decision-making around risk.
- Increase their confidence in using case law to inform their practice with risk.
- Understand the role of cultural humility and structural discrimination in working with risk.
Promoting positive approaches to risk across organisations: Strategic Briefing (2021)
This briefing supports senior leaders in adult social care to develop an organisational culture that promotes a positive approach to decisions involving risk, based upon collaborative and relationship-based practice.
Risk enablement: Frontline Briefing (2016)
This briefing explains how risk enablement relates to the Care Act 2014, identifies examples of good practice and provides useful tools and methods for working effectively with risk.
Risks, rights, values and ethics
Consider the impact of our own values and ethics when working with people and risk.