Social Carers

As a social care worker you have this criteria to guide your practice and have a clear understanding about what standards of conduct you are expected to meet. You are encourage to use the codes to examine your own practice and to look for areas in which you can improve.
Social care workers are responsible for making sure that their conduct does not fall below the standards set out in this code.

Social care workers must:

1. Protect the rights and promote the interest of service users and carers;
2. Strive to establish and maintain the trust and confidence of service users and carers;
3. Promote the independence of service users while protecting them as far as possible from danger or harm;
4. Respect the rights of service users while seeking to ensure that their behaviour does not harm themselves or other people;
5. Uphold public trust and confidence in social care services
6. Be responsible for the quality of their work and take responsibility for maintaining and improving their knowledge and skills.

Employers of Social Care Workers

The code of practice for employers of social care workers set down the responsibilities of employers in the regulation of social care workers.

The code requires that employers adhere to the standards set out in their code, support social care workers in meeting their code and take appropriate action when workers do not meet expected standards of conduct.

The purpose of this code is to set down the responsibilities of employers in regulating social care workers. The purpose of workforce regulation is to protect and promote the interest of service users and carers.

Employers must:

1. Make sure people are suitable to enter the workforce and understand their roles and responsibilities;
2. Have written policies and procedures in place to enable social care workers to meet the Northern Ireland Social Care Council Code of practice for Social Care workers;
3. Provide training and develop opportunities to enable social care workers to strengthen and develop their skills and knowledge;
4. Put in place and implement written processes and procedures to deal with dangerous, discriminatory or exploitive behaviour and practices;
5. Promote the NISCC's code of practices to social care workers, service users and carers and co-operate with the NISCC's proceedings.

Disclaimer.

This summary is Carers Northern Ireland's interpretation of this booklet and open for discussion in the Carers Northern Ireland forum. (Available to members registered to Carers Northern Ireland)

NISCC Code of Conduct