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Work within a relevant legal and ethical framework 1
1. CHCCS400C
Work within a
Legal and
Ethical
Framework
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2. Element 1
Understanding legislation and relevant laws
1. Demonstrate an understanding of legal responsibilities and obligations
in your work
2. Demonstrating an understanding of key statutory and regulatory
requirements
3. Fulfilling your duty-of-care requirements
4. Accepting responsibility for your own actions
5. Maintaining confidentiality
6. Seeking the clientโs agreement before providing services
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3. As Community Service Workers we are
required to understand how legislation and
Common law affect us, our clients and our
workplace
Legislation outlines specific legal
requirements that must be adhered to by
health and aged care organisations
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4. Legislation relevant to staff and clients in the health, disability and
aged care sector include;
Aged Care
Home and community care Access
Health services Accounts receivable
Disability discrimination, disability services Depreciation
Racial Discrimination Liabilities
Equal opportunity Owners Equity
Freedom of information Revenue
Privacy Expenses
Occupational health and safety Statement of Financial
Building standards Position (Balance sheet)
Duty of care pharmaceutical benefits Budget
Poisons and therapeutics' Invoicing
Petty cash
Think how you adhere to these in your workplace!
5. Think of your job
description what legal
responsibilities and
obligations are you
required to consider!
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6. Ten national privacy principles
Principle What it means
Collection You may only collect necessary personal information. You must advise individuals that
they can gain access to this information
Use and Personal information should only be used for the reason it was collected
disclosure
Data quality Personal information must be accurate, complete and up to date.
Data security You must take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, loss,
unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Openness You must be able to provide a policy on the management of personal information to
anyone who asks
Access and If an organisation has personal information about and individual. It must give the
individual access to the information and allow them to correct it.
correction
Unique An organisation must not use a unique identifier, such as a tax file number or its own
identifier. A unique identifier is usually a number assigned to an individual to identify
identifies them for the purposes of an organisationโs operations
Anonymity Individuals should be given the option of not identifying themselves when entering
into transactions with organisations provided it is lawful
Transborder Personal information may only be transferred to foreign countries if the same privacy
protection applies or consent is given.
data flows
Sensitive The law restricts collection of sensitive information such as individual's ethnic, origin,
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political views, religious beliefs, sexual preferences membership of groups or criminal
information record.
7. Every day we do something quite naturally,
we practice Duty of Care
It is everywhere, it is part of our lives
We have a duty of care not to expose ourselves, our clients, our
co-workers and the general public to the risk of being harmed.
Our employer has a duty of care to train us to our job
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8. Duty of Care means a duty not to
be careless or negligent by taking
reasonable steps to avoid harm,
whilst at the same time taking into
account sensible risk taking for
each individual
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9. Duty of care is based on three sets
of standards;
1.Community standards;
โข the community by law must
behave so as not to put at risk or
harm anyone.
โข Treat others with respect and
dignity
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10. 2. Professional standards;
โข Doctors, Lawyers, priests.
โข Not perfect behavior
โข Do require acceptable, reasonable and competent
levels of practice.
3. Agency standards
โข Government standards required for finance
โข State what clients can expect from the service
โข Has a minimum set of standards to assist the
agency in service provision
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11. Duty of care is sometimes thought of as
only being related to physical safety,
whereas it should actually be seen
in the context of all of the rights of people
being supported by carers.
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12. This means agencies are accountable to their clients
and the funding bodies to provide the agreed standard
of service.
Staff then are accountable to their:
โข Clients
โข Families
โข Advocates
โข Workplace
Breach of Duty of Care can result in
a claim for negligence
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13. For Negligence to exist four things need to be clearly
demonstrated;
1.Staff owed a duty of care to a Client
2.Person taking action must be able to show that
harm has occurred because of breach of duty of care
3.The person experienced actual harm or injury
4.The harm was reasonably foreseeable in the
circumstances
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14. As a community service professional you
are responsible for your own actions.
You demonstrate this when you:
โข are trustworthy in your dealings with others
โข communicate and act in a truthful, transparent manner
โข provide comprehensive and accurate information
โข take responsibility for expressing a point of view
โข acknowledge the results of your actions whether they
were intended or not
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15. Team work enables workers to share
experiences, knowledge, information and
perspectives.
Key features of effective teams are:
Communication
Understanding of each others roles
Cooperate with each other
Accept responsibility for their actions
Trust
Take corrective action
Resolve conflict constructively
Contribute to the goals and the values of the team
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16. Confidentiality of clients and carers must be
maintained at all times.
You may not think some information is
important however your client might think
differently.
You are not the judge of their personal
information
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17. How would you safeguard your clientโs information?
Keep personal information safe to prevent unauthorised access, loss,
modification, disclosure or misuse.
Ensure only authorised personnel have access to personal information
Be discreet when speaking on the telephone
Never discuss a client during your tea break or in public
Never give details about another person or their telephone numbers out
over the phone without their prior permission
Take care not to discuss clients with anyone else unless it is in the clientโs
best interests.
Take all reasonable steps when transmitting personal information by email
or fax
Ensure information that is no longer required is returned to the place of
origin and disposed of in the correct manner
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18. There is an ethical expectation that you will
not reveal any sensitive or confidential
business information about the
organisation you work for.
If your co-workers confide
in you about a personal
matter respect their
privacy.
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19. Disclosure of information is permitted in some
instances:
โข Compelled by law
โข A patientโs interests require disclosure
โข There is a duty to the public
โข The person has consented to the disclosure
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20. Any written document, forms,
emails or client records are
permanent and legal
documents. For this reason you
should be very particular in the
way you record information in
your workplace
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21. People are more responsive to care if they feel they
have a choice about their day-to-day care needs. It
helps to preserve their dignity and self-esteem.
Everyone has a right to determine their own service
options. There are legal and ethical reasons for
involving your client in decisions about the services
they receive and to gain consent before any type of
care is given.
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22. If the client is unable to give consent you may need to use:
โข An advocate who will speak up on behalf of the client
o this could be the coordinator
o an appointed advocate
โข A Guardian has the duty to
o protect the rights, welfare and best interest of the client
o encourage the client to live as normal a life as possible
o consider the views of the client
o preserve and recognise the cultural and linguistic needs of the
client
o protect the client from abuse, neglect and exploitation
โข Power of attorney is a legal document that appoints someone to act
on behalf of someone else in matters of money, property or medical
treatment.
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Editor's Notes
Page 22-23Collection- you may only collect necessary personal information. You must advise individuals that they can gain access to this information.Use and disclosure- personal information should only be used for the reason it was collectedData quality- personal information must be accurate, complete and up to date.Data security โ you must take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.Openness โ you must be able to provide a policy on the management of personal information to anyone who asksAccess and correction โ if an organisation has personal information about and individual. It must give the individual access to the information and allow them to correct it.Unique identifiers โ an organisation must not use a unique identifier, such as a tax file number or its own identifier. A unique identifier is usually a number assigned to an individual to identify them for the purposes of an organisationโs operationsAnonymity โ individuals should be given the option of not identifying themselves when entering into transactions with organisations provided it is lawfulTransborder data flows โ personal information may only be transferred to foreign countries if the same privacy protection applies or consent is given.Sensitive information โ the law restricts collection of sensitive information such as individual's ethnic, origin, political views, religious beliefs, sexual preferences membership of groups or criminal record.
CommunicationUnderstanding of each others rolesCooperate with each otherAccept responsibility for their actionsTake corrective actionResolve conflict constructivelyContribute to the goals and the values of the teamRecognise the diversity of individual team members
Keep personal information safe to prevent unauthorised access, loss, modification, disclosure or misuse.Ensure only authorised personnel have access to personal informationBe discreet when speaking on the telephoneNever discuss a client during your tea break or in publicNever give details about another person or their telephone numbers out over the phone without their prior permissionTake care not to discuss clients with anyone else unless it is in the clientโs best interests.Take all reasonable steps when transmitting personal information by email or faxEnsure information that is no longer required is returned to the place of origin and disposed of in the correct mannerDispose of confidential information appropriately