Underpinning all the NVQ's in Care is the professional value base. For many people, who have not had opportunity for theoretical and academic study in the social work field, the value base can remain a bit of a mystery.
When we talk about the value base, we are reffering to working in ways that uphold and promote the rights and dignity of the client. We need to have an understanding of how discrimination occurs and also how easy it is to abuse power.
If you are a care worker, you may not think you have a great deal of power - but if we think about this, the face to face hands-on worker has the greatest power of all - and therfore the greatest potential to abuse that power.
When we are providing personal care for vulnerable people, it is all too easy to "take-over" - to do what we think is best for the client. If we are working in busy settings, where we are presured by time constraints, it becomes all too easy to see clients as "tasks to be gotten through" rather as individual people with their own rights to make choices.
TMD have written a series of materials that can be used to develop the value base in care settings. All the materials can be used on an individual basis or a group setting. They are intended to stimulate and generate thinkng and encourage reflective practice at all levels.
If you want to find out more about these, click on the links at the side of this web-log and it will take you to our main web-site.
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Posted by: kevin | June 14, 2005 at 09:56 AM
i would like to know more about the care value base.
Posted by: mevish hussain | April 17, 2007 at 01:45 PM
Would this still be relevant today? I hope so
Posted by: Tony Starks | May 24, 2008 at 10:12 AM