Course Overview: Basic Safeguarding for Interpreters
Safeguarding is an essential process that protects vulnerable people, young people and adults, from harm, abuse, and neglect. The wellbeing and safety of adults and young people is important as they come into contact with the services that schools and workplaces provide.
It is the duty of all those who work in public services, schools and workplaces to safeguard vulnerable young people and adults and even though interpreters are often not direct employees of these public services, they still have an important role to play in ensuring vulnerable young people and adults are safeguarded and in providing the right services to those who are unable to protect themselves from abuse, harm and neglect.
If a public service works with young people and/or vulnerable adults, strict safeguarding policies must be in place including schools, hospitals, care homes and charities. To ensure every person is safe, interpreters should have a knowledge of what safeguarding is, how they can recognise abuse and what they should do if they become aware of a safeguarding concern.
This training provides the basic information that interpreters should know as a minimum and provides a platform for further safeguarding training.
Who is the Basic Safeguarding for Interpreters for?
Those who work as interpreters in settings where they may also be working with vulnerable people, such as medical facilities, social services, schools, job centres, immigration, housing, local government, legal settings and more.
Course Content
In this course you will learn about:
What is an adult at risk?
Relevant safeguarding legislation
The 6 safeguarding priorities and the 6 principles
Types of adult abuse
Signs of abuse
Safeguarding – steps to take
Risk consent
Mental capacity
DBS check
Key benefits of our training
- Accredited - meaning our courses deliver what they promise
- Ensures your company is compliant with best practice, with regulations and with legislation
- Nationally recognised
- Consistent message meaning all employees get the same information
- Saves time - can be studied any time and place on any device – convenient and easy to access
- Concise messaging conveys exactly what students need to know in the shortest timespan
- Saves money compared to classroom training / 121 training or many of our competitors
- Scalable pricing with discounts for bulk purchases
What are the aims of this course?
In this Basic Safeguarding for Interpreters training course, you will gain an understanding of children and young people safeguarding, protecting vulnerable people, and applicable safeguarding legislation.
Course Format
This course is delivered and completed online, using a Learning Management System (LMS). Each learner will receive their own log in details, which means that you can track progress individually.
How do the assessments work?
The assessment for this course is an online multiple choice knowledge review.
Course Accreditation
This Basic Safeguarding for Interpreters meets accepted Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
Duration
The courses takes approximately 40 minutes to complete.
To purchase this course, simply:
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- You will receive a confirmation of your purchase via an automatic email
- A learner profile will be set up for each candidate on our Learning Management System (LMS)
- Certificates are downloadable directly from the course as soon as candidates have completed them.
Certificates are available for download in the Learning Management System (LMS) immediately upon completion of the course including passing any knowledge review, or you can access it at a later date.
If you are ordering multiple courses, and someone in your organisation would like a master account where all learner’s certificates can be accessed, please let us know by emailing admin@learnq.co.uk after you have completed your purchase.
There is no expiry date for this certificate, however you may want to refresh the course periodically. The timescale for a refresh depends on the type of course that is being taken and the nature of your business. Ideally, the refresh regularity should be based on a thorough risk assessment of your business and tailored to the unique needs of your organisation and customers (if you are unsure how to complete a risk assessment, you can learn more by completing our Risk Assessment Awareness course).
If you are looking for a general rule for refresh training, every 12-18 months is good practice for the courses that Learn Q offer (we will also email you a reminder when you approach the recommended refresh date).
Please keep in mind the following exclusions:
- In the case of an internal incident- if there has been an incident within your business where an employee, a customer or a client has been injured then this then means that it is important to refresh all colleagues with the relevant training to minimise the chance of it happening again.
- In the case of an external incident- if there has been an incident outside of your business, but within your industry then this could be a time to refresh relevant training. Of course, this will only be applicable if the incident is severe, and you think that it poses a risk to your business and those who work within it and those who are clients. At the very least, it is going to be worthwhile refreshing their Health and Safety training.
- If a process changes- if an internal process has changed, then it is going to be a good time to refresh any training that relates to this process. Particularly if you feel that it might impact what has been previously learnt.
- If you bring in new equipment- if you introduce new equipment, you should provide training that is relevant to this change. Even if the change is slight; after all, prevention is always better than cure.
- If there has been a change in the environment- if you move premises or have some changes made to where you work, then you will need to think about some of the training. This includes COSHH and Health and Safety.
This is an ‘entry level’ course, meaning there are no barriers for entry. You do not need any prior learning, qualifications or certificates to take this course and it is suitable for all.
Once you have completed checkout:
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- Learners will be enrolled in the course(s) that you have acquired.
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Candidates do not have to complete the course in one sitting. The Learning Management System (LMS) will remember progress so if a candidate wants to do the course in small chunks they can do, continuing from where they left off.
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