10 Ways to Enhance Your Safeguarding Skills in the Dental Setting

Discover how to enhance the safety and well-being of children, young people, and adults at risk. In this latest presentation you will learn 10 essential strategies, including learning the importance of definitions, the meaning of organisational abuse , the importance of safeguarding audits, recognizing signs of abuse, building confidence to report, avoiding allegations, using case history in the public domain, and understanding principle 2 of the Mental Capacity Act.

Equip yourself and your team with the knowledge and tools to provide a safer, more supportive experience for all patients.

Learning objectives

• Understand how to use key Safeguarding Definitions.
• Identify the Signs of Abuse and Safeguarding Concerns in a Dental Setting
• Improve confidence in reporting and Safeguarding Procedures
• Apply Safeguarding Best Practices and Principles to Create a Safer Dental Practice

Following the presentation:

• Participants will be able to define and explain the different types of abuse.
• Participants will be able to recognise physical and behavioural signs of abuse in patients of all ages, including children, young people, and adults at risk.
• Participants will also demonstrate the ability to identify potential safeguarding concerns, including recognising patterns of behaviour that could indicate abuse or neglect. They will also understand how to report safeguarding concerns.
• Participants will feel more confident in their ability to report concerns, knowing the steps to take, who to report to, and how to protect both their patients and themselves from potential allegations.
• Participants will also be able to implement at least two actionable safeguarding practices in their daily routine to enhance patient safety.

This talk satisfies the GDC’s learning outcomes:

A – Effective communication with patients, the dental team, and others across dentistry, including when obtaining consent, dealing with complaints, and raising concerns when patients are at risk

B – Effective management of self, and effective management of others or effective work with others in the dental team, in the interests of patients at all times; providing constructive leadership where appropriate

D – Maintenance of skills, behaviours and attitudes which maintain patient confidence in you and the dental profession and put patients’ interests first

Kevin Morgan

Biography

Kevin Morgan is a professional CPD instructor covering areas such as safeguarding and the Mental Capacity Act.  He has been delivering safeguarding training to the Dental and Medical sector for the past 15 years. NSPCC trained Kevin has been delivering regulated and bespoke programs up to level 3 in safeguarding and he also delivers many other CPD titles.