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Any young person or staff member injured must receive medical treatment required
immediately.
Any Injuries must be recorded in the ‘Accident Log Book’ and forwarded to the
Safeguarding Officer and the H&S Officer for their examination. The manager must
ensure appropriate reports are under Schedule 5 as above.
RIDDOR must be informed in the case of serious injuries requiring hospital
treatment eg, head injury or broken bones of young people or staff members. The
details of these injuries must also be reported by the H&S Officer to our Insurers
The Companies Safeguarding Officer and the H&S PI Officer will make checks on all
recorded Interventions, sign off all correctly undertaken and recorded and
investigate any mis – recording immediately, giving further training or supervision as
necessary.
Where actual bodily harm is inflicted, on the member of staff they must obtain any
medical treatment considered necessary. Where a period of absence follows, regular
contact will be maintained, by the Management Team, who will offer appropriate
counselling and make a visit to their home as required.
Regular monthly Staff Meetings are held to discuss strategies and their
effectiveness. Permanent staff members receive quarterly supervisions and staff
on probation monthly or more where desired, in which they can raise any issues,
discuss managing behaviour and request any training updates they require.
House managers on site Mon-Fri and occasional weekends, on call out of hours, if
young people feel they have an issue, are not being heard or wish to make a
complaint.
This Policy should be read alongside the Companies policies on Incident
Reporting, Safeguarding, Complaints Procedure, Whistle Blowing,
Rewards System & Schedule 5 Guidance.
PBM Quick Guide- all behaviours you wish to see repeated should be
reinforced with attention-All behaviours you wish to see reduced should
not be reinforced, disengage do not get drawn into discussion.
July 2014
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