Assignment Brief
You manage a service that is regulated by a national regulatory body.
At your last supervision with your line manager you discussed issues pertaining to
inspection. You also expressed that you were not familiar with the governance of
your organisation. As a result, the following objectives were agreed.
1) You will prepare your team for inspection.
2) You will investigate internal governance mechanisms and how these relate to
care provision and your own role
Task 1- Statutory Frameworks
Prepare a briefing for your senior staff on the statutory frameworks providing context
for inspection, which also explores the potential for dilemmas and conflicts. The
briefing should include:
· Legislation in relation to the regulation of
o Care Provision
o Capacity
o Safeguarding
o Equality and Diversity
o Health and Safety
o Physical Environment
o Environmental Issues
o Employment
· The potential conflicts between regulatory requirements and the delivery of
effective person centred care
· Ways of managing those conflicts
· Potential conflicts between different regulatory requirements
· Use of local and national forums to highlight conflicts and duplication between
different regulatory requirements and person centred outcomes
Task 2 – Inspection
Prepare a range of resources to inform and support team members in readiness for
inspection, with the following key objectives:
· Reasons why services are inspected
· What services are subject to inspection
· The key areas the inspection will review
· The grading system used by regulatory bodies
· The roles and responsibilities of people involved in an inspection
· How regulators prepare for an inspection and report their findings
· Types of information required for regulation processes
· Sources of support and information available
Task 3 – Governance
Write a report explaining internal governance mechanisms within your organisation.
The report must include:
· An explanation of what is meant by governance
· A description of how your own internal governance mechanisms relate to the
long term aims and objectives of the service, including feedback from a range
of stakeholders
· An evaluation of how the above relates to
o care provision
o own role
o own accountability
o legal directives
