– Understand the professions ethical principles and their relevance to practice.
– Recognise the impact that personal values and attitudes have on their relationships with others.
– Understand the importance of seeking the views of service uses.
– Recognise individual’s rights to autonomy, self-determination and promote their participation in decision making wherever possible.
– Recognise that acting in accordance with social work values that it can bring practitioners into conflict with service users.
– Identify and manage potentially conflicting values and ethical dilemmas but take account any legislation when reaching decisions.
– Protect the privacy of individuals within and outside of the family network while recognising the requirements of professional accountability and information sharing.
– Demonstrate confident application of ethical reasoning to professional practice, rights and entitlements, questioning and challenging others using legal and human rights framework
– Help others by providing guidance and support to analyse, reflect on and work with ethical dilemmas.
– Demonstrate skills relating to issues of privacy and information sharing in complex or risky situations, offering support and guidance to colleagues when managing such dilemmas.
– Contribute to the evaluation and development of human rights and ethical principles that underpin organisational governance.
– Provide expert professional opinion where there are ethical dilemmas.
– Model, identify and promote best practice, policy, procedures and training about confidentiality, informed by current evidence. Ensure data protection and safeguarding legislation is applied, and undertake appropriate action if necessary.

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