Unit 5 Working in Partnership in Health and Social Care
Unit 5 Working in Partnership in HSC
Unit
5 Working in Partnership in Health and Social Care
Aim
The
aim of this unit is to enable learners to develop understanding of the
importance of workingpositively in partnership with others in health and social
care.
Learning outcomes
On
successful completion of this unit a learner will:
1
Understand partnership philosophies and relationships in health and social care
services
2
Understand how to promote positive partnership working with users of services,
Professionals
and organizations in health and social care services
3
Be able to evaluate the outcomes of partnership working for users of services,
professionals and organizations in health and social care services.
Unit content
1
Understand partnership philosophies and relationships in
health and social care
Services
Partnership philosophies: empowerment; independence; autonomy; respect; power
sharing;making informed choicesPartnership relationships:
with users of services children, elderly, young people in care,people with
disabilities, people with learning difficulties, people with mental health
issues,patients, refugees, asylum seekers; with professional groups social
workers, healthworkers, educationalists, therapists, support workers; with
organizations statutory,voluntary, private, independent, charitable, community
forums
2
Understand how to promote positive partnership working with
users of services,
Professionals
and organizations in health and social care services
Positive partnership working: empowerment; theories of collaborative working;
informeddecision making; information sharing; confidentiality; professional
roles and responsibilities; models of working unified, coordinated, coalition
and hybrid models; management structures; communication methods; current
inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working Multi-Area Agreements (MAA), Local
Area Agreements (LAA); joint working agreements Legislation affecting partnership working: current and relevant legislation relating to health,
social care, safeguarding children and young people, mental health, disability,
data protection, diversity, equality and inclusion Organizational practices
and policies: current and relevant practices;
agreed ways of working;Statutory voluntary and private agency practices; local,
regional and national policyDocument produced by government departments,
specialists units, voluntary agencies;Risk assessment procedures; employment
practices; service planning procedures.
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3
Be able to evaluate the outcomes of partnership working for
users of services,
Professionals
and organizations in health and social care services
Outcomes for users of services: positive outcomes improved services, empowerment,
autonomy,informed
decision making; negative outcomes neglect, abuse, harm, anger,
miscommunication,information
overload, confusion, frustration, duplication of service
provision,
disempowerment Outcomes for professionals:
positive outcomes eg coordinated service provision, professional approach,
clear roles and responsibilities, organized communication, avoidance
ofduplication, preventing mistakes, efficient use of resources; negative
outcomes eg professional rivalry, miscommunication, time wasting, mismanagement
of funding Outcomes
for organizations: positive outcomes eg
coherent approach, shared principles, comprehensive service provision, common
working practices, integrated services; negative outcomes eg communication
breakdown, disjointed service provision, increased costs, loss of shared
purposeBarriers to partnership
working: lack of understanding of roles and responsibilities;
negative attitudes; lack of communication, not sharing information; different
priorities; different attitudes and values Strategies to improve outcomes: communication, information sharing; consultation; negotiation;
models of empowerment; collective multi-agency working; dealing with conflict; stakeholder
analysis.
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