Project on Health and Social Care Recruitment and Teamwork Strategies

This report delves into the critical aspects of health and social care organizations, focusing on recruitment processes, teamwork dynamics, and leadership applications. The report begins by outlining operational and strategical factors influencing recruitment, including organizational size, work profile, and reputation, alongside strategies like job postings and multi-step interviews. It emphasizes key legislations governing employee selection. Furthermore, the report explores theories of individual interaction in teams, such as storming, forming, and norming, and discusses effective teamwork approaches like group problem-solving and building diverse teams. Leadership theories, including behavioral and contingency theories, are applied to health and social care, alongside practical methods for team management, such as work delegation and prioritization. The report concludes by highlighting how effective management contributes to organizational development and success. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the management carried out within health and social care organizations.

INTRODUCTION
Health is always considered as an important issues for the life of people. It is rightly said
that 'A healthy mind reside in healthy body' so it is very important to keep oneself disease free so
that a proper health will be maintain. In order to ensure that no person shall face any kind of
health related issues, there are many initiative taken by government and the organisation as well.
It has been seen that there are many institution like hospitals are established so that a proper aid
will be given to people who are facing any health issue. As a separate health care organisation is
being established then a proper management shall be recruited fro such institution so that the
work carried out by health care department will be proper(Munn-Giddings, Winter, 2013). The
following project shall cover all the important aspect of health and social care organisation with
recruitment process and strategies used in there. The aim of the project is to establish a better
understanding about the management carried out within health and social care organisation.
TASK 1
1.1
operational and strategical factors for recruitment in health and social care
There are many factors which a person from human resource department shall consider
while recruiting a new employee for health and social care. Two most important factors which
will effect the recruitment process in HR industry are operational and strategical factors.
Operational factors
Size of the organisation effect process of recruitment. According to various kind of survey, it is
found that larger organisation face less problem while recruitment process is being carried out in
comparison to smaller firms
works profile also effect the process of recruitment. If the work profile demands better amount of
working conditions and amenities then recruitment shall be conducted easily as people look for
better job options(Aveyard, 2014).
Reputation of the organisation also plays an important role for the process of recruitment. If firm
is well established with good rating, an individual shall go for it.
Strategical factors

There are various kinds of or strategies used in recruitment process and such strategies are
known as strategical factors(Lowes, Hulatt, 2013). Various kinds of strategies which is used by
HR department for recruitment is:-
HR department may post the application of recruitment onto bulletin boards or public notice
board so that person will get the information of upcoming recruitment
by serving online applications the process of recruitment can be carried out
by internal and external sources recruitment process can be carried out(Baldwin, 2016).
1.2
best approaches for recruitment in health and social care
It is very important for the organisation like Alliance health care that its HR department
may use particular approach for the selection process so that an individual can be selected at its
best. Different kinds of approaches are:-
Job description- when a systematic hiring process has been carried by Alliance health care then
the first thing to do is to describe about job. A proper well description must be posted by HR
department of health and care department so that person can get an idea.
Job Posting Strategy- another strategy which is used by HR department in selection process is
posting of jobs onto various platform. For an example application of job can be posted on to the
various online websites(Valentine, Nembhard, IEdmondson, 2015). It can be pasted on to the
public notice board so that number of people will come to know about vacancy and accordingly
they can apply
Multi step interview approach- with the application of multi step interview a section process can
be conducted at its best level. By this process an interview is being conducted on various steps
like conducting an aptitude test and then a face to face interview. This strategy is being used in
order to filter all the job applicants in Alliance health and to choose the best.
1.3
key legislations for selecting an individual in health and social care organisation
Laws and legislation plays a very important role in society. There are many laws and
regulation which has been implemented by government to ensure that the rights of a particular
are saved. In the same manner there are certain laws which has been implemented by
government for recruitment in health and social care organisation so that correct or right

individual shall get selected for same(Rodin, 2014). For an example Alliance health care
department while making a selection of an individual , considered few legislation so that
recruitment shall be done at best.
 While selecting an individual the very first thing which need to be carried out that the
person selected is not unsound mind that is the shall not be lunacy or at the stage of
insanity. The mind status of an individual shall be stable so that he will be able to work
better
 the person should not be minor that is the person selected for health and social care
should be above 18 years. It is prohibited by law to give employment to the minors.
 The person should not be insolvent tat it all his debts should be clear before joining the
organisation. Any person who is insolvent will not be eligible for job.
TASK 2
2.1
theories for interaction of an individual in team
There are various kinds of theories which has been adopted by health and social care
organisation like Alliance health care for interaction of an individual while working in a team.
These theories are:-
storming- in this kind of theory when a person or an individual works in a team then he has put
different kind of idea for the task given to team(Antheunis, Tates, Nieboer, 2013). When the idea
is being proposed by an individual then a relationship shall be established between a individual
an the team members
Forming- in this kind of theory when the task has been allocated to team member then each team
member has to work independently on the task and have to trust another. By this application an
individual shall try to get involved in team and interact with people.
Norming- by this application a harmonious practice shall be carried out by an individual towards
its team and then a level of interaction will be established.

2.2
approaches for effective team working
There are many approached which is being used by the health and social care
organisation so that an effective team work shall be established. It is necessary to carry out an
effective team work so that goal s can be achieved within time period. Effective approaches are:-
Group problem solving- by this kind of approach every problem shall be solved by working in a
group that is whenever a problem is strike then every person of that group shall work on the
problem so that an effective work shall be carried out(Gottlieb, Sandel, Adler, 2013).
Encouraging free thinking- when the work is being carried out in a group by every individual
has been given freedom to think. No restriction shall be imposed as thinking may propose new
idea by which work shall be enhanced.
Building diverse team- when the work has to be carried out effectively then it is very important
to build a team of diverse member that is individual from every field shall be included.
4.1
application of leadership theories in health and care department
There are various kind of leadership theories which can be applied to the organisation
related to health an d social care department. Some theories are:-
Behavioural theories- according to this theory an behaviour of a leader shall be studies that is
there are different kinds of trait present in leader and with the application of this theory
behaviour of a person can be studied(Rosenfield, Mouzon, 2013). Such strategies can be applied
in health and social care organisation as there are individual present in the organisation who
work as leader and by studying their trait.
Contingency theory- according to this theory there is not a single way of carrying out anything
there are different styles by which the work has to be carried out. For an example it has been
seen in health and social care organisation that people shall perform at the maximum level at
certain places but minimum performance when taken out their element(Viruell-Fuentes,
Miranda, Abdulrahim, 2012).

4.2
team work management in health and social care
There are certain ways in which a health care department shall be able to manage its work
conducted in team. Some of the ways are:-
Delegation of work- while working in a team it is very important that the work shall be
delegated to all the team members(Dealey, Posnett, Walker, 2012). If the work is not delegated
then task will not be able to complete in time. Delegation of work divide the work load in
number of people.
Priority- while carrying out any work in a team it is very important to take priority work that is
the task which is important for the team shall be taken at first so that the work shall not get
hampered and will be able to manage by team(Graven, Grant, 2014).
4.3
development by management approaches
Management is very much important for the company. If management is not carried out
by a company then development shall not occur(de Bekker‐Grob, Ryan, Gerard, 2012). With the
application of management several development can occur
 It will save time
 Work shall not get hampered
 Goals shall be achieved on time
 quality of work will be carried out
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above topic that health is an serious issue and there are
many health and social care organisation established. The project has described about the
recruitment process which is being carried out by HR. there are different kinds of strategies used
for recruitment process. The project has further described about team work and what are the
measures for an effective team work in health and social care department.

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