Team Dynamics and Effective Working in Health & Social Care

This assignment delves into the critical aspects of team dynamics within health and social care. It outlines the four stages of team development – forming, storming, norming, and adjourning – as proposed by Tuckman (1965), with a focus on the 'storming' phase for effective member introduction and responsibility awareness. It also explores approaches to enhance team efficiency and discusses the significance of health and social care in providing assistance and employability opportunities.

Health and Social Care

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1.1 Considering factors while the recruitment process...............................................................1
1.2 Influence of legislation on selection, recruitment and employment of a person...................1
1.3 Approaches for selecting the best individuals.......................................................................2
2.1 Theories of way people interact in groups............................................................................3
2.2 Approaches for effective team working................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care is considered as a very effective sector as it provides enormous
support to the people who are actually in need of it (Brett and et.al, 2014). Also, it helps in
employing much number of people. There are some factors that needs to be ensure while
recruiting people in this sector. Also, legislations have some impact in favour of the employees
working in this sector. Various ways and methods can be used in order to search the skilled and
relevant ones for the health and social sector. Along with this, it involves the importance of team
work and ways to make it more effective.
1.1 Considering factors while the recruitment process
There are some factors that needs to be considered while the planning for the recruitment
of people in the health and social care and these are discussed as under :
 The health and social care centre must have a policy before initiating the recruitment and
selection of people. It is necessary because it helps in ensuring the fact that everyone in
the centre is focusing and working on the same targets and goals that are to be achieved.
Thus, it has its own impact of the individuals also to ensure for the same.
 Selecting the one who is actually talented and can bring improvements in the culture and
productivity of the health and social acre instead of selected the one who has a better
resume is important. The person should be dedicated enough for learning and work
under the management (Moule and Hek, 2011).
 Also, instead of checking their academic results, the health and social care centre can
also look for the fact that whether the person has some experience or not. It is because in
training an experienced one, the centre may have to put in fewer efforts as compared to
the freshers.
 The health and social care centre may also organise some tests or sessions in which they
can be able to check the ability of the person. Focusing on the capability rather than on
grades can seem a better choice for the health and social care.
1.2 Influence of legislation on selection, recruitment and employment of a person
Legislations and policy frameworks play an essential role as it helps in involving some
ways to provide some sort of help and support to the individuals working in the health and social
care. There are various laws and each provide some different sort of support to the people
working. A very well known and common example of this can be considered as the Equality Act
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2010. It says that there is no sort of racism or discrimination allowed in the health and social
care, whether it is on the basis of colour, race, sex, gender etc., it is not allowed at all. The one
who found guilt in this can have to pay huge penalties and also the penalty may lead to the
imprisonment of the person. So, by means of the Equality Act 2010, at least the employees can
feel safe enough while working in a health and social care because it ensures the fact that there
should be no sort of discrimination in the work place, no matter it is on the basis of colour,
gender etc. Another popular legislation, Equal pay ACT 1970 is also considered as very
influence one because it does not favour any sort of partiality between men and women in
consideration with the payment system (Glasby, 2017). It is necessary as well because in various
states, there are still some people who differentiate between men and women, so as per this Act,
the women employees can also work peacefully that they are not being discriminated in case of
any factor such as payment etc. So, it can be considered as a factor of equality in the health and
social care.
1.3 Approaches for selecting the best individuals
Although there are various ways that can help in selecting and recruiting the best and
suitable candidates, but some well known can help the most and these are discussed as under :
 Rather than posting unnecessarily on pages that are just for fun and for entertainment
purposes, the health and social care ensure to post the vacancy for jobs on some verified
job related platforms or such web portals.
 Also, after selecting a few ones, the health and social care can ask for the references so
that they can be able to understand their past history, character, behaviour and efficiency
of work. It can actually have a huge impact on selecting the individual because the past
history can give much information and predictions about how the person is going to work
in the future.
 The health and social care can represent any new job openings on the notice board so that
if in case, some employee has anyone to refer, they can do it easily. Usually, in work
places, there is no such time available, so the employees can see the notice board while
entering and leaving in the health and social care.
 Then, inviting the short listed individuals and check their ability through various means
such as the health and social care can organise some sessions and tests on the basis of
which, they can check the actual capability of the person. Thus, these can be considered
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as the effective methods for selecting and recruiting the best individuals in the health and
social care.
2.1 Theories of way people interact in groups
There are some theories that can actually help in determining how employees in the
health and social acre interact in groups and these are discussed as under :
 Forming is considered as the initial step in which a particular team is made, whether it
has been made by the practitioners for doing some stuff or while working under the same
team.
 Storming is considered as the second phase in which each member of team introduce with
each other and get aware of their responsibilities. Listening to the other members and
discussing with them seems to be a better option in this phase (Hasson, 2010).
 Norming, the third phase, in which the members of the team gets aware of each other's
contribution and tries to get adjust with everyone. Then, the next step is performing in
which the person starts getting competitive with one another but in a very polite way,
without any anger etc.
 Adjourning is considered as the last phase in which the whole team submits a specific
project after this much of hard work, interaction etc.
2.2 Approaches for effective team working
The health and social care can develop various ways and techniques for making the team
work more efficient and appropriate but some common ways can involve the fact that the team
members should get some time to know each other (Betancourt and et.al, 2016). Also, smaller
groups of various teams should be given some similar tasks so that they can interact with each
other and have some discussions. By this way, it will have an impact on the team work, thus they
all can work in a way that can help in bringing the health and social care all their targets and
goals in a faster time.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that health and social care is considered as a very essential industry
because there are enormous number of people that actually require some sort of help and
preventions. Also, it helps in providing employability to a various number of people as well.
Some measures need to be taken while selecting and recruiting people for this sector. Also,
various laws have their own and very effective influence on the safety and security of the people
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working in health and social care. Various approaches can be involved in order to improve the
team performance as well.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Hasson, H., 2010. Systematic evaluation of implementation fidelity of complex interventions in
health and social care. Implementation Science. 5(1). p.67.
Brett, J. and et.al., 2014. Mapping the impact of patient and public involvement on health and
social care research: a systematic review. Health Expectations. 17(5). pp.637-650.
Moule, P. and Hek, G., 2011. Making sense of research: an introduction for health and social
care practitioners. Sage.
Glasby, J., 2017. Understanding health and social care. Policy Press.
Betancourt, J. R. and et.al., 2016. Defining cultural competence: a practical framework for
addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care. Public health reports.
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