Roles and Responsibilities of Health and Social Care Professionals

This report examines the roles and responsibilities of health and social care professionals like GP, language therapist, psychologist, and social worker. It also discusses the advantages and barriers to inter-professional and multi-disciplinary team working.

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Table of contents
 INTRODUCTION
 Roles and responsibilities of health and social care
 Advantages and barriers to inter-professional
 Ability to work as an effective team member
 Belbin theory
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Health and social care means to provide good
services to patients so that they can recover soon.
social care is used to help someone by providing
physical and emotional support.
 The purpose is to help people to live their happily
and healthy manner (Moudatsou and et.al., 2020).
 The report examines, roles and responsibilities of
a health and social care professional like, GP,
language therapist, psychologist and social
worker.

Roles and responsibilities of health and social
care
 It is important to provide good environment to patient who is not well so that they can
recover soon and live their life happily.
 In the given case study of Ola, there are four professionals i.e., social worker, GP,
language therapist and psychologist.
 All the members has different roles and responsibilities and work as a team to improve
health of Ola.

Social worker
 Social worker is responsible for providing advice to patient, support and resources to
patient and their family members to solve the problem.
 Social worker is working with specific groups which includes, children, elder and
families in crisis.
 Social worker is responsible for solving problem face by individuals or their family
members.
 They are responsible for creating and implementing treatment plan which is beneficial
for patient.

GP
 General practitioner are present at the medical community and link with hospitals.
 They are protecting people from diseases and manage epidemics. General
practitioner treat a wide range of medical conditions and health issues.
 GP are important because they are looking after patients in their homes and
providing good treatment so that they can recover soon.
 They are part of much wider teams whose role includes promoting, preventing and
providing treatment to patient to improve their health (Curtis and et.al., 2017).

Language therapist
 Language therapist communicates with the patient and try to identify problem faced by
patient and try to solve it.
 Language therapist provide life-changing treatment, support and care for children who
are facing difficulty in communication, eating etc.
 Language therapist provides screening, assessment, treatment, management and
counselling services so that patient can recover soon and share problem so that solution
can be find.

Speech and language therapist
 Speech and language therapist provides support and care to children by interacting with
them.
 They are interacting with children who are having difficulty in communication, eating,
drinking etc (Volkmer, Spector, Warren and Beeke, 2020).
 During speech therapy, therapist try to interact with children by playing and talking with
them.
 They are using books, pictures and other objects to communicate with children.
 Speech and language therapist help stimulate language development.

Benefits of speech and language therapist
 Speech and language therapist helps
in solving problem of children.
 They provide better articulation
from speech therapy and interact
with children.
 Speech and language therapist
increase confidence of children and
reduce anxiety.

Barriers for language therapist
 There are some barriers which is faced by speech and language therapist are, high case
load, lack of materials, scheduling, making plans for therapy treatment and all the
children are different from each other (Palmer, Witts and Chater, 2018).
 So, different ways are used to communicate with children. Some people misunderstand
role of speech and language therapist.
 These are some barrier which is faced by language therapist.

Inter professional about speech and language therapist
 Inter professional refers to communication that is occurred between two or more
professional people.
 Speech and language therapist interact with social worker and GP.
 Language therapist interact with doctor, nurses and family members of patietnt
(Morgan and et.al., 2019).
 Language therapist communicate with GP and nurses to improve health of patient.
 Language therapist interact with other professionals to achieve a common goal.
 speech and language therapist working with other professionals to achieve targets.

Ability to work of speech and
language therapist
 Speech and language therapist are trained personnel.
 They are providing screening, consultation and good treatment to patient who are not
able to speak.
 They are providing counseling services to children.
 Speech and language therapist has the ability to interact with children and solve their
problems.

Advantages and barriers about
speech and language therapist
 Speech and language therapist help children to interact with others and share their
problem.
 They are using some signs of speech and language to communicate with children.
 Speech and language therapist helps in development of children.
 Speech and language therapist provides good treatment to children to improve their
health.

Psychologist
 Psychologist is playing a crucial role in improving health of a person. They are doing
research to identify behaviour and experience of patient.
 Psychologist is suggesting ways to improve health and provide better care to patients.
 It is important to focus on health of patient and good environment should be provided
so that they can recover soon.
 psychologist is responsible for identifying and diagnosing mental and emotional
behaviour (Buse, Martin and Nettleton, 2018).

Belbin theory
 Belbin theory of team development is used to
identify strengths and weakness of every member at
the workplace.
 According to Belbin, there are nine team roles
which he divided into three roles such as, action
oriented, people oriented and thought oriented.
 Action oriented roles include shaper, implementer
and completer-finisher.
 It is important to work as a team so that goals and
objectives can be accomplished (Abomhara and
et.al., 2018).

CONCLUSION
 From the above discussion it can be concluded that, health and social care means to
provide good care to patient to improve their health.
 Roles and responsibilities of a health and social care professional of social worker, GP,
language therapist and psychologist has been described.
 Further, advantages and barriers to inter- professional and multi-disciplinary team
working like, lack of trust, conflicts arise, different perspectives etc. has been
discussed.
 Demonstration of the ability to work as an effective team member has been described.

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