Managing Richmond Fellowship for Mental Health Services

This assignment delves into the organizational structure, services offered, and funding sources of the Richmond Fellowship company, which provides mental health support and disability services. The report aims to evaluate their current practices and suggest improvements in managing employees and resources to better serve clients and maintain high-quality care.

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
A) SUMMARISING THE VARIOUS INFORMATIONS RELATED WITH THE RICHMOND
FELLOWSHIP.................................................................................................................................1
a) Purpose of the organisation.....................................................................................................1
b) Services offered to mental health challenges people..............................................................1
c) Structure and funding arrangement of the organisation..........................................................2
B) EVIDENCE BASED ON THE RELEVANT NEEDS OF THE ORGANISATION.................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is a process by which employees can be managed and
motivated through incentives and other monetary benefits (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). It
involve three activity like staffing, compensation and benefits to the workers by which they can
implement their work by an appropriate manner. This report presents a study of Richmond
Fellowship which is human service agencies establishes at Queensland. It explained the purpose,
various services and organisational structure of cited firm. It also describes the funding activity
which are performed by a business. Furthermore, it also evaluate the strength, weakness and gap
limitation which are faced by the existing human service practitioner while collecting the
informations. At last, it also explained various evidence in this report.
A) SUMMARISING THE VARIOUS INFORMATIONS RELATED WITH
THE RICHMOND FELLOWSHIP
a) Purpose of the organisation
Richmond Fellowship is community owned organisation which provides helps and
support to mentally disabled and socially challenging people (Fuster, 2017). The main motive of
the cited firm is to organize welfare programmes by which they can encourage self belief and
personal growth in people. Company also try to covered all the disabled person under the
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Cited firm also make various efforts for
improving and developing skills y providing training or friendly environment to the workers.
Mission of Richmond Fellowship is to make great approach in field of social welfare. In
addition to this, it organize various welfare programs and receiving support from the legal
authorities. Moreover, firm also enlarge their number of partners. At present, government,
community, research and corporate are the some areas by which company will get great support
for development of the society. All the information related to the organisation are collected in
first time which is totally unfamiliar to the practitioner. All above informations are useful for the
practitioner to analysis the actual working situation and style which are performed by the
organisation (Evan Mayo-Wilson, Paul Montgomery, 2008).
b) Services offered to mental health challenges people
Richmond Fellowship company provides various kinds of services with the helps of
several funding programs. There are different kinds of services which are offered by the
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organisation. Through NDIS support programs, company provides skill building activity which
include budgeting, decision making and public transport facility etc. to the people. By providing
daily services by seating at home offers personal supports to the people (Etats-Unis. Department
of health, human services, Centers for disease control, prevention (Etats-Unis) and National
center for health statistics (Etats-Unis), 2013). There are many recovery day centres are
established by the firm which provides educational and recreational activity or programmes. All
these activities helps to build confidence and developing new skills in mentally disabled person.
Richmond Fellowship also provides opportunities of independent life and hospital facility at
home to the people. At last, firm also provides justice from any kinds of criminal activity through
Transition Reintegration Recovery and Support system to the people. Hence, above all the
informations is appropriate and clearly defined to human service practitioner in order to
understand the impact of services to protect the mentally sick people.
c) Structure and funding arrangement of the organisation
Richmond Fellowship is a community owned organisation in which all the staff
members are designed in well-defined manner. All the members have great responsibility and
roles for providing various services to mentally disabled person (Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 2015). Firm receivers the funds from National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
by which it can provides services to the socially ignored and mentally sick people. Organisation
receives donations from NDIS and Queensland's mission Mental Health Service (PHMS)
organisation. However, information related to funding are not available properly, also the
organisation's structure are not presented. Although, organisation and its service's information
are clearly defined in the report.
B) EVIDENCE BASED ON THE RELEVANT NEEDS OF THE
ORGANISATION
A recent study conducted by Evan Mayo-Wilson and Paul Montgomery (2008) ii presents
the study for providing personal assistance for adult (19-64) which are caused by physical and
intellectual impairments (Brewster and Hegewisch, 2017). The main objective of this study to
assess the effectiveness of personal assistance and identify the impacts by making effective
comparison. While conducting the research, author used electronic database for making
comparative study between 19-64 aged group people. Study analysed the impact on a person
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which are under administration of workers. As a result, it personal assistance make positive
impact in his life. It is determined that people create self-confidence and develop new skills in
their behaviour. Furthermore, it also explained the role of personal care and assistance by which
teaching or learning activities is to be performed by the workers in order to supports the mentally
ill people. The study describes the importance of personal care which create a magical
improvement in mentally disabled person (Birren, Cohen, Sloane, Lebowitz, Deutchman, Wykle
and Hooyman, 2013).
By getting above evidence or as per the past research, it is analysed that Richmond
Fellowship company also provides various supports and helping activity to those people who
were suffering from any mental diseases. As per the services offered by the cited organisation, it
is examined that firm also provides personal supports and hospitality facility to the people at
home. Workers of a company offers teaching and learning facility to such people by which they
can trained them in order to completer daily task. For example: Richmond Fellowship appoint
those workers which trained people of living ability such as dressing sense, day-to-day work
through training or teaching. All these activity helps the mentally sick people by which they can
build self-confidence and develop new thought to living their life. Furthermore, company also
provides hospital facility at home by which they can protect their life due to some uncertainty or
any kind of diseases. In this program, cited firm offers six weeks discharge preparation so that
people can recover themself by resting at home. Hence, by analysing the previous study human
service practitioner can analysis the working styles or facility which are offered by the
Richmond Fellowship company in order to protect the health of mentally retired or sick people in
the society (Beardwell and Thompson, 2014). It can be said that personal care and assistance
plays an important role for developing good mind set and positive behaviour or attitude. By
taking the example of the cited firm and its operations, it is clear that organisation manage their
work and employees appropriately in order tom provides health facility.
CONCLUSION
As per the above detailed report, it can be concluded that to provides human service is an
important task which are performed by the company. This approach is adopted by the firm in
order to meeting human's need and maintaining the good relationship with them. This report is
classified into two parts. In the first part, it discovered the purpose , services and organisational
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structure of Richmond Fellowship company. As a existing human service practitioner, it can be
concluded that cited firm is social welfare organisation which provides services or protection to
mentally sick and disabled person. It also defined the various services such as hospital facility,
independent life, personal support or care which helps to build self confidence in the people's
mind. Furthermore, inn the second part, it presents the evidence which is related to the study.
After analysing the research stud, it can be calculated that Richmond Fellowship company
provides various supports and health facility through effective funding of NDIS. At last, it also
explained the role of personal assistance and linked with the cited organisation's work to achieve
their desire goals.
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REFERENCES
Journals and Books
Armstrong, M. and Taylor, S., 2014. Armstrong's handbook of human resource management
practice. Kogan Page Publishers.
Beardwell, J. and Thompson, A., 2014. Human resource management: a contemporary
approach. Pearson Education.
Birren, J. E., Cohen, G. D., Sloane, R. B., Lebowitz, B. D., Deutchman, D. E., Wykle, M. and
Hooyman, N. R. eds., 2013. Handbook of mental health and aging. Academic Press.
Brewster, C. and Hegewisch, A. eds., 2017. Policy and Practice in European Human Resource
Management: The Price Waterhouse Cranfield Survey. Taylor & Francis.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015. Classification of Diseases, Functioning, and
Disability.[Электронный ресурс]: http://www. cdc. gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm. htm (дата
обращения: 20.09. 2014).
Etats-Unis. Department of health, human services, Centers for disease control, prevention (Etats-
Unis) and National center for health statistics (Etats-Unis), 2013. Healthy people 2010:
Final review. Government Printing Office.
Evan Mayo-Wilson, J. E., Paul Montgomery, V., 2008. Personal assistance for adults (19-64)
with both physical and intellectual impairments.
Fuster, V., 2017. Changing Demographics: A New Approach to Global Health Care Due to the
Aging Population.
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