Leadership in Health and Social Care

Leading in
Health and
Social Care

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Background of Situation/issue/concern...........................................................................................1
Discussion of situation/issue/concern..............................................................................................4
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is a term which shows the quality of an individual to lead a team or an
enterprise in order to attain their set targets by encouraging all the teammates to perform
effectively towards their assigned job role. Basically, leading at health and social care sector is
really a very tough job because lives of patients are highly depending upon an appropriate
management and on time working (Aveyard, 2014). Therefore, leaders of health care association
needs to be very much attentive and dedicated towards their job role. In fact, number of health
care associations are identified which were focussing on their leadership because it helps an
enterprise in managing various activities in smooth manner. Thus, current associations are
having various leaders which were handling team for running the health care centre in better
ways.
However, this assignment is based on health care centre which is engaged in offering care
services to the society’s member. Their main objective is to facilitate patients with best medical
facilities for resolving various health issues. Thus, this project will highlight the effectiveness of
leadership and its role in resolving various problems that get incurred at workplace. Moreover,
various theories of leadership will also outlined for suggesting the distinct ways to leaders of an
organization regarding how to resolve several business issues.
Background of Situation/issue/concern
This Health care centre is very small firm which is involved in offering medical services
to their desired consumers who are suffering from certain type of disease. Their main objective is
to reduce the health issues of an individual by treating them in much suitable manner. Along
with this, they trying to come up with several options and alternative ideas for reducing death
rates that might incurred due to dangerous diseases. However, proper functioning of an
organization is only possible if an enterprise is having a good leadership. Leaders are responsible
for managing entire association in proper manner by allocating job roles to staff members as per
their skills and capabilities. Basically, leaders are playing very crucial role in managing whole
business operations because head of an enterprise is liable for directing their staff members
towards corrective path by taking corrective measures (Martin, 2010). Moreover, proper
management is indispensable for health care sector because number of patients is arrived at any
time as future uncertain and emergency is a mandatory part of any health care sector. On the
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other hand, harrow health care centre is going through various major issues and problems which
affect the functioning of overall enterprise. Along with this, it act as an obstacle in the success of
an organization because employees get failed in satisfying needs of final users due to the
improper management. It’s not easy for health care centre to survive because staff members of
these associations are having a major responsibility towards whole society due to which they
have to be on duty 24*7. In fact, needs to be prepared for several types of complex situations that
might get arrived at any time without any indication. Meanwhile, number of issues and problems
are identified at health care centre which influenced the life of patients. Therefore, some of the
major issues that may rise at workplace is described below in detail manner-
In Harrow health care centre, numerous of problems are encountered by staff members
and patients both because sometime few employees get sick due to which they have to take leave
that directly influence the health of patients. Mainly, staff members of health care centre are
liable for taking care of all the available patients by doing various efforts and treating them
medically in every single hour. This means that care of patient is totally depend upon
employees which shows that absence of staff automatically affect the care of suffered patients.
As a result, health of users get automatically worsens as they are not able to get proper care at
specific time period (Reeves and et. al., 2011).
However, absence of single person at workplace hampered the job of other person also
because workload get increased on present members as they have to now take of the
responsibility of absentee also. Harrow heath care centre is a very small firm due to which
supervisors are liable for assigning various organizational roles and responsibilities to the staff
members. Thus, absent of single person hamper the leader’s job assigning process as now they
have to make sure that pending work also get managed by distributing it into various persons
which are present at workplace. As a result, this will sometime frustrate the employees
whosoever are working more than their responsibilities and effort level.
Furthermore, sometime few members decided to quit the job due to lack of
cooperation amongst staff members. This circumstance directly influences the company in
negative manner as well as patients also. Apart from small-small issues, sometime problem get
very much big such as; employee is only liable for managing technical machinery which is used
by doctors while serving their patients during treatment procedure. It means, if these type of staff
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