Health Sector Careers, Social Care Roles, Legislation & Teamwork

This report provides an overview of the health and social care sector in the UK, focusing on career opportunities within the National Health Service (NHS) and the roles of social care organizations. It details the requirements for various healthcare positions such as social worker specialists and care home managers, outlining their responsibilities and required qualifications. The report also examines the roles and responsibilities of overarching social care organizations like the NHS and UNICEF, highlighting their contributions to healthcare and child welfare. Furthermore, it discusses the influence of key legislations, codes, and policies, including the Care Standard Act (2000) and the Children Act (2004), on social care provision. The report concludes by providing examples of multidisciplinary teamwork within the health and social care sectors, emphasizing the importance of collaboration among doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to deliver comprehensive patient care. Desklib offers a range of resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to support students in their studies.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Requirements for two different careers for social care sector...........................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
P2 Covered in poster .............................................................................................................2
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................2
P3 Roles and responsibilities of two overarching social care organisations .........................2
P4 Legislations, codes and policies that have influenced social care provision ...................3
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................4
P5 Examples of multi-disciplinary working ..........................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
In today's scenario, individuals are getting conscious about health. For this, they want
quality products and services that are able to satisfy their needs and wants in an effective
manner. In UK, Health and Social Care (HSC) sector is growing day by day as the number of
health conscious people is also increasing rapidly. Employees who are involved in HSC should
be polite and calm in nature (Baldassar and Merla, 2013). The present assignment is based on
NHS (National health service); it is a public funded health care system. It provides various
services to people like emergency services and treatment of infectious diseases.
TASK 1
P1 Requirements for two different careers for social care sector
Healthcare sector is now becoming a leading industry by providing job opportunities to
people in UK. Individuals who worked there can get higher career growth opportunities (Cleary,
Horsfall and Hayter, 2014). In NHS, people worked on several positions; it also renders different
jobs like- care home manager, support teams, care coordinator, counsellor, complementary
therapist etc. Below describe the job description of these profiles: -
Job description of social care worker: -
Job title – Social worker specialist
Working hours – 22.5 hours in a week.
Unit/Department – Social work
Organisation Name – NHS (National Health Services)
Timings – 8:30 AM to 7 PM.
Salary - £30000 to £40000
Experience – More than 3 Years.
Reports to: Community MDT manager, inpatient unit and hospice at home services manager.
Tenure – Permanent
Job Purpose: -
 To provide a professional and comprehensive social work service to all patients and
their families to the specialist palliative care service.
Job roles and responsibilities -
 Planning, managing and providing social services.
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 Diagnosing treatment to people with mental disorders and various behavioural as well as
emotional disturbances.
 Supervising and directing social work team members.
 Recognising the role of client in treatment planning.
 Participating general department meetings and care supervision meetings.
Job description of care home manager
Job title – Care home manager
Organisation name – National health services (NHS)
Experience – 8+ years
Salary - £90000 and above
Professional summary – Individuals must have ability of sound problem solving and decision
making for the best interest of the residents and company. They must have ability to stand,
walk, lift, blend, push and pull while performing assigned duties and complete resident transfer.
Job roles and responsibilities: -
 Providing nursing and related services to residents.
 Managing homelike environment for patients
 Protected and promoted the routine care of the patients
 Reported to the senior doctors the status of patients by spending maximum time with
them.
TASK 2
P2 Covered in poster
TASK 3
P3 Roles and responsibilities of two overarching social care organisations
NHS and UNICEF (United Nations Childern's Fund) are the leading health care
industries in UK; it is regulated to provide the best healthcare services to people so that they can
experience better living standards. UNICEF works to change government policies which are
detrimental to children's right. Due to its global presence, it can respond quickly wherever
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disasters strike, delivering life by saving them etc. (Corrigan, Druss and Perlick, 2014). Apart
from this, NHS focuses on improving health of people free of cost.
Furthermore, overarching organisations consist of those entities which make partnership
with several small business and provide them funds to operate their functions effectively. Such
corporations have proper knowledge about populations who are at risk in nation. Although, the
main role of NHS and UNICEF is ensure and take care of children's health; for this, they follow
a well planned structure. Both organisations have a partnership with other small health care
homes in UK. They are also liable towards the presence of selected healthcare professionals so
that it can be used by people whenever they need them.
On the other hand, health care sectors also ensure about the involvement of care
management with healthcare departments so as to cope healthy and positive working
environment within workplace. They also emphasis on nurses and other care providers should
have effective and up to date knowledge so that people can get the best treatment.
P4 Legislations, codes and policies that have influenced social care provision
There are several laws, standards and legislations that should be followed by healthcare
organisations; it influences in positive and negative manner on health care provisions. This
involves children act, care standard act etc. These principles set a direction for all employees
who worked in healthcare organisation. Besides this, code of practices consist of a practical
guidance to attain the standards of health and safety required (Cunningham and James, 2014). In
other words, its a set of written rules that defines how employees will work in a profession
The Care Standard Act (2000) – This act is regulated by UK's parliament in order to give
an effective governance or administration to care home sectors. The care standard care entails to
drive all the rules which are associated with evaluation and execution of various social care
centres (Tuohy and et.al., 2013). However, the law helps people to claim against HSC regarding
any kind of impartiality and discrimination on the basis of region, cast and income level. In
addition, the Care Standard Act was passed to eliminate unfairness from residential cares; CSA
(care standard act) puts a control on all forms of HSC as they can work in an effective manner.
The Children Act (2004) – The act was developed for growth and welfare of children, it
covers child preservation. In addition, it also focuses on attaining goals and objectives which are
implemented for children welfare. It also helps local authorities to regulate official intervention
which rely on children interest (Dewar and Nolan, 2013). However, this law emphasis to render
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qualitative and value added services to child for their betterment and improving educational level
in society.
TASK 4
P5 Examples of multi-disciplinary working
Workforce development consists to driven up the skill level of staff members who are
currently working within organisation. It is assistive in resolving all barriers and conflicts that
could be raised while rendering training and development assistance so as to gain higher
performance level from staff members. There are different multi-disciplinary teams works in
health and social care sectors that forces employees to perform and behaved in proper manner .
It is an effective disciplinary form through which employees can render comprehensive services
to people by determining their needs and wants. It also entails to raise customer satisfaction level
by raising health outcomes (Johnstone and Dallos, 2013). In NHS, multi-disciplinary teams tend
to attain optimum utilisation of available resources to give better care to patients. Examples of
these teams are stated as under: -
 Doctors – They have overall history of an individual's health issues. Doctors carrying out
several events so as to examine the mental health of people and then provide them
required treatment in order to improve their health (Multidisciplinary working, 2018).
 Nurse – They are associated with doctors and follow their directions for recovering
human's health. Nurses work hand in hand with practitioners and have a strong
interaction with them. It will boost up the quality of facilities.
CONCLUSION
It get concluded from this assignment that health and social care sector plays a crucial
role in growth and development of an economy. It is essential for care takers to deliver value
added services to patients effectively so as to gain higher customer satisfaction level. The
structure of healthcare sector is divided in three parts like – statutory, voluntary and private.
Additionally, all laws and code of practices should be followed by service providers while
performing operations.
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