Understanding Roles and Responsibilities in Health and Social Care

This report provides a detailed overview of the roles and responsibilities within health and social care settings. It begins with an introduction outlining the report's focus on different aspects of health and social care. The report explores the duties of health and social care workers, emphasizing their role in aiding families, resolving conflicts, and supporting vulnerable populations. It differentiates between working and personal relationships, highlighting the formal and professional nature of the former. The report also discusses the roles of regulators and advisors in healthcare, emphasizing their importance in planning strategies and ensuring patient compliance. It further explains the significance of adhering to agreed ways of working, which are essential for legal compliance and effective care delivery. The report details how to access information on agreed ways of working and how to contribute to quality assurance processes. The report concludes by summarizing the key aspects of effective health and social care settings and the benefits of such settings for the community. The report also includes references to relevant literature.

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Table of content
• Introduction
• Roles and responsibilities and health and social care settings
• Ways in which a working relationship is different from a personal relationship
• The role of regulators and advisors within health and social care
• Why is it important to follow agreed ways of working
• How to access details of agreed ways of working
• How to contribute to quality assurance processes to promote positive experiences
for individuals receiving care
• Conclusion

Introduction
• This report focuses on roles and responsibilities of health and social care settings. This report help
in understanding about different advisory in health and social care settings. There are several factors
which affect health and social care settings and health workers have to understand different factors
and aspect which can affect their work.

Roles and responsibilities and health and social
care settings.
• The health and social care workers aims to aid the family members in situations of need. They work for
resolving the conflicts in various relationship. They work to provide help to the old aged and the people with
mental disabilities.
• The social and health care workers perform duties involving coping up with the drug or alcohol addicts and
facilitate them to the rehabilitation centres.
• Apart from the duties discussed above, the social and health care workers have various rights which they can
perform in order to make their roles and responsibilities effective and efficient.

Ways in which a working relationship is different from a personal relationship
• Working relationship is different from personal relationship in many aspects.
Working relationship is a formal relationship which is a deliberate or a forced relation
between two or more people. Whereas a personal relationship is an informal relationship
which happens or take place naturally. A working relationship is a relationship where
time is spent with colleagues during working hours and there is no or minimal contact out
of the working hours, also it is strictly professional. A personal relationship is where
personal life and extra curricular activities and social life become involved with staff
members

The role of regulators and advisors within health and social
care
• As per this, the role of advisor and regulator within an healthcare is vital because
they use to prepare plan and strategies in such a way which provide beneficial
recommendation in the patient compliance. In context with this, the regulatory affairs and
their specialist help to assist in obtaining and maintain government approval for the drug,
medical devices, nutritional product and various apparatus which is used in such a way
which help to create comfortability in patient recovery.

Why is it important to follow agreed ways of working
• An employer provides employee with the safe and agreed ways in which an
employee is expected to work. This is shared to the employee by the employer or other
colleague in the form of policy. It is important to follow agreed ways of working due to
the many reasons, such as-
• It ensures proper working within the law and provides care and support that meet the
needs of the individual. It is further important to work as per the agreed ways in order to
perform efficiently without harming oneself whether intentionally or unintentionally

How to access details of agreed ways of working
• It is quite important to have access to the full and up to date details of agreed
ways of working. Agreed ways of working include the systems, processes and codes of
conduct for the work related tasks and behaviour which are expected to be performed.
The agreed ways of working are mostly the policies and procedures which are provided in
form of documents and they can be accessed if opportunity is provided to the individual

How to contribute to quality assurance processes to promote
positive experiences for individuals receiving care
• Quality assurance is a tool for ensuring that the individuals who are being
supported receive a high quality of service in all the aspects of care and support package
from planning t delivery, in order to ensure that it is safe, effective and meets up with the
needs of every individual. There are various ways to give contribution in quality
assurance process, like- An individual can work as a front line person which will help you
play a major role in the quality assurance process of the organization.

Conclusion
• This report concludes about the effective health and social care settings and it also concludes about
different measures which can be take for effective implementation of health and social care settings.
This report concludes about effects of health and social care settings and benefits of effective social
and health care settings. Social and health care settings are focused towards serving people of
society and providing them effective social and health care services.

References
• Donatini, A., 2020. The Italian health care system. International profiles of health care systems, p.117.
• Glasby, J., 2017. Understanding health and social care. Policy Press.
• Grant, M.P., and et. al., 2019. Communal responsibility: a history of health collectives in Australia. Internal
medicine journal. 49(9). pp.1177-1180.