Exploring Roles, Responsibilities, and Ethics in Health & Social Care

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the roles and responsibilities of health and social care workers within the UK healthcare system. It highlights the importance of their physical and emotional support to vulnerable individuals, emphasizing collaboration between healthcare and social care professionals. The report details key responsibilities such as providing care to families, supporting individuals facing various challenges, and assisting those with disabilities or addictions. It differentiates between working and personal relationships, stressing the need for adherence to job scopes and legal frameworks. Furthermore, it explores the role of regulators and advisors in ensuring quality and safety, the benefits of interprofessional partnerships, and the importance of quality assurance processes in promoting positive experiences for individuals receiving care. The report concludes by underscoring the value of teamwork and effective communication in delivering high-quality health and social care services.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
1.1: Role and responsibilities in healthcare setting................................................................1
1.2: Ways that help in working relationship is various in personal relationship....................2
1.3: Role of regulators and advisors in healthcare setting......................................................2
2.1: Important ways to job responsibilities.............................................................................3
2.2: Access towards the working............................................................................................3
2.3 Contribute to quality assurance processes to promote positive experiences for individuals
receiving care..........................................................................................................................4
3.1 Benefits of working in partnership with others in the healthcare settings.......................4
3.2 Examples of best practice of healthcare services which working in a team....................5
3.3 Ways of working to improve partnership.........................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care is defined as the term which is related with the services that is
available from the health and social care provider which is established in the UK. moreover,
health and social care that is based on the treatment that based on the ill health and the medical
situation which is associated with hospital, health centre and the community. In this, the social
care is defined as the care and support of the vulnerable people, they usually work within the
community (Baur and et. al., 2017). Moreover, there are number of people who require social
and health support. As per this, the main purpose of health and social care is used for the help
that is provided in the terms of physical and emotional support. However, the main purpose of
this is to help individuals who used to live in a content and the strong method in the face of of
their disabilities. In this report the discussion is focus on the role and responsibilities in health
and social care setting, need of relationship and role of regulator and advisor. The agreed way of
working and benefits while working with partnership in health and social care (Craftman and et.
al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
1.1: Role and responsibilities in healthcare setting
The social care is defined as the term which is used to help that is provided for the physical
and emotional support for the patient. In this, health and social care which defines adult social
worker, nurses, registered nurses and many more are work as support within the health and social
care. In this, working in the social care sector is usually help that they are providing support for
the non-clinical needs. Moreover, there are significant collaboration which is associated between
the healthcare worker and the social care. However, the health and social care worker play
significant role in the maintaining and improving the health in the society. They can create
positive impact on the people then they are used to understand their duties (Daly and et. al.,
2018).
Following are the key point which help to elaborate the main role of health and social care
worker that mainly include:
 Provide care for the family members in the certain need and situation.
 Care for the individual who is facing issue or any conflict in their various relationship.
 People facing the issue with old age.
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 They provide aspect of support for the individual with the mental disabilities or the
distress.
 They provide assistance of addiction of alcohol or other drugs.
 In this, people with the financial issue are struggling to get by (Hengelaar and et. al.,
2018).
1.2: Ways that help in working relationship is various in personal relationship
The main difference between the working and personal relationship is develop
environment in which the relationship is begins. The association which is associated with the
family fellow are is called as personal relationship while employee of the workplace is defined as
the working relationship (Karimy and et. al., 2018).
The working relationship is defined as the relationship which is associated with a
healthcare worker with their client or patient which is based on treatment, diagnosis and support
which is provided by support worker that show the aspect of working relationship. Sometime, the
rising conflict is that the people are usually act like familiar when the person used to perform
their job role.
The relationship between the household members are usually termed as individual
relationship. Moreover, the personal association is the lot more which production important role
to us than employed relationship. This is because of the major impact it has lives which is much
greater. in the contrast with health and social care, the support worker has their own personal life
which is balance after the working hours. In this, when any family member used to face issue
with the health and after the working hours of job role, the care is termed as personal relationship
(Newman and et. al., 2019).
1.3: Role of regulators and advisors in healthcare setting
The authority is defined as the main aim which help to protect the health and the wellbeing
of the patient which is by public which help to scrutinising and overseeing the work which is
based on the regulatory bodies which have set of standard for the training and conduct health and
care professionals. Moreover, the regulator used to perform such thing which is helpful in the
health and social care. In this, the set standard of the competence and used to conduct which have
that health and care professional that must meet in order to make the proper registered and
practise. Quality of education and training courses which help to ensure that the skill and
knowledge that practice safely and competently in well manner (Salonen and et. al., 2019).
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Moreover, there are some of the typical responsibility for the health care regulator are
usually establish various technical, safety and the quality standards. In this, the monitoring is also
taken for the compliance which provide safety to the client or the support worker. They usually
impose the penalties for the noncompliance.
2.1: Important ways to job responsibilities
It is very important in order to adhere the scope of the job which is all set towards the
boundaries of the job role. It is helpful to enable the role and responsibilities which is associated
with the job role and their responsibilities. In order to know the level of competence and the
skills which is best suit on the description. They also ensure that they are working within the law
which is helpful to provide care and the support which is best to provide the need of the
individual. In some circumstance they do not follow the agree ways which is best suitable for the
working and may harm the other with any meaning. So as per this, it is vital to adhere the
decided scope of the job which is expounded in the job that shadow the feature of account as the
part of contract which is followed under the aspect of service that show the permissible tasks and
they determine the roles and responsibilities under the specialist’s commitments which help to
make clear understanding regards with the expectation of the job roles. Agreed ways of working
with each individual will be detail in care plans. They ensure that they are working within the
law and providing care and support that meet the need individual. Therefore, it is important to
follow the aspect which is focused on the issue which may be resolve by using the law that
provide agreed working style within the workplace (Prior and et. al., 2017).
2.2: Access towards the working.
There ae various way which is helpful and provide the aspect which followed under
various aspect which show the communication and interaction is the reliable and validated
approach which focus on the ways of working in the effective ways. Moreover, they used to read
and understand the information which is elaborative and follow the aspect of agreed way of
working which is based on various ways and performance of the employee within the workplace.
While taking the contrast of health and social care, the effective communication and interaction
is important in order to develop a quality based service and health among the healthcare sector.
Moreover, they used to read and make understanding towards the policies and procedure which
is based on their own roles that make the thing more prior while supporting other care. In this,
they used to create understanding which is based on the key terms in the social care. However,
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they used to explain their thought and ideas which focus on development of key working that
based on logical ways. Moreover, the clear language also shows the agreed way of working
within the workplace which is based correct grammar that provide sense to the sentence and
develop meaning towards the development and interpretation (Bingham and et. al., 2021).
2.3 Contribute to quality assurance processes to promote positive experiences for individuals
receiving care.
The quality assurance is defined as the tool which is useful to ensure that the individual
require proper support that receive the high quality of services. In this, they basically involve
with the looking at the all aspect which is based on the care and support package from the
planning which help to ensure that they safe, meeting each other individual on the unique needs,
wishes and preferences. Working on the frontline which create proper quality assurance process
within the workplace. In this, the process of quality assurance is focus on the assessing proper
care delivery among the people, determining the issue and problems, implementing the solution,
and follow up the monitoring which help to ensure the effective working with the workplace. In
order to understand, there is an example, the individual have the monthly meeting with an
individual receiving care in order to discuss they will make the happier and support that they are
receiving. It is show the aspect of honest and frank discussion which involve family and
advocate. As per this, it is important to follow the activity which help to ensure the solution is
working or to make the proper adjustment. In this, they make feedback from the care toward the
staff that they work directly with the individual on their menu planning during team meeting as
well as adding the major agenda of thing which is discussed with the individual in their next
monthly meeting (Askerud and et. al., 2021).
3.1 Benefits of working in partnership with others in the healthcare settings
The health and social care working together in order to develop the workforce, NHS wales and
other reported that the back of benefits which may be attained through the partnership working.
Moreover, there are numerous of advantage has been noted in the relation of intermediate care
and enablement services towards the children and the young people. There are some of benefits
which is follow under the partnership working within health and social care (Zeeman and et. al.,
2019).
 Establishment of the one stop shop for the patients.
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 Delivery of the maintenance is all be contingent on the client families and their provision
care.
 There are number of provision which help to access the most appropriate team member
which is more comprehensive range of the services.
 Enhance the rate of choices and autonomy for the service user and support of carers.
 The improvements in the source of information which is based on the sharing with the
patients (Beck and et. al., 2021).
 Help in the formation of multi skilled workforce among the workplace.
 The development of the generic health and social care role and responsibilities that follow
the aspect of proper quality based services.
 The ability that cope with the factor that focus on the monitoring that reach with the level
of patient.
 The discount among the provision worker that make meeting and better operation of the
skills of opposite line experts.
 In this, the measurable risk averted or impact reduced which is occur due to
miscommunication and improper interaction.
 Delivery of the care in the appropriate way while taking the support of collaborative
decision making.
3.2 Examples of best practice of healthcare services which working in a team
While taking the contrast of health and social care, there are number of issue which is
overcome with the help of collaborative thinking of decision making which provide surety
towards the workplace. In this, there are number of ways which help the patient to overcome
from the issue and problem which help to specify the decision with the decision making which is
based on the team (Visconti and Gurgun 2017). The team of the health and social care used to
provide support and care to the number of individual with their knowledge and skill based on
intervention. For example, an individual is facing the issue with any chronic disease that they
require proper support from the support worker in order to provide comfortability. Moreover,
there are various aspect which is followed under various circumstance which allow the service
user to take compliance. However, the patient safety and the intervention is plan with the
collaborative behaviour of medical team which include nurse, staff, healthcare professional and
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so on. They used to work together as a team to minimise the risk of that individual who is facing
issue with the health and care (Chidiac and et. al., 2020).
3.3 Ways of working to improve partnership.
In this, the partnership working make the thing effective and appropriate for the function. While
taking the contrast of the partnership working in the health and social care, it is improving by
using some of the aspect which may include honest and open communication which empower
the bonding and provide the strength towards the relationship which appropriate. With the
partnership working it is very important aspect which will be reduce and it is possible by using
the approach by accepting the challenge on the each other face which basically reduce the
conflict which is based on unethical practice. In health and social care provide accessible
information which is sort with the jargon and there is no use of technical language which make
no understanding among the peoples (England and et. al., 2017).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion it is analyse that the role and responsibilities of the health and
social care is to provide quality of health and care to the number of people. They have foundation
which is comprise of doctor, nurse and various medical staff that used to provide the care and
support to the number of patient with their specific issue. Moreover, they take decision with the
help of collaborative decision making which require a team of medical and assist the service user
in the appropriate way with the ethical ways.
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