Report on Effective Partnership in Health and Social Care Practices

This report delves into the critical aspects of partnership working within the health and social care sectors. It begins by defining partnership and outlining its essential features, emphasizing the importance of balanced teams and effective conflict resolution. The report then explores the significance of collaboration with colleagues, other professionals, and service users, detailing how such partnerships contribute to improved outcomes and enhanced service delivery. It analyzes the ways in which partnership working fosters better outcomes and provides strategies for overcoming common barriers, such as poor communication and misunderstandings. The report further examines the roles and responsibilities of individuals within a partnership context, focusing on leadership, training, and the application of the Team Effectiveness Model. It also evaluates the procedures for working with other professionals, emphasizing the importance of monitoring, measuring progress, and regular reporting. Finally, the report highlights the importance of working in partnership with people, families, and friends, as well as the evaluation of these procedures using SWOT analysis, concluding with a comprehensive overview of the benefits of collaborative approaches in health and social care.

Work In Partnership
in Health and Social
Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Features of Effective Partnership..........................................................................................1
1.2 Importance of Partnership in Working with Below Listed People.......................................1
1.3 Analyse how partnership working delivers better outcomes................................................2
1.4 Ways to Overcome Barriers in Partnership Working...........................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Own Roles and Responsibilities in Working with Colleagues.............................................3
2.3 Own Relationship with Colleagues.......................................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
3.1 Own Roles and Responsibilities in Working with Other Professionals................................4
In my own roles and responsibilities in working with other professionals, the things which are
included are discussed as under:.................................................................................................4
3.4 Evaluate the procedure of working with other professional.................................................4
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5
4.1 Importance of Working in Partnership with Others..............................................................5
4.2 Describe how you have developed procedures for effective working relationships with
others...........................................................................................................................................6
4.4 Evaluation of the procedure working with others.................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Partnership can be defined as a business organisation in which two or more individuals
invest their money with the motive of earning profit. The following assignment is based in the
working of people in partnership in order to provide proper health and social care support to
individuals in need. It will provide us with the features of effective partnership and also about the
importance of working with different people. Further this assignment will focus on barriers in
partnership and will give an understanding about the role and responsibilities of an individual
while working with different people. It will also focus on the procedures made for maintaining
good relationship with other people, getting better outcomes from partnership, evaluation of
working relationships with colleagues and other professionals. Furthermore it will also evaluate
on the procedures adopted to working with others by doing SWOT Analysis.
TASK 1
1.1 Features of Effective Partnership
Partnership can be defined as the agreement in between two or more members and the
purpose of whose creation is to earn profit and working together in order to achieve common
objectives. Working together can help them in solving major issues which can make the
partnership successful one. The features of effective partnership are discussed as under
(Batalden And et. Al., 2016):
 Balanced Team: As there are different works in partnership firm and mostly it deals at
lower levels so it is important for these organisations to have balanced team in their
organisations. Balanced team can be defined as the team of individuals containing
different skills and abilities in them that will contribute towards the success of the
project.
 Effective Solution to Conflicts: The conflicts in this type of business organisations are
solved easily as their main focus is on making better and strengthen the relationships in
between the company and their employees so that they can do their work effectively and
with team spirit and provide better health and social care services to the needful.
1.2 Importance of Partnership in Working with Below Listed People
 Working with Colleagues: It is very important to work with colleagues in partnership. It
is so because these are the individuals who are involved in the working of company on
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daily basis and advice and information can be taken from them in case some issue arises.
By working together ideas can be transferred and shared such as by considering meetings.
 Other Professionals: It is also important to work with other people as guidance from
qualifies people will be helpful for the company. In case of emergencies, advice can be
taken from them to solve the issue. It includes workers from other agencies or health
cares, professional advocates or independent visitors who shares their own experience
and views regarding any issue or problem faced by partnership (Dees, 2017).
 Others: In others, included persons are families, service users, friends or individuals,
carers, independent advocates. They are a source of great and never ending source of
information and will help the partnership in finding the ways by which it can make
improvement in their services which they are providing to their customers.
1.3 Analyse how partnership working delivers better outcomes
Partnership working helps in delivering better outcomes as well as in delivering better
services by working with families. As by working with families an insights of individual life,
challenges and the barriers that they may have faced with. Moreover working with families a
good working relationship and the trust between the staff and the management team is being
developed (Dickinson and O'Flynn, 2016).
Improving support:
Engaging with different individuals in tenant meetings and making sure that weekly rota
meets the needs the services rather than the needs of staff. Apart from this also ensure that there
exist enough of staff for delivering a safe services etc. Moreover, the staff team also should make
sure that the individualise have weekly plans in place with activities both out in the community
and in the home so as to involve them in the home running activities which will help them to
develop their skills level and the in dependency within home.
Working with other:
The support team must work with other professionals as well because if an individual in
case become sick then in that case its the responsibility of staff to make sure that they are being
seen by a doctor. Thus, it will help in building efficient and good relationship between
management and employees.
Thus, overall it can be stated that partnership working helps in delivering better outcomes
when all the individuals and agencies work together to achieve the same outcome.
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1.4 Ways to Overcome Barriers in Partnership Working
Barriers that can be founded in these agencies are related to poor communication skills,
misunderstanding of situations or inaccurate record keeping of records. These barriers can be
eradicated by communicating effectively with each other by more emphasizing on face to face
communication (Doel and Shardlow, 2017).
Another barrier can be related to the policies and procedures of working in the health and
social care partnerships. This barrier will be overcome by having regularly safety checks to make
sure that methods used and adopted in the organisation are safe enough.
Another barrier can be of misunderstanding of information passed from one to another.
This barrier can be removed by checking properly that the person to whom the information is
transferred is getting the same as what is conveyed to them. There are many ways by which
improvement in these barriers can be made such as informal meetings, commitment to
partnership, team building activities, sharing information and sharing goals, outcomes and
objectives.
TASK 2
2.1 Own Roles and Responsibilities in Working with Colleagues
The roles and responsibilities played by an individual in working with their colleagues
are discussed as under (Glasby and Dickinson, 2014):
 Providing positive leadership to their employees and colleagues so as to enhance their
motivation level.
 Allowing staff and their carers to make changes in the services they are providing
according to them.
 Provide their colleagues with proper training programs so their personal and professional
development can be made possible.
 They should provide incentives and appraisals to their employees for their good work.
2.3 Own Relationship with Colleagues
Individuals make their own possible contribution towards the success of the task they are
provided with. This contribution to the team is made is made by their own personal
characteristics. Team work can be best applied in those situations where the roles and
responsibilities of the within the team are clearly specified to their employees. It is so because
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they are made clear with their own roles work. Further the application of Team Effectiveness
Model will also be useful for making continuous improvement in their effectiveness by focusing
on the improvement in five key areas: Goals, Roles, Procedures, Relationships and Leadership
(Glasby, 2017):
Goals: These can be defined as the one which the team has to achieve.
Roles: It is the part which is played by the members of team at their own.
Procedures: These are the methods that methods that help the team to conduct its work together.
Relationships: The type of relation which the team members are having with each other.
Leadership: The support and guidance provided by the leader in order to get the work done and
get good results form the work of their followers.
The application of this model in the partnership firms providing health and social care
services to the needful as it will help in improving the quality of services they are providing to
their customers and also can make improvement in the ways of their working.
TASK 3
3.1 Own Roles and Responsibilities in Working with Other Professionals
In my own roles and responsibilities in working with other professionals, the things which are
included are discussed as under:
 It is my responsibility to make sure that social worker has completed a full assessment on
the individual needs to allow that the set criteria for providing services to their customers
are met.
 I am also working with a mental health care nurse with whom I will share the information
that I am having regarding the services and will also take her guidance so that any needed
improvements can be made in those services.
3.4 Evaluate the procedure of working with other professional
in order to work with other professional it is very essential to form up a system in place to
monitor actions as well as reviewing the process. This is because health ans social care is a sector
where actions must be more accurate and proper otherwise it may affect the heath of a patient or
even make the case worsen (Karazivan and et. al., 2015). Hence it is very essential for a health
and social care professional that they may first perform an agreement over the outcome and
timescale of partnership. Further evaluation must be carried out by monitoring, measuring and
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reviewing the progress that has been made by partners against set results. Regular report must be
formulated in order to determine that whether the partnership is providing positive or negative
result. If this procedure is working well then organisation will be benefited with coordination of
service provision, clear roles & responsibilities, professional approach, avoidance of duplication,
avoidance of mistake and efficient use of resources. But in case when the procedure is not
working well then negative outcome could be results into miscommunication, professional
rivalry, mismanagement of funding and time wastage. Therefore, in case when the outcomes will
be positive over the efforts done by partnership should be continued otherwise it must be
discontinued as it may perform negative impact over the health or welfare of society.
TASK 4
4.1 Importance of Working in Partnership with Others
The importance for working in partnerships with others are discussed as under (Ocloo
and Matthews, 2016):
The People:
The importance of working with the people we support is very crucial to understand as
they provide key information and consent to support them such as medication, finances, staff
team access to the property. It is important that we know they have capacity to make decisions
about their lives. By working with them, it will be easy for them to analyse what they want in
their lives, how to make decisions and how to support them with their health and social well
being.
Families:
Like people, it is also important to work with families as they can provide insight to staff
members that how they can support the person and share medical history such as heart disease,
cancer, cataract which we may disclose should the person. Families can also provide with the
knowledge about how the person was already spending his time so that health and social care
partnerships can also provide them with same which will make the person to feel more
comfortable.
Friends:
Friends can also help in providing a lot of information about the person, as they may
support them on activity whilst sitting at home and friends can also provide those information to
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which family members are still unknown. This should be encouraged to continue so they still get
to see their friends.
4.2 Describe how you have developed procedures for effective working relationships with others
Teamwork, trust, communication and respect are term to be the three essential key aspect
towards development of effective working relationship. So I order to develop positive
relationship with individuals I will interact wit other members at work so as to make my job
more productive and enjoyable. People like co workers, supervisors, professional colleagues etc.
are the individuals with who there exist a working relationship (Parrott, 2014).
In addition to this to develop effective relationship with other firstly I will develop a trust
with colleagues and this can be done by devolving trust by guarding confidences and by ot
gossiping. Secondly by working with team and this can be done by collaborating with co-
workers in a group project through exchange of ideas and by rendering credit to others for their
contributors.
By communicating well by listening and speaking clearly to others will also help in
developing effective working relationship. Most important of all is to be respectfulness of others
and be willing to examine the viewpoints which are different from my own.
4.4 Evaluation of the procedure working with others
Evaluation of the procedure working with others is all about ensuring the best method
that is being used and ensuring that the communication is reaching the other parties effectively
or not. Moreover it means ensuring that all parties are happy with the working procedures and
ask if there exist any kind of requirements for their input in changes that they feel to be more
effective (Wenger-Trayner and et. al., 2014).
Outcome for users of services
Positive outcome:
It will result in improved services, autonomy and improved decision making.
Negative outcome:
It will result in negligence, harm, abuse, miscommunication, disempowerment,
frustration, duplication etc.
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CONCLUSION
From the above given data it can be concluded it is very important to work in partnership
for social and health care service providers. It is beneficial to all service users, inter professional
working and organisation. Further it is also concluded that working with colleagues and
professionals will also be helpful as it can help the company in making improvement in their
current working styles. It is also concluded that timely making changes in the policies and
procedures of health and social care provider will make them able to provide more better
services to their customers. Moreover it is also concluded that for understanding and having
knowledge about any person, people, families and friends plays an important role.
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