Analysis of Partnership Working in Health and Social Care Sector

This report focuses on partnership working within the health and social care sector. It highlights the benefits of collaboration, such as shared expertise, resources, and improved service quality. The report emphasizes the importance of strong relationships between healthcare professionals, patients, and their families, as well as other organizations. It provides examples of best practices, such as dieticians working with patients, and emphasizes the role of social care workers in monitoring and supporting individuals. The report also outlines ways to improve partnership working, including shared goals, respect for each member's views, trust, effective communication, and clear role assignments to ensure responsibilities are understood and duplication of work is avoided. This includes the need for a positive and supportive environment, politeness, punctuality, and clear communication. The report underscores the importance of each member recognizing their own strengths, weaknesses, and boundaries for effective teamwork and better patient outcomes.

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The benefits of working in partnership with others in a Health and Social Care sector..................3
Examples of best practice of health and social care services working together..............................3
Ways of working that can help improve partnership working.........................................................3

The benefits of working in partnership with others in a Health and Social
Care sector
Partnership working in a health and social care sector with other separate organization
benefits them from pooled expertise, resource sharing, power sharing. Here partners with similar
beliefs, and common goals works together. The partners works for a particular period of time
with respect,trust, determination and mutual understanding . Working in partnership improves
the quality of services and benefits both partners. In health and social care setup, association
between employers and care takers gives a sense of responsibility and a clear perceptions of their
duties. Working partnership is important for the growth of any industry and in healthcare field
this even become more essential,because a good association between management and staff
could help the people who are being taken care of. Working in partnership gives better results,
each person comes up with their own thoughts and has more risking capability. A team working
together in a healthcare centre are better to manage emergency situations and confident in
decision making.
Examples of best practice of health and social care services working together
Your role will involve you working with many people who have a variety of roles. This is
known as ‘partnership working’. Developing good relationships will help to improve the quality
of care provided. The main working relationships in health and social care can be categorised in
four ways: • Individuals and their friends and family • Your colleagues and managers • People
from other workplaces, including advocates*. • Volunteers and community groups.
Example-A dietician recommends for the weight of a person helping him with a diet plan
for his meals taking into consideration of his likings and dietary needs and worker may meet
him regularly,encouraging and supporting him for following the diet plan, feedback about the
working of the diet followed or any changes to be made in the dietary plan.If the individual is not
feeling well or not following the diet plan properly the it should be reviewed quickly. Very often
social care workers are in a state to monitor the observations as they are daily in contact with the
person and they play a very important role in the overall well being of the person.

Ways of working that can help improve partnership working
Partnership working can be improved with right attitude, behaviour and ways in the
working environment. All the partners should agree on the shared goals, opinion and thoughts of
each member should be considered and respected and also each member should given a chance
of presenting their views. For the best outcome from the team, there should be trust between the
partners, for this the members should have a positive and supportive mind. Politeness,
punctuality ,and effective communication is essential. It is also important that each member
realize their strength ,weakness and boundaries. Individuals role should be assigned so that each
person should understand their responsibilities and there will be no repetition of work.