Resource Planning and Management for Mental Health Housing Project

This report delves into the critical aspects of resource planning and management, specifically within the context of a mental health supported housing project. It begins with an executive summary highlighting the importance of securing optimal resources for project success and the challenges related to funding and external factors. The introduction emphasizes the role of resource planning in project management, detailing necessary tools and teamwork. The report addresses the significance of achieving the best service user outcomes in care, exploring how resource planning can allocate and free up resources for a new mental health housing project, considering the UK's uncertain environment, including Brexit and changing service demands. It presents three resource planning concepts: SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats), PEST analysis (political, economic, social, technological), and the Balanced Scorecard. The report then discusses effective resource management and budgeting, emphasizing the importance of effective planning and understanding service user requirements through outcome-based and person-centered care models. Furthermore, it analyzes various funding sources, focusing on trade credit and debt factoring, and discusses factors that can affect funding, such as political climate and legal policies. The report provides a comprehensive overview of resource planning strategies, making it a valuable resource for understanding project management in healthcare settings.

PLANNING & MANAGING RESOURCES

Executive summary
This file comprises of information related to learning how to plan and manage certain
resources required in any working field. It is about attaining possible best resources for having a
good outcome as well as pick up the project for mental health support housing. the procedures
search places could be properly functioning and funding resources. As per budget created a
resource planning strategy shall be created for further access to better resources and making a
difference in certain people's life style. Factors which can actually effect up the funds and
resources which could be related to any grammatical or political changes are discussed below as
well as, adverse effects of such resources can also have a keen importance in availing them.
certain things are to be held responsible and accountable for which shall be used for the
appropriate usage of all resources to creating supply and demand as well as certain challenges
related to funding.
Introduction
Learning resources is a very specific journal in any project management which is related
to gathering several necessary resources required to properly deliver any project. This bifurcates
task for each person in organization and makes it easier for project assessment. There are several
tools which are required to make this planning more easily. This usually requires a proper team
work, resource guru, plans and schedule, technology and easy access to such resource to full fill
firm’s requirements (Miller and et. al.,2019).
Question 1a: Reflecting on the importance of attaining best service user outcomes in
care, discuss how the concept of resource planning could be used to make available
and free up resources for the new ‘Mental Health Supported Housing’ project.
The case-study and the environment in which health and social care settings operate
in the UK.
Considering the case, which has been given where the Mental Health Supported
Housing is going to be launched within the uncertain environment of United kingdom
due to reasons like Brexit and demand of services that gets changes regularly. it
becomes really very hard for a business organisation which is new in nature to deal with
all the issues that are political or other types of problems. One of the primary most issue

that has been found that is resource planning where Mental Health Supported Housing
is dealing with the same situation because of high uncertainty level of business
environment and this has happened due to Brexit and change among demand of
patients. Basically brexit has had the major impact upon most of the hospitals dealing
within the United kingdom because most of the nurses and doctors that were having
other citizenships from UK has started fearing of loosing job. on the other hand, change
in demand is also considered to be one of the issue which has raised questions on the
performance level that both existing and new healthcare agencies like Mental Health
Supported Housing were performing in the uncertain business environment.
Concepts of resource planning for the new ‘Mental Health Supported Housing’ project.
In present context, there are three resource planning concepts that are being taken into
consideration and these are : Swot Analysis, PEST and Balance Score Card and all of
these are presented underneath:
SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths: Mental Health Supported Housing is presently having an effective and
efficient staff, which can be considered as a strength of this company because they
directly look forward to attend different levels of goals and objectives of both in the long-
term and the daily targets.
Weakness: It is hard for the company to adopt new technologies as per the the
changes that patients are required for because it is new in nature and do not have much
funds other resources to meet the requirements of patients.
Opportunities: Rather than just working within the mental health sector, Mental Health
Supported Housing can also start working in other sectors as well. This can be
considered as one of the crucial and effective opportunity for the business organisation
that can help them in sustaining within the healthcare industry for a longer period of
time.
Threats: Brexit and change among demand are said to be the two crucial barriers that
are leading mental health supported housing to deal with number of issues. This has
raised threats for Mental Health Supported Housing in regards to competitive
advantages, business expansion in near future and so on.
PEST ANALYSIS
Political: Considering brexit as one of the political issue is said to be an element, whcih
has impacted the most on resource planning of Mental Health Supported Housing,
because number of employees that belongs to another country has had the fear of
loosing job, just when Brexit will reach to an end.
Economic: Economic conditions of United kingdom are carrying strong position and are
uncertain as well. Therefor, it can easily be said that Mental Health Supported Housing
may go through number of issues and gain advantages as well.

Social: demand of patience gets increases day by day and with ethics it is much
required for Mental Health Supported Housing to consider these demands and elements
to enhance their own profitability and to stronger the goodwill among society. investors
may become able to support this organisation if they are working within ethical code of
conduct.
Technological: present time, technology is carrying a rapid changing nature which my
lead the whole organisation to deal with number of issues and this is one of the
resource which proper plan and Mental Health Supported Housing would also require to
make alterations as per the demand of staff members.
Balance Scorecard : The Balanced Scorecard is a strategy management framework
created by Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton. It takes into account a company's
information like Mental Health Supported Housing :
 Objectives, which are high-level organizational goals.
 Measures, which may aid Mental Health Supported Housing understand if it is
accomplishing it’s objective strategically or not.
 Initiatives, which are key action programs that help Mental Health Supported
Housing achieve it’s objectives along with the goals.
Effective resource management and good budgeting skills.
In present context, it can be said that effective resource Management could help Mental
Health Supported Housing in meeting the desired goals and objectives in effective and
efficient manner. basically resource management is done properly then it can easily be
said that the company is considering optimisation level of usage. On the other hand,
good budgeting skills will help Mental Health Supported Housing in using the funds that
has been invested by investors in a much more optimised and in effective manner.
Importance of effective planning
The planning process provides the information top management needs to make
effective decisions about how to allocate the resources in a way that will enable the
Mental Health Supported Housing to reach its objectives. Another importance that came
in front is that, productivity is maximized and resources are not wasted on projects with
little chance of success.
Understanding of the requirements for delivering the best service user outcomes.
With the help of understanding the requirements for delivering the best service, Mental
Health Supported Housing will become able to serve the best and this could be
understood with two models and these are :
Outcome based care model : In outcomes-based healthcare, health systems would
directly help Mental Health Supported Housing in focusing upon reducing variation in
how they treat a wide variety of diseases and conditions—a process that requires all

clinicians to provide accurate diagnoses and treatment algorithms to improve patient
outcomes.
Person-centred care model: This could be also understood as one of the crucial and
effective program that could help mental health supported housing and meeting their
requirements where, in hospital or housing the person-centred care is where the
patients actively participate in their own medical treatment in close cooperation with the
health professionals.
1b analyzing minimum three sources which are different for funding and considering any two for
supporting the strategy of new mental health supported housing project.
Generally it is considered that most of the resources are very much connected to the
procedure of Management but sometimes it gets limited as per the supply of such and do actually
access all the demands and achieving goals as per requirement there needs to be a proper
planning. This also requires to have a great importance to look upon the stakeholders as well.
There are certain resources which actually can help to create a better sponsorship buy an
executive which can actually assign resources or can even enforce certain decisions which are
related to the project i.e. stakeholders. These people are actually the one who work properly
involved in each aspect of gaining or losing in the project and they always have a positive effect
towards it. This includes a fact that number of stakeholders actually increase the level of
complexity in the job of managers and in project life cycle is well (Golway, 2019).
There are certainly many resources for funding such organization but for a private business
expansion the following are actually very important as well as crucial resources to have an
appropriate funding for the mental health supporting housing project.
 Short term bank loan
 Bank overdraft
 Trade credit
 Debt factoring
In all these sources mentioned above trade crediting and depth factory can be very much
essential for creating a good amount of funding for this new project. The concept behind such is
mentioned below:
Trade credit: In many businesses this is considered to be as the most essential tool for having a
financial growth in market. In simple terms this credit amount is given to you by several
suppliers who will let you purchase their products for now and in later future it is to be paid. This
will occur after each delivery of materials or any kind of equipment taken by a business person

without paying for it in cash or through banking is called a trade credit. It is usually considered
as an external source for increasing the amount of capital in working. This amount is usually
paid in a very short term period of time as usually suppliers give a particular spam of time to all
such business organization. In the case of creating this new project the trade credit is about
attracting new customers and making sales from the supplier’s point of you and for the project
creator it is a good source of working capital which can be later on paid after the results are seen
in the project (Day, 2019).
Debt factoring: In simple terms it is selling and unpaid customer several invoices which are
actually known as the accounts receivable for the factor that the person who owns the debt and
chases the customer for their payment. This process works when any debt factoring business
cells all their accounts or some of the accounts to a received will factor at a very discount price.
this second person actually collects all the receivables which are to be taken from each customer,
in exchange a certain amount is been given usually which is considered to be a good cash flow
for the business this actually evaluates a business internally and all their receivables. This gives a
major scope for the business managers to understand weather, trading for project working is in
progress or not. In the case of launching a new mental health supporting housing, it's a good tool
which can be used for creating funds and in the meantime one can actually e take up the amount
back (Asomani-Boateng, 2019).
The certain factors which actually affect the ability for raising much amount of funding
for the current project which includes the political climate and legal policies in nation. In factor
of getting affected through political climate is a very e crucial source to critically examine. It can
hardly or smoothly affect business and can create several other ways of generating findings or at
the same time can destroy the whole project. This factor should always be in the favorable for
positive response. In case of legal policies they usually help in certifying search product projects
and help on a very big scale for creating funding’s and regulatory bodies to support certain
activities which are required to sustain such big scale projects in market. Do you have to be
working in the correct way so that they can actually make the project able to raise more funding
for or generating better amount.

Question 2: Discuss how effective resource management in Arden Healthcare Ltd.
would support the performance of staff, the care team and the organisation as a whole.
Explore how this links to the short, medium, and long-term goals of Arden Healthcare
Ltd. - especially given its intention to expand.
The case-study and the environmental factors that may impede the freeing-up of
resources for the new ‘Arden Healthcare Ltd.’
Considering the case of Arden Healthcare Ltd, where there were ample number of
environmental factors that impacted up on the resource management. Basically, rapid
change among healthcare policies and Brexit are the two reasons which affected the
organization, care team and performance level as well of them. In present context,
alterations within the healthcare policies has led Arden Healthcare Ltd. to deal with
number of issues, which affected the overall performance level of staff members, and
on the other hand if it is talked about Brexit then this has also brought ample number of
uncertainties in regards to the firm, and it is needed for Arden Healthcare Ltd. to keep
its focus on bringing right modifications and develop strategies in regards to their staff
so that desired goals could effectively be attained of the company and of staff as well.
Accountability and responsibility in relation to the appropriate use of resources.
At the time of using number of resources like manpower, funds, assets of the business
organisation and many more, it is responsibility of every single individual to consider
these resources and also utilise them in an optimise manner. Basically, it is said that if it
is talked about accountability then board of directors and top level management of
Arden Healthcare Ltd. are said to be individuals that will be having responsibility in
regards to taking decisions that how available resources for the company will be
considered and to be utilised.
Explore broad performance measures/tools used by organisations
In present time, there are ample number of performance measuring tools data available
for business organisations that are dealing within the healthcare industry. For Arden
Healthcare Ltd., this company can utilise a number of performance tools and these are
presented underneath:
 Appraisals: This is said to be one of the crucial performance tool, which could
be utilised by Arden Healthcare Ltd., where appraisals are going to be done of
care team on the basis of how they have performed at workplace. With the help
of this, staff may become much more motivated towards their performance for
getting much benefits from Arden Healthcare Ltd.
 Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s): A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is a
measurable value that demonstrates that how effectively Arden Healthcare Ltd. is
achieving key business objectives. Arden Healthcare Ltd. Could effectively
utilises KPIs to evaluate their success at reaching targets and this can be

considered as a crucial tool to measure the performance of both employees and
of company at the same time.
 Benchmarking to monitor performance: setting benchmark for care team and
for other employees would directly help Arden Healthcare Ltd. To analyse the
gap among desired position and where it is standing at the moment. With the
help of this, organisation could easily take decisions in regards to what are the
areas where staff requires training and so on so that their proficiency level can be
improvised.
Effective resource management has in supporting performance in Arden Healthcare
LTD
Effective management is something which likely helps a business organization in
enhancing the performance level of both the company and of staff members as well. If
the resources will be managed by managers of Arden Healthcare Ltd. In a befitting
manner then the performance level of stuff will directly get improvised. If their
performance gets increase that means the patience will also get the satisfactory level
through getting prominent and efficient services from the staff right on time. How long is
this, it will also lead care team to effectively enhance the motivation level, where they
will start giving their hundred percent in utilising the resources in an optimised manner.
Demand and supply, funding challenges, budgetary restrictions in the current fiscal &
political climate on the organisation’s expansion strategy.
It has been found that for a business organisation that is new within the political climate
of United kingdom it may go through funding challenges and me also deal with
budgetary restrictions as well. This may also affect directly on the demand and supply of
services and of resources as well that are directly linked with the patients. If it is talked
about Arden Healthcare Ltd., Then it is a new company that has started working within
the healthcare industry and serves to patients that dealing with mental and other health
related problems. Company is looking forward to expand the organisation among
different area through considering the licensing as market entry strategy, this will
directly lead company to deal with number of problems which needed by managers to
understand for expansion in a rightful manner.
CONCLUSION
Considering the above mentioned report it can easily be said that within the health and
social care department it has become difficult for new businesses to enter this because
of the high uncertainty level. With the help of resource planning and risk management
strategies a healthcare organisation could effectively run it’s operations in much
effective and efficient manner. On the other hand, it is also said that considering the key
performance indicators along with the benchmarking technique an agency which is
performing and health and social care department could easily monitor the performance
of employees. through this, right decisions can easily be taken in regards to what are

the challenges faced by them and offer them with the the training so that no issues
could take place in near future.
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