Social Care Support: Responsibilities & Interpersonal Skills Analysis

This report details the responsibilities and essential interpersonal skills for non-direct care workers in a social care setting. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining cleanliness and hygiene within the environment by maintenance staff, ensuring a safe and healthy space for patients. The role of office staff in managing patient records and administrative tasks is also highlighted, alongside the receptionist's duty in recording admission and visitor details. Furthermore, the report underscores the necessity of strong interpersonal skills, particularly verbal and non-verbal communication, for effective interaction within the social care environment. Efficient listening skills are crucial for meaningful conversations, while appropriate body language and gestures enhance communication, fostering a positive and supportive atmosphere. This document is available on Desklib, a platform providing study tools and resources for students.

Support work in social care

P1. Identifying responsibility of non direct
care workers
The non direct care workers have their basic set of roles and some of them are discussed as
following :
Maintenance
The non direct care workers should ensure the fact that it is very important to maintain the
cleanliness in the social care environment (McGarrigle and Walsh, 2011). Whether it is about
the toilets, corridors or the bedding of the patient. It should be neat and clean so that it can
contribute to a better and germs free environment. Already there are enormous people
suffering from various other diseases, so it is very important to maintain a hygienic and clean
environment to keep the environment healthy.

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Office staff
The responsibility of office staff is to maintain proper records of the patients etc. It
involves the administration who holds the responsibility of managing all the collection of data.
Whether it is about the past medical history of the patient or the data about the patients,
managing all that data is the responsibility of the administrator and office staff.
Receptionist
It is the responsibility of the receptionist to enter the details of the person who come for
admission of some individual. Also, the receptionist enters the details of the visitors who come
to visit the patients in the social care.

P2 Interpersonal skills essential for non
direct care workers
The non direct care workers must have some interpersonal skills so that they can have an effective and
appropriate communication with the other people in the social care. Some of the required interpersonal
skills are discussed as under :
• Verbal communication
Verbal communication is considered as that way of communication in which the conversation
is being done in form of words, whether the tone, pitch or the way of talking is being considered, it comes
under the verbal communication (Kossek and et.al, 2011). Also, the person should have efficient listening
skills because no one wants to have a conversation with someone wants to speak their own point but does
not want to listen. So, it can actually make the conversation ineffective. Therefore, the non direct care
workers should have efficient verbal skills so that they can have a proper and appropriate interaction with
the people in the social care.

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• Non verbal communication
The non verbal communication involves factors such as the body
language, presenting style etc. Therefore, the non direct care workers should ensure
that their gestures and body language seem much effective while interacting with
anyone in the social care. It is important because the gestures and body language of
a person can tell much more than even words. So, the non direct care workers
should ensure these facts while interacting with each other.

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