Healthcare: Social Workers Roles, Responsibilities, and Team Dynamics

This presentation delves into the crucial roles and responsibilities of social workers within the healthcare sector, emphasizing their importance in providing essential care to individuals facing various challenges. Using the case study of Ola, a young girl with dyslexia neglected by her parents, the presentation highlights the social worker's role in providing counseling, support, and advocating for her well-being. It also explores the benefits of interprofessional teamwork, including the roles of shapers, implementers, completer/finishers, and coordinators, in ensuring comprehensive patient care. Furthermore, the presentation acknowledges the barriers that social workers may encounter, such as unculturable competence and lack of experience, and concludes by emphasizing the significant impact of social workers in enhancing healthcare services. Desklib offers a wealth of resources, including solved assignments and past papers, to aid students in understanding these critical concepts.

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Role and responsibilities of social workers
 Role and responsibilities of health and social care professionals is to further bring on essential care for individual facing
conflicts, provide medical assistance and also improvise health and social care services (Monrouxe and Rees, 2017).
 Ola, is pupil at Alex Primary school and has Dyslexia and is known to social services, where nurse provides treatment and asks
about Ola injury. The nine Belbin team roles are: shaper, implementer, completer/finisher, co-ordinator, team worker, resource
investigator, monitor-evaluator, specialist roles and plants role (Belbin, 2010).
 Within case study, Ola young girl is suffering from Dyslexia and is neglected by parents. The social worker has to be actively
taking specific care for Ola by providing counselling and also being polite, courteous.
 Problem solving and care for Ola, so she doesn’t feel neglected.
 Information and medical support.
 Providing audio books as an alternative to reading to Ola , so she is able to improvise Dyslexia.

Role of health and social workers
professionals
 Provide care for family members in a certain in need situation
 Care for individual facing trouble of conflict in various relationships
 People facing challenges of old age
 Individuals with mental disabilities or distress
 Addicts of alcohol or other drugs
 Physically disabled people having independence issues and facing isolation from society (Kunzler and
et.al, 2020).
 Planning and interventions with new strategies
 Counselling sessions and therapies for Ola

CONT….
 Shaper- Social worker, role is to provide treatment and injury was sustained
which further impacted treatment efficacy.
 Implementer- Parents, to further identify medical specifics preferences of
Ola where implementer need to organise treatment effectively.
 Completer/finisher- School nurse, role is to completely provide accurate
check within social services (Choi and et.al, 2020).
 Co-ordinator- Speech and language therapist – Role is to improvise
dyslexia and provide immediate assistance in proper speech abilities
effectively. Core reading.
Simon B. 2017.

Advantages of inter- professional and multi-disciplinary
team working specifics to the case study
 Advantages of multi-disciplinary team working specifics as per case study enables to further enhance patient healthcare
standards diversely.
 As per case study, multi-disciplinary team members further evolve growth towards determining key competent scenarios and
evolve on comfortable health.
 Ola need to be given therapies sessions, medical treatments and healthcare specifics for further harnessing healthcare needs
significantly.
 Cope up with difficult work situations
 Knowledge regarding latest services and care regarding Dyslexia patients, where NHS provides best services and care for dyslexia
patients (Kent community health NHS foundation trust, 2021).

Barriers
 Unculturable competence in social work.
 Unwillingness or disinterest
 Lack of experience and knowledge with certain groups
 Failure to uphold ethical responsibility.

CONCLUSION
 The presentation has concluded analysis that social workers have huge working responsibility to bring
before functional working rise for providing larger effective services. Analysis has also concluded
research on social workers roles, responsibilities and barriers for strengthening further working
productivity on extended criteria's.

REFRENCES
 Choi, K and et.al, 2020. Time to return to work following workplace violence among
direct healthcare and social workers. Occupational and environmental medicine. 77(3).
pp.160-167.
 Kunzler, A. M and et.al, 2020. Psychological interventions to foster resilience in
healthcare professionals. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (7).
 Belbin, M. R. 2010 Team Roles at Work 2 nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge Monrouxe, L.V. and Rees,
C.E. 2017 Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace
Dilemmas Chichester: Wiley Blackwell NHS Jobs 2021 Candidate Homepage Available at

REFRENCES
 Core reading : Monrouxe L. V. and Rees, C. E. 2017, Healthcare Professionalism. Wiley.
 Kent community health NHS foundation trust (2021). Available From :https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk
[Accessed from 11/10/2021].
 Simon B. 2017. Online. Available Through :<How to Use Teamwork Roles to Build Winning
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