Importance of Partnership in Health and Social Care: A Report

This report delves into the significance of partnership working within the health and social care sector, emphasizing its benefits for organizational development and service delivery. It begins by highlighting the advantages of collaboration, particularly in improving brand prospects and the working environment. The report explores the philosophies underpinning effective partnerships, including empowerment, respect, independence, autonomy, and fairness, which are crucial for maintaining ethical and efficient practices. It then examines various types of partnership relationships, such as general, limited, and at-will relationships, illustrating how they function within a mental health care setting. The report stresses the importance of strong relational bonds among stakeholders to enhance service quality and organizational performance. Finally, it underscores the impact of partnership working on the financial health and overall success of health and social care organizations, advocating for senior management's focus on building and maintaining these crucial relationships.

WORKING IN
PARTNERSHIP IN HEALTH
AND SOCIAL CARE
PARTNERSHIP AND
RELATIONSHIP

Introduction
 Partnership working has always been beneficial for an organization. By
the help of this process an organization could be able to increase the
brand prospect and working environment.
 If people are working in a business environment with making partners;
then they could easily be able to execute any kind of activities in an
efficient and effective manner. The presentation is mainly delivering the
importance of working as partner in the case of health and social care
services.
 In this case senior managers of an elder home want to make a survey
over the benefits of working in partnership.

Philosophies associated with
the partnership working
 Primary aspect of any mental health organization is to maintain the values
of the business process. Each and every care professionals must have to
focus on the moral values and that could play an effective role in the case
of work practice.
PHILOSOPHIES IN WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP
Empowerment Respect Independence Making
Informed
choices

Philosophies associated with the partnership
working (Contd…..)
Partnership can be regarded as the arrangement where the respective
parties or the partners have always agreed to cooperate for the advance
concerning the mutual interests. The partners encircling the partnership
are generally the individuals, organizations, schools as well as any other
health and social care home providing health and social care services.
The philosophises are stated below:
• Independence: Each and every single member of the organization needs to be
provided an individual right. None of them must not to be bound in any critical
circumstances.
• Autonomy: A trust factor also should be there in the workplace where every
single employee could be able to run all of the process in a significant manner.

Philosophies associated with the partnership
working (Contd……)
 At this present moment most of the health care organizations have been
using partnership working for the betterment of their organization.
 In this case mental health organization must have to focus before
initiating the partnership working. Some basic philosophical needs must
have to be fulfilled before initiating this type of activity.
Empowerment: As decision making is the essential element for the
business process, respective senior staffs must have to empower their
other staffs so that they could be able to invent some new ideas and
thoughts. By the help of this process, management could be able to
increase the strength of the staffs and employees in the process.

Philosophies associated with the partnership
working (Contd….)
Respect: Respect for other people also need to be maintained in the working
process. By showing respect to other people an organization could be able to
increase the potential growth of the process. In this case staffs of respective
mental health organization must have to show respect to other people.
Fairness at workplace: Proper behaviour and ethics need to be maintained
by each of the individual present at the workplace. Equilibrium at the working
environment must need so that each staff could be able to deliver their best
quality. For this type of mental health organization respective management
needs to show appropriate behaviour towards the staffs so that a good
working environment could be maintained.

Philosophies associated with the
partnership working (Contd…..)
 Independence: Each and every single member of the
organization needs to be provided an individual right. None of
them must not to be bound in any critical circumstances.
 Autonomy: A trust factor also should be there in the workplace
where every single employee could be able to run all of the
process in a significant manner.
 These are the philosophical justifications which must have to be
maintained by every single employee associated with business
process.

Philosophies associated with the
partnership working (Contd…..)
Non-Malfeasance:
This can be dealt in accordance to the significance which delivers the
perspectives of non harming as well as inflicting the harming
attitude encountering little perspectives upon the assessment of
reaching to a beneficial or effective outcome.
Thus from this philosophy, it can be stated that the individual in the
workplace should not be harmed as well as abused that has to be
followed by the respective care home in order to assure effective
caring practices.

Philosophies associated with the partnership
working (Contd…..)
 Independence:
 In every health and social care home, patients are considered to be
dependent upon the worse or else the best condition or system provided
by the respective care home, where generally they have been treated
much more badly and tumultuous condition.
 The affected well being of the individuals are considered irrespective of
their respective choices in order to make specific decisions regarding the
illness as well as care.
 Therefore, the patients have been provided with proper independence in
order to choose appropriate care as well as services and also facilities.

Partnership relation in the
health and social care sector
 Relationship among all the entities in the mental health care sector
must have to follow the relational bonding among all the
stakeholders. A special boding among all the staffs and employees
must have to be needed so that all the working activities could be
executed in an efficient and organized manner (Pollard, 2011).
 These relational bonding among all the stakeholders help the
management to deliver quality service to the patients. If all the
members associated with the process share any views and ideas
then they could easily be able to propose a fruitful idea about any
matter.
 Poor communication and service can harm the overall process

TYPES OF PARTNERSHIP RELATIONSHIPS
•People working in a same team of health care
organization share general relationship
•These people are willing to help whenever required
General
Relationship
•These relationships are generally found between departments, for
example, finance team and supply chain team
•These partners interact in a day to day operations for example for
budget approval of financial expenditure etc.
Limited
Relationship
•For example, the relationship between suppliers and
supply chain department. These partners interact when
there is a requirement of procurement or making
payments, otherwise there is hardly any communication
Relationship at
Will

Partnership relation in the health and social
care sector (Contd……)
Performance of the organization is highly depending on the partnership
working among the partners or stakeholders. Any kind of decision needs to
be taken with close observation and understanding.
Through this overall partnership work sometime enhances the financial
condition of the respective business process. At this present moment
respective senior management of mental health care home needs to focus on
building partnership.
.

Partnership Relationship
 Partnership relationship can be considered as the relationship between two
individuals that generally propounds same business or any service activity.
 This partnership must have to be showcased in the activities of the
organization
 The activities are entailed with proper jurisdiction in order to maintain
efficiency in the business and fulfilling the objectives needed by the
business.
 By the help of this process; management of the company could be able to
run all the essential activities properly. The partnership working also allows
doing some risk free activities in the organizational premises.