HCR5003 Inter Agency Working

Question 1: Using both example from your own practice as well as the information from the above case study: • Evaluate the complex challenges and opportunities of inter-agency working - with particular emphasis on the distinct cultural needs Ahmed and Reshma have to cope with in the UK.

To fully address question 1, consider the following: 1) How your identified challenges would impact on the delivery of effective healthcare services 2) Why do you think Reshma and Ahmed would face barriers while accessing healthcare? 3) What could potentially be the reasons for your identified barriers and how could inter-agency be working impact positively on their wellbeing?

You must draw upon relevant theory, concepts, models and appropriate organisational examples. Also note that your work must be presented with research evidence as well as practical examples to showcase the breadth and depth of your understanding. 1500 words) (40 marks) (LOs: 1 & 2)

Question 2:

In care provision, service users and carers may have complex needs, which may require different types of help being provided by a range of agencies: • Analyse how lack of good leadership amongst healthcare agencies would impact negatively on Ahmed and Reshma, particularly within the excerpts of the principles of care ethics as well as the multi-disciplinary working initiative in healthcare. • In reference to the case study above, outline some of the policy issues faced by Ahmed and Reshma, explain what you could have done differently.

You must draw upon relevant theory, concepts, models and appropriate organisational examples. Also note that your work must be presented with research evidence as well as practical examples to showcase the breadth and depth of your understanding. (1500 words) (40 marks) (LO: 3 & 4)

Question 3: Context: Amongst several other government initiatives, the government issued many policy documents – requiring collaboration to improve efficiency and effectiveness in healthcare services. As the direct result, a white paper “Modernising Social Services” in 1998 clearly stated that, “people do not fit into neat service categories, and that if partner agencies are not working together it is the user who suffers” (DH, 1998 cited in Community Care, 2019).

Question:

With the above understanding and in reference to the case study or own experience, evaluate the characteristics of multi-disciplinary teamwork in healthcare.

• Explain how effective multi-disciplinary teams work together in order to increase the chances of meeting Ahmed and Reshma’s family’s identified support needs.

You must draw upon relevant theory, concepts, models and appropriate organisational examples. Also note that your work must be presented with research evidence as well as practical examples to showcase the breadth and depth of your understanding. (1000 words) (20 marks) (LO: 4)

Assignment brief to be understood

What interagency mean in health care?

why is it important in health social care setting?

There will be challenge and opportunity based in health care analyse based on the cause study of ahmed and rashma ?

What does effective team work mean?

What is manger role and leadership type for successful team work? Provide a summary of the cause study

All these discussions will be related in the cause study.

Q1) Evaluate the complex challenges and opportunities of inter-agency working - with particular emphasis on the distinct cultural needs Ahmed and Reshma have to cope with in the UK.

Challenge, barriers, opportunity

Challenges social economic states give idea why it’s going to be challenge for inter-agency working generally.

Link how the social economic states effect hamed family to the cause study .

Environmental factors -neighbourhood – E.g they can’t live their children out because of crime etc… so that actually affect they family which in turn could be challenge for inter- agency working effective team work.

Social economic states - Finance because ahmed can’t find a job because of lack of skills and lack of the language barrier

Governments cuts refunds

The barriers effect inter agency working

The languages barrier between health care professionals and family of ahmed and rashma because they need translators.

Culture -they more culturally they accept they weight which would be problem for healthcare to persuade them to follow they diet and they physical activity.

Lack of skills, will affect equality of their life

Ahmed won’t secure a job because of his language barrier which effect health care profusion and family

As health care professional how can you help Ahmed and Reshma

Especially ahmed.

Improve skills, identify which skills hamed can be develop for example cooking Send him training, improve English  according to the cause study ahmed is overweight it create problem for service user so needs to follow diet. environment where they live.

Citing an example of experience based on similar experience, I have faced.

Principle of care

As manger have to follow principle of ethics different culture, autonomy, respect, dignity.

What does leadership mean?

The Important of leadership for effective team work, for effective inter-agency -for effective multidisciplinary team work?

Leadership type /style, based on the specification of case study leadership can be changed E.g talk about the Task based leadership. Which mean you given full trust on high profusion, you as manger just control this is one of the leader ship style Task based leadership .

Hint as rashma and ahmed is overweight they can have stock and high blood pressure because of the weight, in this moment I could chose in which particular leader ship style.

Democratic leadership style/type

How you will help the dealing

You must find ways of dealing with ahmed and Reshma weight problem

Discuss with other team members, how to help them, talk their weight problem. E.g. send them some training

Q3 multidisciplinary team

The importance of effective multidisciplinary team?

Internal and external stakeholders, who can be part of multidisciplinary team, how these stakeholders support ahmed and rashma family.

why you have chosen who can be part of team which is list of profession, explain how you identify all those professions, for example based on what you decided to bring sociologist.

E. g external, family, friends, lawyer

You as manger or as leader of this team, how would you manage to deliver the service from each the professional. For example, team working with rashma and ahmed is this this this and me as manger my role is to identify that ahmed need training in courses in English at this pointed need they would be from local authorities the training department.

What challenge might you face as manger.