Bii Choose one of the situations and describe how best to manage the risks involved, explaining the reasons why this would be best practice. Biii Explain where a social care worker can find advice, support and information relating to conflicts and dilemmas in adult social care. Task C Guidance Notes Write a set of guidance notes for social care workers to help them deal with complaints. In the notes, you must: Ci Explain legal and organisational requirements for dealing with complaints. Cii Describe how best to respond to complaints from service users, other practitioners and the family of service
3.Explain how standards inform reflective practice in adult social care Standards inform reflective practice by informing own learning, helping one to think about professional accountability, enabling professional development, providing a way of identifying what is required for good practice. Standards may include code of practice, regulations, essential standards and National Occupational standards. 4. Describe how own values, beliefs systems and experiences may affect working practice Own values, beliefs systems and experience may affect working practice by preventing conflict with others, favouring those who share your values, beliefs systems and experiences, fostering understanding of others’ views and perspectives, and improving communication with others. 5.
Partnership working is a key concept, driven by professional values within the social care field and underpins all recent legislation relating to health or social care provision. The idea being that a multi disciplinary team is formed around a child or young person to promote better outcomes for the individual by providing a person centred service. Partnership working is about working closely with the young person, their families, professionals and other agencies to improve their outcomes and safeguard from harm. Following the deaths of children, a consistent theme which has been reported in Serious Case Reviews has been weaknesses in agencies working together to safeguard the young people (Horwath, 2010:29). In Lord Lamings Inquiry Report into the death of Victoria Climbie many of the same concerns noted during the 1980's and 1990's regarding weaknesses in partnership working were echoed in his report.
Therefore reflection can be a key skill to learn and a way of developing working practice which is anti-oppressive as well as empowering for service users. As part of the GSCC (2004) requirements it states that social workers need to use… ..’reflection and critical analysis to continuously develop an improve their specialist practice, including their practice in inter-agency contexts, drawing systematically, accurately and appropriately on theories, models and up to date research.’ (GSCC, 2004, pg16) According to Payne (2005), the work of Schon (1983, 1987), in exploring how professionals utilized their knowledge in working with people, first gave rise to the importance of reflective thinking for professional practice. Dewey (1991) and Jasper (2003) suggest that reflection is a deliberate and cognitive process which incorporates a gradual self awareness, transformation and critical appraisal of the social world. Taylor (2000) defines reflection as... ‘…the throwing back of thoughts and memories... (Taylor, 2000, pg3) ..Thinking about them in order to make sense of them and as necessary make appropriate changes. Johns
A Description of how networking skills can improve project success By....... IT331 – Professor ....... Joining a professional network association is a good start if one is interested in furthering their career. There are associations for nearly every profession or area of interest and many have national, state and regional chapters available to join. An association is a synergistic group, meaning that the effect of a collection of people is greater than just one person. For most people, creating professional relationships is important, and joining a group allows you to have a sense of security and trust.
Education, training, and incentives provide a basis for developing an environment to promote teams and teamwork (Taplin, Foster, & Shortell 2013). Education and training programs that emphasize collaborative care and team building are essential. Also, organizational leaders need to highly value this training and the concept of interprofessional collaborations. This can partly be accomplished during the hiring process by stressing team and teamwork values to prospective hires (Taplin, Foster, & Shortell 2013). Continuing training and coaching as collaborations work can provide encouragement during the process.
“Practitioners of narrative therapy believe that simply telling one’s story of a problem is a form of action toward change” (Beels, C. (2009)). “By exploring the impact of the problem, it is possible to identify what is truly important and valuable to a person in a broader context, beyond the problem” (Skovholt, T., & Ronnestad, M. (1992)). In this way, clients can identify similar patterns of their behaviors and decisions throughout their lives. This practice can help them better understand their life experiences and achieve self-sufficiency in dealing with future problematic
It involves making judgements based on information’ (Middleton, 1997, p.5). Assessment is particularly important as it creates the foundations of a social worker’s work with the client. The purpose of a workers assessment is to help them to understand the situation he is dealing with and to identify the relevant factors in a situation (Pincus, 1973). It is also important to realise that assessment does not only take place in the in the beginning of the case. Assessment is an ongoing, dynamic process which continues throughout the process of working with a client.
As an enabler, the social worker must engage the client using varying approaches in order to allow the client to create the conditions needed to succeed (Miley, 2011). The enabler works with the client to meet life challenges and carry out tasks, such as getting enrolled in the GED course and securing daycare services. As a social work broker, it is important to link clients with resources that are available within the community and to provide referrals when necessary (Miley, 2011). In this situation, connecting Stacy with the GED Program and daycare services assume this role set. As a case manager for Stacy, a slight degree of oversight and guidance is useful to both assist in guiding the client toward completing goals and objectives, but also to help empower the client to want to do it themselves.
Effective communication gives the social worker a privilege to pay more attention to the client’s environment and their living situation. To take full advantage of that the social worker must be prepared to adhere to the NASW Code of Ethics that defined the social worker relationship with the client, such as: * Respect * Trust * Integrity * Competence In order to achieve a vision this Code of Ethics will help social workers to make the inevitable moral choices that arise in their daily