The Role of the Health and Social Worker

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CU2546 The Role of the Health and Social Care Worker 1.1 Explain how a working relationship is different from a personal relationship A working relationship is different than a personal relationship due to it being a lot more formal. When you are in a working environment you have to have a level of professionalism with colleagues, service users or health professionals. With a working relationship; there are clear boundaries that have been set by the organisation that you must obey. For example, you must not accept presents or a monetary reward off service users or their families and you must not begin any intimate relations with service users, i.e. develop feelings; either sexual or emotional. A personal relationship is much more informal, this could be with the way you act, behave or speak to somebody. You can have personal relationships with almost anybody outside of the workplace because it’s your own choice. For example; family, friends or spouses. It is a lot easier to end a personal relationship than it is to end a working relationship as there are much more policies and procedures set by the company to define working relationships. 1.2 Describe different working relationships in health and social care settings There are many working relationships within the health and social care environment; these can include your relationship with your colleagues, managers, service users, service user families or health professionals, i.e. GP’s, nurses and physiotherapists. Although you can be friends with your colleagues and could consider yourself to have a personal relationship with them, when you are in the workplace your relationship must be professional towards each other. Your relationship with your manager has got to involve mutual respect; they must respect you and have a level of trust towards you to carry out your duties and responsibilities as well
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