This essay will be focusing on Multi-agency teams, which is a service of different professionals from different working areas that join up and work together as part of one team that provides support for a child, young person or families. It will be looking at the advantages and disadvantages that multi-agency teams can have when working together and the effects of this.
Multi agency teams have been working together as early as the 19th century, since then many legislations and policy documents have been put in place over the years up to this current day.
The government’s vision is for a health, Social and education service, where individuals and groups of individuals from various services provide work more closely together to meet the
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This will then add on more pressure for the professionals as funding is an essential to provide a service to people and will also affect the quality of service given. However in contrast to this there has been evidence to show that agencies joining up and working together had a higher chance to get funded, through joint funding arrangements rather than getting funded alone.
Improved access to funding and resources at strategic level (noted by over one-sixth) was also considered a benefit. Interviews highlighted, for example, that joint working enabled them to bid for funding which they might otherwise not be able to access because multi-agency involvement was a requirement for the bid. (Source: Telephone interviews in Phase one of the NFER study, 20000. p29).
People’s personal ethnic culture, personal belief and opinions can have an effect on the work they do as they may feel like something isn’t right, or they believe strongly towards or against something. As well as this, people’s attitudes can also have an effect on work itself due to something such as wages received. They may not feel like what one is gaining isn’t fair to what they are personally earning and this can cause people to slack or feel like they are being treated
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So multi-agency work has become more expanded and the care has become greater available to more families and young children and for them to be heard more. You can see some useful information of positive outcomes from multi-agency work, such as a speeded up process, more policy and procedures and you can see there are clear aims to help the working methods for the professionals to follow.
However there is still a massive gap in multi-agency work for improvement which needs to be looked within a few areas. As we can still see that each agency involved are not receiving the correct training to be able to work well and integrate with other professionals to create an overall better service and care. We don’t know how the training is received and the true outcomes of it and how it will cooperate with other professionals.
I also feel that there is not enough evidence to show the true results of Multi-agency teams when working together and the full potential it has, but we can see clear positive aims as well as a more negative side of areas not being dealt with or shown to have much
Through the Troubled Families Agenda the police, housing and youth offending teams will all communicate between services to discuss families, Walker discussed that multi agency working was important to help families with their problems and aid them toward a better living. The Home Office (2013) states that each local area will have different multi agency approaches and safeguarding threats, but should still work towards delivering effective multi agency approaches to provides services that are required by
According to my experience as a specialist in the development of children, there is a need for a very positive and active partnership as far as the care of a child is concerned.... ... middle of paper ... ... To instill the culture of working together, employers should establish that teams are groups that collaborate and share skills in an effort to reach common objectives and goals that benefit the overall performance of the company.
" Effective interagency working: a review of the literature and examples of practice. Berkshire: National Foundation for Educational Research. Trodd, L. and Chivers, L. (2011). Interprofessional working in practice: learning and working together with children and families. Berkshire: Open University Press.
3.1 It is important to work in partnership with others to provide and support our customers with the best care and support to meet their needs and outcomes. Partnership and multi-agency working is driven by a desire for collaborative advantage and can offer many positive outcomes for both the customers, providers and any other practitioner’s involved.
The practice of using inter-professional teams in delivering care is not a new concept but current health policy requires professionals work within a multidisciplinary team Department of Health (2001) and entrenched in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008) Code. The principle focus of this essay is to discuss the importance of inter-professional collaboration in delivering effective health care and what challenges and constraints exist. The integration of a case study will give an insight into inter-professional collaboration in practice.
Healthcare transformation and the need for high quality patient care at a low cost gave birth to the idea of interdisciplinary team in the health care industry. The term team according to the Websters dictionary is a group of people who work together. This group of people in interdisciplinary team conference comes from different professions, they bring together diverse skills, knowledge and experience to achieve a common goal that only one person cannot achieve, and this goal is always patient centered. These team members include but not limited to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, dietician, physical and occupational therapists, these team collaborate with patient’s families and community to provide high quality care (Brown-Manherzt,
...be seen gave the author a clear vision on how child protection has developed. Looking at the death of children and discussing them also gave some answers on how children services have developed over time over the years. In the evaluation the author discussed Tthe benefits and challenges offered by inter-agency and inter-professional partnership work have also been considered and it has emerged . By weighing the pros and cons of the author finds out that there is limited evidence on the outcomes for children and families. Even though a number of outcomes were discussed by Atkinson et al., their review provides evidence on the outcomes from professionals’ view point. Therefore, their review is not representative. Perhaps more study based on the outcomes or children and families will provide us a better understanding of on how effective inter-agency working really is.
Health care is an integrated, multifaceted discipline that relies on ‘teamwork between different types of health workers with different skills and training’ (Alperstein, 2009: 7) in order to provide the most comprehensive health care. In this essay I will discuss the meaning of comprehensive care and multi-professional teams. I will then look at my role and the role of two other professions in a multi-professional team, while using Barr’s competencies. From this I will discuss my thoughts and feelings pertaining to the task and how this will aid me becoming an Integrated Health Professional.
This is a reflective essay based on my attendance at a multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting whilst on my two-week placement at a local mental health day hospital. The aim of this essay is to discuss the importance of the multidisciplinary team within the mental health environment and discuss factors that can influence the success or failure of multidisciplinary teams.
pp. 406-441. Parker, G., (2003). Cross-Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Other Str
Indeed, some research found that the team diversity has a positive impact on decision making. For example, one of the research found that the diversity at educational level can positively influence the decision making and also affect team performance (Simons). In addition, Dooley and Frywell illustrated that the discussion and argument was associated with quality decision making in U.S. hospitals. However, some research also demonstrated that the diversity in the team can have a negative influence on decision making. For example, Sounder found that, in diverse teams, because of the lots of differences between team members, sometimes its difficult to reach an agreement.
Not all of the teams work well. Such problem as free-riding, or social loafing, is quite a common one and is very difficult to resolve. A lot of managers and teachers struggle with it. Each and every team should have these 3 key elements: “Interaction, Information sharing and Influence over decision making” (Michael West, year).
A work team will be defined for the purposes of this paper by a definition borrowed from Bateman and Snell (2004). A team is formed of people (usually a small number) with complementary skills who trust one another and are committed to a common purpose, common performance goals, and a common approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. Teams generally see themselves and are seen by others as a social entity, which is interdependent because of the tasks performed as members of a group.
Within an organization, there are always people that think and behave differently, all dependent on their personal values and cultures. Efficient managing of the human resources is an art, and it is hard to find a perfect solution/combination. It is important that management recognize and understand that people work differently. This is why it is important to have strong cultural foundations that also guides how employees are expected to behave and work. Thereby it should be easier for management to utilize the work force diversity to something meaningful.
The work community has several members, it is vital that these individuals act as a group, so that the common goal was achieved. This section describes the team, the team's importance, team building and why before-mentioned issues are important. This section also takes place through the cases and at the end of the self-evaluation.