The role of the health and social care worker
1. UNDERSTAND WORKING RELATIONSHIP IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE.
1.1 Explain how a working relationship is different from a personal relationship.
There are significant differences in a working relationship and the kind of personal relationships you may have with your friends or family. A working relationship is different because of: specific objectives and purpose; professional boundaries( limits that tell you what you can and cannot do in your job role ); professional codes of conduct; employer policies and procedures; time limits; being in some cases a one-way relationship. Personal relationships are based on emotions and are informal. In personal relationships you often share support between each other and feelings and thoughts as you can be who you are with family or friends. Personal relationships involve doing things together outside of work.
1.2 Describe different working relationships in health and social care settings.
There are different working relationships in the Health and Social Care setting. These include, work colleagues such as nurses, hca, housekeeper, ward clerk, domestic, hostess, managers, doctors. For each individual you develop a different type of working relationship and some will be more formal than others.
But they are not the only relationships that we can work with in our own organisation, we have other relationships with colleagues in other organisations. The staff have to learn to get along with each other, that may be been moved to a new team that will function differently from the last place we worked.
However, some ground rules to make sure that we can work well with others can be used in most situations, - find out the ways in which decisions are reached and the team members who should be included. ; - always ask for advice and clarify anything you are not sure about. ; - do not assume that everything is the same in every workplace. ; - recognise that every team