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working relationships health and social care

Good Essays

Unit 6

Activity 1

a) What is a working relationship?
A working relationship is with the people you work. This could be you line manager, colleagues, clients or their families.

b) What is a personal relationship?
Personal relationships are with friends and family. You don’t have a code of conduct or set out rules.

c) Explain the difference between a working relationship and a personal relationship.
The difference between working and personal relationships are:
With working relationships you have clear boundaries and policies and procedures in place that you must follow. You must follow the code of conduct. You are involved with the certain people for a reason and you cannot choose these relationships.
With personal relationships, to a …show more content…

You need to be able to actively listen and come to a compromise from this, and above all try to avoid accusations.

• Where would you find information about support and advice for partnership working and resolving conflicts?
You could ask your manager or supervisor, citizens advice bureau, library, internet, trade unions and union rep, other professional organisations, colleagues, counsellor and mentoring.

Working partners

My work place is for elderly people with dementia. We provide some long term care as well as respite. As a support worker, I have been asked to produce a report on partnership working and resolving conflicts in an adult based care setting. At my workplace, I come into contact with a great variety of people. This includes my line managers, my colleagues, district nurses, GP’s, clients and their families.
Good communication and team work is essential in all aspects of my job, and requires some basic rules, such as: Objectives within the roles and responsibility, and objectives of the job, being able to make decisions, sharing information and knowing when it is necessary and when it should be kept confidential. Also, being able to resolve conflicts is a big part or working partnerships, as not everyone is going to get along with each other and sometimes people need to just be able to listen and come up with a compromise. It is all about delivering good quality social care to the clients, whilst maintaining strong working relationships. With

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