Role and Performance of Teams in Healthcare Practice

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Students are expected to add a table of content showing what is covered and page numbers.

This should explain what the assignment is about and mention the main concepts discussed within the body of the assignment. This part should use up not more than of the total word count. The introduction could include definitions of keywords/concepts relevant to the assignment as well as citations/references.

With reference to specific team development theories of choice, critically discuss the role and performance of teams in maintaining systems and structures designed to promote rights, responsibilities, and diversity of service users in healthcare practice.

In attempting this question,you should link discussions and points raised to own individual experiences working in Health and Social Care as much as is possible. Where this is not possible, then a case study should be used.

To achieve a Pass, you should demonstrate a basic understanding and some evaluation of strategies, systems and structures used in Health and Social Care practices to promote the rights, responsibilities, and diversity. Also, students should demonstrate a basic understanding of key team theories such as Belbin, Tuckman, Woodcock, McClelland etc

To gain a higher grade, you should critically discuss their individual performance in contributing to the design and implementation of service user care plans, evaluating the role they played in promoting the principle for support for working in Health and Social Care.

Links should also be made to the impact of relevant legislations, policies, outcome benchmarks and organisations that promote the voice of service users. The points mentioned here are by no means an exhaustive list and some students may demonstrate wider research outside of these.

Critically appraise the use of two Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) tools used in managing quality care and improving outcomes for service users (outcome-based care).

To achieve a Pass, you should demonstrate a basic understanding of a CQI tools such as PDSA before critically discussing how, as part of either a small team or wider multidisciplinary team, they have contributed to achieving team objectives set around quality enhancement for service users in their care.

You should demonstrate a basic level of understanding of Outcome-based care, advantages of it and disadvantages before linking it to Health and Social Care practice in general.

Specific links to own practice is also encouraged.

To achieve a higher grade, using specific examples from own practice or relevant case studies.

You should critically appraise Outcome-based care as a concept (including the drivers of it such as Government policy, legislation, regulator requirement etc and advantages and disadvantages of it) as well as how they have contributed, either as part of a small and/or a multi-disciplinary team or an organisation, to achieving Person-centred care for a service user or users of service in their care. as well as CQI tools (including PDSA, Fishbone) used in identifying and managing quality delivery in Health and Social Care settings.

In addition, using specific examples, you should critically discuss how teamwork, motivation and continuous quality enhancement initiatives are used in achieving quality benchmarks and service user satisfaction in Health and Social Care settings.

With reference to a relevant motivation theory, critically analyse the need for social care organisations and teams to achieve person-centred care for service users.

To gain a pass, you should demonstrate a basic level of understanding of person-centred care, advantages of it and disadvantages, Links should also be made to own

To achieve a higher grade, you should critically evaluate relevant team motivation theories such as Maslow's' needs theory, Vroom's Expectancy theoryetc as well as CQI tools (including PDSA, Fishbone) used in identifying and managing quality delivery in Health and Social Care settings.

In addition, using specific examples, students should critically discuss how teamwork, motivation and continuous quality enhancement initiatives are used in achieving quality benchmarks and service user satisfaction in Health and Social Care settings.