Partnership

Partnership in the context of these projects is not only about local partnerships between health care organisation and social care organisations. Many of the projects described here explore partnership from the perspective of professionals, service users and family carer's working together to deliver better outcomes.

The test sites in this section draw upon learning;

• The views of older people and what they think about workers undertaking integrated health and social care tasks
• The place of multi-agency home care workers for people with dementia and the passionate commitment such specialisation can generate amongst workers
• Clear evidence based demonstration of how delivering learning and development on health care tasks to social care staff can create real cost savings
• The complexities of developing joint roles and joint organisations and the workforce dilemmas that such organisations face
• An exploration of the support and experience that black and minority ethnic users have of social care services and consideration of how to address some of the workforce issues arising
• The place of transition and the job / role descriptions that can support affective working
• Co-working under development of jobs for people with learning disabilities in partnership with able bodied people
• The development of end of life care learning tools and the impact that learning and development in this area can have
• Knowledge and learning around the development of social enterprise organisations working with people with sensory impairments.

Please click on the links below for more information on the test sites:

• NToW1 - A sub-regional approach to integrated low vision services
  Find out how a national eye care pilot in Gateshead has helped develop integrated low-vision services and how the lessons learned can be used in other areas.
• NToW3 - Improving provision for people with experience of mental health problems from black and minority ethnic communities
  This project investigated the gaps in the provision of services for black people who use mental health services in London.
• NToW13 - Community Enabling project
  Can the role of  community enabler bridge the gap between social care and health care? Find out what happened when Community Health International piloted this new role for one year.
• NToW20 - Delivering choice and independence in adult social care strand 1
  See how this project helped the Barnet adult social services team learn about depression in older adults and how best to support them.
• NToW21 - Delivering choice and independence in adult social care strand 2
  Giving people greater choice and control is a key factor when delivering care services. Read how Barnet adult social services addressed this through two brokerage projects.
• NToW28 - Developing the end of life carer
  Discover how a new role of 'end of life carer' can help improve the care offered to people in care who are nearing the end of their life.
• NToW31 - Dual practitioner single role social work and nursing
  Is there a need for a dual practitioner role to encompass both nursing and social work? Discover how this project tackled the question.
• NToW33 - Empowering the workforce to do the job
  See how a Home Action Response Team in Scarborough has helped achieve significant improvements in service delivery and outcomes for tenants.
• NToW42 - Home care worker - new enhanced role
  This case study looks at how new roles can be created to integrate health and social care services and the training implications when introducing this type of new role.
• NToW47 - Improving services for children with visual impairment
  Discover what happened when Devon social services sensory team piloted the role of 'specialist rehabilitation officers for visually impaired children' (ROVICs).
• NToW50 - Joined up assessment
  Find out how the new role of service coordinator ensured that children with special needs receive services in an integrated way.
• NToW62 - Managers from day services move from managers to leaders
  See how NLP training techniques were used to develop the leadership skills of community access managers.
• NToW76 - NVQ assessment, competency and verification
  In this case study we investigate how care staff in Bath were supported and assessed whilst undergoing training to develop nursing skills.
• NToW123 - The Lifecraft User Employment project: Changing the culture
  This project looked at how users of mental health services can be successfully employed in helping to deliver those services.
• NToW130 - Transition for young people
  Making the transition from children's to adult's services isn't always easy. In this project we look at how the transition period can be made easier.
• NToW134 - Working for CHANGE
  This project examined the successes and pitfalls of co-working between people with and without learning disabilities.
• NToW145 - Made-Well - Grow Cook Eat
  The project aims to give life skills, leisure and learning opportunities to the local community and those with learning difficulties, mental health issues, the long-term unemployed, the elderly, and other groups who are in some way disadvantaged and would like to be involved.

Additional materials

NToW23 - Dementia Care Partnership: more bricks than mortar

NToW64 - Moving forward together: joining up workforce strategies

NToW70 - New types of worker project - South West mapping report

NToW102 - partnership development broker sample job description and person specification

NToW143 - Only a footstep away - neighbourhoods, social capital and their place in the big society

NToW144 - Making use of 'Only a footstep away?'