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Working in Teams (Better Partnership Working)
Working in Teams - Better Partnership Working Author:Helen Dickinson, Kim Jelphs A key feature of recent health and social care policy landscape has been about delivering services which are designed around the needs of the service user. In practice this has meant that professionals are increasingly exhorted to work together with a range of stakeholders, across traditional boundaries in 'teams'. Teamworking is represented as ... more »playing a central role in the improvement of health and social care and it is difficult to argue against something that is familiar to all of us and has such positive overtones. However, teamworking is mentioned so often, with so many different promises that there is danger of it being seen as misguided rhetoric rather than practical reality.Although in theory working in teams sounds easy, doing it in practice within the complex systems today's practitioners are faced with is incredibly difficult, complicated and often frustrating. This accessible text introduces a range of theories, models and research to demonstrate the benefits - and pitfalls - inherent in teamworking, and provides frameworks and practical advice on how inter-agency teams may be made to function more effectively.Written by a leading team from the Health Services Management Centre, the book is also fully evidence - and research-based, whilst still being applicable to everyday practice in a wide range of settings. Illustrated throughout by real examples from practice this no-nonsense book will be ideal for students, practitioners, team leaders, managers and policy makers in health and social care. "Better Partnership Working" series - This exciting series of accessible 'how to' books provides an essential introduction to partnership working. Designed to be short and easy to use, the books offer practical support to those working in partnership and provide helpful frameworks to make sense of the complexity which partnership working entails. Summarising current policy and research in a detailed but accessible manner, each book provides practical, evidence-based recommendations invaluable for policy and practice.« less