Partnering Fosters Collaborative Teamwork

A large body of experience and research provides clear evidence about many of the key determinants of successful partnerships. The focus is to achieve better outcomes through improved service delivery. Partnership working has come a long way in recent years. There is now a consensus that effective partnership working is essential in order to design, develop and deliver personal services for those requiring support and assistance to optimise their independence and happiness. The most important features of an effective partnership are engaging the right people and ensuring they function as a genuine team.

The features of effective partnership working are to ensure there is good communication between all parties that ensure a high standard of care is delivered to the individual involved at all times. It ensures each party is covering all area’s and that all needs are met and that all partys have a good knowledge of who is delivering what to the individual and the contacts they have if other issues may arise and the access they have to these.

Partnering and strategic alliances involves working together for the mutual benefit of not only each other, but for the organization (Goetsch & Davis, 2016, p. 64). There are many benefits to partnering. Partnering continually improves processes and products as well as relationships between the organization and its suppliers (Goetsch & Davis, 2016, p. 65). It also improves overall satisfaction of the customers (Goetsch & Davis, 2016, p. 65). Partnering is not limited to those who the organization deals with outside the company. Internal partnering is just as important (Goetsch & Davis, 2016, p. 68). Partnering and forming strategic alliances both within the company an outside the company creates a competitive advantage over other organizations and more opportunities by opening up new markets and increasing the skills and capabilities of the employees within the organization (Goetsch & Davis, 2016, p. 65).

To improve partnership working we all have to focus on the purpose of our job role which is to provide best care and support to improve individual’s life, health and wellbeing. Standard ways to maintain good partnership working are as follows-

A partnership is an arrangement between two or more groups, organizations or individuals to work together

We can improve partnership working through effective communication and information sharing. By working as a team and having regular staff meetings, with colleagues and other health care professionals.

The case study will discuss whether the partnership is effective and will discuss the practice of professionals working in partnership as well as on an organisational level; what is the level of partnership professionals have and what are the benefits and

A partnership is an arrangement between two or more groups, organizations or individuals who work together to achieve common aims or who have common interests.

Partnership is when two or more organisations work together, showing cooperation and collaboration. This can provide better care and support for service users. For example, different funds working together, instead of working individually and stressing. Another example, a social worker and the health visitor will need to work together, share ideas and use different skills to develop a support plan that will benefit children and families. This also promotes multi-disciplinary working. Partnership thus can reduce conflicts and enhance team working skills as professionals can work together, sharing responsibilities and ensuring need led approaches are met and set. This can be done by reviewing care plans and offering support.

There are numerous motivations to organize the mixture of approaches to prepare colleagues to work cooperatively with partners

Effective partnership working is built upon a clear understanding of the different roles each person has in supporting the person. Increasing clarity and agreement about roles and responsibilities improves understanding, and leads to mutually supportive relationships. Clear remits, lines of communication and accountability characterise successful approaches to partnership working.

In order for organizations to adopt a Readiness to Collaborate Scale and then, in turn, pursue new strategies that will support or enable individual practitioners to better collaborate in an interprofessional team, implementers of organizational change and decision-makers are faced with two distinct outcomes. One, is the 'ideal situation' where policymakers and decision-makers can jointly identify the desirable future or condition of the organization and interprofessional team and then create the policies, take the actions to move forward

Partnership Innovation – Partnership innovation is the development of new associations with individuals from the private sector, NGOs, academia, and other government agencies with the intent of collaborating in order to achieve desired outcomes.

Pairing can be based on expertise or working field of both the junior employee and the senior partner. In pairs they can work on projects, work with the same clients and build a professional working relation.

Partners may provide the strategic alliance with resources such as products, distribution channels, manufacturing capability, project funding, capital equipment, knowledge, expertise, or intellectual property. The alliance is cooperation or collaboration which aims for a synergy where each partner hopes that the benefits from the alliance will be greater than those from individual efforts. The alliance often involves technology transfer (access to knowledge and expertise), economic specialization, shared expenses and shared risk.