Course modules

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• Module 1: An introduction to interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration Open

  

  The nature of collaboration, why it is important, its purposes and its growing place in policy and practice.

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• Module 2: Professional identity and collaboration Open

  

  Professional identities and difference, models of practice and ways of sustaining one’s identity and practice within collaborative relationships.

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• Module 3: Building relationships, establishing trust and negotiating with other workers Open

  

  Making initial contact, developing relationships, trust, values, conflict, barriers, self-assessment.

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• Module 4: Working together to assess needs, strengths and risks Open

  

  What is assessment, and its importance; considering the contributions of other professionals when undertaking an assessment; balancing needs, strengths and risks using a family scenario and their neighbourhood networks.

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• Module 5: A model of practice and collaboration Open

  

  The multiple spheres of practice and collaboration – interpersonal, interprofessional, inter-disciplinary team, inter-agency and community –explored using a ‘model’ and people’s experiences.

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• Module 6: Working collaboratively in different types of teams Open

  

  Types of teams, networks, organisations, images, group and team development, roles.

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• Module 7: The practitioner, the agency and inter-agency collaboration Open

  

  How agencies shape professional roles and supply key resources, the interdependence of agencies and professionals, and the importance of inter-agency collaboration in supporting and safeguarding service users.

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• Module 8: Key policy and legislation with implications for interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration Open

  

  A timeline of collaboration-related policy, commissioned reports and legislation in England and Wales with additional examples relating to people who use care services and to carers.

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Course details

• Who they are suitable for Open

  These resources are suitable for students studying for the social work degree and post-qualifying awards, educators, and practitioners in social work and social care. The resources may also be useful to practitioners and students from other disciplines and may interest people who use social care services and carers who are not directly involved as educators.

• Terms of useOpen

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  Please note these courses are provided free of charge on an ‘as seen’ basis. Although SCIE’s courses have been used over many years with almost no reported problems, SCIE cannot provide technical support for their implementation or to investigate or fix any reported technical problems, nor does it warrant that they are fully compliant with all or any technical platform.

  Any known issue with an individual course is noted on the opening page of that course.

  This course was developed using a technology called Adobe Flash, which is not compatible with any Apple/Android platform, and may not work on any mobile device.

• Learning Management System compatibleOpen

  This course is fully SCORM compliant. That means they can be loaded into a Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), such as WebCT, Blackboard or Moodle, and accessed locally.

  Please note that this course was not designed to export any scores or track progress throughout the resource. Therefore, this course can be freely accessed by users, but there will be no tracking or grading functionality.

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