What does Partnership Working Mean?

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Session 2 - What does Partnership Working Mean?
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Ground Rules

• Listen to others and value the diversity of
  opinions in the group
• Be constructive
• Value the differences there are no rights or
  wrongs, no good or bad
• Be open and honest, keep to the agreed time,
  especially start and finish
• Mobile phones!
• - (extracted from, Working with Groups. General
  Improvement Skills. Modernisation Agency)

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Recap on Previous Session
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Objectives of Session

• To understand what partnership is
• To understand the importance of partnership
  working
• To understand the theory of partnership
• To identify barriers and opportunities of
  partnership working

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Living and working conditions
Unemployment
Work environment
Water sanitation
Education
Health care services
Agriculture and food production
Housing
Age, sex and constitutional factors
WHY DEVELOP PARTNERSHIP WORKING Joined up
problems require joined up solutions (New Labour
statement) 2.
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Health Policy Drivers For Partnership Working

• Health of the Nation (1992)
• The NHS Modern and Dependable (1997) The
  demolition of the Berlin Wall
• Jakarta Declaration (WHO 1997)
• Tackling Health Inequalities A Program For
  Action (2003)
• Wanless (2001)
• Choosing Health (2004)
• Our Health, Our Care, Our Say (2006)

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A lot of people who work in partnership continue
to act as individual organisations and deliver
pieces of work separately but they have meetings
and call it partnership workingWhat were moving
to...is more of what we call a virtual way of
working, where you dont see the organisational
boundaries at all. (Trevor Hopkins, Gateshead
PCT)
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Group Work

• Why do we work in partnership?
• What makes partnership work?

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What makes partnership work- in summary

• Values
• Delivery mechanisms

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COFFEE
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Types of Partnership working

• Partnerships
• Multi-agency
• Inter-sectoral
• Inter- or multidisciplinary working
• Teams

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Group work

• Potential Barriers to Partnership
• Think of some ideas on how to overcome these
  barriers

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8. Child-initiated shared decisions with adults
7. Child-initiated and directed
6. Adult-initiated shared decisions with children
The Ladder of Participation eg with children
Degrees of participation
5. Consulted and informed
4. Assigned but informed
3. Tokenism
Non-participation
2. Decoration
1. Manipulation
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Group Exercise

• Decide on a piece of work someone in the group
  has been involved in.
• What rung is it on?
• Why did you decide it belonged there?
• What are the barriers to moving it up the ladder?

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Group Exercise

• Think of a partnership you want to develop
• Think about what partners you will need
• Think about the values and delivery mechanisms
  you will need to develop in order to develop an
  effective partnership
• Begin to develop an action plan - looking at the
  steps you would need to take to develop a
  partnership eg. engagement, planning the first
  meeting and the first outcomes you would wish to
  happen