Professional Authority
Personalisation and workforce change
A project with IDeA looking at how efforts to re-orient services around the needs of users are disrupting professional boundaries, roles and status.
"collaboration"
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- ESRC study: New forms of professional knowledge and practice in multi-agency services Finds that: - Heavy demands are made on the professionals involved in terms of their need to rethink their roles and switch to different kinds of activities and working practices. - Changes could threaten their sense of themselves as specialists when teams worked towards ‘blurring’ responsibilities to create generalist workers. In particular, specialists such as a teacher, health visitor, nurse or special needs nursery nurse, felt they had lost the particular [professional] identity from : duncanoleary 24th July 2006
- National College for School Leadership report on Leading in a multi-agency environment (pdf) - Name-checks the idea of 'collaborative advantage' - describes challenges of leading professionals from other backgrounds/disciplines - discusses professional and organisational socialisation from : duncanoleary 25th July 2006
- Surestart evaluation (pdf) Couple of interesting points: 1. Shared targets not enough for collaboration: 'Agencies are more likely to collaborate with other initiatives if they believe that the efforts of both organisations are contributing towards meeting not only the same targets, but that those targets are seen to be meaningful'. 2. Belief that training is able to bring professionals together: 'Training has the ability to mitigate tensions between professionals from health and social services agencies' from : duncanoleary 25th July 2006
- Who can be a lead professional? - Every Child Matters Good illustration of shift from inputs to outcomes: 'We have therefore defined the role by the functions and skills, rather than by particular professional or practitioner groupings...The person who takes on the role of lead professional will vary according to the specific needs of the child.' from : duncanoleary 7th August 2006