Practitioner Relationship In Health And Social Care

1. Practitioners who work alongside the parents and families such as an outreach worker, parent support advisors based at school, Sure Start centers, children’s centers or justice settings.

2. Practitioners whose role is to mainly work with the children and young people, although they also regularly communicate with the parents or family.

3. Practitioners that work alongside families as part of a comprehensive role such as a health visitor.

4. Practitioners whose approach with the family is essential an element to their role such as police officers or educational practitioners.

Family needs can also be catagorised into four tiers, these are

• Tier 1 is the lowest level of need, which provides the family access to universal support and

Forming positive trustworthy relationships with the families to be able to work in partnership together; the practitioner and the family will need to agree upon an effective method that will enable them to share information. The role of the practitioner is to arrange to make a connection between home and school by setting up meetings, ensuring the parents receive important information by phone calls, letters, emails or translation support for parents with English as their second language (ESL) and daily dairies.

2. The practitioner and family will need to come up with organised structured targets and boundaries, this will guarantee that the family understand the importance of working with other services and about referrals such as why they are made. The role of the practitioner is to monitor the targets in placement and adapt changes to certain circumstances to ensure that the desired outcome is achieved.

3. Practitioners need to take into account the families opinions and they also need to respect their views to provide an inclusive service so that barriers are not formed. The role of the practitioner is to establish an effective communication method that works for both themselves and the family they are working with to make the family feel welcome into the setting and to inform them about their rights and responsibilities. The role of the practitioner also allows the family to participate to help their child or young person make decisions that will influence their overall

It is important for the child or young person to share their own thoughts, ideas and opinions because they have a right to participate in making decisions that affect their lives under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 regulation. It is also important to make sure the practitioner is offering support for the families in order to meet their child’s needs. The practitioners role is to not to judge the child based on age and ability because even if a child is under seven and has a disability or special educational needs, the child may still be able to communicate effectively or otherwise the practitioner may need to adapt the communication method used to ensure that the child can express their needs and preferences clearly for example the practitioner may decide using the picture communication cards (PECS) system is the most suitable way for the child to be able to share their thoughts, opinions and