Reference no: EM132174843
Understanding the Need for Change in Health and Social Care
Assignment
Introduction and background notes (vocational context)
As a new graduate in Health and Social Care, you must understand the factors for change in health and social care services and the practices for evaluating and facilitating change. To do so you will be able to understand the factors that drive changes in health and social care services; you should also be able to evaluate recent changes in health and social care services and finally you must understand the principles of change management.
What you must do
LO1 Understand the factors that drive change in health and social care services (Recommended word limit 750 words)
Scenario
You are a newly appointed Home Manager for ‘Liverpool Home Care' of the elderly. The setting has 30 beds and provides 24 hours care delivery. The clients in the setting range from 65 years old to 98 years and covers a variety of ethnic backgrounds. The setting has been in operation for over 10 years, and is noted to be one of the best care homes for the elderly in Liverpool. However, after a recent Care Quality Commission (CQC's) visit in which the commissioner highlighted and has been placed on special measure, with a warning that if changes about the services provided are not actioned , the care home will be closed down.
You have now been tasked to implement these changes. You are required to first write a detailed plan to convince CQC within the next three months how you will bring about changes to address the identified failings so as to bring the care home up to an acceptable standard and make it the best care home for the elderly once again in Liverpool.
You are requested to produce a brochure that will be presented at the next meeting for the new staff addressing the following.
Q1. Explain the key factors that drive change in health and social care services as applied to the case scenario.
Q2. Assess the challenges that key factors of change bring to health and social care services.
- To achieve D2, substantial activities, projects or investigations have been planned, managed and organised when assessing with examples challenges that key factors of change bring to health and social care services
What you must do: produce a brochure
LO1 requires students to produce a brochure. Below are steps for designing a brochure on Microsoft Word
1. Open a Word document.
2. On the upper left, click the "File" menu.
3. In the left vertical column, click the "New" tab.
4. Select "Brochures and booklets" from the available templates.
5. Select "Brochures" from the available templates.
6. Choose the kind of brochure you wish to use.
7. Include some pictures where appropriate
LO2 Be able to evaluate recent changes in health and social care services What you must do: Produce a report. Recommended limit 1000 words
Scenario
As the newly appointed deputy home manager that oversees all of the Care home in the locality of Liverpool, you have been asked by the Health and Social Board who are a bit concerned about the outcome of the CQC visit report. The board members have asked you to write a detailed plan on how you will ensure that positive changes to identified failings are implemented. You need to convince the board by writing a report showing how you will devise a strategy and adopt a criteria for measuring changes as applied to the case study.
What you must do
Q3. devise a strategy and criteria for measuring recent changes in health and social care as applied to the case scenario [P2.1, M1]
Q4. Measure the impact of recent changes on health and social care services against set criteria as applied to the case scenario [P2.2]
Q5. Evaluate the overall impact of recent changes in health and social care [P2.3, D1]
Q6. Propose appropriate service responses to recent changes in health and social care services (include interviews, suggestion boxes, feedback, debate, waiting times, admissions, discharge, referrals etc) [P2.4, M2]
- To achieve M1, effective judgement has been made when measuring recent changes (using measurement tools like PDCA etc) in health and social care as applied to the case scenario.
- To achieve M2, complex information/data has been synthesised and processed through synthesis of ideas and have been justified when proposing appropriate service responses to recent changes in health and social care services.
- To achieve D1, conclusions have been arrived at through synthesis of ideas and have been justified when measuring the impact of recent changes on health and social care services against set criteria as applied to the (case scenario)
LO3 Understand the principles of change management.
Scenario:
As the manager, you observed that most of the new measures you introduced were frowned upon by most staff who resisted the change. This prompted you to undertake a course in change management and found out that most of your strategies in place were not user friendly staff and service users as you never included their views or opinions. With this in mind you attended a crash course on "change management" and understood the various principles and theories that one could implement to facilitate change in the work place and you are now expected to share this knowledge to other managers for implementation.
What you must do: For Q7 - Q9, write an essay: (Recommended limit 1000 words)
Q7. Explain the key principles of change management using either Kotter's eights steps to successful change or Leavitt's model of change and apply it to the case scenario. [P3.1, M3]
Q8. Explain how changes in health and social care are planned. e.g. consultation, communication, top - down or bottom - up, management style, managing anxiety, staff development needs etc [P3.2]
Q9. Assess how to monitor recent changes in health and social care services as applied to the case scenario. (e.g. measuring and monitoring e.g. evaluative research surveys, customer/staff satisfaction, measures of efficiency (cost - benefit, referral rates, and case completion, waiting and response times) [P3.3, D3]
- To achieve M3, coherent logical development of principles/concepts for the intended audience was used citing either Kotter's eight steps to successful change or Leavitt's model of change and applying your answer to either the case scenario or your workplace experience (choose only one ).
- To achieve D3, convergent and lateral thinking when assessing how to monitor recent changes; evaluate research surveys, measures of efficiency, customer satisfaction etc and its impact the nursing home in the case scenario or your own workplace experience