Working With Others - Comparative Framework


Developing Networks

Undergraduate

  • Takes part in group based learning
  • Attends a patient support group meeting
  • Takes part in a service user group meeting
  • Attends and observes multidisciplinary team meetings

Postgraduate

  • Leads in multidisciplinary team meetings to review clinical cases
  • Actively seeks patient and carer views before presenting discharge plans
  • Involved in a patient support programme
  • Able to invite a wide opinion from patients, carers and the wider healthcare team
  • Understands the patient's view and how this will impact on primary and secondary care when arranging discharges
  • Understands how other staff groups function and make decisions
  • Makes themselves accessible to others and listens to viewpoints
  • Contributes to discussion on developing Care Pathways for groups of patients

Continuing Practice

  • Initiates meetings bringing together patients, carers and the wider healthcare team
  • Able to involve patients and carers in discussions about long term care
  • Creates links with patients, carers and key healthcare professionals to develop services jointly

Building and Maintaining Relationships 

Undergraduate

  • Able to develop a professional replationship with patients during student placement in the community
  • Holds office and gains respect e.g. as officer in the student union
  • Contributes to formal and informal mentoring 

Postgraduate

  • Supports peers within learning environment
  • Shadows nursing staff and other healthcare professionals
  • Encourages participation of all staff within multidisciplinary team meetings
  • Identifies patient representatives relevant to their speciality and makes a point of introducing themselves

Continuing Practice

  • Is approachable to all staff who have issues they wish to discuss in confidence 
  • Gains respect of colleagues in cross-agency working
  • Works with relevant patient representatives to promote service improvements

Encouraging Contribution

 Undergraduate

  • Actively seeks patient perspective eg. by completing a patient journey assignment 
  • Achieves positive ratings from peers about performance in small group learning activities
  • Obtains views of peers in aspect of course evaluation

Postgraduate

  • Able to manage group dynamics within a multidisciplinary team
  • Encourages participation from more junior staff, medical students and other staff within clinical case reviews 
  • Invites and encourages feedback from patients, and feeds back to patients

Continuing Practice

  • Lead/chairs multidisciplinary team meetings
  • Contributes as a member of a management team
  • Encourages all in their work group to work to their full potential
  • Initiates feedback from other staff and patients/service users

Working within Teams

Undergraduate

  • Takes part in various roles within group learning (eg. team leader, scribe)
  • Contributes to clinical team when on attachment
  • Recognises and respects the roles of members of the healthcare team and the needs of patients

Postgraduate

  • Learns to lead clinical case review on behalf of a multidisciplinary team meeting
  • Participates in multi-agency case conferences
  • Ensures that patients' views are taken into consideration by others in the team

Continuing Practice

  • Represents a clinical viewpoint as a member of a management team
  • Leads a multidisciplinary project team eg. for service re-design
  • Leads a clinical team