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1 – Leading and managing in adult social care
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1.1 Leadership and management styles
1.2 Leading the vision
1.3 Market provision
- 1.3.1 Describe how your service is commissioned, procured and funded
- 1.3.2 Describe the social care market in your area
- 1.3.3 Describe how your service meets the needs of your local community
- 1.3.4 Identify data, information and working practices that could help you to see trends and find ways to sustain or grow your service
1.4 Integrated approaches
- 1.4.1 Define what is meant by an ‘integrated health and social care system’
- 1.4.2 Identify examples of how local leaders are better integrating your local health and social care services and systems
- 1.5 Systems Leadership
- 1.5.1 Describe what is meant by the term systems leadership
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- 1.1.1 Define the terms ‘leadership’ and ‘management’
- 1.1.2 Explain why, as a manager in adult social care, you need both leadership and management skills
- 1.1.3 Explain why you may need to use different leadership and management skills in different situations or environments
- 1.2.1 Define your organisation’s vision
- 1.2.2 Explain the importance of everyone in your team understanding the service’s vision
- 1.2.3 Describe how you can build support for the vision within your team
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- 1.2.4 Explain how your work and your relationships with key influencers, including people who need care and support and their relatives, can influence your organisation’s or service’s vision
- 1.2.5 Describe how you can challenge views, actions, systems and routines that do not match the vision
