Welcome to this online learning course focused on partnership working

As a manager in social care, it is important for you to build internal and external partnerships to support your work and the individuals in your workplace.

Having a strong network of connections gives you plenty of opportunities to share and receive expertise, ideas and resources. Working closely with partners helps you and others to continuously learn and grow, so that people using care services receive the best level of support.

In this course, you’ll start to explore some of those relationships and plan your next steps in providing good and outstanding adult social care services.

The course is aligned to Standard 5 of the Manager Induction Standards and will cover the following topics:

• Relationships and partnerships
• Co-production

100% of the cost of these courses can be reimbursed via the Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS).

Objectives

When you’ve completed this 60 minute online course you will be able to:

• Identify your key relationships and partnerships
• explain why it is important to work with partners
• describe key features of effective partnerships
• explain the importance of co-production
• identify ways to embed co-production in your practices.