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Save Multi-agency services: What does it mean for me and my role?
Being part of a multi-agency service gives you the opportunity to apply your skills in a new context, or to use skills that may have been dormant or under-used in your previous role.
It is not about becoming a generic multi-agency worker, but about using your skills in collaboration with others to provide more effective services for children and young people. Along the way, you will develop new skills and perhaps have new ideas about the way you want your career to develop, but it is certainly not about discarding everything you have already learned.
'I took the job because I thought Sure Start would achieve what my organisation, with its formal thresholds and rationing procedures, seems to be failing at: finding the people who fall through the cracks.'
Practitioner, Sure Start evaluation, 2005
But clarifying your role and responsibilities can be difficult when lots of people from different backgrounds get together. The following sections have advice and background information to help you address these challenges:
- Different professional cultures and languages
- Working within a common vision
- A team building model
- Working with change
- Working out roles and responsibilities
- The practicalities: Terms and conditions, line management and supervision.
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Last updated on 30/04/2009
