Working in Partnership
There are 4 key elements to successful partnership working. Partners are all the people involved in a person’s life, families, friends, support workers and professionals.
- Sharing – The sharing of information between partners gives a better understanding of the needs of the people we work with, by giving others’ perspectives.
- Demonstrating respect – Understand that our partner’s views or ways of working may differ to our own and we should respect these differences.
- Redressing inequality/power – Each partner has something to give. Leadership and roles should be established early on and communication should be upheld throughout to avoid a breakdown of the partnership.
- Networking – Involve all professionals and other parties that may have an insight into the needs of the people we work with. Keep all parties involved informed of any changes or updates.
Cephas follow these 4 elements and have formed strong partner relationships.
We work closely with the community support teams who have extensive knowledge of the local community, and are able to identify social activities, voluntary working, clubs and much more.
At Cephas we work alongside the people we support, families and professionals involved to ensure we are able to identify enablement routes and ensure that the support we provide is holistic. This supports everyone involved to be providing the support required which clear plans of how the aims are to be achieved. We have close links with others professionals and will support people to contact and gain support from others to work alongside ourselves.
