1. D2 Roles and Responsibilities

2. Multidisciplinary teams, members and formation
D2 Roles and responsibilities of key professionals on multidisciplinary teams
Multidisciplinary teams, members and formation
Health and Social Care Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings
NHS Newham Clinical Commissioning Group
What is a multidisciplinary team?
What type of things do they discuss?
Who is involved?
D2 Roles and responsibilities of key professionals on multidisciplinary teams
Specific roles and responsibilities relating to meeting individual needs of a variety of health and care professionals in a multidisciplinary team, to include:
Before we start this section can you create a list of all of the health care professionals that you can think of? Split them up into the groups below.
Health Care professionals
Social Care professionals
Education Professionals
Allied Health Professionals
Voluntary Sector workers
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3. Health Care professionals Social Care professionals
D2 Roles and responsibilities of key professionals on multidisciplinary teams
Specific roles and responsibilities relating to meeting individual needs of a variety of health and care professionals in a multidisciplinary team, to include:
Health Care professionals
Social Care professionals
Education Professionals
Allied Health Professionals
Voluntary Sector workers
G.P
Nurse
Clinical Psychologist
Paediatrician
Social worker
Occupational therapist
SENCO
Educational psychologist
Speech and language therapist
Dieticians
Orthoptists
radiographers
Macmillan nurses
Family support workers
Roles
Responsibilities
Nurse
• Provide hands-on care to patients
• Provide emotional support to patients and their families
Help patients, e.g. by administering medicines, monitoring conditions, maintaining records, providing health promotion and other information, communicating with doctors
Students can add to the list.
In groups research the roles and responsibilities of each of the health care professionals in RED. Look at the example opposite.
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4. Sasha is 37. She is pregnant and also had a neurological condition.
How multi-agency and multidisciplinary teams work together to provide co-ordinated support, e.g. an autistic child may have involvement with the following agencies and professionals: NHS (GP, paediatrician, clinical psychologist, counsellor, speech and language therapist), local authority and education services (social worker, SENCO, educational psychologist), and the voluntary sector (family support officers from the National Autistic Society).
Each of the following people need support from a multi-disciplinary team. Who would be in each team and what help would they provide?
Sasha is 37. She is pregnant and also had a neurological condition.
For Sasha (EXAMPLE)
Her G.P will most likely refer her to an obstetrician. An obstetrician will care for her more complex needs during pregnancy. A midwife who will do some routine test and take care of Sasha during labour. A neurologist who may look at any medication she is taking and liaise with the obstetrician.
Sarah is 13 and suffers from Anorexia
Kamal is 40 and has recently been diagnosed with diabetes.
Ben is 7 and has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and is Dyslexic.
Lucy is 3 years old and says very few words. Most things that she says are not clear or easily understood.
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5. How multi-agency and multidisciplinary teams work together to provide co-ordinated support, e.g. an autistic child may have involvement with the following agencies and professionals: NHS (GP, paediatrician, clinical psychologist, counsellor, speech and language therapist), local authority and education services (social worker, SENCO, educational psychologist), and the voluntary sector (family support officers from the National Autistic Society).
Tim is 45 and lives alone. He suffers from epilepsy and can often have fits. Tim suffers from depression and often doesn’t bother to take his medication as he can’t see much point.
Carole is 19 and lives at home with her mother. She is morbidly obese and doesn't go outside. She has very few friends and spends most of her time on social media in order to communicate with others. Her mother is worried about her and often gives into Carole when she wants to eat ‘junk’ like foods such as chocolate and crisps. Carole says that she eats because it comforts her when she is feeling down.
What input might each person require from the NHS, Social Services and Voluntary Services?
Why is the involvement of different agencies necessary to meet the needs of each individual?
Explain the roles and responsibilities of different members of the multidisciplinary team that you have identified.
Assess the benefits of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working for these individuals with care and support needs.
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6. What could you include in this section?
Learning Aim D P6
Explain why meeting the needs of the individuals requires the involvement of different agencies
Explain
Give reasons for how or why something happens; you need to give examples.
What could you include in this section?
What am I being asked to do?
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7. Have you explained the difference between a role and a responsibility?
Learning Aim D P7
Explain the roles and responsibilities of different members of the multidisciplinary team in meeting the needs of specific individuals
Have you explained the difference between a role and a responsibility?
For a particular individual which professionals are involve din their care? Why have they not got just one professional?
Have you explain what multidisciplinary means?
Have you explain each professional that is involved with one individual and what that professionals role and responsibility is?
What else could you include here?
Explain
Give reasons for how or why something happens; you need to give examples.
What am I being asked to do?
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8. What lese do you need to include here?
Learning Aim D M5
Assess the benefits of multidisciplinary and multi-agency working for specific individuals with care and support needs.
Assess
Consider several options or arguments and weigh them up so as to come to a conclusion about their effectiveness or validity
Have you discussed the difference between multidisciplinary and multi-agency?
What benefits are their to certain individuals with this type of approach?
What lese do you need to include here?
What am I being asked to do?
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