Develop and maintain working relationships with other practitioners
Overview
Who is this unit for?
This unit is for those who work with other practitioners within and outside the school to provide coherent support for pupils' learning and development.
What is this unit about?
This unit is about working effectively with other practitioners by doing what you can to support their work and using their strengths and expertise to support and develop your own working practices and procedures.
This unit contains two elements:
1. Maintain working relationships with other practitioners
2. Work in partnership with other practitioners
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Maintain working relationships with other practitioners
P1 provide information to assist other practitioners in their role in accordance with school policies and procedures
P2 share information which is complete, accurate and within the boundaries of your role and responsibilities
P3 respond to approaches made by other practitioners in a manner which indicates willingness to develop working relationships consistent with the procedures of the school
P4 provide clear advice, information and demonstrations to assist others to develop skills which you possess
P5 use opportunities to extend personal contact with other practitioners and make direct observation of their particular expertise
P6 develop an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of other practitioners as they affect your own work
Work in partnership with other practitioners
P7 interact with other practitioners in a manner likely to promote trust and confidence in the relationship
P8 provide timely, appropriate, succinct information to enable other practitioners to deliver their support to pupils
P9 respond to other practitioners' requests for information and support in a manner that demonstrates a willingness to cooperate where reasonable and appropriate
P10 clearly explain any factors limiting your ability to cooperate
P11 contribute effectively to the planning and implementation of joint actions P12 reliably carry out agreed commitments to undertake work in partnership
with other practitioners
P13 seek and make effective use of opportunities to draw upon the skills and knowledge of other practitioners in support of your own role
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
K1 how to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other practitioners
K2 principles of effective communication and how to apply them in order to communicate effectively with other practitioners
K3 the importance of exchanging information and resources with other practitioners
K4 the school policy for confidentiality of information – who is entitled to pass on what information to whom
K5 the school's protocols and procedures for recording and sharing information
K6 your role within the school and the limitations of your own competence and area of responsibility
K7 your role within different group situations, including multi-agency working, and how you contribute to the overall group process
K8 the roles and responsibilities of staff in the school and other practitioners in contact with school
K9 your own and others' professional boundaries
K10 the importance of working within the school's values, beliefs and culture K11 the importance of respecting the skills and expertise of other
practitioners
K12 the value of sharing how you approach your role with other practitioners K13 school policy and procedures for making and maintaining contact with
practitioners outside the school setting
K14 how to judge when you should provide information and/or support yourself and when you should refer the situation to another practitioner
K15 the specialist support and advice that is available to you in the school
and from other practitioners in contact with the school
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Confidentiality
only providing information to those who are authorised to have it
Practitioners
colleagues within the school or contacts from external organisations whose work impacts on your role, such as:
1. teaching staff, e.g. teachers, subject leaders, specialist teachers, supply teachers
2. support staff
3. trainee teachers
4. parent helpers and community volunteers
5. school contacts from non-teaching professions, e.g. educational psychologist, speech and language therapist, outdoor education adviser, local business people
Support
the time, resources and advice that you give to other practitioners and their activities, and those that they give to you and your activities
Links To Other NOS
TDASTL4 Contribute to positive relationships TDASTL5 Provide effective support for your colleagues TDASTL20 Develop and promote positive relationships
TDASTL21 Support the development and effectiveness of work teams