Apply for this badge #5 Leading and managing across boundaries
View all badgesProvide evidence that you are able to:
- identify and make good use of opportunities for collaboration and cooperation across organisational and professional boundaries, both internal and external, as well as with people who use services, families and carers
- communicate clearly and effectively across boundaries including actively listening to, seeking understanding and taking account of, differing perspectives
- build and maintain trust with colleagues in your own, and other, agencies
- explore challenging issues and express constructive dissent when required, even if this feels risky and there is pressure to conform
- foster a culture of openness, collaboration and cooperation in the design, planning and delivery of services
- lead and manage collaborative work with networks, communities, other professionals and organisations, engaging partners and other stakeholders in shared decision-making
- ensure that partnership working and integrated services stay clearly focused on outcomes for people who use services, families and carers.
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