Training the Future Workforce: Social Workers in Integrated Health Care Settings

Workforce Development in Integrated Care: A Scoping Review

“…Most common were behavioural health clinicians specialising in mental health conditions, including psychologists, social workers and medical practitioners. Other groups were leaders [20,21], managers [21], primary care professionals [22], expert clinicians [23][24][25][26][27], healthcare students [5], medical graduates [23,28], physicians [29], social service providers in the community [26], health and social care workers or behavioural health providers [29][30][31][32] and educators and academics [23,20]. For example, one study described an integrated care training programme for social workers alongside community social service providers [26].…”

“…The studies describe several models for education and training, varying by target audience and methods (see content into existing curricula, building foundational knowledge, and developing elective courses to enhance and develop integrated care expertise [24]. The literature also described a 26-item validated tool to measure three areas of integrated care expertise among health and social care professionals: (1) generalism, representing the patient, (2) coaching to empower patients to selfmanage their care and (3) population health orientation and prevention [46].…”

“…Patient centredness; understanding and facilitating patients' pathways through the care system [15,5,36] Collaborating with other providers; strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to develop strong working relationships with team members are imperative [24,5,[42][43][44] Health promotion and disease prevention Community-based health education, health promotion and disease prevention [15,40,45] Health promotion and disease prevention Knowledge of how to teach patients self-care strategies to stay healthy and how to incorporate the patient's strengths and resources within their care plan [15,37] Understanding individuals' roles in the integrated healthcare team and the ability to articulate this role to other team members [24,5,36] Table 3 Competencies, Themes and References.…”

“…Opportunities for broader and more meaningful engagement across health and social care [54,57] 27 Incorporate and encourage innovative training and development that spans across health and social care [54,36] 28 Design clinical practice environments to support and enable continuous learning that benefits not just learners, but also patients, communities and providers [9] 29 Provide opportunities for participants to gain placement experience engaging in team-based assessments and intervention strategies [24] Table 4 Models of Training.…”

Irish Field Education/Social Work Placement: The Making of Multi-Touch eBooks as a ‘Wrap Around’ Resource

“…In practice, social workers have embraced the integrative models to bring together a number of disciplinary theoretical positions considered in the studies of Oliver and Peck; Cheung, Held et al [81][82][83], but in the making of the eBooks it was the inter-disciplinary discussions on 'Language and the area of 'Assessment' and 'Supervision' that were the most productive.…”