Relational Commissioning Brings New Job Title – Children’s Relationship Placement Making
A new commissioning ethos brings a new role as commissioner as ‘the glue’, ‘a facilitator’, ‘an enabler’ and ‘a connector’, providing ‘a population-eye view’ of issues, and using collaboration and collective leadership to make more effective choices about how to improve care for children. population health. This is a significant change from enforcing contracts and creating competition to enabling system-wide discussions and promoting collaboration with a mix of formal and informal.
Key personal and professional perspectives to be used in relation to others
- Co-design: Co-invest: Co-deliver: Collaborate
- Trust creates shared understanding and collective knowledge as part of a learning cycle with a shared purpose
Walking the talk
Collaborative Learning Theory is based on the notion of Collaborative Learning, a learning methodology in which employees and instructors gain knowledge from each other. It follows these assumptions about learning:
- Learning is social at its core. People learn from each other by talking about their current knowledge and solving problems together.
- Learning is an active process. People learn best when they work with information in meaningful ways.
- Learning depends on its subject matter’s context. Learners get the most out of new information when they apply it as they learn it.
- Learners come from a wide range of knowledge backgrounds. Everyone brings a unique perspective to learning environments that offer new knowledge to other learners and teachers.Core to all of this
Build effective relationships with those you serve: understand and respond to the strengths and needs of each person; act collaboratively with others to do so
Job Title: Children’s Relationship Placement making/Relational Commissioning
Job Purpose: To be the core person for a placement making service that has relationships with partners at the core of its practice, effective matching of identified needs to provision that meets required regulatory standards and efficient use of funding.
