John Burton

Leading Good Care: The Task, Heart and Art of Managing Social Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written for the hard-pressed manager of social care, Leading Good Care cuts through the obstructions of red tape and procedures to focus on task, role and practice. Managers will discover in this book understanding, inspiration, confidence and the authority to lead their service.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781849055512
• ISBN-10: 1849055513
• Artikelnr.: 41419343

Autorenporträt

John Burton has worked in social care since 1965 as a practitioner at all levels, and as a manager, writer, trainer, researcher, inspector and consultant. He has campaigned to raise standards of care and has made such campaigning practical by leading the transformation of several care homes and of a voluntary organisation running homes. He is currently a member of the steering group based at the National Skills Academy (Social Care) for advancing the professional status and practice of Registered Managers. He is well known as a writer of books, chapters and hundreds of articles and columns in the social care press, and as a consultant supervising, mentoring and supporting managers to develop their services.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Debbie Sorkin. Preface. Introduction. Stories of Leading Good
Care. 1. Context and integration. 2. Care, the core task. 3. Beneath the
surface.: The permanent underside of care. 4. Boundary: where your service
interacts with its environment (outside it) and the uses of boundaries in
leading care. 5. Manager as leader. 6. Changing places: turning barriers to
leadership into enablers and supporters of leadership. 7. Stepping up to
leadership: And leading your social care service with courage, vision and
integrity. Appendix 1. Action learning. Appendix 2. Humpty Dumpty's social
care words and phrases. Books and other resources. Index.