Assessment Guidance
You will be required to work collaboratively with provided learning tasks
and utilise self assessment strategies and feedback to assess your
collaborative team working skills (learning outcome 4).
You will also submit a piece of coursework requiring you to reflect upon
practice based situations relating to service user and carer involvement
and the policy drivers for collaboration. You will reflect upon your own
skills of collaborative working and plan to meet your identified
development needs.
This assessment task is 100% of the overall module mark.
This assessment task is in two parts and is closely related to the
activities you have been engaged in during your timetabled sessions.
Part A relates to learning outcomes 1 to 3
Part A requires you to select a practice based situation and discuss it in
light of policy. You could elect to write about the practice scenario you
have been exploring in your classroom sessions or identify a practice
situation from your own experience. You should discuss the situation
you select in terms of how a policy you identify, and any subsequent
documentation related to it, influences service user involvement and
integration of services You should also indicate how this relates to
interprofessional working The aim of this essay is to identify how a
contemporary policy might influence interprofessional working with
service users. When discussing this policy take examples from your
selected practice based situation and use these to illustrate how a
collaborative approach was maintained throughout the intervention,
Guidance on preparing this assignment
Suggested structure to part A:
You could start with an introduction that outlines what will be discussed
in the essay. You could introduce the policy that you will be exploring
and briefly mention the principal components of your selected practice
based scenario (200 words)
At the beginning of the main part of your essay you could define what is
meant by service user involvement in the context of your essay and
develop a discussion that defines interprofessional working and
collaborative practice. This discussion should draw out the relationship
between service user involvement and interprofessional working. (500
words)
The next major component should introduce and discuss the policy you
have selected. Its main aims and the principles it is concerned with
should be summarised and explored with a focus on elements of
collaborative working and the integration of services – this integration
can be at any level: within practice areas, across a service, across
organisations or agencies. (500 words)
You could then explore how this policy might relate to the practice based
situation you have selected as an example and discuss where
opportunities for collaboration arise within the scenario. (500 words)
You should conclude your essay with a short summary of the main
points you have raised and your overall evaluation of the need for
interprofessional collaborative practice in the context of ensuring service
users’ involvement in their care. (300 words)
It is suggested that Part A should be approximately 2000 words. It will
attract approximately two thirds of the marks allocated to the assignment.
Part B relates to learning outcome 4:
Reflect on your development needs and apply strategies to enable you
to become a capable collaborative worker.
To address this part of the assignment you need to make a selfassessment of your level of development using the provided selfassessment document related to the Interprofessional Capability
Framework. You should assess yourself against the whole Framework
in preparation for your assignment (you will have practised this in a
classroom session).
To complete the written part of Part B, you should select one capability
from each of the four domains of the Framework and identify the
learning level you believe you have attained in each of these
capabilities. You should identify examples from your learning; this could
be practice learning, classroom learning or personal study and write
reflectively about how each example demonstrates your achievement of
the learning levels. You can look at page 21 in the Capability mini guide
on the module blackboard site to find examples that may help you with
this part of the assignment.
You should reflect on these examples and consider what further learning
opportunities you need to undertake in order to progress to the next level
of learning in each case (or the capable level if you assess you are
already at level 3). It is suggested that this part of your assignment
should be approximately 1000 words.
You should formulate an action plan that summarises your plans for your
future development within the four capabilities you have identified. The
action plan is not included in the word count. You should use the
provided template as the basis of the action plan.
Part B will attract approximately one third of the marks allocated to the
assignment.
Your essay should be supported by reference to literature and be
accurately referenced. Care must be taken to ensure that no individual
person, placement area or organisation can be identified. You must
protect, at all times, the integrity of those you care for, work with and the
services in which you gain practice experience.