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| Id | 875 | |
| Author | Rayment J., Sidhu M., Wright P., Brown P., Greenfield S., Jeffreys S., Gale N. | |
| Title | Collaboration for impact: Co-creating a workforce development toolkit using an arts-based approach | |
| Reference | Rayment J., Sidhu M., Wright P., Brown P., Greenfield S., Jeffreys S., Gale N.; Collaboration for impact: Co-creating a workforce development toolkit using an arts-based approach ;International Journal of Integrated Care vol:20 issue: 2 page:1.0 |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85086329871&doi=10.5334%2fijic.5377&partnerID=40&md5=50505f1e3b74077c7838de6f9740c3ac |
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| Abstract | Introduction: The identification, communication and management of health risk is a core task of Community Health Workers who operate at the boundaries of community and primary care, often through not-forprofit community interest companies. However, there are few opportunities or resources for workforce development. Publicly funded researchers have an obligation to be useful to the public and furthermore, university funding is increasingly contingent on demonstrating the social impact of academic research. Collaborative work with participants and other stakeholders can have reciprocal benefits to all but may be daunting to some researchers, unused to such approaches. Methods: This case study is an account of the co-creation of a (freely accessible) workforce development toolkit, as part of a collaboration between academics, community interest companies, patients and services users and arts practitioners. Results: Our collaborative group produced three short films, fictionalising encounters between Community Health Workers and their clients. These were used within a series of five discussion-led workshops with facilitator guidance to explore issues generated by the films. Two collaborating community-based, not-forprofit organisations piloted the toolkit before its launch. Conclusion: We aim to encourage other academics to maximise the impact of their own research through collaborative projects with those outside of academia, including research participants and to consider the potential value of arts-based approaches to explore and facilitate reflection on complex tasks and tensions that make up daily work practices. Whilst publication of findings from such projects may be commonplace, accounts of the process are unusual. This detailed account highlights some of the benefits and challenges involved. © 2020 The Author(s). |
Collaboration for impact: Co-creating a workforce development toolkit using an arts-based approach. Some of this research has been carried out with Community Health Workers who can be defined as individuals with an in-depth understanding of the community culture and language who have received standardised job-related training which is of shorter duration than health profes- sionals and whose primary goal is to provide culturally appropriate health services to the community . During what we termed the Distillation Day the academic team came together with the Impact Fellow and the playwright to move the theoretical model back to real life everyday Community Health Worker work. As the initial workshops had generated a plan for an arts- based discussion-led toolkit we agreed that these sorts of workshops would potentially provide the space and time for staff to experience group support and peer supervision and have an unusual opportunity to reflect and talk about their work thus addressing one of the community health workers priority needs in using risk work. For example whilst the fiction- alised films depicted less than ideal practice from Com- munity Health Workers the aim of the training was not to identify these poor practices but instead use them to spark discussion on community health work more broadly and participants experiences in particular.
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