Strategic Planning for Establishing a Mental Health Supported Housing Project: A Case Study of Midlands Healthcare Ltd

Question 1:

a) Reflecting on the importance of attaining best service user outcomes in care, discuss how the concept of resource planning could be used to make available and free up resources for the new Mental Health Supported Housing project

In the recent era of globalisation, the health and social care system is growing at a rapid rate and the percentage of mental illness among the patients is also rising tremendously. As a senior management manager of Midlands Healthcare Ltd., it is necessary to develop effective planning for providing high quality health and social care services to the patients with mental illness. The organisation is mainly responsible to develop the new mental health supported housing project. The name of the housing project is Midlands Healthcare Ltd., where the treatment and the health care services are for the patients who are suffering from mental illness. Midlands Healthcare Ltd. is mainly aims at developing effective housing building for the ultimate destination of the patients, where they will get efficient health and social care services, treatment and counselling for their mental illness. The organisation focuses on developing high quality institution where the efficient health care professionals can deliver quality care and appropriate treatment to all the patients with mental illness. The infrastructure of the institution is mandatory to be developed in this case in order to create patient centred care for maximising the wellbeing of the care users (Hollier-Hann et al., 2019). In order to achieve the aim of the Midlands Healthcare Ltd., it is mandatory for the senior management team to plan the resources necessary for setting up the organisation and starting the activities to treat the patients with care. Through analysing the requirements of the resources to set up the institution and implementing the latest technology and equipment are necessary to make the organisational aim fulfilled.

In this regard, resource planning is effective for the organisation Midlands Healthcare Ltd. In order to develop suitable planning for acquiring successful resources and improving the capabilities of the institution to maximise the objectives of the organisation, the resource planning is useful for the Midlands Healthcare Ltd., to create the plan and arrange the resources to set up the organisation. The major stakeholders involved with Midlands Healthcare Ltd., are such as the managers and the employees, owners and suppliers, distributors and social workers who are the internal stakeholders of the institution as well as there are external stakeholders, who are the government of the country, local authorities, health care management chain, service users and social workers, who are also playing crucial role to make the institution successful. The major resources for the mental health support housing project are such as, the human resource, raw materials, organisational infrastructure, equipment to mental health care treatment, financial capital resource (Roberts et al., 2016). These are the major resources utilised in the mental health care project, where the health care professionals are concerned about helping the patient with high quality care, tetrameter and medication as well as training and counselling. In this regard, the human resources are one of the major resources in Midlands Healthcare Ltd., where the health care professionals are playing crucial role to treat the patients with quality care and efficient services. The major health care professionals required in Midlands Healthcare Ltd., are such as psychiatrics, psychologists, psychoanalysts, clinical counsellor, speech therapist, marital and family therapist, nurses and the staff members, mental health and licensed counsellor, as well as the pharmaceutical management team who are collaborating with each other for serving the patients with high quality care and efficient treatment (Amelung, 2019).

The aim of Midlands Healthcare Ltd. is to deliver high quality care to each patient suffering from mental illness and the best services according to the mental health care standard. In order to maximise the aim of the institution, the senior management team and the doctors and nurses focus on developing patient centred care which is important for Midlands Healthcare Ltd., to create values for the patients and maximise their wellbeing where the individuals are empowered well in developing the care plan and they can cooperate with the service providers efficiently with high communication and cooperation (Mulhausen, 2019). This practice further provides a scope to the senior management team of Midlands Healthcare to promote high quality mental health services and acknowledge the actual needs and personal preferences of the patients in the institution. This further boosts the preference of the care givers and creates values for the patients in the care home. The other resources such as finance, organisational infrastructure, latest equipment and counselling process are also beneficial for the organisation Midlands Healthcare to fulfil its aim and retain more patients so that they would get the best mental health care services and treatment according to their personal needs and preferences.

b) Analysing at least three different sources of funding and consider two you will use to support your resource planning strategy for the new Mental Health Supported Housing project.

Resource planning is one of the major business plans to set up the mental housing project where the aim of the organisation Midlands Healthcare is to maximise the professionals patient care by reviving the best services related to mental health. The organisational senior management team are concerned about the financial resource management which is necessary and crucial to establish the building where the patients suffering from mental illness will get the best services and treatment from the health care professionals (Coid and Crombie, 2017). There are several options of funding the organisation Midlands Healthcare in order to fulfil its aims and the major options of funding the mental care unit are such as bank loan, venture capital and donations. The venture capital is the way of funding the organisation, where the start up company has the potential to grow and the wealthy investors would like to invest in the project with long term growth and achievement. The money is provided by the investors to start up the business and perceive long term growth. It is one of the important sources of funding for the start ups (Piccininni and Fletcher, 2020). For the Midlands Healthcare, it is also beneficial to choose venture capital strategy for successful funding of the organisation where the senior team and the leader can develop its infrastructure in future. The venture capitalists are trustworthy and easy to locate as well as there are no such obligations to repayment which secure the funding process in future.

On the other hand, donation is another strategy of funding the institutions where there are various business hours, individuals and corporate leaders who try to donate in the hospitals or nursing homes for the wellbeing of the individuals and maximising the standard of living of the social communities. This is also another form of funding for Midlands Healthcare, where the leaders and the management team can fund the institution and develop the required resources infrastructure and hire the human resource and health care professionals for best quality mental health care services. In addition to this, the bank loan is another major option for funding the institution Midlands Healthcare, where the senior management team and the finance manager of the institutions are able to manage their loan for establishing the organisation. The leader in this regard takes loans from the banking institutions for setting up the business. It is fruitful for driving growth of the institution, managing flexibility, cash discount; ownership remains the borrower as well as accounting and having tax advantages. These are the major advantages of taking bank loans for the business purpose. The organisational leader and the senior management team of the institution can apply for bank loans and ensure high funding for setting up the institution in long run. There are strong requirements of funding for hiring the efficient health care professionals, social workers and nurses who can manage the whole process of delivering the quality mental health treatment and services to all the patients across the social communities. In this regard, proper funding is essential for arranging the beds in the mental health supported housing project, implementing the latest IT for managing the patients and their data and personal information, setting up integrated computerised system, executing the requirement of mental health treatment, pharmaceuticals warehouse for storing the medicines of the patients, hiring the technical staff as well as the health care professionals for the treatment of the patients and arranging other necessities of the service users (Stefko et al., 2017).

Hence, there is effective requirement of funding for setting up the whole mental health supported housing project. Among the three options of funding, the major two options for midlands health care institution are bank loans and venture capital. These two funding options are fruitful for the organisation and secure to have effective financial resources for establishing the whole business set up. There are certain factors that influence the organisational decision making behaviour while managing the health care funding (Trapé and Campos 2017). In this regard, the factors are such as technological, economic, environmental, organisational objectives and internal polices government support and local authority’s cooperation, organisational structure and the authority of the mental health care project. The organisational leader and the senior management team are concerned about accessing effective funding through developing the budgetary skill for good financial resource management, it is mandatory for the finance manager to develop effective budgetary planning as well as conduct cost analysis for setting up the organisation successfully. The funding options of venture capital and banking loan further provide a scope to Midlands Healthcare to develop the internal infrastructure and utilise latest technology to treat the patients with mental illness.

Question 2:

Discuss how effective resource management in Midlands Healthcare Ltd. would support the performance of staff, the care team and the organisation as a whole. Explore how this links to the short, medium, and long-term goals of Midlands Healthcare Ltd. -especially gave its intention to expand.

The resources is the central of the whole management process, where the health and social care management team focus on arranging he resources for better establishment of the health care institution in future. The major short term goal of the organisation Midlands Healthcare is to set up the new Mental Health Supported Housing project within 12 months in order to provide mental health care services to the individuals in the social communities. The medium term goal of the institution is to maximise the patients centred care and retaining the high numbers if patients in the society, who are suffering from mental illness (Nicholas et al., 2018). The long run goal of the institutions Midlands Healthcare is to expand the institution across the globe through serving the patients with high quality care and treatment through utilising latest equipment and technology. In this regard, managing human resource is mandatory for the organisation to create manage the workforce and retain the stakeholders for long run. It is the responsibility of the organisational leader and the management team to handle all the employees and health care professionals, who are engaged in the new Mental Health Supported Housing project. For establishing the building projects, it is mandatory to arrange the resources, including capital resources, finance, raw materials, medicines, and human resources. The employees and the health care professionals are the important stakeholders, engaged with the institution Midlands Healthcare, who try to perform better and give their full potential in the organisation to manage their patients and creating values for them in long run (Mwandri et al., 2020).

The employees and the health care professionals in the new Mental Health Supported Housing project, named Midlands Healthcare are such as psychiatrics, psychologists, psychoanalysts, clinical counsellor, speech therapist, marital and family therapist, nurses and the staff members, mental health and licensed counsellor, as well as the pharmaceutical management team and social workers, who are engaged with the organisational workforce for managing the patients efficiently. The human resource management strategy of the institution Midlands Healthcare is important to be developed well to maximise the performance of the staff. There is strong positive relationship between the resource management strategy and the performance of the staff. The health care management team and the organisational leader are responsible for the wellbeing of the individuals; the employees are also interested to contribute positively by utilising the organisational infrastructure and latest technology for serving the best care to the patients (Senthilkumar et al., 2018). Hence, the resource management strategy of midlands Healthcare would be beneficial for the organisational leader to maximise the performance of the staff members, who are engaged with the organisation. It is hereby the responsibility of the management team of the Midlands Health care to create values for the staff members, and provide those effective incentives and yearly bonus which are considered as the monetary incentives to them. This is one of the crucial strategies for the organisation to fulfil the needs of the staff and give the, flexibility to work in the institution (Roberts et al., 2016). There should be effective flexibility in choosing the working hours as per their convenience as well as freedom to work, communication and internal collaboration are necessary to manage the staff and influence them to from better for achieving the above mentioned short, medium and long run goal of Midlands Healthcare.

For managing the care team, it is mandatory for the organisational leader and the senior management team to develop suitable human resource management polices and practice in the institution. There are major care givers who are engaged in the mental health care treatment and they are such as psychiatrics, psychologists, psychoanalysts and clinical counsellor, speech therapist, marital and family therapist, mental health and licensed counsellor, and pharmaceutical management team (Amelung, 2019). They are responsible to maximise the quality of health care services provided to the patients with mental illness. They are the major stakeholders, where the psychiatrics, psychologists, psychoanalysts and clinical counsellor are trying to collaborate with each other for treating the patients with care and support, for managing the care team, it is mandatory for the organisation to provide them structured salary as well as incentives as per their job position and personal capabilities and performance. The leaders also must focus on creating values for them in the organisation, where respect for each other, high collaboration and communication are mandatory so that the psychiatrics, psychologists, psychoanalysts, clinical counsellor can feel valued and work with each other as a partnership working process. It is mandatory for them to develop team work, as without partnership working process, it is not possible to deliver high quality mental health care and treatment to each patients. It is necessary for them to collaborate and communicate for sharing their experience and develop appropriate care plan for the patients (Mishra, 2016). Hence, managing the care team is one of the major responsibilities of the senior team members for fulfilling the short and medium term goal of Midlands Healthcare. In this regard, fair decisions making behaviour, empowerment of the care team members as well as maintaining transparency and accountability are also the other strategies of resource management, where it is also possible to develop organisational culture and manage the workforce as well. The organisational leader also can lead the care team through theses strategic planning towards achieving future goal of the organisation. Hereby, there is strong linkage between the human resource management and the fulfilment of the organisational goal in near future.

In addition to this, the organisation leader focuses on strategic planning to set up the new mental health supported housing project, named Midlands Health care in order to maximise the short term, medium term and long run gaol of the organisation. In this regard, the strategic planning to manage human resources as well as other resource management is fruitful for the organisation as a whole, as all the internal stakeholders can work with their full potential to achieve future organisational success. through the organisational activities of resource planning such as technological up gradation, organisational infrastructural development, implementing latest requirement to mental treatment and care, developing pharmaceuticals store for the medicines and other necessities of the patients as well as the funding for financial capital management would be helpful for the organisation as a whole to manage their operations and serving the patients with high quality care (Hollier-Hann et al., 2019). The organisational leader and management team can manage their resources which have crucial impacts on the overall performance of the organisation Midlands healthcare. This further creates a scope for the organisation to expand their operations across the globe, for serving the best possible mental health care treatment to the different social communities. It is mainly the long run goal of the organisation, where the leader and management team are concerned about retaining the high numbers of patients suffering from mental illness. The organisational leader is also responsible to enhance creativity and innovation for maximising the values of the patients as a whole. Hence, resource management planning is beneficial for the mental health care institution Midlands health care, where the leader would be able to maximise their performance as a whole and enhance standard of living of the human being, who are suffering through mental disorders or illness.

Hence, as per the above discussion, there is strong linkage between the organisational resource management strategies and the performance of staff, the team, and the organisation, Midlands Health care. The organisational leader and the management team are concerned about managing their resources including finance, equipment of the new mental health supported housing project, medicines and other necessities of the patients and the human resources, where the doctors, nurses, psychiatrics, counsellors as well as the staff members, medicine providers, social workers are collaborating with each other for delivering the best possible mental health care services to all the patients, suffering from mental illness (Hollier-Hann et al., 2019). The long term goal of the organisation is risky for the institution Midlands health care due to the resource scarcity, where the major issues are such as lack of finance, appropriate resource funding, lack of clinical staff, poor organisational resource management, lack of resource for expanding the operations of Midlands Health care and poor internal organisational structure to manage all the stakeholders, engaged with the organisation. In this process, it is the responsibility of the organisational leader of midlands healthcare to take active initiative for successful resource planning so that it would also be possible to create good corporate culture and suitable organisational structure for managing their performance as a whole. In relation to appropriate management of the resources, it is also mandatory to have transparency and accountability in the organisational workplace, where the leader should be accountable with the decision made for the organisational success. Fair decisions making behaviour by empowering all the care givers, health care professionals, investors, senior management team and nurses would provide a scope to the Midland health care to create values for the stakeholders and encourage them to perform better by utilising the organisational infrastructure and latest technology to treat the patients efficiently by serving them with high quality care and treatment.

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