I am enough! An interprofessional interaction model for workplace well-being

The aim of the "I Am Enough!" project is to improve the well-being of social and healthcare professionals by strengthening multidisciplinary collaboration and interaction skills. The project is divided into sub-goals and actions, of which:
Focuses on strengthening the multidisciplinary interaction skills of professionals.
Focuses on strengthening the resilience leadership skills of supervisors.
Evaluates the effectiveness of the work and forms a well-being model for multidisciplinary interaction skills developed as a result of the work, and disseminates the project's results for nationwide use.

The project's actions aim to strengthen the sense of belonging and self-efficacy as part of a multidisciplinary team. To enable the new way of working, the project develops the skills and interaction methods required for the new approach. For many professionals, client/patient work is the most important, and strengthening retention factors supports the strategic priorities of the regional strategy and the Pirkanmaa well-being area strategy.

The "I Am Enough!" project promotes and represents active, multidisciplinary co-development in Pirkanmaa. The project's actions aim to strengthen professionals' open-mindedness by increasing competence and thereby enhancing well-being at work. The project's indirect target group, i.e., the marginalized and socially excluded in Pirkanmaa, aims to reduce exclusion and social exclusion by improving the smoothness of everyday life through the development of the skills of social and healthcare professionals.

The social and healthcare service system needs significantly more intersectoral cooperation than currently exists to endure and succeed. This cooperation must transcend the service lines and organizational boundaries of social and healthcare services. Clients and patients need to be supported and helped more timely and comprehensively so that the resources of the well-being area are better sufficient for all those in need of assistance.

Renewing social and healthcare services means more appropriate cooperation, which avoids overlapping work and uncoordinated services that burden both the client and the employee. Professionals constantly face challenging situations in their work as clients' and patients' situations become more complex, financial resources are tight, and there are continuous changes and uncertainties.

The skills gap in multidisciplinary, systemic work and excessive workload make it difficult to adopt uniform working methods. Professionals experience ethical stress because they cannot do their work as well as they would like, which affects their ability to work and cope. This stress also increases the willingness to leave the field.

The "I Am Enough!" well-being model developed in the project will be made available nationwide, and it can be freely utilized in both well-being areas and other social and healthcare sectors. The social and healthcare field is constantly creating new things, and new activities involve uncertainties, but this model provides tools for solving challenging situations through the strengthening of interaction skills.

The project's activities will produce long-term effects by being able to develop service integration, co-agency, competence, and both employee and customer experiences.

In the project, well-being at work is seen as emerging through interaction, where individual workloads can be alleviated and responsibilities shared through collaboration. Effective interaction helps shift from an individual’s feeling of inadequacy to a shared team experience of sufficiency.Interaction that builds resilience is viewed as a communal process, not as a personal trait.
The project examines one’s own work from the perspective of clients and patients, aiming to highlight the positive effects of collaboration on well-being at work and the quality of work. Clients and their close ones are also involved in validating the results."

Co-funded by the European Union