Context: CLD practitioners need to understand, recognise and value the benefits of collaboration and build appropriate and effective alliances, networks and other forms of working together.

As a competent practitioner able to develop and support collaborative working you will be able to demonstrate that you can:

• develop and support collaborative working within your own organisation;
• initiate collaborative working with relevant organisations;
• participate in partnership and collaborative working;
• support community participation in partnership and collaborative working;
• clarify and articulate the role of your own organisation and that of others;
• negotiate and agree roles in collaborative and joint work, taking a leadership role where appropriate;
• identify, put in place or provide appropriate training and development opportunities for collaborative working;
• challenge and be challenged on issues undermining effective partnership working being aware of tensions and conflicts;
• manage the ending of collaborative and joint relationships.