Professional Portfolio in Health and Social Care

Running head: PORTFOLIO
Portfolio
Name of student:
Name of university:
Author note:

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Reflection on leadership..................................................................................................................3
Reflection on group project.............................................................................................................5
CV....................................................................................................................................................9
Reflection on strengths against NTU graduate attributes and learning outcomes.........................13
References......................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
Health and social care is a professional field where practitioners are involved in
providing range of support to clients and their families to ensure that all holistic care needs of
client is met. The core responsibility of a health and social care practitioner is to professionally
interact and work with diverse client group to provide optimal health and social care support.
They play a role in fulfilling holistic care needs of client by managing, physica, psychosocial and
rehabilitation needs of client. They may work with client directly or in specific care organization.
The support provided is based on skill related to communication, assessment, planning and
evaluation of a care programe. This report provides an overview about my own professional
portfolio related to the health and social care job. I have worked in semi-independent units,
nursing homes and residential homes to provide support to clients with challenging behavior,
mental illness, learning disability and many other issues. Certain knowledge, skills and attributes
are necessary for job in this field and this reflective portfolio gives an overview about my initial
views on leadership and leadership style and provides. The portfolio also provides an insight into
my development of key skills, knowledge and attributes through reflection on a group project,
details about the CV and self-assessment of my strengths against graduate attributes and my
ability to meet certain learning outcomes for the module.

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Reflection on leadership
As a student of health and social care discipline, I acknowledge the importance of
leadership in this domain. I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on my personal ideas
and viewpoint about leadership. In this reflection I would like to highlight the values, views,
aspirations for my future career, and the role I would like to undertake in this domain.
Leadership is a practical skill that encompasses the ability to lead and guide others
towards a particular goal (White, Currie and Lockett 2014). A leader is a person that is
responsible for initiating actions that others are to follow for getting a work done. Further, a
leader is to play an incentive role in the tasks delegated to the team. In believe that the prime role
of a leader is to motivate group members to act in a manner aligned with the team’s motives and
objectives. I have been aspired time and again by the concept of leadership, and feel that
leadership is crucially important in the contemporary era to achieve success in health and social
care domain. The cornerstone of leadership is self-awareness. This implies that as a leader one
must be working to understand the personal weaknesses and strengths (Moss 2017). In addition,
one must be ready to model the ways in which own values are congruent to the behaviors
(Glasby 2017). In my viewpoint, a leader’s job is not limited to supervising and management.
Such a role entails guiding role that implies instructing the subordinates the way they are
required to act for working efficiently and effectively. Creating confidence among the members
is a crucial factor that can be achieved by understanding their concerns. Health and social care is
a field where success can be achieved, as a professional, by working in collaboration with others
(Martin et al. 2015). I therefore opine that leadership can be the only tool for enabling maximal
input from individuals.