Comparison of Personal Values and Principles with Principles of Support in the Workplace

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Table of Contents
Task 1..........................................................................................................................................................3
A Comparison of your personal values and principles with the principles of support for working in your
work.........................................................................................................................................................3
An Assessment on how personal culture and experience influence your role in supporting clients and
colleagues in your work place.................................................................................................................3
Reflection on own personal contributions to the support of individuals experiencing significant life
events......................................................................................................................................................4
Discuss how new developments and changes to your personal values can impact on your work..........5
Make recommendations for improving the support available in a health and social care organization
for individuals and their social networks when affected by significant life events..................................5
Task 2..........................................................................................................................................................6
Explain own role, responsibilities, accountabilities and duties in the context of working with those
within and outside the health and social care workplace........................................................................6
Assess your current skills ability and learning style.................................................................................6
Use of communication skills in a health and social care context.............................................................7
Access and use standard ICT software packages to support work in health and social care...................8
Evaluate own contributions to place the health and safety needs of individuals at the centre of
practice....................................................................................................................................................8
Evaluate own contribution to the development and implementation of health and social care
organizational policy................................................................................................................................9
Produce a holistic development plan for yourself with short, medium and long-term goals..................9
Monitor your progress against the plan according to the requirements of a care practitioner, revising
the plan as required..............................................................................................................................10
Evaluate the effectiveness of the development plan to your development as a Health and social care
practitioner............................................................................................................................................10
Task 3........................................................................................................................................................11
Explain the nature of different professional relationships in the context of your work place...............11
Evaluate your personal effectiveness in promoting and supporting the rights of the individual in your
work place.............................................................................................................................................12
Discuss ways to resolve issues encountered in professional relationships in your work place.............12
Task 4........................................................................................................................................................14
Explain how the limits of your work role impacts on working with others............................................14
Analyse your role in minimising barriers to effective teamwork in your work place.............................14
Evaluate the effectiveness of your personal contributions when working with others in your workplace
...............................................................................................................................................................15
Evaluate how your own development has been influenced by management approaches encountered
in own experience.................................................................................................................................15
Discuss how to improve your personal contributions to the collective effectiveness of your team......16
Make recommendations to develop own contributions to meeting good practice requirements........16
References.................................................................................................................................................18
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Task 1
A Comparison of your personal values and principles with the principles of support for
working in your work
As a health practitioner I have some personal values that help me in my role of assisting
the clients and sometimes fellow staff members in the best way possible. I believe that everyone
in the society is worthy of respect and equal consideration and therefore I treat all the people I
interact with equally and with the respect I believe they all deserve. I sometimes disagree with
people depending on their practices but this does not affect my view that they are not lesser
human and they should thus be taken serious and given fair treatment. I also believe in the power
of communication and thus I give my clients and colleague time to express them and let them
know my view on issues. To be able to do this, I create an atmosphere of trust that allows the
people to feel relaxed and enable them to talk openly without any fears. I have the value of
respecting diversity and am therefore able to work inclusively with people of different ages,
diverse backgrounds as well as different cultural backgrounds.
I try as much as possible to follow the principles of support for working in my workplace
which includes fairness, stakeholders’ involvement, nurturing local leadership among other
principles. At our workplaces we believe fairness does not necessary translate to people getting
similar things but rather obtaining what they need. We also believes that community work can
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only be successful of all the stakeholders are adequately involved in all the projects. Our service
tries as much as possible to develop and nurture leaders from within the community.
An Assessment on how personal culture and experience influence your role in supporting
clients and colleagues in your work place.
Personal culture and experiences have significant influence in the interaction between a
health worker on one side and the clients and colleagues on the other side. Belief and attitudes
are formed and altered with time as a person interacts with others and the environment. As a
healthcare professional, it is important to ensure that your personal culture does not conflict with
that of your colleagues and clients but rather ensure that there is respect for each other culture for
peaceful co-existence. Personally, I come from Filipinos culture which has a lot of cultural
values. From the influence of my culture, I have strong family ties and I treat my clients and
colleagues as members of my own family as that is what I learned since I was young.
This enables me to create instant connection both with my colleagues and clients and I
therefore find myself with so many friends which are good for my profession. I became
accustomed from relating to people of different cultures at tender age and this has impacted a lot
on my profession as I find it as a norm to interact with different groups of people. From the
feedback I receive from my clients and my colleagues, I am sure my culture has a positive
influence on their lives. My personal culture is supplemented by experiences I have gained both
while at work and when I was a student where my desire to ensure people have no pain to bother
about make me work around the clock to ensure my clients get maximum service to assist them
(Durkin, 2000).
Reflection on own personal contributions to the support of individuals experiencing
significant life events
I have made some significant contributions to support people experiencing life events
such bipolar disorder and dementia. I have always made time for such people and ensured I
remained patient in every situation involving them that I have participated. I have been able to
use my past experiences in dealing with such cases which has enabled me to be able to
communicate with the people in an effective way. I have also made contribution by reassuring
individuals experiencing significant life events by the use of tone of voice, my choice of words
which has aided in reducing frustrations. I have undertaken personal and group initiatives that
are aimed at helping people experiencing life events. I always make it my responsibility to give
guidance to people on how they can avoid diseases such as cancer which is slowly becoming a
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