Working Practices with Other Care Providers

This assignment focuses on analyzing individual working practices within healthcare settings and identifying challenges that arise when collaborating with other care providers. It encourages reflection on personal strengths and weaknesses, particularly in relation to effective communication and coordination. The goal is to develop strategies for overcoming these challenges and enhancing collaborative work practices to deliver high-quality patient care.

Task 2- Portfolio

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Q4. Own personal skills and learning style.................................................................................1
Q5. Holistic development of short, medium and long term goals..............................................2
Q6. Reflective account of how monitored the development plan against working standard......4
Q7. Limits of own work role impacts on work with others........................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
In this part of the portfolio, it prepares an appropriate plan for progress so that personal
and professional development can be attained within health care practitioners. It is also essential
for HSC practitioners to render best service quality in order to influence and satisfy patients
(Reeves, 2012). Here, PPD is produced, monitored, revised and evaluate the personal
development plan so that individual understanding could be improved.
Q4. Own personal skills and learning style
It can be stated that working as a health care practitioner it is essential for me to develop
my evaluation skills in order to deliver the best health care facilities to patients. However, it is
also essential for me to enhance my communication skills that would benefit me to develop
effective communication with patients and understand their needs appropriately. Following is the
SWOT analysis that improves own personal skill such as-
Strengths
 I possess effective communication
skills.
 The Best evaluation and analytical
skills.
 Requires understanding the needs and
wants of patients and fulfil the same
accordingly so that satisfaction could
be attained.
 Being health care practitioner I possess
leadership skill to direct the care
providers and nurses to look after the
patients with specific needs.
Weaknesses
 My main weakness is that I am not able
to manage my work load appropriately
and thus it affects my functions.
 I also lack in using innovative
technology in order to overcome the
needs of patients.
 Also, being health care practitioners I
face issues regarding managing or staff
problems.
 I also face difficulty in providing
appropriate training regarding
providing the best facilities to care
users.
Opportunities
 Being working as HSC practitioner I
need to identify the opportunity of
dealing with innovative technology so
Threats
 Working in care home I need to
overcome my threats regarding learning
and developing skills so that best
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that best services can be rendered to
patients.
 I also need to enhance the working
style of health care home so that
patients can be rendered the best
services and facilities.
 Further, I need to identify the
competitors' strategy and then evaluate
the same so that best services can be
rendered to patients in regard to
improve their health.
results can be attained.
 I also face threat from new technology
so that it needs to be improved and
overcome the issues faced by me.
 I face threat regarding learning
different medical terminology so that it
could be helpful to patients.
Using VAK model in HSC helps me to improve my visual, auditory and kinesthetic
learning style (Haarhoff, Thwaites and Bennett‐Levy, 2015). It also helps me to enhance my
learning styles and thus help team members to attain desired results.
 Visual- Here, working as a health care practitioner I need to improve my visual skills and
thus identify the informatics clearly and then present it. For instance, looking for pictures,
diagrams and charts helps in improving my learning skills and thus attain results.
 Auditory- Further, it is another learning style that helps me to learn through listening.
For instance, learning through listening will improve my efficiency and thus I will work
efficiently as a health care practitioner and render best services to patients.
 Kinesthetic- It is significant learning style and thus helps me to improve my physical
experience and thus respond well to being able to learn in an efficient manner.
Q5. Holistic development of short, medium and long term goals
Following are the different short, medium and long term goals in order to improve the
skills of care practitioners such as-
Short term goals
SMART targets Time required Ways to improve
To enhance the satisfaction
level among care users by
3 weeks It could be improved through
delivering quality services as
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delivering quality services to
them.
compared to competitors and
thus enhance patient
satisfaction.
To maintain checklist so that
work can be accomplished on
time.
2 weeks It is essential for me to
maintain checklist so that
assigned work could be
accomplished timely.
Medium term goals
SMART targets Time required Ways to improve
To improve communication
skills by the end of 2017.
8 months I need to attend different
training sessions and workshop
so that communication power
can be improved.
To supervise the work of care
providers and support them in
order to enhance patient
satisfaction.
6 months It is essential for me to
motivate workers and thus
provide them various benefits
that helps them to understand
the needs of patients and
deliver them appropriate
services to patients.
Long term goals
SMART targets Time required Ways to improve
To improve leadership skills
and satisfy patients and care
providers.
3 years I need to enhance my
leadership skills and thus lead
the team members towards
business goals. It can be
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improved through attending
different leadership workshop,
seminars and conferences as
well as reading books written
upon top leaders to enhance
understanding.
To attain desired performance
objectives and enhance brand
image of care setting.
5 years I aim to focus upon desired
performance objective and
thus enhance the brand image
of firm in health and social
care market.
Q6. Reflective account of how monitored the development plan against working standard
It is essential for me to monitor my own development plan as compared to working
standard as per the needs of health care professionals. Therefore, it is crucial for HSC
practitioners to identify the changed discussed within firm in order to improve effectiveness of
the development plan and thus carry out the best practice within care setting. Also, it is
significant for me to identify the short, long and medium term goals so that own development
needs can be identified and thus carry out best practices effectively in order to improve the
service delivery process as health care professional. I also need to identify the needs of care users
and thus provide them appropriate services' sot that best results can be attained. My own working
standard within care setting is to render the best services to patients as well as communicate with
the effectively. Thus, it helps me to monitor my development plan against the working standard
and thus improve the health care practices as a HSC practitioner and satisfy the needs of patients.
Through carrying out such personal development plan it helps in identifying the SMART
targets and thus monitor them appropriately so that weaknesses can be overcome. Also, I need to
enhance my work skills and thus render appropriate quality services to patients so that best
results can be attained. It is also essential for me to set specific standards and work accordingly
that would result in enhancing my efficiency and render the best services to patients. Thus, it can
be reflected from different short, long and medium term goals to improve the effectiveness of
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personal development plan and thus carry out own development practices as a health care
professional to enhance working capacity.
Q7. Limits of own work role impacts on work with others
It can be evaluated that working as the role of care professionals assesses difficulty in
accomplishing own work that impacts upon the work with others (Thomas-Brown, Shaffer and
Werner, 2016). Therefore, it is essential for care professionals to identify their own working
practices in relation to overcome the issues faced while working with other care providers. Also,
I face limitations regarding limiting own work role that impacts and provide the best quality
facilities to care users and thus it impacts upon the work with others. However, carrying out
work with other care providers and thus it affects my work role as there are differences in work
operations of both individuals and it creates issues. Therefore, it impacts upon the work with
other and influences my own work role in care setting. I also need to focus upon improving
coordination with other care workers and provide them appropriate solution so that best services
can be rendered to patients.
Moreover, it could be assessed my weaknesses affects while working with others and
thus it influences the overall work efficiency (Hoyle and Megarry, 2012). Therefore, it is
essential for care professionals to carry out best working capability and thus enhance the
efficiency of care providers in market in regard to attain desired results. Also, my work role as a
care practitioner affects upon the work with others as they possess different needs and
expectations and thus influences the job role in regard to render the best quality services to
patients. Therefore, it is also essential for care professionals to obtain quality services to care
users and overcome the health issues (Forte and Flores, 2014).
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the portfolio that different employability skills needs to be
developed in order to enhance the learning styles and efficiently work within HSC. Health care
practitioners require assessing the SMART targets and thus assess the short, medium and long
term goals. Further, carrying out reflection upon monitoring own performance against the set
standards helps in identifying the strengths and weaknesses.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Forte, A. M. and Flores, M. A., 2014. Teacher collaboration and professional development in the
workplace: a study of Portuguese teachers. European Journal of Teacher Education.37(1).
pp.91-105.
Haarhoff, B., Thwaites, R. and Bennett‐Levy, J., 2015. Engagement With Self‐Practice/Self‐
Reflection as a Professional Development Activity: The Role of Therapist
Beliefs. Australian Psychologist. 50(5). pp.322-328.
Hoyle, E. and Megarry, J. eds., 2012. World Yearbook of Education 1980: The Professional
Development of Teachers. Routledge.
Reeves, D. B., 2012. Transforming professional development into student results. Ascd.
Thomas-Brown, K., Shaffer, L. and Werner, S., 2016. An Analysis of How Building a
Collaborative Community of Professional Social Studies Teachers through Targeted
Ambient Professional Development Impacts Social Studies Classroom Practices. Journal
of Education and Training Studies. 4(11). pp.58-72.
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