Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care

This report explores the importance of personal and professional development (PPD) in the health and social care sector. It examines the impact of personal values, culture, and experience on the role of a health and social care practitioner. The report also includes a self-development plan with short, medium, and long-term goals, along with strategies for monitoring progress and revising the plan as needed. Furthermore, it discusses the nature of professional relationships in health and social care contexts, including ways to resolve issues and enhance team effectiveness.

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PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................2
LO1...................................................................................................................................................3
1.1 COMPARE PERSONAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF SUPPORT FOR
WORKING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE....................................................................................3
1.2 ASSESS HOW PERSONAL CULTURE AND EXPERIENCE INFLUENCE OWN ROLE IN
SUPPORTING USERS OF SERVICES AND OTHERS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS........5
1.3 DISCUSS HOW NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND CHANGES TO PERSONAL VALUES CAN IMPACT
ON WORK IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE....................................................................................6
LO4...................................................................................................................................................7
4.1 EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERSONAL CONTRIBUTIONS WHEN WORKING WITH
OTHERS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTICE.......................................................................7
4.3 ANALYZE OWN ROLE IN MINIMIZING BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK IN HEALTH
AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTICE.......................................................................................................8
LO2...................................................................................................................................................9
2.1 ASSESS CURRENT SKILLS ABILITY AND LEARNING STYLE.......................................................9
2.2 PRODUCE A HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN WITH SHORT MEDIUM- AND LONG-TERM
GOALS........................................................................................................................................10
2.3 MONITOR PROGRESS AGAINST THE PLAN ACCORDING TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF A
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTITIONER, REVISING THE PLAN AS REQUIRED......................12
2.4 EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO OWN DEVELOPMENT AS
A HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTITIONER............................................................................13
4.2 EXPLAIN HOW THE LIMITS OF OWN WORK ROLE IMPACTS ON WORK WITH OTHERS......14
LO3.................................................................................................................................................15
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3.1 EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE CONTEXTS............................................................................................................15
3.2 EVALUATE PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING THE RIGHTS OF
THE INDIVIDUAL.........................................................................................................................16
3.3 DISCUSS WAYS TO RESOLVE ISSUES ENCOUNTERED IN PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS..17
4.4 DISCUSS HOW TO IMPROVE PERSONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COLLECTIVE
EFFECTIVENESS OF A TEAM.......................................................................................................18
CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................................19
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................20
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INTRODUCTION
This assignment is based on the personal and professional development in the health and social
care. PPD is essential to manage one’s own learning as well as development with each passing
level of their career. As it is essential to constantly learn and increase the competencies and
knowledge by being updated and providing the surety of work and continue work practice
effectively (Busse, et al. 2014). This report will cover different aspects of PPD such as
comparison of own principles, current skills as well as learning style. Furthermore, this report
evaluates a self-development plan and its effectiveness as a health and social care practitioner.
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LO1
1.1 COMPARE PERSONAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF
SUPPORT FOR WORKING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Personal values are defined to the principles, ethics, and beliefs that one has and plays
important role in one’s life, while principle explains the standards of one’s life (Parks-Leduc, et
al. 2015).
SELF-REFLECTION
Personal values and principles Effects on the principles of support in HSC
Value Life I value the life of people and believe and
safeguarding each individual present in the
HSC homes because every life is precious.
Respect According to Equality Act 2010 followed in
HSC homes they also believe in treating each
patient with full respect without
discrimination on any grounds such as caste,
creed, gender, nationality etc. (Haque, et al.
2017)
Honest I believe in maintaining privacy in the HSC as it
helps in protecting the important information
about the service users in the care home and
also this comes under the Data Protection Act
1998.
Kindness I believe providing quality care to the service
users in HSC so that they could be provided
proper care and I treat them with care and
kindness giving proper medication.
Diversity I believe in fundaments of workforce diversity
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as it enhances the work competence of
caregivers and as a result, all patients are
related equally and no religious preference is
given.
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1.2 ASSESS HOW PERSONAL CULTURE AND EXPERIENCE INFLUENCE OWN
ROLE IN SUPPORTING USERS OF SERVICES AND OTHERS IN HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS
Personal culture and experience impact the supports and care of care users within the HSC in a
totally different way. Just like everyone else I also have my own culture and beliefs that
influence my role in supporting care users in a care home. Such as I am European I eat both
kinds of dishes veg as well as non-veg so I may not be willing to treat or facilitate people who
prefer more haram food, but my services will be much better than a Brahmin or Buddhist
service provider. Also, a Buddhist or Brahmin service user might not permit me to touch and
treat them as their culture won't allow this. But no matter what my culture always taught me to
treat all with equal respect no matter to what religion or caste they belong to. Also, my
personal experience suggests that older patients must be given full freedom hence my working
practices won’t include any kind of decimation on any grounds. My personal culture and
experience ensure to provide equal and fair services to all the patients in a care home.
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1.3 DISCUSS HOW NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND CHANGES TO PERSONAL VALUES
CAN IMPACT ON WORK IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
New developments and changes to the personal values of any person leave a major impact on
the work. Any sort of changes no matter in beliefs, technologies, values, behaviour has a major
influence on the working practice in HSC. Also, I have noticed there are several new legislation
and policies, principles that have impacted on my working as a care worker. Such as according
to Care Act 2014 there is some new accountability of the local working bodies (Penhale, et al.
2017). This act also has main implications for care and housing providers and for individual
utilizing care services. The other act is children and families act 2014 under which provisions
regarding families, children and individual with disabilities are focused. I am happy that I adopt
all these legislations in my working. With increasing the change in the personal values of the
person it will be easy to give service users an effective service in the HSC. This development has
helped me to keep concern the risk regarding the uncertainties within the HSC homes and try to
safeguard the care users form any kind of harm or injustice.
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LO4
4.1 EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERSONAL CONTRIBUTIONS WHEN
WORKING WITH OTHERS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTICE
Performance of every person working in the health and social care has an importance in HSC.
Also, there is much effectiveness of everyone's contribution at the time of carrying out work
practices in HSC. I keep on working with a positive attitude and motivate my team members
and colleagues to work with same as it keeps the environment of care home pleasant by
spreading positivity. Also, I try can use my communication skills effectively so that I can interact
with care users and other staff properly and they must be given every required detail. I
personally believe in working in a team so keeps on promoting it as team working proves to be
beneficial for the care home as it enhances the effectiveness of working with all the group
members. I keep on sharing the ideas I have, I experience I have gained with my team members
o that they could gain the beneficial points from them and improve the working of the care
home. I always try to be supportive of everyone in the care home and help everyone who seeks
my help so that effective output can be obtained by their better work practices.
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4.3 ANALYZE OWN ROLE IN MINIMIZING BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE
TEAMWORK IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTICE
Teamwork is the key factor that builds up the foundation of the effective working in the HSC.
There are few barriers that obstruct the way of maintaining effective teamwork and those
barriers must be removed so that the practices in HSC can be carried out with efficiency:
 EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION: Inappropriate communication channel is a big barrier in
carrying out proper teamwork as it leads to misinterpretation (Knapp, et al. 2014). So I
would manage proper communication by conducting meetings, involving team members in
the decision making etc.
 MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGY: I will also use motivational tactics to encourage my team
members to perform well in the workplace and will guide them where ever I find them
wrong and will also motivate them appreciating their good work.
 CHANGING LEADERSHIP STYLE: Leadership is an effective approach to manage teamwork
by guiding the team also I will look after the leadership approach I have adopted and its
effectiveness if I found it not that useful to remove barriers to effective teamwork I will
immediately switch to another leadership style that suits the most top specific scenario.
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LO2
2.1 ASSESS CURRENT SKILLS ABILITY AND LEARNING STYLE
Here I will discuss my strength, weakness, opportunity and threats using SWOT analysis that will
help me to know my skills:
STRENGTHS
 I have good communication skills.
 I am patient and try to stay composed
in any situation.
 I have the ability good relationship
with my team members as well as care
users.
WEAKNESS
 I am a very emotional person.
 I have less knowledge regarding
legislation related to health and social
care.
 I immediate loss control over the
working practices.
OPPORTUNITIES
 By attending workshops and seminars I
can improve my skills in which I lack
behind.
 Using new technologies will help to
make my working practices effective.
 Effective skills regarding the
communication support in maintain
teamwork.
THREATS
 Changing policies by the government
disturb the working practices.
 Maintaining work and personal life
balance becomes difficult.
 The cultural variations may impact on
the overall work process.
The above-illustrated SWOT analysis shows that I have many strengths that can also help me to
overcome the weakness in me by using my strengths I can also turn up chances into
opportunities.
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2.2 PRODUCE A HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN WITH SHORT MEDIUM- AND
LONG-TERM GOALS
A development plan is a documented form that has the entire tactics to develop an appropriate
planning to enhance the working of an individual along with methods to accomplish the goals
plan in the set time frame (Megginson and Whitaker, 2017.). Working with a proper plan is
essential in each and every person's life and for this, it is important to make some plans with
short, mid as well as long-term goals. Here is the tabular presentation of the holistic goals that
will also consist of SMART objectives:
SMART GOALS CRITERIA FOR
SUCCESS
REQUIRED
ACTIONS
TACTICS
NEEDED TO
BE APPLIED
RESOURCES
NEEDED
TIME
DURATION
Time
management
and
communication
skills (short-
term goals)
Learn the way
of performing
multi-tasking
and
maintaining
other activities
in an effective
manner. More
improve
communication
by joining
classes, talking
to more
people.
Shortlisting
important
tasks and
placing them
according to
their
importance.
Manage to
take part in
debates,
open mike
etc.
Work in
accordance
with the
decided
importance
of the tasks.
Take the help
of seniors,
experts,
professionals,
colleagues
etc. (Kurtz, et
al. 2016)
8 months
Leadership
skills (Mid-
To tackle the
team
Learning
from other
Discuss
things to
Professionals,
guide,
3 years
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term goals) inappropriate
way and
influencing
their action by
the way I
interact with
them.
leaders,
seniors,
listening
impacting
speeches
etc.
people
especially
who are new
and give the
presence in
conferences
and
seminars.
seniors,
teachers etc.
(Northouse,
2018)
Entrepreneur
skills (Ling term
goals)
The time I
learn to
manage many
people during
the working
and develop
ideas that have
a positive
impact on the
business and
ability to take a
risk.
Developing
new ideas,
practising
the work in
not only
improving it
but also
making it
innovative.
Give my full
efforts in the
workplace
and take
part in every
program that
develops my
skills.
Counsellors,
mentors,
seniors,
people
already on
the similar
post etc.
6 years.
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2.3 MONITOR PROGRESS AGAINST THE PLAN ACCORDING TO THE
REQUIREMENTS OF A HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTITIONER, REVISING
THE PLAN AS REQUIRED
Once the plan is finalized there is much need to monitor the progress so that in case of any
loopholes that occur while formulating the plan can be breached. The evaluation of the plan is
carried out in many steps that help to understand the areas of improvement and amend the
changes as per the need. I have monitored every single step of the development plan for me.
By performing the skill assessment it has helped me in understanding the skills I already have
and the other skills that are needed and lacked in the plan but are very useful in practically
working. Once the skill assessment is carried out it is essential to reread and makes changes in
the plan and the revised plan is based on the information gathered and the changes that are
essential to be implemented to enhance the applicability of the plan. I monitoring helped to
revise my plan where I need to work more on my communication skills and English language so
that my interaction is clear with all. I also understood that only leadership and communication
skills won't help me to achieve long-term objectives along with this I will have to also work on
my interpersonal competencies and improve my way of thinking by making it critical and in
accordance to the situation.
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2.4 EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO OWN
DEVELOPMENT AS A HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTITIONER
By revising the development plan for me I have developed a much better understanding of the
several market aspects and the needs of being a well professed health and social care
practitioner. I have analyzed that the development plan made is effective enough and will
support me in progressing in the future and will also support my development as health and
social care practitioner. As for being a professed health and social care practitioner the
foremost need is to have a proper communication competency, information about the work
associated with it, power to influence others so that the work in the HSC must be carried out in
appropriate manner and also care users can be influenced to take required treatment that
helps to maintain their health. My development plan consists of all these aspects that make me
a good HSC practitioner. The leadership skill on which I am working according to my
development plan will help me to lead a team with full effectiveness and manage the people
operating in the HSC so that all the activities are carried out according to the requirements. So
it is concluded that the development plan that I have made for myself is advantageous to
enhance my future working and promotes my growth in future.
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4.2 EXPLAIN HOW THE LIMITS OF OWN WORK ROLE IMPACTS ON WORK WITH
OTHERS
Every job role has some additional advantages while dome limitations being the health and
social care practitioner my job role also have some limitations that impact on my working as
well. As my job role and its working isn’t associated to the direct services to the patients so I
restricts me to get complete information from the service users and so here the direct
connection with the patients are lacked that may give rise to problems such as their lack in faith
and trust on me as compared to the other members working in same team but on different
positions. Also in order to maintain confidentiality, I am not allowed to handle the data of the
care users that restricts me to know about other aspects of their daily actions in the care home.
My job role limits me only to discuss the matter with my team members and not everyone in
the care home and there are many chances of miscommunication and also could lead to
negative thinking.
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LO3
3.1 EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE CONTEXTS
Maintaining good and healthy relationship in the HSC care homes is the key aspect to enhance
the results in the working of the care homes by properly looking after the health of the service
users (Rosenberg and Chopra, 2015.). The relationship is not only limited to people working in
care homes but it is also necessary to maintain relationships with services users. The
relationship with care users means each and every individual must be given respect and equal
treatment and their values must be respected. The care practitioners must be well-mannered
and courteous when communicating with care users so that a friendly atmosphere is created
for the service users and they can easily discuss there health problems or any other problem in
care homes. Also, it is important to maintain good relationships with the other colleagues as it
enhances team spirit. Like if there is a healthy relation among doctors and nurses than the
doctor would guide the nurse to how to treat the patient and the nurse will focus on it so that
the line of treatment must be proper. Also if the nurse finds inconvenience in dealing with a
patient they can immediately discuss it with doctors or other colleagues who will guide her and
share their experiences that will support her working.
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3.2 EVALUATE PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING
THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
I being the health and social care practitioner have the main accountability to uphold and
safeguard the rights of both the individual in the care homes that is care users as well as care
providers. I keep self legally updated so that none of the individual’s rights gets violated. The
legal laws and regulations in following in the Health and social care home are:
CONFIDENTIALITY REGULATIONS: I have promoted the adoption of Data Protection Act, 1998
that is the privacy of the data of the care workers and care users must be maintained and none
of their confidential information is passed to anyone else without the prior permission of the
related person (Townend, 2017).
EQUAL RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY: In order to fulfil the values and needs of every individual in the
care home I have adopted The Care Plan so that proper assessment, planning and the care
measures can be carried out to take care of the care users. Also, I work according to the
Equality Act, 2010 and promote it in the acre home so that each and every individual is given
equal rights in the care home and no one has to face discrimination on the basis on any aspect
like colour, nationality, religion, beliefs, values etc.
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3.3 DISCUSS WAYS TO RESOLVE ISSUES ENCOUNTERED IN PROFESSIONAL
RELATIONSHIPS
There must be proper steps taken in order to resolve the issues that are being noted in the
professional relationship among the employees of the care homes at it the main element to
describe the organization's culture and maintain the effectiveness of the work. So the issues in
the professional relationship can be resolved by following approaches:
 Organize timely meetings so that the employees can discuss their issues and it can be
immediate steps can be taken to solve those issues.
 A well planned and a transparent communication system must be developed in the care
homes so that management could interact with the employees in proper time duration and
in case of any problems it could be resolved and healthy professional relationships can be
maintained (Chesebro, 2014).
 Brainstorming must be adopted that is group creativity tool that helps to find out the
solution of any particular problem by collecting a list of ideas instinctively given by the
employees of the association (Shen, et al. 2016).
 The professional relationships can also be maintained if the individuals are given an
opportunity to give their suggestions in the decision making as it minimizes the chances of
issues.
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4.4 DISCUSS HOW TO IMPROVE PERSONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
COLLECTIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF A TEAM
I believe that the best way to enhance the personal contribution in managing the teamwork is a
good communication skill. I keep on communicating with my team members regarding the
condition of the patient if they are facing any problem in treating them so that my team
members must always feel that there is somebody to support them and guide them. The other
approach is building positive work attitude so that the morals of every team members are
boosted and they work with their full efforts. I believe in providing supportive team climate so
that none of the team members must feel burdened, accountabilities are divided and shared
within the team on a rational basis depending on the competencies and strengths of each team
member so that they can perform their best in the given criteria. I use my problem-solving skills
so that any issues in the team could be solved immediately and I try out to come by with a
solution that does not hurt the sentiments of any team members but also is reliable for the
raised problems. All these approaches collectively help me to build up effectiveness in the
team and ensure an effective team working.
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CONCLUSION
This report concludes the way how personal development supports the working of the health
and social care practices and ensures future growth of an individual as well. This assignment
puts light on the development plan and its importance in improving the effectiveness of work
practice. Also, this reports the nature of varying professional relationship in care homes and
approaches to solving the problems if found in the professional relationship so that the
effectiveness of the working must not be impacted.
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