Personal Development Plan in Health and Social Care

This article discusses the personal development plan for health and social care professionals. It includes a SWOT analysis, set of goals, and acquired skills. The article also highlights the importance of cultural awareness, interpersonal skills, and technological advancements in the field.

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Health and Social Care
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author note

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Task 2
The health and the social care field has been facing rapid changes in the current era.The
assignment highlights my current skills and knowledges in the field of health and social care and
the possible development I can aim with targeted short term,mid term and long term goals.The
assignment evaluated the strength, weakness, potential opportunities and the threats in the filed
of discussion from my personal insight.
SWOT analysis
Current Strength
 Innovative and creative thought process
 Open minded nature with an honest attitude
 Hardworking nature with a punctual attitude
 Effecive skills of communication
 Commitment towards the health are and social services in the context of evaluating any
patient
Weakness
 Too much emotional nature and over commitment towards the profession
 Absence of knowledge regarding security and pubic safety
 Absense of time management skills and knowledges
 Higher level of stress in case of critical projects
Future Oppertunities
 Opportunity to gain and develop experiences relating to the issues of te patients in the

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health care unit
 Chances to work in team and develop collaborative nature
 Opportunity to align personal values with the values of the organization
 Knowledge on therapy and counceling techniques
 Opportunity for the development of innovative and analytical thought process
Future Threats
 Problem in adjustmnt in an unsupportive workplace culture or environment
 Absense of interpersonal skill sets
 Confused cross cultural communication
 Hurdle in the development of the deep rooted information and knowledges
Personal Development Plan:
Target Improving
interpersonal skills like
communication and
active listening
Gain clinical
expertises
Technological skill
improvement
Cultural
awareness
How to Achieve Online tutorials,
communication with
random people,to
attend workshops and
seminars on
communication
improvement and
patiency for active
listening (McCormack,
Manley and Titchen
2013)
Enrollment in
degree or diploma
course regarding
health and social
care,engage in
practical field
activity to develop
more experiences
Admission to
technical skill
diploma
courses,professional
help and inline e-
learning for the
improvement of the
knowledges
regarding new
technological
upgradation
(Nuckols et al.
2014)
Research on
different
cultures via
e- books and
journals and
articles to
understand
the values
and the
uniqueness
in each
culture

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Success Criteria Effective and confident
communication with
the care receivers
without any hezitation
Confidence to take
good care and give
rampant solutions
while evaluating
patiet and their
problems
Implementation and
use of updated
technology and its
tools in health and
social services
(Truong, Paradies
and Priest 2014)
Confidence
and the
ability to
deliver high
quality
services to
the patients
Duration/ Time
frame
4 -6 months 1-2 years 6 months 1 year
Personal Set of Goals
Short Term Goals-( 2 weeks to 3 months)
 To develop active listening skills to generate full attention to the issues of the patient
without any interruptions for better undersanding.
 Effective reading and understanding of the work related issues (Taylor et al. 2013)
 Development of the knowledges related to policies and public safety for the protection of
th patients
 Development and improvement of cultural awareness
Mid Term Goals-( 4 months to 6 months)
 Adoption of abilities and skill related to leadersip traits
 Adopt techniques for stress management
 Understanding of the technological upgradation and effective implementation of the
updated technology in the health and care services (Beausaert et al. 2013)
 Development of social preciseness and social orientation in the work environment.
Long Term Goals-( 6 months to 1 year)

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 Build up clinical experiences and gain mastery by implementation of therapy and
trainings
 Adapt time management skills
 Proper work co-ordination for the developmet of collaborative approach toards issues in
health and social care
 Adoption of judgements and decision making skills together with development of the
ability to resolve complex issues for the implementation of effective solutions (Lawrence
et al. 2016).
 Development of community and cultural awareness and participation in the onsite field
projects.
Reflective Diary
Brief excerpt from the days of improvement
With a specific end goal to accomplish these objectives I have influenced a self-advancement to
arrange for where I can look at my current properties of identities while finding the correct
method for development. In my present personality development plan, I have concentrated on
my short term and medium term objectives. The significant drawback of my current personal
development plan is, these methodology are a moderate and tedious technique. In the meantime
it can't be guaranteed that the majority of this arranged will be effectively enhance my level of
competance. The online course of enhancing my communicational aptitude has make me worried
about the amount I have to enhance my communicational level and how effective skills pf
communication can impact other expert perspective. With a specific end goal to make my current
development plan more compelling and productive a few modifications must be made. At first,
the quantity of activities must be expanded that enable me to connect more in the procedure of

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personality development. Then again, rather than online tutorial systems the offline training for
correspondence, administration and group management would facilitate a more static and
manageable change. Interpersonal abilities like undivided attention, understanding, inquiry of the
body motions should be developed. Moreover change of basic manner of thinking is one of the
central point that requires change. Some of the prominent areas that require advancement are
change of aptitudes for powerful correspondence, starting multicultural workforce, provition of
social appraisal abilities for viable improvement and execution of administrations related to
wellbeing and social care.
New set of acquired skills
Skill Activity The pursuing goal Implementation Effective
Achivement
Knowledge of
cultures
Adoption and
improvement of
interpersonal skills
together with
growing respect
towards values and
uniqueness
towards different
cultures
Mid term to Long
term goals
High quality health
care and social care
services
Cultural
diversity
promotion and
interaction with
the patients and
the stakeholders
irrespective of
cultural
differenciation
Social Justice and
equity in health
care and social
services
Research on social
justice.
Respect,fairness
and propagartion
Short to mid term
goals
Dignity and fairness
in services
Providing fair
and equal health
care services to
all the patients

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of the equal rights
to effective health
care services.
without any sort
of
discrimination

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