Personal & Professional Development in Health & Social Care

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH & SOCIAL
CARE

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INTRODUCTION
It is very important for a person to focus on the personal as well as professional to be
successful in a personal as well as professional life (Busse, et al. 2014). A person should
focus on all the different skills and knowledge in order to achieve the significant growth and
development. This report demonstrates the different aspects of personal and professional
development including the impact of personal values and principles on the contribution to
work in HSC setting. It also helps in understating the development of a person and
professional development. This work aims to encourage the learner to make reflective
practitioners by applying understating of HSC setting.
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TASK 1 REPORT WRITING
CASE SCENARIO
1.1. COMPARE PERSONAL VALUES SUCH AS BELIEFS AND PREFERENCES
AND PRINCIPLES LIKE EQUAL RIGHT, DIVERSITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF SUPPORT FOR WORKING IN HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE
Personal value Effect of the value on principles of support in
health and social care
Diversity It helps me in effectively communicating
with the service users. It helps in treating
fairly to the people belongs to different
culture.
Integrity It helps me a lot in performing my assigned
roles and responsibilities in honestly and
ethically.
Confidentiality I respect the confidentiality of the service
user and does not share it with others.
Critical thinking It helps in understanding a thing from
different angles. Critical thinking allows
finding the different solutions to a problem.
Professionalism Professionalism is a crucial element to work
effectively. It brings sincerity and
punctuality towards the work.
Curiosity Being curious help me in understanding the
different aspects of the medical sciences. It
helps in gaining more knowledge and skills
which reflect positively on the effectiveness
of work.
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Optimism It is very important for a health professional
to remain positive in every condition. Being
optimistic helps in staying positive in the
workplace.
Equal right A health and social care professionals need
to treat equally and fairly to each and every
service users. It helps in developing the
positive and healthy environment in the
workplace.
Table 1: Comparison of personal value and principle of support for working in health and
social care
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1.2 ASSESS HOW VALUES LIKE CULTURE AND YOUR OWN BELIEF AFFECT
SERVICE USERS AND OTHERS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS
Personal culture and experience Impact on personal culture and experience
on health and social care units
Respect to the culture of other It helps in treating equally to the service
users belongs to different culture. There are
different factors which help an organisation.
Language I know few different languages which help
me in understanding what people want to
convey. It also helps in communicating with
the people who do not know the language.
Leadership It helps in leading the team members to
achieve the common objectives (Fullan,
2014).
Table 2: Effect of values like culture and belief on health and social care unit
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