Critical Self-Evaluation on Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Workers

CRITICAL SELF-EVALUATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) refers to the professional expectations which are
effective and provide information to the social worker which can allow to provide information
about each and every stage of career. There are various domains of the Professional Capabilities
Framework which may include professionalism, values and ethics, diversity, rights, justice along
with economic wellbeing, knowledge, critical reflection along with analysis, intervention &
skills and context and organisation. Here, self-evaluation can help to provide better learning
opportunity that are effective to provide better improvement in care services. This can also help
to provide better opportunity make some improvement in own working and use those
improvements in the professional practices (Howells & Bald, (2022)).
MAIN BODY
Domain 1 Professionalism:
Professionalism refers to use of different skill, good judgement along with polite
behaviour which care generally expected from any individual or person who are trained to
perform that job role appropriately. It can be demonstrating through providing maintaining
professional boundaries and respect along with being reliable through upholding the values of
social work practices. Here, as social worker there is need to perform some role and
responsibility that may include self-care, practice, conduct, safeguard as social work professional
and self-development (Cummins, (2018)). While providing the healthcare services which can
help to meet the PCF which are effective and allow to provide better help in getting better
healthcare services which include providing better and effective response through taking care of
patient through providing better care for effective delivery about making motives, beliefs and
values. During the placement, there was need to provide better and effective response towards
providing care to the people.
Performing my professionalism, I was able to meet the requirement of professional
regulator, In this, I need to perform family assessment which can be effective that can help to
provide better safety to child F.Here, child F has the behaviour which include aggressive and
purposely try to harm child T. I need to perform my professional role to understand about the
effective and better supervision that can help in accountability and better development in the
professional reflection. I also perform my responsibility for managing where I need to interact

with all the family member in the child care centre. I have also contact with child F and their
family. It also help me to recognize a personal experience along with awareness which can be
effective for the self practice. It also help to maintain professional and personal boundaries
(Teece, (2018)).
Child A has a down syndrome in which I need to provide proper care and support. In this,
I needed to perform my professionalism in more effective way that can enable me to perform my
role of duty and provides supervision to child a in appropriate way. In this, I needed to take care
of child safety and ensure that they should not be any type of harm to children, I also needed to
perform my professionalism. I have also planned for some services which should be effective
and can help to maintain the movement which are needed to identified during the assessment. I
also need to perform my professionalism through interacting with different agencies that can be
helpful and supporting child A. It can also help me in my personal experience and awareness that
can help to maintain professional and personal development with some boundaries.
Domain 2 Values and ethics:
While providing the social work services, there is responsibility to perform their role in
effective way which are associated with performing those ethically. There is also need to ensure
about taking care of effective role to get engage in ethical decision making. In this, there is need
to implement the service through partnership that can allow social worker to perform their role in
more effective way. There is need to ensure about following the values and ethics which are
associated with providing better and quality care services to their client. Here, it is also essential
to take care of effective learning which are associated with improving those services to support
their client in more appropriate way. Values like authenticity, honesty and trustworthiness can
lead to show the vital signs that are effective and may help to deliver those to establish better
social work practices to support their client (Joynes et. al., (2019)).
During the placement, Child M was a baby girl who have a mixed heritage and white
British and black Angolan. In this, there was need to provide better understanding about the child
development which can be effective and can help me to identify the need and promote better
safety and nursing in home environment. In this, I also need to perform my ethics and values
where I needed to get aware about the impact of domestic violence on children's development.
This can also allow me to provide better safe environment to children for their development.