Professional Development in Health and Social Care

This article discusses the importance of professional development in health and social care, including standards, continuous professional development, reflective practices, and sources of support for learning and development. It also analyzes how practitioner's values, beliefs, and experiences can influence care delivery.

UNIT HSC

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
D1 Standards related to professional development in health and social care.........................3
D2 Continuous professional development..............................................................................4
B1 Theoretical perspective of reflection in professional development..................................4
C1 How reflective practices support professional development within health and social care
................................................................................................................................................5
A1 Analysing reflective practice that supports positive outcomes........................................6
A*1 Analyse how health and social care practitioner’s own value, experience and beliefs can
influence delivery of care.......................................................................................................6
D3 Identification of sources of support for learning and development along with professional
development opportunities.....................................................................................................7
B2 Discuss method for identifying and planning for professional development needs.........9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care refers to the term which includes the available healthcare services
within UK. It includes the treatment of medical condition and ill health within healthcare
premises or within community. This includes delivery of healthcare service which are associated
with taking care of vulnerable people to deliver better and effective response towards the
healthcare provision. Continuous professional development refers to health and social care
professional which includes improvement in skills, knowledge and competence along with
including professional qualities which are required to deliver better and effective healthcare
services within health and social care. In this, there is need to ensure about the professional
development that many includes continuous professional development and related opportunities.
It also includes the theoretical reflective practices and how it supports in professional
development to health and social care practitioner. It also includes the methods for identifying
and planning professional development needs (O'Driscoll et. al., (2018)). This also includes the
analysis of practitioner own values, experience and beliefs that can influence delivery of care
within health and social care.
MAIN BODY
D1 Standards related to professional development in health and social care
Professional development within health and social care includes the improvement in skills,
knowledge and different competency which are effective and have potential to provide better
healthcare services. This is the one which are associated with taking care of effective response
where it is needed to ensure about developing the professional ability which should be improved
over time. In this, there are various standard which are related with professional development
within health and social care. In this, there is need to ensure about the maintaining record of all
the activities which can help in getting better improvement in health and social care
professionally (Brown, (2020)). This also includes the contribution in quality of practice along
with service delivery. It also includes benefits to services user through professional development.
Here, standard of professional development within health and social care help in providing better
and effective response towards the health improvement of individual service user. It also
includes the improvement in service delivery and their quality which are associated with
improving skills, knowledge and competencies. This can allow to get better improvement in

health and social care which can allow to get improve service delivery and have improved
patient outcomes. Through maintain record of the skills and practice which are getting improve
within some time that can allow to get better care and support which are effective about the
better learning that can allow to improve their service qualities. Professional development also
allows healthcare practitioners to improve their practices through improving in their skills,
knowledge and competencies which are associated with their professional life.
D2 Continuous professional development
Continuous professional development includes improvement in activity or service
delivery which are effective and allow to provide better healthcare service to patient and their
service user to get better improvement in their health. Here, it is essential to improve the quality
of service delivery which requires some training and learning. Through learning new skills can
also be effective in providing better care and support to individual which are associated with
taking care of patient health. Through improving possessed skills and knowledge allow to
improve the quality of service delivery which are associated with taking care and provide better
impact on professional development (Gammon & Hunt, (2018)). Continuous professional
development also includes the learning with every cases where healthcare professional learn
about improving their skills, competencies and knowledge through every cases. Experience also
help in improving the professional development which are associated with continuum learning
that help in enhance individual knowledge and skills and may help in getting better care. Here,
reflective practice plays an important role in improving the service delivery. It allows individual
to improve their learning through reflecting their own practices. Here, individual may need to
take care about the effective improvement in health care services that can allow through
reflecting their work practices. It helps to find the improvement area where they should improve
and focus on professional development. Here, reflective practice allows to improve individual
learning which are associated with taking care of wide range of associated skills which should
either be learned or improved that can help in getting development in professional practices.
B1 Theoretical perspective of reflection in professional development
There is high impact of reflective practices in health and social care professional
development. This is the one which are associated with taking care of individual which are
associated with improvement in health and social care practices. In this, it is needed to find the
area of improvement which are associated with taking care of practices that can allow to includes

the professional development (Ayeleke et. al., (2019)). Reflection refers to an important part of
professional development which are associated with taking care of improved skills and
knowledge that can allow to get better and improved service delivery. Here, reflection can help
in the professional development which allow to identify the key area of development which may
incudes skills, knowledge and different competencies. This also includes proper healthcare
development which are associated with taking care of better development professionally where
different proficiency allows to improve the learning and healthcare service delivery. Reflection
also allow to get aware about the strength and weaknesses of development area where skills can
have high role in improving their learning and allow to take care of different requirement that are
needed to delivery quality of care within health and social care. Here, is also help in learning
new skills which are be used during service delivery and help to improve learning which are
associated with taking care of development area. They also help to learn about the skills and
knowledge which needed to learn for providing their services to service user. Here, it should take
part in providing better result which are associated with effective learning to improve their
professional learning and help in professional development (Hughes, (2020)).
C1 How reflective practices support professional development within health and social care
Reflective practice refers to the simplest form which include thinking about reflection on
what individual has done. This links to the concepts which are associated with individual
learning and their experience about what they think, what happened and how this happened. It
also includes what should be done in future to improve the practices. There are different
practices that can allow to get better and improved learning which are identified by the
reflection. Reflective theory can help individual to ensure about the area of development and key
processes which can allow to create high impact on service delivery that can help in professional
development (Moorley & Chinn, (2019)). There are some of the reflective theory which includes
Kolb’s learning theory, Gibbs reflective cycle, Schon’s framework, ERA framework, Brookfield
four lenses and Rolfe framework. Through using any of these reflective theory, individual is able
to reflect on their learning which allow to identify and review their practices which has been
done previously. This allow to get better and effective response that are associated with
development in their practices in future. This can help improving their learning and provide
opportunity for professional development. Here, reflective practices allow to provide better and
effective response towards the professional development which are associated with taking care of

service user. Reflective practice allows to get better improvement to healthcare professional with
their skills and knowledge that can allow to get better and effective response (Murray et. al.,
(2019)).
A1 Analysing reflective practice that supports positive outcomes
There is high importance of reflective practices within health and social care. This can
allow to provide positive outcomes which are associated with improving healthcare services that
can help in patient outcomes. In this, reflective practices help to improve the learning and help in
getting better care which associated in identification of area of development that may include
skills and knowledge. Here, individual, staff team and other professional all are able to get better
support through the reflective practices which help in providing positive outcomes.
Here, reflective practices support individual in maintaining better and continual
improvement. This can have high impact on providing benefits to individual careers (Yoshimura
et. al., (2020)). It is also able to provide some support in improvement in skills, knowledge and
to identify the area of improvement. This can also help in feel confident about new learning and
allow to analyse it more frequently. This can also have high impact on provide high quality of
improvement within health and social care services. There is need to focus on the learning that
are effective and allow to get effective understanding about the area of improvement which are
associated with providing some learning about the new skills that can be helpful in health and
social care practices. It also enables individual to focus on the practices which are associated
with providing better and effective response towards the new skills and its improvement
(Campbell et. al., (2021)). Through reflective practices it also allows individual to improve their
learning which can allow to get better care and effective learning that are associated with proper
practices which should be done for improving the delivery of health and social care services.
A*1 Analyse how health and social care practitioner’s own value, experience and beliefs can
influence delivery of care
Healthcare practitioner’s value, belief and experience have their own role in delivery of
health and social care services. This is the one which is effective and allow them to focus on
their service delivery. Here, it is important to take care of various learning which are associated
with value and beliefs. Healthcare practitioner’s values are effective which can enable and
restrict them to delivery some specific type of services which should have high impact on the
delivery of care. Here, it is important to ensure about the practitioner’s values which are

associated with their culture and norms. It also helps in providing some base towards their
thinking and enable them to provide better practice which are associated with taking care of
individual health. It can also impact the delivery of care when individual values impact the
delivery of care (Kaiser et. al., (2020)).
Practitioner values and belief can be influenced due to meeting with different people,
getting in influence of any individual, due to culture impact or many more. There is high impact
of these factors that can have potential to build individual belief that can help in getting better
and effective response. Here, practitioner values and belief can also impact their role while
delivery of care services. Due to getting influence through belief and value, it can enable
practitioner to improve and manipulate their quality of service accordingly. Here, practitioner
belief is highly effective which can influence them to set their mind about service delivery and
its quality. Here, it is essential to get ensure that practitioner is influence through their good
belief and values which can be effective and allow them to deliver quality care to their patient
(Rider et. al., (2018)).
Healthcare practitioners have their own values and belief may include promotion of their
nursing behaviour which can enable them to improve their service delivery. It can be effective
and influence them in particular service delivery which are associated with taking care of
individual professional identity and their performance. Practitioners past experience are also
another factor which are associated with changing factor for het quality of services delivery. This
is the one in which practitioner may get learn through their past experience which can be
associates with new learning and improved care. Past experience is one of the main role that help
them in getting better care and support which can enable them to improve their experience that
can help them in getting better care and support. This can help in improving the delivery of care.
Here, it is essential to ensure that practitioner should have better experience that can allow them
to use their past experience during deliver of care. This can be helpful for them to provide better
and appropriate service delivery in order to improve patient health outcomes (Manley et. al.,
(2020)).
D3 Identification of sources of support for learning and development along with professional
development opportunities
Sources of support for learning and development

It is essential for continuous professional development and it is also crucial to find out
some resources of support that can be effective and can provide various instruction and help in
improving learning and development. Getting proper support, it can help to learn about the
improved practices and allowed to improve skills and knowledge which can be utilized during
the delivery of care. Appropriate and authentic sources can be highly helpful and help an
individual to learn about improvement in skills and learning. Through this, it can enable
healthcare professionals to improve their knowledge and utilize their improved skills in the
delivery of care which can ultimately help in improving professional development (Dune et. al.,
(2018)). It can also ensure in helping about proper and effective learning where sources can help
to provide brief explanations and requirements that should be effective and achievable for
improving healthcare practices. Utilizing the proper resource of support can enable healthcare
professionals to improve their service delivery and can allow improvement in the delivery of
quality care to the patient for their improved health.
Professional development opportunities
Professional development opportunity reflects the opportunity to improve learning and
skill along with knowledge that can help in learning some new skill that can be utilize during
healthcare practices. This can help to associate with a new delivery of care that can be
achievable. Due to learning of new skill, it can also help in providing better experience to the
service user and help in improving quality of care. Through this, it can ultimately help in
professional development. Taking the opportunity about learning and improving knowledge
which may enable healthcare professionals to improve their service quality and provide best
practices. This can help in improving patient health with experience and regular practices. It may
enable healthcare professionals to develop their skills more effectively which can help an
individual in their professional development. Time to time training and external meeting are
some of the opportunity which can be helpful for the healthcare professional to get some learning
about skills and knowledge for improving their service delivery (Browne et. al., (2018)). It also
helps to improve a quality of delivery of care that can reflect as best practices as a healthcare
professional. It can allow to improve the professional practices and insure about professional
development.

B2 Discuss method for identifying and planning for professional development needs
Professional development programs can be affected and allow indivisible to improve and
expand their knowledge base in different areas. This may include continuous professional
development through improving the capability which can be used to define various practices.
There are range of methods that can be used to identify professional development need. This may
include the identification of knowledge, skill and behavior which should be required to perform
well during delivery of health care services to the patient for their improved health (Konttila et.
al., (2019)).
Another method includes about observing and evaluating on skills behavior and
knowledge that should be possessed by healthcare professionals to enable them to deliver the
quality of services within health and social care.
Another method includes the identification of professional development need where
actual and required are compared to identify the gap. This can help professionals for need of
professional development and help to satisfy the required and actual skills to get equal for
improved delivery of healthcare services.
There are some of a range of methods that can be used for planning for professional
development. This may include brainstorming opportunities, choosing opportunities and
identifying a potential area for professional growth, research learning, developing a professional
development plan, articulating professional strength and many more (So et. al., (2019)).
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can be concluded that professional development is a
continuous process within health and social care where it includes different standards that can
help to improve in individual learning. Here, continuous professional development help care
professional to improve their skills and knowledge based on training and experience. It can also
enable them to learn new skills and utilize them during healthcare practices. There is a discussion
about the reflective practices which are highly effective and help and support professional
development within health and social care. It also helps health and social care practitioner to
improve their learning and is taken as a theoretical perspective for professional development. It
can help to support in positive outcomes. There is also discussion about the effect of health and
social care practiced regarding values, beliefs and experiences while the delivery of health care
services and care. It also includes different type of sources that can support for learning and

development. This also includes the professional development opportunity which should be
sought by healthcare professionals for improving their learning and knowledge. There is also
discussion about the method for identifying and planning professional development need.

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