Professional Development in Health and Social Care

Professional
Development in Health
and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 1: Personal development plan.................................................................................................1
Produce a professional development plan (3.1).....................................................................1
Review progress and effectiveness of the professional development plan (3.2)....................3
Task 2: Critical reflection of own practice......................................................................................4
Your own learning style and current skills ability..................................................................4
Meant by professional development (1.1)..............................................................................5
Evaluation of knowledge against standards and benchmarks (2.1)........................................5
Create Goals and targets for professional development (2.3)................................................6
Learning opportunities to reflect how you learn best (2.4)....................................................6
Ways of overcoming barriers and sources available to professional development (1.2 & 1.3)
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Compare models of reflective practice...................................................................................7
Use of reflective practice in improving performance (4.2)..................................................10
Effectiveness of the reflective practice (4.3)........................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Professional development plan is basically a written document that comprises of goals,
required skills and competency that needs development along with the objectives of the staff
member and employees that they need to accomplish and achieve in order to support and have
continuous improvement and better career development (Huscroft-D'Angelo, Poling and Trout,
2021). The current project comprises of description about the creation of professional
development plan along with reviewing its progress. Further, evaluation of knowledge against set
standards and benchmark is also made together with selection learning opportunities to learn
best. At last, a comparison out models of reflective practises are also made along with analysing
effectiveness of the reflective practises.
Task 1: Personal development plan
Produce a professional development plan (3.1)
Following professional development plan has been prepared to have improvement in
knowledge level and improved skills that are required to perform my job role of health and social
care in a more effective and efficient manner:
Objectives Success criteria Actions Time Implementation
To improve
communication
skill
Become able to
effectively
coordinate and
interact with my
colleagues and
managers to
remove the
chances of chaos
and confusion
while performing
my job role as
health and social
care practitioner.
It also ensures
Effectively
listening to others
along with
becoming more
specific on my
communication
main action to
improve mu
communication.
Beside this,
training about
effective ways of
communication
would also take
3 months Ensure
improvement in
the coordination
level at
workplace
along with
ensuring better
interaction and
connection with
patients to
provide better
quality care.
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