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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................31.1 Importance of continually improving knowledge and practice.............................................31.4 Factors considering when selecting opportunities and activities for keeping knowledgeand practice up to date.................................................................................................................34.2 Importance of reflective practice to improve performance...................................................44.4 Work practice has been improved through:..........................................................................41.2 Potential barriers to professional development and ways to overcome................................51.3 Comparison of the different sources and systems of support for professional developmentand used.......................................................................................................................................62.1 Evaluating own knowledge and performance against these standards and benchmarks......94.1 Comparison of the different models of reflective practice....................................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

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INTRODUCTIONProfessional development is the way of learning for maintaining or earning professionalcredentials in terms of attending conferences, coursework, informal learning opportunities(Butler and Schnellert, 2012). It is collaborative and intensive evaluation stage required inbusiness. The given assignment is based on Right at Home UK which is care agency that providedomiciliary care service to people. It has more than 400 offices that helps thousands of people ondaily basis to live happily and independently at their homes. The report covers importance ofimproving knowledge and practice and factors required to be considered while selectingopportunities. Analysis of potential barriers to professional development and their overcomes arediscussed. Evaluation of own performance and knowledge against standards and benchmarksalong with models of reflective practice.1.1 Importance of continually improving knowledge and practiceAs a deputy manager of Right at Home, I have various responsibility for engaging incontinuous professional development. This helps me to enhance my knowledge and skills up todate for taking actions and improving capabilities for carrying out daily task. For continuallyimproving knowledge and practice I need to aware about legislations, guidelines, welfarerequirements. My role is to provide support, guide and influence staffs in order to do well invarious roles they are going to perform. I should improve myself for following current health andsocial care standard for proving services of domiciliary care to people. This helps me and myteam to work in better way by providing regular training and development to them. The learnedthings should be practices in organisation to continuously improve ourselves.1.4 Factors considering when selecting opportunities and activities for keeping knowledge andpractice up to dateWhile selecting resources, opportunities and activities for keeping knowledge andpractice up to date, it is necessary to consider need of individual employees, backgrounds,service and roles they delivered to organisation (Esposito, Berlin and Lal, 2012). The points to beconsidered for up to date are related with type of training to be selected, goals that need to beachieved, type of training staff want and considering training courses mandatory for staff. Allsuch factors required to be considered and match with training budget of organisation. Fordelivering training to staff deputy manager of Right at Home should be aware of new policies

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which could be easy to grap opportunities. Apart from above, the two important factors to beconsidered are as follows:Time- In case of large team, it is not possible to conduct training for all members at atime. Manager can conduct training at site rather than calling each employees from differentareas in order to avoid extra cost. Also manager can trained one or two staff on course so thatthey can provide to remaining members and save time. Cost- It is an important factors while selecting opportunities for knowledge up to date. Ifcost incurred is higher than expected then leads loss to organisation.4.2 Importance of reflective practice to improve performanceReflective practice is components of developing better understanding of others andemotional intelligence which has benefits in increment of self awareness. It helps in developingthinking skills and encourages for active participation in work process. It is important tool that isbased on practice of professional learning setting where people learn from own rather thanknowledge transfer or formal learning for development and improvement. This reflectivepractice helps in bringing theory and practices within work area. This improve my performanceby helping me to grow, self evaluate working practices which I can recognise to find strengthsand weaknesses. It enables me to improve future by learning from real life situations andmistakes. This reflective practices can help me in professional development throughout mycareer.4.4 Work practice has been improved through:•Reflection on best practiceReflection on best practices assists me by thinking about my own success, efforts andachievements. It is critical thinking plan where I analyse and review my work in order to makeconnections among learnt and efforts. I need to learn and attend safeguarding meeting at workplace in order to improve myself. For example, if any issue arise in Right at Home then beingdeputy manager I should be able to manage and handle all such effectively by using my skillsand knowledge. Thus, in order to improve myself I need to practice work given to me oncontinuous basis.•Reflection on failures and mistakesI have learned through failures and mistakes made by old manager so that I could notcommit same in future. It is essentials for managers to know about important strategies and

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