Professional Development Plan for Health and Social Care

This report discusses the significance of reflective practice in health and social care, focusing on individual professional development plans. It highlights the importance of SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report also emphasizes the need for a tailored plan with activities and resources to improve performance over short, medium, and long-term periods.

The Professional Reflective
Practitioner

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1) Skill auditing using SWOT analysis.......................................................................................1
2) Professional Development Plan..............................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Reflective practice can be defined as the capability ones actions in order to get engaged
in the process of continuous learning. This is a process in which an individual pays attention
towards the practical values and also on the theories which they apply on the day to day actions.
It is the way by which an individual studies ones own experience in order to improve its ways of
working(Makoni, Byrne and Meyer., 2016). This report discusses about the skills of an
individual using SWOT analysis and also how professional development plan helps in covering
the long term, short term and medium term goals.
TASK 1
1) Skill auditing using SWOT analysis
SWOT analysis helps an individual in identifying the strengths, weakness, opportunities
and threats of a person related to health and social care. SWOT analysis of an individual can be
explained as
Strengths: The strengths for an individual related to the health and social care are
 presence of highly skilled clinical staff members, through which an individual can
enhance its performance and the experience from the staff members which is a strength
for an individual.
 Strong ethics of the clinics in broad mindedness, commitments from the clinics to
individual is also the strength for an individual
 An individuals learning abilities i.e. how much an individual is willing to learn from the
staff and also it depends up on its grasping power, how much it can learn from the
experienced staff members(Knott and Scragg., 2016).
 dedication towards its work i.e. how dedicated an individual can be towards the work and
what is the importance this job in its life also proves to be strength for an individual.
 Best communication skills is also a strength for an individual, the way an individual is
communicating with patients and able to understand their problems.
Weaknesses: Weaknesses of an individual in health and social care are as follows
 Non availability of an individual in reaching the patients, when an individual is not able
to reach the patients i.e. when an individual is facing problems in reaching the patients is
a weakness of an individual(Johns., 2017).
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 When an individual is not clear with its role with the patients
 lack of professional courtesy, is also the weakness of an individual.
 An individual is facing the problems while performing multiple tasks in serving the
patients
 An individuals lack of confidence while serving the critical case, this weakness will have
impact on the growth and development of an individual in the health sector.
 Lack of attention of individual during training programs,coaching etc also proves the
weakness of an individual.
Opportunities: Opportunities available to an individual in an health and social care
 Active participation of an individual in the various events related to the social and health
care
 Participation of an individual in various events organized by various voluntary
committees like NGO's this will provide an opportunities for the individual for its
growth and gaining experience.
 The technologies available to the individual to make best use of it, and this technology
will help in advance(Sharil and Kyriacou., 2015). An individual can make use of the
technologies like mobile phones, new tools and instruments available to enhance its
performance.
 People are becoming more health conscious and are spending more on health as
compared to past this will increase the opportunities for an individual in health and care
sector.
 The connections set by an individual in the health and social care will provide an
opportunities for an individual, as the individual get more chances to serve the patients
based up its connections, so this is an opportunity for an individual in this sector and
should make use of it.
Threats: Threats to be faced by an individual are as follows
 Increase in the number of people who are seeking for the job in the social and health
sector.
 Rise of competition in this sector is posing a threat to an individual.
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 How is health sector changing and developing in the current scenarios is also a threat to
an individual(Moore., 2018).
 How the new technologies and the new demands will slow the progress of an individual
in the health and social sector.
2) Professional Development Plan
Professional development plan is a type of a plan in which an individual documents its
objectives, goals and formulate the strategies to fulfill these objectives and goals in future. With
the help of Professional development plan and individual outlines its skills, values and interests
to improve its future performance. PDP of individual in health and social care can be designed as
OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES RESOURCES TARGET DATE
To improve the
confidence level
An individual needs to
practice more and
more in order to
develop its confidence
level(Wilhelm., 2016).
In order to increase the
confidence level an
individual needs to
participate in various
health care events and
also try to take up
some critical cases
which will increase its
confidence level in
future
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Professional courtesy To increase
professional attitude in
the individual.
In order to increase
professional courtesy
an individual should
follow the ethical
practices, develop an
team spirit, try to solve
the problems by its
own capabilities etc
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Multi-tasking To become a multi- To increase the 01/01/22
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tasking an individual
should gain the
knowledge in the
various fields of health
care.
knowledge for
performing different
tasks, an individual
should take the
knowledge and
experience from the
various sources like
internet, hospitals,
studying, take
coaching etc. but to
gain the knowledge of
various parts will take
time for its
perfection(Bruno and
Dell’Aversana., 2018).
So this is a professional development of an individual for long term, short term and long
term which an individual has to follow in order to improve its performance and develop within a
given period of time.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the report that an individuals in order to asses the skills of an
individual it goes for the SWOT analysis and this analysis helped an individual to come across
its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that are present in health and social care. This
report also discusses about the professional development plan of an individual for the short,
medium and long term what activities and resources it should focus on while improving its
performance.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Johns, C. ed., 2017. Becoming a reflective practitioner. John Wiley & Sons.
Knott, C. and Scragg, T. eds., 2016. Reflective practice in social work. Learning Matters.
Makoni, F., Byrne, J. and Meyer, E., 2016. Reflective practice meetings as an aspect of inter-
professional education: A cross pollination of multi-disciplinary perspectives within
Health, Education and Social care.
Miraglia, R. and Asselin, M.E., 2015. Reflection as an educational strategy in nursing
professional development: an integrative review. Journal for nurses in professional
development, 31(2). pp.62-72.
Moore, B. A., 2018. Developing Special Educator Cultural Awareness Through Critically
Reflective Professional Learning Community Collaboration. Teacher Education and
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Sharil, W. N. E. H. and Kyriacou, C., 2015. REFLECTIVE PRACTICE ON INSTRUCTIONAL
PLANNING: RELEVANCE AND CONTRIBUTION TO PRE-SERVICE
TEACHERS’PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. IJAEDU-International E-Journal of
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Wilhelm, J. D., 2016. " You gotta be the book": teaching engaged and reflective reading with
adolescents. Teachers College Press.
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