Report on Personal Development in the Health Sector - Unit 3

This assignment is a Unit 3 assessment focused on personal development within the health sector. It explores the identification of skills, knowledge, and attitudes relevant to a health sector role, along with areas for personal development and methods for achieving them. The assessment also covers recording and reviewing development opportunities. Furthermore, it discusses personal behaviors that support learning in the workplace, the roles of individuals who can support working goals, and the value of feedback and reflection in enhancing knowledge and skills. The document also describes how learning in the work environment contributes to career development, and the key components, stakeholders, and benefits of a personal development plan (PDP) are identified and discussed in detail.

Unit 3: Personal development in the health sector
Assessment
You should use this file to complete your Assessment.
Please note that this Assessment has 8 pages and is made up of 3 parts.
Name:
Part 1: Know how to identify own personal development needs
This part will help you to evidence Learning Outcome 1: Know how to identify own
personal development needs
Learning objective Place in Assessment
1.1 Identify own skills, knowledge and attitudes relevant to
a specific work role in the health sector
Question 1 Page 1
1.2 Identify areas for development for a specific work role in
the health sector
Question 2 Page 2
1.3 Describe how these development needs could be
achieved
Question 2 Page 2
1.4 Identify methods to record and review development
opportunities
Question 3 Page 3
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1. Identify the skills, knowledge and attitudes that are required for a particular health
sector role. The role could be the one you currently work in or one that you would like to
do in the future. [1.1]
Role Relevant skills I
already have
Relevant knowledge I
already have
Relevant
attitudes I
already have
Health care
assistant
Communication skills I already have
knowledge with respect
to way management
and leadership skills are
to be applied in the
context of organisation
functioning.
Positive attitude
and learning
aptitude towards
assigned roles and
responsibilities is
something that I
already posses.
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2. Identify three personal areas for development in this role and describe how these
developments can be achieved. [1.2] [1.3]
Role Areas for development How could they be
achieved?
1.communication skills For the purpose of
performing job role of health
assistant it is important to
have a friendly attitude of
working. Along with proper
communication skills it is
important to posses listening
skills.
It can be achieved by
attending various training
sessions and webinars on the
way communication skills
can be enhanced and
improved.
2. Team working skills
For the purpose of
performing the job role of
health assistant it is important
to perform the role in context
of team functioning.
Working as a healthcare
assistant it becomes important
to identify various necessary
skill sets that are required to
work in a team. For this
purpose various team
working and group tasks will
be worked on to identify
different ideas that are
required to best care for
patients.
3. Physical strength Healthcare assistant is
profession that is to expect
This strength and skill can be
developed by focussing on
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most of the time on his or her
feet that can be physically
exhausting for a individual in
some situations. They have to
perform the function of
getting patient out of chair,
beds, reposition them, and
pushing of cart with heavy
equipments.
physical development that is
through exercising and taking
proper rest along with healthy
eating habits can help a
individual in development of
their physical strength that is
needed to perform the job
role of a health assistant.
3. Identify three methods used to record and review personal development opportunities.
[1.4]
Development
opportunity
The method used to record
and review this
development
How does it encourage
improvement?
1. Non-verbal
communication
skills. This is one
of the most
essential
For review and record this
development opportunity,
essential methods are
personal auditing,
performance outcome
This development
opportunity encourages
health assistance job roles
as non-verbal
communication is an
important skill to manage
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development
opportunity in the
health assistance
job role because in
the health care
setting, there are
the disable patient
and workers too,
in order to manage
and work with
them that is
important to
develop the non-
verbal
communication
skills.
2. New skills of the health
assistance task
management. Such as
record management at
online document. Now
the health care
organisation are moving
towards the automation
and IT. In context to
reporting.
The level of awareness about
new health tools and
techniques management can
be review method. In order to
record the development
manage the PDP in detail.
the disabled patient
effectively.
This development
opportunity is encouraging
for the improvement by
increasing the interest
towards new skills of
health assistance job role.
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which as an health care
assistance that is
important to develop the
new technology
management skills.
3. Cheerful and friendly
to the health care staff
and patients are the skills
that have to be developed
to perform effectively. In
order to sustain in the job
role of the health
assistance that is
important to manage the
stress and be cheerful.
Self-reflection is another
most effective method sue to
measure and record the
personal development.
This development
opportunity encourages
improvement by allowing
growth in the job role.
Now that you have completed part 1 of your Assessment, remember to save the work
you have done so far – you will need to send your work to your tutor for marking once
you have completed all 3 parts of this Assessment.
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Part 2: Know ways to support own personal development
This part will help you to evidence Learning Outcome 2: Know ways to support own
personal development
Learning objective Place in Assessment
2.1 Identify personal behaviours that support learning in
the workplace
Question 1 Page 4
2.2 Identify people that can support own learning goals Question 2 Page 4
2.3 Describe ways in which feedback from others can
help to develop and improve own knowledge
Question 3 Page 5
2.4 Describe how reflecting on a situation can help to
develop and improve own knowledge and skills
Question 4 Page 5
2.5 Describe how learning in the work environment can
contribute to career development
Question 5 Page 6
1. Identify personal behaviours that support learning in the workplace. [2.1]
There is need of some specific person behaviours that is essentially required to perform
the job roles of health assistant and to support the learning process. It includes several
traits such as positive attitude that is a soft skills. There is need of flexibility a key trait
of working in a team.
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2. Identify roles of people who can support your own working goals. [2.2]
jhhhThere are some of the roles played by people who can support the overall working goals.
Such as it includes:
Trainer: The trainers are the ones who will be supporting health assistant in the course of
performing the assigned job roles. In this process trainers help in skill development that can
lead towards enhancing the present potential and competence level.
colleagues or peer groups: Peer groups and colleagues can also very helpful in the process
of supporting the learning process of individuals. they can learn from the training programs
that can further assist in dealing with some of the situations and instances where difficulties
are being faced. working as health assistant in hospitals other colleagues who are already
working or having experienced can also be a source of learning. they can share their past
experiences and way different working can be managed.
Superiors: There are some of the profiles who are working at senior positions. so as a health
assistant senior members can also assist in the process of learning by assisting health
assistance whenever they are having some of the difficulties in their working.
3. Describe how feedback from others can help you to develop and improve your own
knowledge and skills. [2.3]
Feedback from others can be very helpful in the process of understand various flaws and
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shortcomings in the skill sets. When there is a negative feedback then a individual will be
willing to work on it and remove the overall skill gaps. If there will be positive feedback
then a individual will be further motivated to make more improvements to maximise the
present level of performance.
4a. Describe what 'reflecting on a situation' means. [2.4]
Reflecting a situation is basically related with describing a particular situation in past. It
is associative with the way a situation actually took place at a specific point of time and
now there is analysis of the way reflecting something original in form of image or any
other such related aspects.
4b. Describe how reflecting on a situation can develop and improve your knowledge and
skills. [2.4]
Reflecting a situation is related with providing evidence of quality or character of
something. It is a very important aspect in the learning process as a person can reflect on
their own strength by emulating the behaviour. It is part of reflecting the past
performance and different associated aspects with it. It can be in both positive and
negative form. As a health assistant it is going to lead towards understand the lacking
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areas of skills and knowledge that required improvement and development.
5. Describe different ways of learning in the work environment and how they can contribute
to career development. [2.5]
Type of work place learning How it contributes to career
development
1. Induction programme Induction program is relate to process of
welcoming employees. It is similar for
freshers or experienced professionals. It is a
aspect of lecture style training that is
required for communication the
information. It is one of the least effective
training methods where there can be no
proper interaction between the trainer and
trainee.
2. Group discussion and activities For the purpose of developing required
knowledge group discussion can be used
for the purpose of training employees. It
may lead to activities and discussions that
is facilitated by online prompts or face to
face discussions. In this peer groups can
help each other in dealing with difficulties
or issue that they are facing in the course of
learning. There are certain difficulties in
this learning process that may be conflicts
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or team working issues that have to be
resoled and leads towards better learning
experience of individuals.
3.observational learning It is also a learning method where
workplace can offer a strong learning
environment as it leads to a real on the job
experience. It is one of the learning
methods that can help a individual in
acquisition of skills that is both hard and
soft skills can be learnt through such
process.
Now that you have completed part 2 of your Assessment, remember to save the work
you have done so far – you will need to send your work to your tutor for marking once
you have completed all 3 parts of this Assessment.
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Part 3: Know how a personal development plan can contribute to own learning and
development
This part will help you to evidence Learning Outcome 3: Know how a personal
development plan can contribute to own learning and development
Learning objective Place in Assessment
3.1 Describe the key components of a personal
development plan
Question 1 Page 7
3.2 Identify who could be involved in the personal
development plan process
Question 2 Page 7
3.3 List the benefits of using a personal development plan
to identify ongoing improvements in own work role
Question 3 Page 8
1. Provide a brief description of what should be included in a personal development plan.
[3.1]
In the personal development plan, every essential factor of the individual skills,
knowledge, and stander needs of the career goal is briefly described or illustrated. PDP is
one of the necessary tools for the particular personal skills recorded in strength and
weaknesses, which is further used to take the action plan of skilled development and
improvement. In the health assistance PDP, there should be detailed information of
individual personal and professional skills, strengths and weaknesses, and the action plan
for the skills development, which should involve the development goal, sources,
performance measurement, and period of achievement.
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