Personal & Professional Development in HSC: A Reflective Report

This report provides a detailed analysis of personal and professional development within the health and social care (HSC) sector. It begins by comparing personal values (beliefs, preferences) with principles of support (equal rights, diversity, confidentiality) in HSC settings. It assesses how cultural values and personal beliefs impact service users, and discusses the influence of new developments like legislation and technology on personal values related to work. The report evaluates the effectiveness of personal contributions in teamwork, analyzes actions taken to minimize barriers to effective teamwork, and assesses current skills and learning styles using SWOT analysis. Furthermore, it outlines short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, provides a reflective account of monitoring the development plan, and evaluates the plan's effectiveness as a healthcare professional. Finally, it explains how the limitations of one's work role impact collaboration with others in the HSC environment. This resource is available on Desklib, a platform offering study tools and past papers for students.

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH & SOCIAL
CARE

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INTRODUCTION
It is very important for a person to focus on the personal as well as professional to be
successful in a personal as well as professional life (Busse, et al. 2014). A person should
focus on all the different skills and knowledge in order to achieve the significant growth and
development. This report demonstrates the different aspects of personal and professional
development including the impact of personal values and principles on the contribution to
work in HSC setting. It also helps in understating the development of a person and
professional development. This work aims to encourage the learner to make reflective
practitioners by applying understating of HSC setting.
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TASK 1 REPORT WRITING
CASE SCENARIO
1.1. COMPARE PERSONAL VALUES SUCH AS BELIEFS AND PREFERENCES
AND PRINCIPLES LIKE EQUAL RIGHT, DIVERSITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF SUPPORT FOR WORKING IN HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE
Personal value Effect of the value on principles of support in
health and social care
Diversity It helps me in effectively communicating
with the service users. It helps in treating
fairly to the people belongs to different
culture.
Integrity It helps me a lot in performing my assigned
roles and responsibilities in honestly and
ethically.
Confidentiality I respect the confidentiality of the service
user and does not share it with others.
Critical thinking It helps in understanding a thing from
different angles. Critical thinking allows
finding the different solutions to a problem.
Professionalism Professionalism is a crucial element to work
effectively. It brings sincerity and
punctuality towards the work.
Curiosity Being curious help me in understanding the
different aspects of the medical sciences. It
helps in gaining more knowledge and skills
which reflect positively on the effectiveness
of work.
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Optimism It is very important for a health professional
to remain positive in every condition. Being
optimistic helps in staying positive in the
workplace.
Equal right A health and social care professionals need
to treat equally and fairly to each and every
service users. It helps in developing the
positive and healthy environment in the
workplace.
Table 1: Comparison of personal value and principle of support for working in health and
social care
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1.2 ASSESS HOW VALUES LIKE CULTURE AND YOUR OWN BELIEF AFFECT
SERVICE USERS AND OTHERS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS
Personal culture and experience Impact on personal culture and experience
on health and social care units
Respect to the culture of other It helps in treating equally to the service
users belongs to different culture. There are
different factors which help an organisation.
Language I know few different languages which help
me in understanding what people want to
convey. It also helps in communicating with
the people who do not know the language.
Leadership It helps in leading the team members to
achieve the common objectives (Fullan,
2014).
Table 2: Effect of values like culture and belief on health and social care unit
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1.3 DISCUSS THE IMPACT OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS ON YOUR PERSONAL
VALUES IN RELATION TO YOUR WORK ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
The development and changes possess a great impact on the personal beliefs and values.
The key developments which reflect significantly on my values related to the work are
legislations/ policies, technological change etc.
LEGISLATIONS/ POLICIES
Government develops various legislations and policies in order to ensure that health
organisations provide quality care to the patients. It is important for a health professional to
follow all the rules and regulations in order to perform the tasks effectively and efficiently.
The development of new legislation or policies or changes in it influences my work as a
health professional. The legislation such as health and care Act, Anti- Discrimination Act etc
(Busse, et al. 2014).
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES
Nowadays technology plays an important role in health and social care system. The change
or advancement in the technology possesses a great impact on the health and social care.
The changes in technology reflect significantly on my work. As the technology changes, the
health professional has to learn it which can enhance their workload (Busse, et al. 2014).
Thus, All the above-mentioned factors reflect significantly on my work as a health and social
care professional.
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4.1 EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR OWN PERSONAL
CONTRIBUTIONS WHEN WORKING WITH OTHERS/AS A TEAM
It is very important to work in a team in order to achieve the common objectives (Cameron,
et al. 2014). I put extra efforts so that I can contribute significantly to the success of my
team. I coordinate and cooperate with all my team members and helps them in solving the
problems.
I share a healthy and positive bond with my team members which is beneficial for me. I
learn many things from my team members which help me in performing my roles and
responsibilities. We all share the knowledge about health and social care which is beneficial
for us to accomplish our work effectively. I always try to deliver my best in order to achieve
the common goals and all your my team members are happy with my performance.
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4.3 ANALYSE WHAT ACTIONS YOU HAVE TAKEN IN YOUR PRACTICE TO
MINIMISE BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE
There are various barriers which influence the effectiveness of a team in a health and social
care setting (Gaurav, 2014). The key barriers to the effective team are;
 Poor communication
 Lack of coordination
 Conflict of interest
 Ineffective leadership (Weller, et al. 2014).
I have taken effective steps to overcome all the above-mentioned barriers in order to make
my team more effective. We share a healthy and positive bond which helps us on avoiding
the all the above-mentioned factors. We also share our opinions with our team leaders so
that he can develop effective decisions and strategies. We celebrate our success with each
other. We also help each other in resolving the issues and delivering better care to the
patients.
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TASK 2
2.1 ASSESS YOUR OWN CURRENT SKILLS AND LEARNING STYLE
It is imperative to assess the current skills abilities and learning style in order to identify
different factors which possess a great impact on the health and social care (Certo, et al.
2018). There are various tools which can be used to access the current skills and learning
style.
I would like to use SWOT analysis analyses to assess the impact of factors associated my
strength, weakness, and opportunities and threats which can influence me as a health and
social care professional.
Strength Weakness
 I can respond effectively to various
issues or challenges at the workplace
 I easily build the healthy and positive
relationship with my co-workers and
patients
 I possess effective communication
skill, time management skill and
other such skills
 I easily attached emotionally to
service user which affects my work
 I lack the knowledge of all the
different legislation and policies
associated with health and social
care
Opportunities Threats
 I can learn more skills and develop
my knowledge so that I perform my
roles and responsibilities in an
effective manner
 I can learn the new things which can
help me to achieve career growth
 Lack of time due to the busy schedule
 The frequent changes in legislation
and technology make
Table 3: SWOT analysis
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I will consider all these strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats in order to develop
an effective personal and professional development plan. I need to work on my all these
factors to improve the my strengths and to overcome the weakness and threats and to grab
all the opportunities.
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2.2 IN YOUR TABLE PRODUCE A HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR SHORT
TERM GOALS, MEDIUM TERM GOALS AND LONG-TERM GOALS
It is very important for me to make effective planning to shape my professional life. I have
my short term, middle term and long term goals (Certo, et al. 2018). My holistic
development plan is based on the SMART objective that means the objectives which are
Smart, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely.
Objective What to do? What support is
required?
How to measure
the success
Timescale
Short-term goal –
Work under
pressure
Sometimes
work pressure
can affect
significantly to
the working of
a health and
social care
professional
therefore it is
very important
for me to learn
under pressure
It can be learned
by improving the
skills such as time
management
skills. It can be
also improved by
effective
practising.
Ability to
manage the
different clients
at a time.
6 months
Middle term
goal-
Leadership skill
Managing the
people
effectively.
Delivering
speeches to
influence the
Interaction with
people. Taking
feedback from
1 year
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