Health and Social Care Personal Development: A Reflective Report

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Task 1.........................................................................................................................................3
AC 1.1 A comparison of your personal values and principles with the principles of support
for working in your work place..............................................................................................3
AC 1.2 An assessment of how personal cultural and experience influence your role in
supporting clients and colleagues in the workplace...............................................................4
AC 1.3 Discuss how new development and changes to your personal values can impact on
the work..................................................................................................................................5
Task 2.........................................................................................................................................6
AC 2.1 Assess your current skills abilities and learning styles by using one or more
assessment tools.....................................................................................................................6
AC 2.4 Evaluate the effectiveness of the development plan to your development as a health
and social care practitioner.....................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The report consent distribution of professional as well as personal development skills
that are required in the health and social care workplace. The purpose of the paper is to render
an appropriate framework of information that focuses about the roles and responsibilities of
the individual as well as directs them to was developing a personal and professional plan that
increases the value of the individuals in the workplace of the health and social care services.
This will delve into the importance of ethical aspects that the practitioner should care about.
The paper will help to improve the skills of the people in the workplace of the health and
social care services as well as provide them appropriate opportunities and threats that they
may get confronted in the health and Social Care industry..
Task 1
AC 1.1 A comparison of your personal values and principles with the principles of
support for working in your work place.
The aspect of Health and social care depends upon certain principles based on which
every individual in this industry works in their workplace. It is an important aspect under
consideration that how the practitioner should care about the principles which support their
activities in the health and social care sector. There is sufficient importance of creating
personal values and preparing to implement appropriate principles. The principles are based
upon the Bill Gates natural practices within the organisation with which the practitioners
should be abided by in order to who successfully handle the problems that come in the health
and social care sector. Murugar the personal values includes behavioural aspects regarding
politeness, honesty as well as gentle behaviour towards everyone followed by providing them
dignity, courage and doing justice with them. Apart from that is also essential that the quality

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of services rendered to the target consumers hamper their tradition, religious beliefs, ethical
decorum, equality, freedom as well as liberty. No discrimination should be allowed or
tolerated in the workplace and the work culture should be improvised accordingly based upon
creativity and trustworthiness followed by effective communication and professionalism that
leads towards dedication in providing effective services as well as maintenance of business
ethics. Principles are the amalgamation of ideas and beliefs that focus on teamwork in the
workplace where individuals are values as well as their productivity is utilized to maximize
the organisational objective through fair treatment of all. The principal support the policies
and procedures by which any organisation remains divided by as well as follows rules and
fundamental norms for community development and socio-cultural practices which enhances
the welfare of the sector and their target consumer base. The principles consider that more the
personal values, as well as the principal support provided to the people who comes for help in
the sector, has a certain value and that value should be optimised efficiently.
AC 1.2 An assessment of how personal cultural and experience influence your role in
supporting clients and colleagues in the workplace.
Importance of personal experience regarding culture Hills individuals to influence and
support clients as well as direct the newly joined colleagues towards providing effective
services in health and social care workplace. The beliefs and values that are inclusive of the
providence of equal rights to each and every individual as well as maintaining confidentiality
in the workplace through protecting information regarding clients for any kind of abuse or
harm that they a have faced due to their cultural beliefs or experiences. The notion of
providing better and effective service is important which can only we become pragmatic if
the service users as well as providers equally are aware of the issues and have enough
courage within themselves due to the range values that they learn or acquire through
maintenance of effective practices in workplace culture of the health and social care service

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sector. The experiences that are gathered should be practised since it ensures to solve fear and
effective treatment by the practitioners of Health and social care services as well as the users
of the same. If the health and social care practitioners have a cultural experience and they
know how to deal with the users in that is the experience that is gathered by the images of
these services will be good. Along with that the workplace culture and the process through
which the confidentiality of the clients are being protected and no harm is rendered to them
will be highly appreciated by all.
AC 1.3 Discuss how new development and changes to your personal values can impact
on the work.
The personal values that are acquired by individuals bring new development in the
working culture. Is not only impact the belief as well as behavioural values but also bring
forward professional is in as well as improve the efficiency in technological skill building in
particular work. It is necessary for every individual to define the skills and accept challenges
through which they will be able to learn new things within the workplace and enhance their
ability towards the work culture of Health and social care practices. In the verge to secure
beta functionality and mitigating the risk of uncertainty in the workplace so that the users do
not get any form of harm from the providers or any other else, it is essential to maintain a fair
treatment to all based on Equality at Work Act. Bhartiya City to protect the confidentiality of
the users and make them free from any form of discrimination since it will raise the value of
service deliverance as well as build a strong inter relationship between the service providers
as well as uses within the health and social care sector as per the Data Protection Act. The
development of individual values should ensure fear and equal services for all the patients as
well as will build a strong culture that is developed based on the fundamental plinth of
supportive communication. (Frontiera, et. al., 2012).

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Task 2
AC 2.1 Assess your current skills abilities and learning styles by using one or more
assessment tools.
The skills and abilities that are developed based on specification of effective training
and awareness generation programme are very crucial in the workplace within the health and
social care sector. The strength and weaknesses, as well as the opportunities and threats that
are being confronted by individuals in the workplace of Health and social care, should be
critically understood. The following analysis helps to assess the skill and expertise based on
different learning styles as well as provide suitable evaluation techniques which are used as to
available to the individuals in the workplace.
The analysis that is being conducted through the SWOT framework helps in effective
skill development and ensuring that the practitioner implements interactive communication
expertise in the health and social care workplace. It is important to incorporate activities

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based on future goals and objectives and hence is highly essential that the practitioner should
boost themselves with the process of effective communication and list the problems that are
faced by the patients will not be properly understood by them. Effect of skill development
can be channelized effectively to the analysis of the strength and weaknesses as well as the
opportunities and threats that are confronted both by the service provider and service user in
this health and social care workplace.
Ac 2.2 Produce a holistic development plan for yourself with short, medium and long
term goals.
Properly strategizing the business is one of the important aspects of any organization
as well as the sector in which the organization operates. The planning activities should be
divided into short term medium term as well as long term goals since it will help to prepare
the plans and implement them with respect to constant evaluation within the prescribed time
frame. This will also help to oo improvise the Future Plans and goals and assists their
attainability to ensure the success of conducting business and serving the target consumers in
the Health and social care sector improve efficiency level. The smart objectives are specific,
attainable, measurable as well as development within the foundation of the stipulated time
period. The Holistic personal development plan can be incorporated as follows:
PDP (Personal Development Plan)

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AC 2.3 Monitor your progress against the plan according to the requirements of a care
practitioner, revise the plan as required.

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This is essential in any organisation to effectively regulate the activities that are being
incorporated in the business practices of Health and social care workplace. 24 effective
monitoring of the progress and remove all the loopholes that are reaching the effective
implementation of the programs monitoring plan is essential. The fulfilment of all the
requirements within the plan incorporates several steps that can be showcased as follows:
Conduction of skill assessment:
This includes the procedure of gaining knowledge as well as implementing the expertise at
various levels by the individual that interact with the patient and hence is one of the important
criteria of the plan.
Periodic basis revision of the plan:
This criterion is important in order to conduct the skill assessment procedure within specific
intervals and assess the development that is been found to occur due to the implementation of
the skill development plan. It is to be understood that with the development of effective
Strategies and their implementation there is crucial necessity of revision. It helps in Breaking
the traditional norms of doing business and makes it a dynamic procedure for where each and
every plan that is implemented and effectively monitor. The monitoring process your help in
assessing the success rate of the implemented plan as well as ensure obtainment of feedback
based on which the new plans that will get implemented in future will be improvised. Which
incorporates the essentiality of looking forward into a fair treatment of patients, taking care of
the fact, whether discrimination is avoided in the workplace, as well as effective and
interactive communication, read it by the practitioner with the patients. The monitoring plan
is is actually one of the important instruments that enhances the leadership skills within the

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practitioners as well as helps the patients to come out of their hesitation and interact with the
practitioners. This also gives interpersonal skills of the practitioners and makes the workplace
effective platform through which people with different behaviour as well as mental disease
are equally valued and their problems are resolved successfully in the health and social care
workplace (Miller, 2014).
AC 2.4 Evaluate the effectiveness of the development plan to your development as a
health and social care practitioner.
Based on the requirement of the market as well as workplace culture it is important to
evaluate the background of the patient from where they come. Different questions come from
a different cultural background as well as have a preference towards different societal
practices. To create a better impression in the mind of the patient the practitioners to develop
their expertise by understanding the demographic background of the patients and
communicate to understand. The practitioners to develop themselves as the leaders in the
field who can communicate an interactive manner with the patient and understand their
problem in an emergency situation. The issues can only get solve if managerial skills are
coupled with leadership styles within both the service provider as well as the leader followed
by maintaining transparency in information exchange. Balancing the people with proper care
regarding their health and social aspects will maximize welfare in the business and efficiently
structure the market in a systematized and constructive framework. The effectiveness of the
development plan lies here since in the health and social care sector the practitioners are the
leaders and their role, as well as responsibilities, are highly important (Dunlosky, et. al.,
2011).

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