University Health and Social Care Self-Assessment Report: Analysis

This report presents a comprehensive self-assessment of a health and social care practitioner, focusing on personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). The author identifies skills in holistic patient care and effective communication as strengths, while cultural competency, time management, and medication management are recognized as weaknesses. The report outlines short, medium, and long-term goals to address weaknesses, improve teamwork, enhance cultural understanding, and refine administrative skills. Strategies include observing activities, seeking feedback, and modifying working patterns. The self-reflection process emphasizes the importance of patience, continuous learning, and adapting to challenges to provide holistic care. The author highlights the acquisition of diverse team skills and the significance of culturally competent care, aiming for continuous professional development and improved patient outcomes. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of staying updated with modern healthcare skills to provide clients with a holistic approach of care.

Running head: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Health and social care is the profession that demands the professionals associated with it
to provide a holistic care to their clients with professional responsibility and emotional support.
This helps to the health and social care professionals to provide the clients with their unmet
needs (Schön 2017). While working as a health and social care practitioner, my personal strength
weaknesses, my knowledge, and skills promoted and sometimes affected my care giving process.
The following section will contain a SWOT analysis as the self assessment of my personal
abilities.
Strengths Weakness
 My strength was my skills and abilities
while providing holistic care to the
patients.
 My intercommunication ability was my
another strength that provided me the
opportunity to communicate with
everyone and gain knowledge from
them
 Patience was another personality based
strength that I had while working as
health and social care professional.
 Cultural competency is the primary
weakness as I am unable to determine
appropriate culturally competent care
for my patients.
 Time management and medication
management are my weakness as due
to these I face difficulties while
providing care to the patients.
Opportunities Threats
 my ability to work actively on my
weaknesses is the opportunity that will
help me to turn my weaknesses into
 Increasing competition in the
healthcare and social care sector is a
treat as if I lack in any aspect of it, I

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strength
 Confidence and courage also brings
opportunities for me as with the help of
these I will be able to overcome my
weaknesses.
will be replaced.
 It is important for healthcare
professionals to take care of cross
cultural aspects and due to my
weakness in this aspect, it becomes a
threat for me (Connolly et al., 2012).
Hence, to create a balance and overcome my weaknesses, setting up short, medium, and
long term goals has become important balanced professional practice in health and social care
can be achieved. However, it is important to prioritize goals so that it becomes easier to achieve
them. The aspects which will be used to prioritize these goals are the degree of the weak aspects
of my personality which can harm my profession, my knowledge gap and flexibility so that
achieving goals becomes comfortable to achieve.
Short term goals Duration
 The first short term goal will be
observing each of my activities so that I
can identify my mistakes on my own and
take action against it.
 I will assist my colleagues in their work
so that their way of performing the same
task can be understood.
 I will communicate with my supervisors
For the short term goals I will utilize less
than one month as observation and
realization will take lesser time than strategic
implementation and action.

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subordinates and colleagues related to my
process of care giving and will seek
honest review so that I can understand the
lack in my process (Busse, Aboneh and
Tefera 2014).
Mid- term goals Duration
 For the midterm goals, I will work on my
team work and encouraging such team
work as while working in team I will be
able to learn about new and easy
pathways to provide quality care to
patients.
 I will try to identify gaps in other
individuals work as it will help me to
remind the actual process.
 Thirdly I will educate myself about
cultural and community care aspects so
that in future I can handle such situations
carefully.
For the medium term goals, I will take 2 to
three months as to learn and implement
health and social care steps will take time to
achieve.
Long term goals Duration
 For the long term goals, I will try to
modify my working pattern so that
maintenance of proper administrative
The long term goals will take more than 6
months so that achievement of these goals
can becomes easier and the trust and respect

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activities can be achieved.
 I will set up personal objectives and
strategies to achieve those objectives.
These objectives will be long range
objectives
 I will make a schedule to perform tasks
so that tasks can be performed at perfect
time to achieve the maximum outcome
(Skovholt and Trotter-Mathison 2014).
of the process can be maintained.
Therefore, from the above-mentioned sections, there are several traits of my personality
which has been emerged as my weaknesses are my lack of ability to work in a group, cultural
competency, and time management. However, my strengths such as effective communication,
skills, and ability to work in adverse condition with patience are the abilities which will help me
to overcome my weakness and implement strategies to improve my professional aspects (Moon
2013). Further, the self reflection or assessment will help me to improve my level of
performance as I will be able to discover my abilities in different healthcare and social care
related situation encounters. It is an important step in self assessment and professional
improvement as in discussion with seniors and peers, the chances of gaining knowledge and
overcoming prior weakness is higher as per Arnold and Boggs (2015). Further, it will help me as
a healthcare professional to face my burnouts and understand the complete process so that I can
utilize my opportunities and use my passion, courage and ability to positively evolve my career.
Further, there were several skills which I acquired while going through the self assessment and

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self refection and these skills were ability to work in a diverse team, ability to work in difficult
condition and understand the importance of culturally competent care in healthcare and social
care settings (Skovholt and Trotter-Mathison 2014). This helped me to develop my ability to face
new challenges and overcome them with proper knowledge and skills. However, while this self
improvement process, sometimes I was not been able to utilize my skills and hence, I understood
the importance of patience while working in health and social care profession. Hence, after
overcoming these aspects of my career, I would keep myself updated with modern healthcare
and social care professional skills so that I can provide my clients with holistic approach of care
(Connolly 2012).