Professional Principles and Values in Health and Social Care Report

This report examines professional practices and values within the health and social care sector, emphasizing a person-centered approach. It begins with a SWOT analysis of a healthcare worker's skills and responsibilities, highlighting strengths in communication and weaknesses in time management. The report then explores the role and purpose of reflective practice, including the Gibbs model, in enhancing professional development and improving patient care. Short, medium, and long-term personal goals, along with a detailed personal development plan, are outlined to address identified weaknesses and foster career advancement. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of reflective practices for delivering quality patient care and continuous learning within health and social care institutions. The report utilizes various sources to support the analysis and findings within the context of the healthcare industry.

Demonstrating Professional
Principles and Values

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
1. You will need to produce evidence of your skills audited using the SWOT Analysis. ..........1
Role as well as purpose of reflection in health and social care practices...................................3
Describing model and the tool used for reflection in health and social care practices................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Professional practices in health and social care institution are dependent on a person
centered approach. Values and professional practices conducted by medical staff in health and
social sector have direct as well as significant effect of the quality of services in health and
service institution. The principles in health and social care institution provides guidance to
employees about ethical as well as unethical practices.
The present report have focus on identifying the skills as well as experiences which are
required to be posses by an individual working in health and social care institution. Study will
also professional development plan which will consist of few short as well as long term goals.
MAIN BODY
1. You will need to produce evidence of your skills audited using the SWOT Analysis.
Being a healthcare worker, I have several numbers of responsibilities at my workplace that
needs to be fulfilled with a main intent of delivering effective services to the users. As a
healthcare assistant, I am responsible to work within a wide range of public settings and under
the supervision of various healthcare professionals. Therefore, my nature of work largely
depends upon the area of my work. However, currently, I have been placed in the community
practice and is required to work along with the nurses at my workplace. My duties mainly
involve observing the patients by together monitoring and recording their conditions.
Herein, I need to take their temperatures, check their pulse rate along with their respirations
and weight, etc. Communicating with patients is my foremost responsibility where I also need to
interact with their relatives and carers, etc. Also, I am required to assist with other clinical duties
by taking personal care in terms of preventing infection and control the same with effective
measures. Lastly, promoting a positive mental, nutritional as well as physical health of patients
also comes under my job responsibility where I am together required to check and order supplies
on time (Congress, 2017.). Considering all these roles and responsibilities of my position, below
is a SWOT analysis of mine to determine my own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and
threats-
Strengths-
 A vital forte of mine is in terms of
interacting with others that also helps
me in my job role.
Weaknesses-
 A major weakness in me is in terms of
managing my time.
 This often hinders my work-related
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 It is however due to my good
communication as well as
interpersonal skills that helps me to
easily interact with the patients, etc.
 Beside this, I together have good
listening skills with a tactful nature to
quickly deal with any concerning
matters at the workplace. I together believe to be an open-
minded person who is also
empathetic and caring in nature with
a desire to work with individuals of
all age group and any background.
aspects where I am duly responsible to
give medicines to the patients on time.
 Apart from this, I also lack in being an
effective team player sometime.
 It might be due to quite conflicting
views that deter my own set of opinion,
failing to work in groups.
Opportunities-
 A greater opportunity for me is to
work with strong ethics and
commitment.
 This will in turn assist me to
effectively deal with a rising number
of criticisms in the changing world of
healthcare.
 Also, my flexible outlook towards
work is evident as a beneficial
consideration to stay in today’s
contending job aspects. Additionally, my positive mental
attitude stands out to be a vital
opportunity for me to combat any
difficult situation that usually comes
up in healthcare sector.
Threats-
 Work overload is found to be a biggest
threat for me in the approaching career.
 Also, lack of development prospects is
a challenging concern for me to build a
progressive career ahead.
 Lastly, we are also suffering from a
very limited access to technology that
often hinders us in provisioning
effective services to the users.
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Role as well as purpose of reflection in health and social care practices
Reflective practice can be defined as the ability of an individual to reflects on an
individual action to get engaged in the procedure of continuous learning. The purpose of
reflective practices is to identify the skills, experience and core competence required for
facilitating the medical practices in health and social care organization. It supports an individual
in identifying the performance gap and reason for same. Reflective practices includes an
individual attention to the theories as well as practical values which informs every day practices.
Reflective practices helps an individual in identifying the techniques which can be utilized for
improving performance at workplace (Schön, 2017). In context of the health and social care
practices, reflective practices assist a person in generating self awareness. In addition to this,
Self awareness as well as reflection have been considered to be important for the professional
development. Self awareness motivates medical professional to get themselves engaged in more
strong relationship with service users (Green and Thorogood, 2018). By executing reflective
practices people can learn from their experiences. The purpose of reflective practices is to bring
improvement in the future practices. Reflective practices includes analyzing as well as evaluating
existing practices. Reflective practices supports an individual in identifying the scope of future
growth in health and social care field (Beckett, Maynard and Jordan, 2017). Reflective practices
support an individual in making suitable decisions. Reflective practices supports an individual in
identifying the challengers as well as opportunities which can create hindrance in their career
path. Creating opportunities for staff to develop through facilitating reflective practice at all
levels in the organization is one way in which people can be brought back into the center of
healthcare delivery (Cherry,2017). It also aids an individual in reducing stress and helps in
improving thinking. In big health and social care institutions leaders or manager all levels can be
trained and supported to run such reflective groups, which would enable reflective practice to
spread through entire business in cost effective ways.
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Personal objectives
Short term Goals (Next 5 months)
In order to get overcome come from my weaknesses, for that I need to learn some managerial
skills and observation skills that helps me to keep my patient healthy and safe.
Medium term Goals Next 12 months
In order to make my work productive and challenging I need to look upon my time management
skills that helps me in my work.
Longer term goals 1 years
I need to get new position within the company and gain support of work colleagues and senior
level. For that, I need to focus on my work skills.
Personal development plan
Required Action Resource Outcomes Target time
Time
management
skill
In order to get my
goals on time and
make sure the
time importance.
I need to learn
some time
management
skills to achieve
my task on time.
In order to learn
time management
skills. I need to
break my long
task into smaller
parts and give
them priority to
complete it. This
process helps me
to make my work
manageable.
It can help me to
learn new
different things
and helps me to
get new working
experience.
3 months
Leadership skills Leadership skills
can help me to
take care of my
To learn
leadership skills
and new
It can help me to
build new good
image and helps
2-3 months.
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colleagues and
helps me to get
my promotion as
well.
developing target
can help me to
learn new
different things
into proper
manner.
For that, I need to
adopt some
leadership styles
and work upon it
to get some new
knowledge and
skills
me in my career
development.
Conflict
management
Conflict
management that
I need to learn. So
that, I can have
better relationship
and networking
source to connect.
To get conflict
management
skills. For that, I
need to
understand
patient issues,
their feelings and
values. Give their
beliefs respect to
get faith etc.
By acquiring
conflict
management
skills. It helps me
to make new
friends and better
healthy
environment.
1-2 months.
Describing model and the tool used for reflection in health and social care practices.
Reflection is the best tool to identify extensively in health and social care, particularly in
education to understand the concept in proper manner. Reflection model helps to used portfolio
development and evidences of practice based learning. It also used to make critical for the sack
of student better learning. Reflection tool is very much significant for the teaching nursing
students and for the documentation support and generation of nursing knowledge.
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One of the great model of reflection is Gibbs 1988 model who discuss some essential
stages such as :
 Describe the event
 Identify feelings
 Evaluate the experience
 Analyse the experiences
 Draw a Conclusion
 Draw Up an action plan
Reflection model of Gibbs helps to understand the detailed information of the overall
process that is very much effective and productive for the student to express their learning and
experience into deeper manner (A New model of reflection for clinical practice. 2015).
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the report that reflective practices is very much important in
health and social care institutions. Study has also concluded that Such employees in health and
social care institution those who execute regular reflective practices deliver quality care to
patient.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Green, J. and Thorogood, N., 2018. Qualitative methods for health research. Sage.
Cherry, S., 2017. Transforming behaviour: Pro-social modelling in practice. Willan.
Congress, E.P., 2017. What social workers should know about ethics: Understanding and
resolving practice dilemmas. Social Work Ethics, p.1909.
Schön, D.A., 2017. The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Routledge.
Beckett, C., Maynard, A. and Jordan, P., 2017. Values and ethics in social work. Sage.
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A New model of reflection for clinical practice. 2015. [Online]. Available
Through :<https://www.nursingtimes.net/roles/nurse-educators/a-new-model-of-reflection-for-
clinical-practice/5089667.article>.
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