Churchill College: HND Health and Social Care PPD Report on Reflection

This report, prepared for the Senior Management Team of Churchill College, delves into the critical aspects of personal and professional development (PPD) within the health and social care sector, specifically focusing on the NHS. The report examines the significance of personal values and principles in the workplace, emphasizing their interplay with support systems and the importance of ethical conduct. It analyzes how personal culture and experience influence the support provided to clients and colleagues, highlighting the need for policies that protect clients and ensure fair service delivery. Furthermore, the report assesses the impact of new developments and changes on personal values, emphasizing the need for adaptability and continuous learning. It includes an evaluation table of personal values and a self-assessment questionnaire, with recommendations for embracing change and adopting new learning styles to enhance skills and improve healthcare delivery. The conclusion stresses the importance of adapting to workplace changes to improve healthcare and secure the work environment.

HND Health and Social Care
PPD

OF CHURCHILL COLLEGE
A DETAILED REPORT ON REFLECTION
BY:
DATE: 22ND FEBUARY 2018
REPORT CONTENTS PAGE

PAGE 3 INTRODUCTIONS
PAGE 4 1.1 VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
PAGE 5 1.2 ASSESS YOUR CULTURE
AND ITS INLUENCE
PAGE 6 1.3 IMPACT OF NEW
DEVELOPMENTS AND
CHANGES
PAGE 7 CONCLUSIONS
PAGE 7 RECOMMENDATIONS
PAGE 9 APPENDAGES

INTRODUCTION
In modern scenario, it has become highly essential to look out for the personal and professional
development of an individual in health and social care. Maintaining health and social care within
the workplace is something which can be stated as one of the major essential factor for the
company (Trede, Macklin and Bridges, 2012). Giving out the proper data for the roles and
responsibilities for an individual for the patients who are coming for services of health and social
care at the workplace and this can be stated as the major aim of this report. Company taken for
this report is to NHS which is a social health care service provider for the patients. There are
various things which will be discussed in this report like data regarding the development plan
and personal and professional values of an individual at the workplace. Various techniques need
to be adopted for enhancement of skills of the people who are working at health and social care.
1.1 Comparison of personal values and principles with the support of working within
workplace
This can be stated as platform of workplace in which all the factors are dependent and
interrelated to each another. It is highly essential to for every kind of health care practitioner to
understand the importance of principles of support within the workplace. It is highly essential to
structure the proper principles so that it can be ensured that the personal values of a person can
be taken care within the workplace. This kind of principles are highly based upon the values,
beliefs along with the culture of people which are being attached with the health and social care
workplace. There are number of people who are working in the health and social care and thus
their principles are highly based various factors like instrumental values, personal values,
political values, social values, religious values and many more. In the personal values it majorly
includes politeness, honesty, being gentle and working with dignity and transparency
(Rutherford and et. al., 2012). There are even more who plays crucial role in personal values
while working and serving the patients.
There are number of attachments of the principles within the health and social care and
these kind of principles mainly include the various values which are being formulated with the
help of teamwork, dedication, competitiveness, effective communication, reliability, trustworthy

and many more ethics. It is highly essential to follow all the policies and procedures and thus
treat every other person in respectful manner and thus treats fairly within workplace. Apart from
this, policies and regulations which are being formulated should provide help to the company for
conducting the operations in better and effective manner (Reeves and et. al., 2011). This can be
clearly stated that the personal values and principles of support has the common aims on which
they work in order to maintain the fair and ethical decorum of the workplace and thus help out
the people by providing the effective services.
1.2 How personal culture and experience can affect the role of supporting the clients and
colleagues at workplace
There is the major impact on the personal culture and experience while supporting the clients and
colleagues at the health and social care. There are values and beliefs within the workplace which
are being included in providing the equal rights for every individual and thus maintain the
confidentiality within company. It is also essential to have the policies which can directly protect
the clients from the abusing factor and resist the harm from own beliefs and culture which
indirectly provide help in ensuring that the better and fair services can be provided for the
services users (Reeves and et. al., 2011). Along with that, experience and personal culture mainly
makes sure that the better and effective services are being given to users. If entire aspects of
culture are being followed by health practitioner and thus gain experience at every stage and thus
it becomes easier to conduct the process of working and thus save the clients form all the
damages. This provides assistance in structuring up the trust within the people for utilising the
services for the health and social care so that the effect of issues can be minimised and recover
from them. Assistance is being provided by the culture experience to take every employee at the
same stage. This in turn means that the employee at the workplace will not be discriminated and
thus will be treated equally in better manner and along with that it will also be ensured that equal
services which will also be provided for the patients coming to NHS.

1.3 New development and changes to the personal values which can impact on the work
There is a major impact by the new development and modifications on the personal values of a
person within the work. This type of modifications which can be like changing within the
behaviour, values, beliefs or the changes which in turn can have a huge impact on the work
processing and other employees. Skills can be refined with the help of personal development and
other modifications (Petty, Cross and Stew, 2012). It is highly essential for an individual for
accepting the changes and adopts the new learning style within the workplace due the certain
activities which in turn helps in upgrading the skills and other abilities. Better and effective
services which will be provided by an individual to the people coming to the health and social
care with the help of development and other modifications within the personal values. Mitigation
of the risk and other uncertainties will be done b y an individual within the workplace in order
to secure the services against any kind of harm. This type of factors mainly helps in securing the
workplace from various factors like discrimination and other services which are being given to
the people who are coming for the treatments at health and social care. There are various kinds of
laws and policies which are being formulated on the personal values for an individual at the
workplace. Instance can be taken up of Data Protection act, Equality at the work along with other
aspects and ensuring that this can work in effective manner and provide equal services to care
patients who are coming to health and social care workplace. These kind of legislations along
with some of the personal values has major impact upon the workplace as these mainly creates
the influences over many kind of factor like overcoming up of many kind of tensions between
the personal values and principles of good practice. Moreover, there are various kind of
differences which will be created like users of services along with workplace organisations and
other people.
CONCLUSION
From this statement, it can be concluded that it is highly essential for an individual to
adopt new learning style within the working place so that better health care can be obtained by
the patients in order to give high level of performance. This kind of elements principally helps in
securing the work environment from different elements like segregation and different
administrations which are being given to the general population who are desiring the medicines

at well-being and social care. There are different sorts of laws and arrangements which are being
figured on the individual esteems for a person at the work environment
RECOMMENDATION
It is being recommended that an individual needs to accept the changes and adopts the new
learning style within the workplace due the certain activities so that it can help in upgrading the
skills and other abilities. Besides this, employee should also adopt the accepting nature so that it
can help him\her to know the flaws within the performance and thus can work on it.
APPENDAGE 01 – YOU MUST FILL OUT THIS TABLE
VALUE ONE
RESPECT
This kind of factor is highly essential factor
which places high value within the life of a
person. There is great saying which is Give
respect, take respect and this can be applied
within the workplace regarding authority, lower
division , subordinates and even the clients.
VALUE TWO
DIGNITY
Dignity is all about self respect which should
be present within every employee and
individual. In classical moral, ethical, legal, and
political discussions the concept of dignity
expresses the idea that a being has the right to
be valued and respected, and to be treated
ethically.

VALUE THREE
CHOICE
Choice is all about decision making. It can
include judging the merits of multiple options
and selecting one or more of them. One can
make a choice between imagined options or
between real options followed by the
corresponding action.
VALUE FOUR
SUPPORT/CARE
Being a employee of NHS, it is highly essential
to support and show care for the patients.
Along with this, this factors should be there for
colleagues and support should be given in order
to be a better human.
If you agree more than you disagree with a statement put a tick by it.
If you disagree more than you agree put a cross by it.
Be sure to mark each item with either a tick or cross.
1 I like to be absolutely correct about things.
2 I quite like taking risks.
3 I prefer to solve problems using a step-by-step approach rather than guessing.
4 I prefer simple, straightforward things rather than something complicated.
5 I often do things 'just because I feel like it' rather than thinking about it first.
6 I don't often take things for granted. I like to check things out for myself.

7 What matters most about what you learn is whether it works in practice.
8 I actively seek out new things to do
9 When I hear about a new idea I immediately start working out how I can try it out.
10 I am quite keen on sticking to fixed routines, keeping to timetables etc.
11 I take great care in working things out. I don't like jumping to conclusions.
12 11ike to make decisions very carefully and preferably after weighing up all the other
possibilities first.
13 I don't like 'loose-ends’; I prefer to see things fit into some sort of pattern.
14 In discussions I like to get straight to the point.
15 I like the challenge of trying something new and different.
16 I prefer to think things through before coming to a conclusion.
17 I find it difficult to come up with wild ideas off the top of my head.
18 I prefer to have as many bits of information about a subject as possible, the more I
have to sift through the better.
19 I prefer to jump in and do things as they come along rather than plan things out in
advance.
20 I tend to judge other people's ideas on how they work in practice.

21 I don't think you can make a decision just because something feels right. You have
to think about all the facts.
22 I am rather fussy about how I do things—a bit of a perfectionist.
23 In discussion I usually pitch in with lots of wild ideas.
24 In discussions I put forward ideas that I know will work.
25 I prefer to look at a problem from as many different angles as I can before starting
on it.
26 Usually I talk more than I listen.
27 Quite often I can work out more practical ways of doing things.
28 I believe that careful logical thinking is the key to getting things done.
29 If I have to write a formal letter I prefer to try out several rough workings before
writing out the final version.
30 I like to consider all the alternatives before making up my mind.
31 I don't like wild ideas. They are not very practical.
32 It's best to look before you leap.
33 I usually do more listening than talking.
34 It doesn't matter how you do something, as long as it works.

35 I can't be bothered with rules and plans, they take all the fun out of things.
36 I'm usually the 'life and soul' of the party.
37 I do whatever I need to, to get the job done.
38 I like to find out how things work.
39 I like meetings or discussions to follow a proper pattern and to keep to a timetable.
40 I don't mind in the least if things get a bit out of hand.
QUESTIONNAIRE ANSWER GRID:
Activist Reflector Theorist Pragmatist
2 11 1 4
5 12 3 7
8 16 6 9
15 18 10 14
19 21 13 20
23 25 17 24
26 29 22 27
35 30 28 31
36 32 38 34
40 33 39 37
Total: 209 Total: 227 Total:177 Total: 207
Write a short reflection on the answer to the questionnaire with the three points included
within your reflections:
1) What have you learnt about yourself?
I have learn how to manage things properly and treat others with dignity as well. This get learn
through the aspect and consider in my value as well. Along with this, I also learn about
leadership skill and working so that appropriate and effective management of working get done
in making things effective and resolve all major conflicts and problems.

2) What were you thinking about when completing the questionnaire?
Once this questionnaire get completed, then I am become more able to understand various
factors of recovery by me. There is a need to improve my learning skills which are not so much
effective in frame.
3) What thoughts have you developed about learning?
Learning define various thoughts and aspects to think beyond the effective working and
managing appropriate environment at workplace. Along with this, i also get aware about
utilization of leadership style in an appropriate frame.
SWOT ANALYSIS
Strength Weaknesses
 I have better and effective skills of
communication.
 I have effective issue resolving
abilities.
 Possess time management abilities.
 Possession of proper knowledge for the
applied acts which are related to HSC
sector (Knott and Scragg, 2016).
 I am weak in non verbal
communication.
 Weak skills of leadership.
 No live experience
Opportunity Threat
 Opportunity of campus placement.
 Need of discipline health care workers.
 High number of skilled labour are
present along with experience.