Self-Assessment of Employability Skills for Healthcare Assistants

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EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................2
LO1..............................................................................................................................................................3
QUESTION 1: DEVELOPING A SET OF OWN RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES AT
WORK......................................................................................................................................................3
QUESTION 2: EVALUATING OWN EFFECTIVENESS AGAINST DEFINED PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES.......4
QUESTION 3: USING YOUR WEAKNESS IDENTIFIED IN YOUR PERFORMANCE, MAKE
RECOMMENDATION FOR IMPROVEMENT...............................................................................................5
QUESTION 4: REVIEW HOW YOU WOULD USE MOTIVATIONAL TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF
PERFORMANCE........................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
In the present competitive business environment, an individual has proper abilities and skills to
attain growth in personal and professional career. In order to develop competitive skills and
abilities, an individual should have a prior understanding of own skills and abilities. This report
has been formulated for assessing employability skills of an individual (Lowden, et al., 2011). A
self-assessment report is prepared for analyzing personal roles, responsibilities, experience,
abilities, skills, motivation and performance as an employee within the health care organization.
My personal roles, responsibilities and performance are determined in the below-presented
report that would help me in developing interpersonal and transferable skills for my career
development. Moreover, the importance of working in a team and team dynamics will be
evaluated along with the development of problem-solving skills to support the development of
dynamic employability skills.
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LO1
Name:
Role: Health Care Assistant
Health and Social Care Sector/ Organization: Domiciliary Care
QUESTION 1: DEVELOPING A SET OF OWN RESPONSIBILITIES AND
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES AT WORK
May major responsibilities and performance objectives as a health care assistant are:
 Personal care: personal care includes ensuring personal hygiene for patients, assuring patients
comfort, safety and security, prevention from infection, promoting positive, mental, physical
and nutritional health for patients and
 Manual handling transfer: this role is related to ensuring safe moving and transferring of
patients from one place to another. I must avoid any risk of injury to the staff and people using
care services by putting measures to reduce risks (Regan and Rodriguez, 2011). Moving and
handling risk assessment would support me in identifying any risks and prevent them.
 Medication administrated: it is my primary responsibility to prevent medication error by
ensuring that the patient is having the right amount of drug at the right time. I must ensure that
the medications are safely and correctly given to the patients.
 Communication with patients, relatives and carers: it is my duties to properly communicate the
information among the carers, patients and their relatives to avoid any misunderstandings and
issues during the care.
 Monitoring patient’s condition: as a health care assistant, I am responsible for observing,
recording and monitoring the health conditions of the patient by regularly checking pulse,
temperature, weight and respirations (Regan and Rodriguez, 2011).
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QUESTION 2: EVALUATING OWN EFFECTIVENESS AGAINST DEFINED
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES
For analyzing my personal strengths and effectiveness in complying with the aforementioned
responsibilities and performance objectives as a health care assistant, a tool of SWOT analysis could be
effectively used (Phadermrod, et al., 2019). A SWOT analysis of the personal skills and abilities would
support me identifying my own strengths and weaknesses in meeting with the set performance
objectives as well as also support me identifying opportunities and threats for a health care assistant in
the sector.
Strengths: Weaknesses:
 I have good interpersonal skills that
would support me in connecting with
patients and carers.
 I possess good theoretical knowledge in
the field of health care that would
support in delivering quality services to
the patients
 I have a good experience in providing
personal care to the people during
 My decision-making skills are good
 I am weak at managing time due to
which I got late at work and my
performance if negatively affected
(Carlson, 2016)
 I lack in emotional stability that makes
my work tough in a certain situation
 Lack of focus may adversely affect my
performance
Opportunities: Threats:
 Technological developments in health
care like the invention of calorie tracker,
automatic blood pressure monitor etc.
 Learning opportunities from colleagues
and seniors (Carlson, 2016)
 Chances to work with large health care
organisations
 Personal life issues may affect my
professional performance
 Uncontrollable extrinsic factors like
downsizing of the organisation
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QUESTION 3: USING YOUR WEAKNESS IDENTIFIED IN YOUR PERFORMANCE,
MAKE RECOMMENDATION FOR IMPROVEMENT
The individual SWOT has provided me with a clear overview of my personal strengths and weaknesses as
well as opportunities and threats to my personal growth and development. By identifying met
weaknesses, I have made SMART objectives for improving my own abilities and skills to perform my job
roles successfully (McDonald, et al., 2012). The SMART objectives are prepared through self-appraisal of
own performance to improve my performance in the job role.
Goals Actions Steps Success Time Frame Resources
Develop emotional
stability
Building social
connections with
emotionally stable
people
To be able to
make own
decisions and act
practically
Within 6 months Time
Develop time
management skills
Through
formulating and
implementing a
regular plan
To be able to
complete my
duties and work
on time
Within 6 months Pen, diary
Develop
concentration
abilities
Meditation and
yoga
To be able to focus
on my work
Within the next 8
months
Funds and time
Gain technical
knowledge
Through crash
course and classes
To be able to use
technical
instruments
effectively
Within 2 months Time and funds
Continuous skills
development
Continuous
learning
To remain
competitive
Continuous efforts Time and funds
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QUESTION 4: REVIEW HOW YOU WOULD USE MOTIVATIONAL TECHNIQUES TO
IMPROVE QUALITY OF PERFORMANCE
Motivation is the key to achieve the set goals and objectives of the individuals. Personal motivation is
very important for ensuring the growth and development in the personal and professional career. In
order to maintain inner motivation, I have set to follow the content and process theories of motivation
in the way of my life goals. The Maslow's need hierarchy theory and Vroom's expectancy theory are the
best ways of encouraging oneself to achieve personal and career objectives (Ushioda, 2011).
The content theory of Maslow suggests that the individuals are motivated to a level of the hierarchy. In
order words, the fulfilment of one's basic needs motivates them to achieve the needs of the next level.
For instance, if the basic needs of home, food and shelter are fulfilled then the one is motivated to
achieve safety needs and the hierarchy goes on till the achievement of self-realization that is rarely
achieved. On the other hand, vroom’s process theory has suggested that an individual's behaviour is a
result of their conscious choices and beliefs that certain actions would maximize pleasure and minimize
pain (Ushioda, 2011). These content and process theories of motivation would support me in making
effective decisions to achieve my goals and objectives effectively. By following the content theory of
Maslow, I would set out my priorities and achieve them at hierarchy level.
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REFERENCES
 Carlson, K., 2016. A SWOT analysis for your nursing career. Online available at
https://www.nurse.com/blog/2016/07/19/a-swot-analysis-for-your-nursing-career/ last
accessed on 23rd March 2019.
 Lowden, K., Hall, S., Elliot, D. and Lewin, J., 2011. Employers’ perceptions of the employability
skills of new graduates. London: Edge Foundation.
 McDonald, G., Jackson, D., Wilkes, L. and Vickers, M.H., 2012. A work-based educational
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Education Today, 32(4), pp.378-384.
 Phadermrod, B., Crowder, R.M. and Wills, G.B., 2019. Importance-performance analysis based
SWOT analysis. International Journal of Information Management, 44, pp.194-203.
 Regan, L.C. and Rodriguez, L., 2011. Nurse empowerment from a middle-management
perspective: nurse managers' and assistant nurse managers' workplace empowerment
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 Ushioda, E., 2011. Language learning motivation, self and identity: Current theoretical
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