Personal and Professional Development Report: Health & Social Care

This report provides a detailed analysis of personal and professional development within the health and social care context, specifically focusing on experiences at St James Hospital, London. It compares personal values with principles of support in healthcare, assesses the influence of personal culture and experience, and examines the impact of new developments and changes on personal values. The report includes a holistic development plan with short, medium, and long-term goals, along with methods for monitoring and reviewing progress. It evaluates the effectiveness of the development plan in enhancing skills as a healthcare practitioner. Furthermore, the report explores the nature of professional relationships, evaluates personal effectiveness in promoting individual rights, and discusses ways to resolve issues in professional relationships. The effectiveness of personal contributions to teamwork, the impact of work role limitations, and strategies for minimizing barriers to effective teamwork are also analyzed, concluding with methods for improving personal contributions to team effectiveness. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-powered study tools and resources for students.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1Comparision of personal values & principles with principles of support for working in
HSC........................................................................................................................................1
1.2 Assessment of the personal culture & experience which influences own role in supporting
other in HSC settings..............................................................................................................2
1.3 Impact of the new development & changes to personal values in HSC...........................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Assessment of the current skills and learning style..........................................................3
2.2 Holistic development plan with the short, medium and long-term goals.........................3
2.3 Monitoring and review of own progress against the plan according to the requirement. 3
2.4 Evaluation of the effectiveness of the development plan to own development as a health
care practitioner......................................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
3.1Nature of different professional relationship in health and social care context................4
3.2 Evaluation of personal effectiveness in promoting & supporting the rights of the
individual................................................................................................................................5
3.3 Different ways to resolve the issues encountered in professional relationship................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................6
4.1 Evaluation of the effectiveness of personal contribution when working in team............6
4.2 Impact on work with others due to the limitation in own work role................................6
4.3 Analysis of own role for minimizing the barriers for effective teamwork in HSC practice
................................................................................................................................................7
4.4 Improvement of the personal contributions to the collective effectiveness of a team.....8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Each professional and personal require the proper skills and abilities to perform the
different function in a proper manner and develop their future in the context of the help other.
The personal and professional development help the individual to identify the areas in which
they are lacking their skills and adopt the different skills and method for the development
(Munn-Giddings and Winter, 2013). This report discuss about the different aspects at St James
Hospital London for which the professional is responsible to develop their skills in the field of
health and social care. The professional must assure that they are adopting the proper measure to
develop the skills, attitude and the behaviour to satisfy the needs of the clients and their family
members. Proper assessment is being done which ensure an effective monitoring as per the
requirement of the medical practitioner to attain the short, medium and the long term goals. This
report discuss about the contribution which is made by the professional in an effective manner to
others in maintaining the health and social care. Proper analysis is being done in order to
minimize the barriers and improve the collective effectiveness of a team.
TASK 1
1.1Comparision of personal values & principles with principles of support for working in HSC
Principle value and support are the crucial aspect which help the individual in attaining
the proper performance in the health and social care. These are the essential aspects which
determine that the individual need proper skills to communicate with the clients in a proper
manner (Pashler and et.al, 2008). The work system is very supportive at St James Hospital as
they perform the work with the adoption of the ethics as per the beliefs and the preferences of the
personal.
The principle of support are based on the aspect of the care in order to help and assist
others. The aim of these principle is to support and provide the equal rights in order to take care
of the individuals which are treated by them. It also help in promoting the diversify resources by
maintaining the positive behaviour (Donati and Watts, 2005). With this principle proper trust and
confidence is develop that protect the service users from the harms and harassment. This
principle helps in promoting the independence of the service users.
As both the principle are interrelated which created an influence on the health and the
social care in order to meet the needs of the clients in a proper manner.
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1.2 Assessment of the personal culture & experience which influences own role in supporting
other in HSC settings
The culture, value and experience of the personal influences to the greater extent in order
to support the individual. At St James Hospital the role are assigned as per their skills and
abilities which help in supporting the work setting as well as the behaviour regarding the services
rendering. According to Guskey and Yoon (2009) Culture is the system which involves
knowledge that is shared by the different people of the group and experience is the familiarity of
the personal towards the skills and the knowledge that is acquired over the month. There is the
greater influence of the different factors which are as discussed below: Family: This factor is influenced to the greater extend as in this field the values and the
bonding is very important that help providing the proper services with the help of the
assistants and the nurses to take care of the patients. This factor affect the functioning to a
certain extend as people get attached easily. Beliefs: Each personal have certain beliefs and need to be respected and influences the
work culture of St James Hospital but it also affect the services as they have to respect
the values and beliefs of others and ensure to maintain the dignity in order to provide the
services. Education: People have the sufficient knowledge of the different perspective but it
influences as they are lack in understanding in a proper manner that affect the working as
they are not able to provide the effective services (Webster-Wright, 2009).
 Gender: The gender discrimination and the rejection is influencing the overall working at
St James hospital as services users are not able to render a proper services to the patients.
This affect the working framework as there are different aspects which are criticized and
result in poor services.
1.3 Impact of the new development & changes to personal values in HSC
The personal values and ethics have a greater impact over the performance of the health care
practitioner in the health and social care industry. The effective and the working patterns are
influenced by the changes which occur in the work environment. In addition the new
development and the changes include the different perspective in order to carry out different
process (Stoll and et.al, 2006). There are different types of legislations and policies which are
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imposed over the health care practitioner in order to develop their quality of services at St James
hospital.
Different rules and regulations are provided which are relevant for the health care
practitioner to provide the services as per the need of the client without any racial discrimination.
The policies are formulated with the adaptation of the respective act that are framed in order to
treat all personal with equality and provide proper resources in order to develop in the different
perspectives related to services (Frumer and Friedman, 2014).
If the legislation and the policies are not formulated in proper form it will result in the
several consequences which will cause a negative impact over the behaviour of the client. It will
also lead to discrimination, risk assessment, bulling and harassment of the clients and this will
create the negative influence over the development perspective.
TASK 2
2.1 Assessment of the current skills and learning style
There are different skills and style that helps in order to perform the different activities
that are essential to determine the different aspects to maintain the proper balance in order to
provide the services to the patients. Skills, abilities and the different learning style help the
individual to inherit the things in an effective manner (Lee and Chang, 2008). The style which I
adopted in order to make my functioning more effective kinestic style that provide the proper
aspects in order to learn the things while performing the activities . This helps in adopting the
proper behaviour in an effective manner and meet the changes and provide the best services to
the patients.
2.2 Holistic development plan with the short, medium and long-term goals
Development plan are those framework which are designed in order to accomplish the
target that are determined in providing the best services to the patients in order to meet the
specific goals that are ascertained in the HSC sector. There are various resources in which each
and every personal lack to a certain extend and in order to reduce the inefficiency proper practise
is being required by the personal in order to learn the new things which will help the individual
to specifically define and measure the various aspects in order to acquire the required skills to
meet the targets that are planned in order to develop in the personal and the professional context
(Belbin, 2012).
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2.3 Monitoring and review of own progress against the plan according to the requirement
The monitoring process refers to the process which is adopted by the individual to review
its own progress against the planned requirement in order to carry out the different functioning in
order to carry out the different operations and plan all the activities in proper manner with the
adoption of the various practices that will determine the effective allocation and the proper
execution of the tasks in an effective manner (Drummond, 2005). This will help in effective
attainment of the goals and the objectives which are ascertained in order to provide the best
services by the individual at the work place and ensure that the outcomes are attained as per the
planned outcomes.
2.4 Evaluation of the effectiveness of the development plan to own development as a health care
practitioner
There are different methods through which the plan are executed in an effective manner
and help the individual to perform the different tasks and the responsibilities in an appropriate
manner this is beneficiary as the individual to provide the services as per the specifications and
the requirement of the individual. Through this the services are provided in an effective manner
by fulfilling the needs of the patients (Stoll and et.al, 2006). The plans are executed in the
successful manner as the development of the skills are done with the proper adoption of the
different skills and techniques that helps in the overall development of the individuals.
TASK 3
3.1Nature of different professional relationship in health and social care context
There are several type of relationship that are essential in order to continue the working
process in the health and social care industry. In this industry it is essential to provide better
services to the client and help them to maintain the healthy and appropriate physical and
psychological condition. The personal and the professional development helps the individual to
identify the significant interactions between the care workers and the patients. In personal and
professional context the relationship exists which dictates the different dimensions that are based
over the several ethics and develop the good relationship among the individuals (Drummond,
2005).
Family relationship depicts the mutual concern and the care toward each other. Whereas,
the friendly relationship arises out of same characteristics which the personal inherit in
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themselves and the professional relationship is build up in the workplace in order to develop the
healthy work environment. In the professional context the effective relations are maintained in
order to render the services to the clients as well as help the colleagues to carry out the work in
an effective manner. On the other hand equal roles and responsibilities are delegated in order to
carry out the entire functioning (McLaughlin, 2007). Each aspects are determined and it is being
ensured that the build-up the trust worthy environment at the workplace and carry out the entire
functioning in an effective manner.
3.2 Evaluation of personal effectiveness in promoting & supporting the rights of the individual
Each personal has the specific right and duties in order to provide services to the patient.
Interpersonal and intra-personal are the valuable relationship which has to maintain in order to
carry out the working in an effective manner. Through this the services are provided in an
effective manner by fulfilling the needs of the patients (Lemieux-Charles and McGuire, 2006).
There are various models which act as a support system and provide benefits to the individual in
accordance to the needs which they have been providing to the individual. With the adoption of
the proper working system each perspective is communicated in a proper manner which help
motivating the individual to perform the different roles that are assigned to him at St James
Hospital. The roles and the responsibilities which is assigned to me as a health care practitioner
act as a support provider for the health and the social care services. It also facilitates in providing
the necessary facilities to the patients as per the recommendations provided by the mentor (Day,
2006). These model are important and provide the effective support system in order to provide
the services to the patients.
3.3 Different ways to resolve the issues encountered in professional relationship
It is an association between two or more people over the long as well as the short term
perspective based on the provision which is related to the services that a rendered NY them to
the patients. There are different relationship that exist between the different professionals at the
workplace which provide the support system in order to facilitate the patients and assist them
with the proper medical care (Pope and Mays, 2013). All the professional working is interrelated
to each other and with the mutual cooperation the entire working is being carried out in an
effective manner. There are various issue s which are encountered in the professional
relationship that act as a barrier and disturb the entire functioning. There are various risk
associated while providing the services to the patient that cause a conflict between the service
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provider and the patient and it is very hard to deal out with these issues. There are various
barriers which give rise to the different issues and can be resolved in an effective manner.
TASK 4
4.1 Evaluation of the effectiveness of personal contribution when working in team
According to the Darling-Hammond and et.al, (2009) the contribution of the employees
within the business organization depends upon the personal values and principle. If the value and
principle of the employees is strong and good than it supports the effective working process
within the business. At the same time it also influence's the other working process. Likewise, if
moral value and principles of the employee is not good than in that case effective working
practices will not take place (Darling-Hammond and et.al, 2009)? Thus, it is essential for the
health and social care sector to enhance the personal and professional value and principles of an
employees in order to build the organization value. Social care services is the service providing
industry which works for the mental and physical safety and health of the individual. Therefore,
in these type of industry behaviour of an individual employee highly affects. Thus, personal
value and principles of an individual in health and social care centre influences the behaviour of
the others in the following ways:-
 Value of an individual may effects the satisfaction level of the peers, colleagues and
clients. Therefore, a good behaviour of an individual employee will create the satisfaction
in the mind of patients which in turn will build up the goodwill of the centre (Van Der
Vleuten and Schuwirth, 2005).
 Value assist an individual employee to identify what thing are important in working life
of an individual as well as in others life's.
 Positive value in the mind of an individual employee helps to maintain the personal
happiness as well as happiness in the mind of the others. Happiness in the mind of an
individual will help every patient to recover its diseases quickly. Because happiness is the
cure of many diseases.
 Value of an individual employee helps to shape up the personal behaviour into a positive
way (Llopis, 2013).
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4.2 Impact on work with others due to the limitation in own work role
 Work role – It means role of an individual in the organization. In Regents ward there are
two types of work roles i.e. nurses and health care assistants. Nurses carry out care of the
patients who have undergone surgical procedures and health care assistants takes care of
patient's daily needs.
 Team work – Team work is a process of working collaboratively with a bunch of people
in order to achieve common goal. Regent’s ward is divided into different teams and each
team comprises of nurses and health care assistants (Day, 2006).
Working in a team will lead to unequal participation of every team member.
Needs and expectations of clients -
 There should be an ideal ratio between nurses and patients.
 The environment of the Regents ward should be clean and silent.
 The first priority of any patient is his safety. So proper measures of safety is to be
employed (Belbin, 2012).
Objective of any team is to maximize its output without reducing its quality. So teams of
regent’s ward should try to provide health care services to maximum available patients without
reducing the quality of their services. Team performance can be improved by acquiring certain
skills like effective communication, time management and collaboration. By supporting other
team members, work load will be equally divided and it will also create positive working
environment which will improve team results (Donati and Watts, 2005).
4.3 Analysis of own role for minimizing the barriers for effective teamwork in HSC practice
In the context of health and social care, team work is addressed that team work plays important
role for increasing the effectiveness of treatment procedures. But, there are various barriers
addressed by team members while handling different group tasks with an appropriate manner. It
includes major barriers related to improper communication, poor coordination, conflicts among
team members, Lack of decision making ability, Lack of disciplinary and loyalty to the team and
etc (Munn-Giddings and Winter, 2013). In order to minimize the barriers to effective team, some
important strategies are used by health and social care firm that are mentioned below:
 By conducting a proper discussion among team member, team leader is able resolve
different issues associate with team management.
 By building positive relationship, trust and honesty among team member with health and
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social care, effectiveness of team work can be increased.
 The application of a set of professional codes is also supported team member in order to
minimising the barrier associated with lack of understanding about team operations.
 By ensuring accountability of team with the help of strong management guidelines,
policy and regulations, medical practitioner is able to remove issues within team
management (Stoll and et.al, 2006).
 The development of proactive interpersonal relationship by establishing the effective
communication among different individuals associated with particular team is playing
important role in order to influence overall productivity of team.
4.4 Improvement of the personal contributions to the collective effectiveness of a team
In order to improve personal contributions to effectiveness of team, I need to carry out
detail evaluation of skills for identification of weakness as the requirement of team work.
 As the individual, I faced significant issues in identification creative tactics for handling
treatment procedures therefore I need to create different innovative approach to manage
different job operations.
 Improvement in the communication skill plays important role to increase my inter
reaction with other team members (Lee and Chang, 2008).
 Learning of new technology such as computer networking system, internet and email will
be found very effective to improve my performance during team work.
 By maintaining the self-managed learning process, I could increase effectiveness of team
operations with my active participation and new skills.
CONCLUSION
From this report it can personal values, attitude and beliefs are the essential aspects which
help in determination of the various skills in order to complete the entire functioning and provide
best services to the patients. It adopt the proper promotion and the supportive activities which
help in effective development of the individual in the personal and professional context. The
concept of working in team is very supportive in context of the health and social care as it
provide the proper resources in order to satisfy the wants and the needs of the patients. It helps in
the effective and efficient implication of the different aspects as per the need specification of the
patients and it will result providing fast services.
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