Unit 9: Personal Development in Health, Social Care or Children's

This assignment explores personal development within health, social care, and children's settings, covering various aspects of a healthcare professional's role. The student describes their job duties, expectations based on relevant standards, and the importance of reflective practice in improving service quality. They demonstrate their ability to reflect on practice through examples and explain how personal values, belief systems, and experiences impact their work. The assignment evaluates the student's knowledge and performance against relevant standards, emphasizing the use of feedback for development. It identifies sources of support for planning and reviewing personal development, demonstrates collaborative work to define learning needs, and illustrates how learning activities and reflective practice have improved their working methods. Finally, the student shows how they record progress in relation to their personal development plan. This assignment provides a comprehensive overview of the student's understanding of personal and professional growth within the health and social care sector.

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A/601/1429/Engage in Personal Development
in Health, Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings
1.1 Describe the duties and responsibilities of own work role
The main duties of my job role are specified below:-
 Safeguarding children and other younger individuals
 Catering to the needs as well as requirements of every child or other younger person
 Providing correct as well as relevant medication to the individuals in accordance with
their health state
 Providing nutritional food and beverage to the service users to ensure that the individuals
consume healthy food
 Ensuring the maintenance of health and safety of the health and social care settings at all
times
 Complying with all the legal, ethical and moral rules and regulations of the organisation
and health & social care industry
 Providing support and advocacy services to every child and other younger individuals to
ensure that they live a normal life as others
 Working as an effective team member to ensure the young people and children do not face
any adversity in the health and social care settings
1.2 Explain expectations about own work role as expressed in relevant
standards.
When I am employed as a new staff member with the health and social care settings, I am
required to undergo a variety of trainings that will allow me to enhance my professional
personality as a whole. I will be expected to possess a minimum of Level 3 Qualification post the
completion of employment of 6 months. Further, the expectations with my work role include the
compliance with standards like National Minimum Standards and Regulations, Codes of Practice
and National Occupational Standards. In addition to this, I will be expected to carry out my daily
roles as well as responsibilities while adhering to the work standards and ethical requirements of
my job role. Besides this, the supervision meetings also serve as a course of action which
demonstrates the adherence to relevant and imperative standards of health and social care. Also, I
am expected to extend my guidance and support to fellow beings so that they can also improve.
2.1 Explain the importance of reflective practice in continuously improving
the quality of service provided
Reflective practice is extremely important for the people employed in health and social care
settings. This practice allows an individual to have knowledge of their current job role,
requirements expected of them and ways in which improvements can be made to their overall
professional working and personality. As a result of this, I am able to understand the quality of
services provided by me to children and other young individuals. This allows me to gain
knowledge of the extent to which I am able to cater to the legal and ethical requirements of my
work role. The behavioural patterns and needs of every child and young individual varies and
accordingly the medication and services provided by me should also vary. This will also allow
me to enhance my professional personality so that I can work in an effective manner.

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2.2 Demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice
I have a strong ability to reflect on practice as I believe this is important to enhance the quality of
services provided by an individual employed in the health and social care settings. In this relation,
I keep on reflecting on my work responsibilities and roles to make sure that I am on the right
track. I once encountered a child who was not taking the medicines on time. I made a plan to
make sure that he takes the medicines on time. I engaged him in a game and kept the bet that if I
win the game, he will eat the medicine. In the end, I won the game and thus, he had to take the
medicine as promised. In this way, reflective practice allows me to recall the past experiences and
comprehend ways by which better outcomes could be gained.
2.3 Describe how own values, belief systems and experiences may affect
working practice.
As a part of my culture, I have grown up to find the people near me respecting their elders and
not behaving with them in a rude manner. This was why I was not used to being treated in a rude
way. This caused difficulty for me in the initial days of my work as I was talked to in a rude
manner by children and young individuals. This disgusted me at first as I was not used to such
kind of behaviour. However, with the passage of time in the health and social care settings, I
became accustomed to it. Apart from this, I also believe in treating people equally. I applied the
same values in the health and social care settings and thus treated children and young individual
from different backgrounds in a fair and honest manner only.

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3.1 Evaluate own knowledge, performance and understanding against
relevant standards.
I performed in a good way as per the expectations and requirements of the organisation. One of
the most important standards is Missing Children. This states that when a child or young
individual is missing from home, I need to inform the person on call, then contact the Police and
EDT, then inform the parents or guardian. Further, Schedule 5 notification form needs to be filled
and sent to Ofsted. The information has to be recorded in the running log and log book which is
then supposed to be handed over to other employees. Post the incident, a new risk assessment is
levied to avoid the young individual to go missing again. There were other standards and
regulations also that were taken into account by me. These helped me in performing well so that
the day to day roles of mine could be effectively accomplished.
3.2 Demonstrate use of feedback to evaluate own performance and inform
development.
It is considered to be important for an individual to evaluate their knowledge, understanding and
performance in contrast with the relevant and important standards of health and social care sector.
For this purpose, taking feedbacks from other individuals is very important. The evaluation done
on the basis of feedback provided to me led me to the inference that I comply with the norms of
National Minimum Standards. The organisation whereby I am employed provided me with a
copy of the relevant standards and regulations that I need to duly adhere to. This was done to
make sure that I can refer to or access the material any time when I face confusion regarding any
norm or standard. This material assisted me in performing in accordance with the relevant
standards pertinent to the health and social care sector.
4.1 Identify sources of support for planning and reviewing own
development.
The primary source of support in the health and social care work settings is acknowledged to be
my supervision. This occurs once in every 6 weeks by conversing with a designated senior
employee. The supervision allows me to reflect upon my potential and the extent to which I had
been able to utilise it for fulfilment of job role and responsibilities. Also, this allows me to discuss
any kind of issue that I am facing in the work settings to be discussed so as to reach to a
meaningful conclusion. This enables me to enhance my performance and work as per the relevant
standards. Besides this, appraisal also enables me to review and evaluate my performance and
development as a result of the progression undergone. In addition to this, formal support extended
by the management of the organisation, e-learning and online forums also help in reviewing the
development and planning for its betterment.

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4.2 Demonstrate how to work with others to review and prioritise own
learning needs, professional interests and development opportunities
It is important for an individual to work in a collaborative manner with other individuals to derive
benefits in terms of the professional development and elevation of one's skills and knowledge. In
this relation, it has been determined that health and social care settings is a field which requires
the individuals to work with others in a team to gain maximum benefits. Working within the team
allows the professionals to learn from one another and communicate each other's shortcomings so
that they can be worked upon. Working within a team allowed me to gain knowledge of my
learning needs and thereby carry out learning with an aim of developing my professional
personality. Also, it allows me to elevate my professional interest in serving the children and
young individuals in an impeccable way so that they can carry out a normal life like others.
4.3 Demonstrate how to work with others to agree own personal
development plan.
It is important for an individual to work in a collaborative manner with other individuals to derive
benefits in terms of the professional development and elevation of one's skills and knowledge. In
this relation, it has been determined that health and social care settings is a field which requires
the individuals to work with others in a team to gain maximum benefits. Working within the team
allows the professionals to learn from one another and communicate each other's shortcomings so
that they can be worked upon. Now, at times, I had to work with others to make sure that I can
create a development plan which allows me to enhance my skills, knowledge and competence and
thereby derive excellence in the field that I am employed in. Thus, it can be stated that the
personal development plan prepared allowed me to enrich my personality as per my work role.
5.1 Evaluate how learning activities have affected practice
In order to ensure the improvement of my development process, I was exposed to several learning
opportunities in my work place. These included the learning activities and practices that enable a
person to elevate their skills and knowledge of the field in which they are employed. I underwent
training in a physical way and over the internet. These largely affected my work practice and
allowed me to work in a manner that can ensure the provision of best services to the children and
young individuals in the health and social care organisational settings. Also, I was given speech
and language training whereby I learnt the various strategies with the help of which I could set
interaction with the children and the young people. This made me understand their needs and
allowed me to fulfil them in the best possible manner.
5.2 Demonstrate how reflective practice has led to improved ways of
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Reflective practice can be said to be the ability of an individual to reflect upon one's actions and
activities in an effective manner. This is a process which allows me to get engaged in continuous
learning so that I can improve my professional personality. The practice of reflection enables me
to undergo introspection of my work role and related responsibilities to make sure that I perform
in accordance with the accountability of my job in the organisation. Reflective practice allowed
me to gain an insight into the ways in which I interacted with the children and young individuals
to provide them with the best services and provide maximum satisfaction to them. Thus, this
practice allows me to pay critical attention to the values and theories along with the standards that
are essential to be considered by me in the health and social care settings.
5.3 Show how to record progress in relation to personal development.
A personal development plan is a written documentation of the progress that an individual needs
to undergo as a result of carrying out the activities mentioned in the plan. In this relation, personal
development plan can be simply said to be a record of the ways in which I undergo training and
other kinds of learning opportunities in my health and social care work settings to ensure the
growth and development of my overall personality. Personal development is an important process
for every person as it ensures that the individuals elevate their existent level of skills, knowledge,
competences, expertise and understanding to cater to the needs and demands of the service users.
Thus, I make use of a personal development plan to lay down the learning opportunities and
activities to be undergone in the upcoming phase. It allows me to record my progress and work
effectively to make sure that the children and the young individuals carry out a quality life.