Personal Development Plan: NHS Graduate Management Scheme

This personal development plan (PDP) provides a self-analysis of a student's skills, focusing on their aspirations to become a Health Service Manager in the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme. The PDP includes a review of numeracy development, an understanding of the NHS organizational context, and an assessment of the role's functions. The student reflects on their competencies, identifies strengths and weaknesses, and formulates a SMART action plan for skill development. The plan highlights communication, decision-making, and analytical abilities as key competencies, aligning with the requirements of the NHS role. The student emphasizes the importance of these skills in addressing organizational challenges and achieving career goals. The plan also includes the area of activity of the organization selected and the functions of the role advertised.

Running head: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Personal Development Plan
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Briefing of the Personal Development Plan................................................................................2
Review of numeracy development with 3 key competencies......................................................3
Demonstration of an understanding of the organizational context to be encountered................4
Area of activity of the organization selected...............................................................................4
Functions of the role advertised...................................................................................................4
Assessment of what the organization is looking for in applicants...............................................4
Reflective audit of numeracy and your chosen competencies considering the previous
education and work experience...................................................................................................4
Formulate an action plan using SMART system.........................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
This Personal Development plan is going to document a process of a self analysis
developed on the basis of my skills that I have developed through years of educational and
practical trainings that I have received so far. This would present my core competencies based
upon a self reflection and honest appraisal for my strengths and weaknesses (Lejeune, Beausaert
and Raemdonck 2018). Thus, the following Personal Development Plan would constitute of the
honest appraisal of my strengths and my weaknesses with the brief description for the reason for
my personal development plan focused on the degree I have been pursuing as a student of
Business Management program at the University of Hull. This would clear the air about my
interest in working as a Health Service Manager in the NHS Graduate Management Training
Scheme. My core competencies belong to the educational training I have been taking so far and
following would be a reflective of the self assessment done on them only.
Briefing of the Personal Development Plan
The Personal Development Plan developed as per my career graph and my aspirations to
serve as a Health Service Manager for the NHS Graduate Training Scheme would guide through
the stages of my career path (Bouman 2018). This would be done through several stages
including the preliminary personal analysis that would focus on my strengths and my weaknesses
depending on my key competence skills analyzing my strength and weaknesses in an honest
manner.
The next stage would be through the identification and reflection based on my key
competencies further elaborating the set goals in my career path. This would form the basis for
my ambition towards working as a Health Service Manager for the NHS Graduate Management

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with their Training Scheme. The new and clear setting of the definable goals would help in the
measurement of my core competencies. The presented Personal Development Plan would shed
light on the accumulated guidance of my skills based on which it would not be hard to
understand the level of my ability to take on my desired job (Megginson and Whitaker 2017).
There would also be a detailed description of my current job role and the knowledge that I have
gathered so far as a graduate student. Although there is no necessity that a person who opts for
the Heath Service Manager in the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme, given an added
advantage would put my key skills forward than the competing candidates and would thus be
highlighted in this Personal Development Plan.
The final stage would comprise of the setting out of the personal objective in which I
would rationalize and present a formulation of the plan against the core competencies that I have
chosen as my strengths and why I believe that they would be the ones that would help me in
gaining competitive advantage against the others as a Health Service Manager for NHS Graduate
Management Training Scheme (Brockett and Hiemstra 2018). The formulation would hold an
action plan that I have devised based on my core competencies and how I want to develop these
skills and abilities further through a SMART implementation technique.
Review of numeracy development with 3 key competencies
According to the career I am modelling to pursue in as a Health Service Manager at the
NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme seems to be competing enough through the
Personal Development Plan that I would present as following (Cottrell 2015). From all the
competencies that I happen to gather within myself in response to the organization that I would
like to work in I would present a numeracy development to help in evaluating my core
competencies and how would I be able to serve as health service manager within the

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organisation. I believe that my key competencies and skills that would upgrade my development
plan for the role at the communication skills that effectively work with a variety of individual
and professional group equally, the ability to make decisions especially when sensitive areas
such as allocation of funds or organising of staff levels for unit occurs, and the ability for
analysing the issues with the most complexities to absorb information from them and understand
the data are the underlying trends regarding all the information gathered from the organisational
business process (Suzuki et al. 2015).
It is a clear fact that NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme and the rule of for
health sector manager would require a person who possesses the skills to analyse what the
problems within the industry or the organisation is regarding its traditional ways and any skills
that can make these problems come to an end would be welcome (Tattum and Tattum 2017).
Understanding this very fact I have upgraded my skills in the exactly which would help me in
attaining my most ambitious role and perform outstandingly within the organisation.
Demonstration of an understanding of the organizational context to be encountered
NHS is an organisation that specialises mostly in looking after of people across the entire
nation for more than 65 years. The organisation has ever since gone extremely strong
incorporating several unprecedented periods of changes within the business processes well. It has
been reported that ever since NHS headset updates services within the United Kingdom, the
population has been living much longer, giving the organisation a considerable amount of
popularity and the attaining of the efficiency of savings over 20 billion GBP in the upcoming
years (Ballantyne and Povah 2017). The company has sofa been facing new challenges and I
have seen that day want to meet the challenges and embrace a much more collaborative and

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supportive approach for the reason the profile, performances as well as the impact of the business
organisation and services for leading healthcare management industries.
Therefore it is quite required that the person who would serve as the healthcare services
manager within the organisation should be much able to juggle both the business performances
as well as the changes that should be identified and implemented within the business process.
Just like every other policy in every other business follows the path of constant changes given
the advancement in technology and business process, I believe that a person who has had the
access over an organisation and the timings of arranging these changes should be well equipped
in a few key skills and competencies (Arguelles and Bay 2014). These should be of establishing
a proper career with effective communication skills, a much more reliability in decision making
ability particularly within the zones of allocation of funds are organisation of the staff and the
numerous in the ability of analysing if there has been any issues within a project and absorb
further information to understand that if the data helps in identifying the underline trends within
the organisation in the market.
Area of activity of the organization selected
The organisation orphanages mostly search for people across the entire world and
especially the nation in healthcare services. as a graduate engineer I have had the opportunity to
interest upon myself with the degrees foreign undergraduate student of business management
program at the University of Hull (Rezaei et al. 2018). Then I had started a degree for myself on
September 2018 with two degree qualification. These where my specialisation of the two degrees
that I have done in diploma of management from the Queensland academy of Technology in
Australia and the associate degree in hospital administration from Institute of Public
Administration.

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The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded national healthcare system for
England and one of the four National Health Services for each constituent country of the United
Kingdom. Worldwide, it considers as the biggest single-payer healthcare system. The initial fund
of this system comes from the system of general taxation and supervised by the Department of
Health. Most of the health care service in the NHS was provided to all legal English residents
freely at the use point. Moreover, some services including infections treatment as well as
emergency treatment are free for all people including visitors.
The role advertised is a health service manager. A health service manager is responsible
for the financial, strategic and day-to-day operating of hospital, community health services or
general practitioner (GP).Additionally, there are different responsibilities depending on the
recruited department such as managing the staff, maintaining finances and budget, buying
supplies and equipment and planning new development or projects (Cate et al. 2015).
Functions of the role advertised
I have found out after much studies and intricate researchers about effective
communication in healthcare industry that a healthcare industrial can be extremely
knowledgeable and equipped with relevant skills but if that person lacks in good communication
and effective setting up of two integration with the patient or the entire organisation there would
be little or no contribution of that person to the projects and services of the professional life and
the organisation (Rimmer 2018). Therefore it is important that any person who wants their
particular area to grow in healthcare management, I believe that that person should I have
expertise in the skill of effective communication. This skill would be improved further as my key
competencies and also materializing in the way towards my ultimate goal.

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Studying the complex system of various organisations including NHS Graduate
Management Training Scheme, I have come to terms that decision making is one of the core
management competencies that helps in realising the issues within an organisation and providing
correct national solutions for that. After realising that decision making might be one of the most
important factors of handling the entire healthcare as a whole including the employees of the
healthcare organisation, I have started brushing up my skills to make a firm and effective
decision within the organisation that particularly acts tremendously in sensitive areas like the
organisation of the staff levels for specific unit or the allocation of funds (Walliman 2017). I
have so far been working on my decision making abilities, and believe that by sometimes they
would attain absolute perfection so that I can pursue my career in healthcare management as a
health service manager in NHS.
The entire process of numeracy as well as the ability of analysing issues that have
become complex within the organisation is also one of my key competencies that I believe would
be effective in decision making frameworks as well as handling any other operational
management and financial decision making is within the organisation. According to NHS sector,
a person doesn't need to have any experience in the field of a healthcare service manager; rather
it will be useful if they have a training program done.
Assessment of what the organization is looking for in applicants
NHS offers a Graduate Management Training Scheme that has been asking for graduate
trainees to recruit and I have study that they happen to be creating successful livelihoods for the
graduates that they were recruited so far (Olsen 2015). the recruitment process that I am opting
to is the Healthcare Service System and Management and I believe that my key skills that I have

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utilise sofa in describing within my personal development plan would be absolutely fitting for
my career as a Healthcare Service Manager.
The organisation needs effective graduate trainees that would combine the leadership
strategies from various international or national organisation regarding healthcare and private
sector but also there is a need that I brush up my key competencies and skills through proper
mechanism and processes so that I can channelize this to use its impact positively in the business
(Anderson 2015).
Reflective audit of numeracy and your chosen competencies considering the previous
education and work experience
The concept of understanding in this regard is true research is a that I had conducted
through a research teaching environment providing the aims and opportunities of my key
competencies. Therefore the self assessment done over the personal skills that I possess should
comprise of a 5 point scale where following would be the marking criteria:
1 = wide experience 3 = a little experience 5 = don’t know
2 = some experience 4 = no experience
My core competencies in the key skills that I possess so far in the educational as well as
previous work experience I would like to numerically represent my core competencies. This
would be represented as a table format as follows:
1. Effective Communication
1 2 3 4 5
Recognise and develop skills and competencies required for learning and future 1

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employment
Develop opportunities for learning activities through current and future roles 2
Recognise the importance and value of activities outside the curriculum, e.g.
work experience, sports, clubs
1
Identify when extra support and help may be useful 1
Understand the importance of actively reviewing and maintaining your own
development plan in order to set appropriate learning targets
1
Maintain positive attitudes to work and understand when a task has not been
completed well and identify changes for the future
1
understand how to gain feedback on work or performance 2
2. Decision Making Capabilities
1 2 3 4 5
use an appropriate approach to questioning in order to gain information
from which to draw conclusions
1
use an objective approach to relate to others in order to achieve goals 1
make good use of verbal reasoning skills, able to handle complex data and
make selective use of information
1
explore more than one solution in order to solve a problem 2
consider the ideas of others to help solve problems 2

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manage the process of problem solving over a period of time 1
demonstrate resilience and lateral thinking abilities when applied to
problem solving
1
3. Ability to analyse comples situation
1 2 3 4 5
understand the differences in presenting types of documents, e.g. reports,
essays, dissertations, summaries
1
check written work for errors before submission 1
use a range of ICT packages to support work 2
express and convey ideas appropriately and accurately in writing 2
successfully give a presentation or demonstration 1
demonstrate that information being received is understood by using a range
of verbal and non-verbal signals
1
understand when people have taken account of your views and you of
theirs
2
Formulate an action plan using SMART system
Based on all the above analysis and self assessment on my core competencies to develop
my key skills on a personal level I would like to implement the smart system for personal
development planning and it would be demonstrated as follows:

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 Specific: The development could be specific to the core competencies only that
are required for the organisation and the job description and it will be attended
properly by 2 or 3 weeks.
 Measurable: The skills and qualities are measurable through the outcomes of the
utilisation of these scales within a project. This particular area can only be
developed through practical approaches and does the entire completion of project
time would mark the measure.
 Achievable: The achievable target for the improvement of the key competencies
would be focused to make a difference by two to three weeks.
 Relevant: These are absolutely relevant since I think that the qualities I possess
are actually relevant to the requirement of NHS and the degree that I have
acquired.
 Time-Bound: The process would be time bound to and extent of 7-8 weeks
maximum.