Personal and Professional Development: Skills and Plan Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personal and professional development within the context of health and social care. It begins with an introduction emphasizing the importance of respecting personal values and principles in providing effective care. Task 1 compares personal values with the principles of support, assesses the influence of personal culture and experience, and discusses the impact of changes in personal values on social work. Task 2 focuses on self-assessment, including current skills, learning styles, and the creation of a holistic development plan with short-, medium-, and long-term goals, along with monitoring and evaluation. Task 3 delves into the nature of professional relationships, evaluating personal effectiveness in supporting individual rights, and ways to resolve issues. Finally, Task 4 evaluates the effectiveness of personal contributions, the impact of limits on others' work, self-evaluation in teamwork, and ways to improve personal contributions. The report highlights the significance of continuous development, effective communication, leadership, and adherence to ethical principles in the healthcare setting.

Personal and Professional
Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION:..........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Compare personal values and principles with the principles of support for working in
health and social care..................................................................................................................1
1.2 Assess how personal culture and experience influence own role in supporting users of
services and others in health and social care settings.................................................................1
1.3 Discuss how new developments and changes to personal values can impact on work in
health and social care..................................................................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
2.1Assess current skill ability and learning style........................................................................2
2.2 Produce a holistic development plan with short medium- and long-term goals...................4
2.3 Monitoring the progress against the plan..............................................................................5
2.4 Evaluating the effectiveness of the development plan..........................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Nature of different professional relationships in health and social care...............................6
3.2 Evaluating personal effectiveness in supporting and promoting the right of individual......7
3.3 Ways to resolve issues in professional relations...................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
4.1Evaluating the effectiveness of personal contributions..........................................................9
4.2 Impact of limits on other’s work.........................................................................................10
4.3 Analysing self evaluation in reducing barriers in effective teamwork...............................10
4.4 Ways of improving personal contributions.........................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION:
Social and health care is related to providing effective care to people by improving
quality of health services. It is important to respect person value and principles while providing
care. A social worker should perform his roles and duties effectively at work place (Rowe,
2017). It will help in enhancing his skills and abilities. Moreover, care practitioner should
provide effective care to each individual according to his beliefs and values. This will help in
preventing any discrimination while providing health services. This report will describe how
personal values and principles are followed and what influence it can have in health care. Also,
what change in personal values can have a impact on social work is studied.
TASK 1
1.1 Compare personal values and principles with the principles of support for working in health
and social care
There are various values and principles that are followed by social worker while
providing care. It is important for social worker to understand how support is given to patients.
For this care centres can develop some principles that will ensure care is given accordingly. It is
because there are many people who are having different ethics, values, etc. and social care is
based on these ethics and values (Hopkinson, 2014). Personal values include honesty,
behaviour, religion, etc.
Principles developed will help in providing effective care. It will create a framework that
will include communication, teamwork, ethics, etc. These all will allow care worker to treat each
individual equally and respectfully. Along with this, by following these principles' organisation
will be able to achieve their goals and objectives effectively. Moreover, principles and personal
values will describe that support is given to people fairly ad in ethical way.
1.2 Assess how personal culture and experience influence own role in supporting users of
services and others in health and social care settings
Culture reflects the background of people. It shows how they are treated. It includes
values and beliefs of people (Christie, Cree and Tett, 2017). These helps in providing equal

rights to each individual at workplace. Moreover, it protects people from activities like abusing,
misbehaving, etc. Along with this experience shows that how people are given respect while
providing services. Also, it is essential for care practitioner to follow cultural aspect while
providing care. This is because it becomes easy for them to protect clients from any harms. Also,
it helps in gaining trust of people. A care practitioner having cultural experience will not involve
any kind of discrimination activity at workplace. Furthermore, it will ensure that people are
given effective care at workplace.
The role of care practitioner in health and social care will be treating everyone equally. It
will help in enhancing quality of service. Also, by this they will ensure that principles are been
followed effectively (Vetere and Stratton, 2016). This will encourage others to follow those
principles. Thus, it will influence overall workers in health care.
1.3 Discuss how new developments and changes to personal values can impact on work in health
and social care
By implementing changes in personal values effective care can be given. It will have a
great impact on person behaviour and his work. It will help in gaining more skills about different
cultural values and beliefs. With this care be given accordingly. There are many changes that
occurs at workplace. So an individual should adopt those changes that will help in working in
different way. This will lead to improvement in quality of service. Moreover, it will help in
better understanding of people and minimising risk of any uncertainty at workplace.
Changes will help in ensuring no discrimination among people. Furthermore, there are
several laws and regulations that are followed in organisation. It creates a great impact in health
care. For example- data protection act, equality at work act, etc. (Ansari, Baxendale and
Woodier, 2017). These acts ensure that individual is given proper care services. They are treated
equally and with respect. By following these aspects it creates a better working environment.
Besides this, it secures confidential data of people.

TASK 2
2.1Assess current skill ability and learning style
I am having various skills and abilities that helps me to work as social worker. But it
requires some improvements in it. This will help me in my career development.
Current skills Current Level Current example Ways to improve
Communication
skills
2 Sometimes I am not
able to communicate
with person
comfortably. It is
because of lack of
confidence.
I want to interact
with more person to
boost my
confidence level.
Team working
skills
5 I can easily work in
team or group. I
complete my task by
coordinating with
others. Also, I
motivate and help
others in completing
their tasks.
I want to work as a
team leader so that
it increases my skill.
Listening skills 1 I am not a good
listener. I am not able
to listen each person
views.
I want to do more
negotiations
between people.
This will help me in
improving my
listening ability.

Decision making
skills
3 I am lacking decisions
making skills that is
affecting my growth. I
am not able to take
effective decisions in
critical situations.
By attending
training sessions I
will be able to
improve this skill.
Visual learning style - By taking feedback from other I analysed that I was having visual
learning style. In this I used graphs, charts and maps to learn. Besides this, it also includes three
types of learning styles that are VAK model.
Auditory learning style – in this learner learn by hearing and speaking. They also use their
listening and repeating skills to sort through the information that is sent to them.

Kinesthetic learning style- it is a British learning style in which learning takes place by the
students carrying out physical activities, rather than listening to a lecture or watching
demonstrations.

2.2 Produce a holistic development plan with short medium- and long-term goals
For making improvements in my skills I need a personal development plan. It will me to
enhance my skills and knowledge in health and social care sector. The plan will include all
necessary requirements that I needed. The plan is as follows :-

Objectives Activities
performed
Time frame Goal
Communication
skills
For improving
communication
skills, i will join
personality
development
classes because it
will help me in
improving my
communication
skills to a hug
extent.
2 months Medium term
Leadership skills For efficient
leadership skills, i
will make sure to
read various
leadership novels
so that it can
provide me a sort
of motivation.
Also, it will help
me in developing
efficient
leadership skills.
3 months Long term

2.3 Monitoring the progress against the plan.
According to the basic requirements of the factors in the health and social care, the skills
required and are essential involves appropriate leadership skills and communication skills. It is
because for achieving higher goals and targets, it is very important to have efficient amount of
leadership skills because an efficient leader is capable of dealing with any sort of conflict or
issue. Also, a good leader knows how to manage the employees in the health and social care
along with the operations that are being performed in the centre. Also, another important factor
was to achieve all the targets within specified deadline because it will help in maintaining the
balance between all the processes. Therefore, it is very important to monitor the progress of the
plan so that all the operations and procedures in the health and social care can be able to achieve
all the targets and goals at a much faster rate.
2.4 Evaluating the effectiveness of the development plan
The development plan should be effective enough because this is obvious that the
competition is increasing day by day and every single firm in the health and social care tries to
make involvement of some factors that can help them to achieve the competitiveness. Thus, it is
very important that the development plan should be effective enough so that it can be able
enough to achieve all the targets and objectives at a much faster rate. Whether it is about the
leadership skills or the communication, completing all the objectives within a given deadline is
one of the important aspects because this helps in maintaining a balance between all the
operations and services in the health and social care.
TASK 3
3.1 Nature of different professional relationships in health and social care
Professional relationship is considered as a process in which people make some sort of
relationship with each other. It is not necessary that the process is intentional but may happen
because of a few interactions. It may be with the employees, family members, friends, guardians
etc. for maintaining an efficient rate of relationship with any of them, there are some factors that
needs to be ensured such as support, respect. It is because this helps in maintaining a smooth

processing of the operations and services (Manners, 2017). This is obvious that when a person
gets admitted in the health care, the situation for them seem to be different and it happens
because the environment externally is completely different from the internal one. So, any sort of
mis behaviour or dis respect with them can actually hurt their sentiments to a huge extent and
thus, can also throw a negative impact on their mental stability. Whether it is on the basis of
colour, race, gender etc., any sort of discrimination is not allowed at all in the health and social
care because it can hurt the sentiments of the person to a huge extent. There should be an
effective interaction rate between the service providers because any sort of personal mis
understandings can lead to complexities further and also, can make feel the patient troubled.
Also, then there is a sort of relationship between the nurse and the family members. It is
obvious that when a person is admitted, the friends, family members , guardians etc. are worried
about the status of the health of the patient. So, in such cases, the nurse make sure to provide
proper support to the family members to a huge extent because in some situations, the patient is
not allowed to meet any of the person, family, friends etc., so in such cases, the nurse can only
act as the mediator that helps in providing all the information of the patient to the family
members. Then, there are multidisciplinary teams as well. Their role is to provide a
comprehensive output of the all the factors and the ones that are essential to be involved. There
should be a sort of efficient coordination between these teams and the other nursing staff. Other
important roles that can be considered within this involves general practitioner, therapists etc. it
also further helps in making much enhancements and improvements in the understanding of the
services and operations etc. therefore, it is very essential to maintain a balance between all these
relations because it helps in managing all the operations, factors and services in a very effective
and appropriate manner so that a proper focus can be kept on the health of the patient, thus also
help in making the environment more happier and healthier.
3.2 Evaluating personal effectiveness in supporting and promoting the right of individual
Personal effectiveness is considered as one of the major aspects for promoting the rights
of the people. First point that is to be considered is the safety and respect, so it is very to treat
everyone with respect because it acts as a very essential factor to manage the balance between

the operations and services. Reliability and trust are also considered because it is very important
to give an efficient amount of treatment to the patient because when an individual is being
admitted to the hospital, it is the responsibility of the health care and the nurses to ensure that a
proper care is being provided to the person and the rest of the needs and requirements are also
should be taken place (Manners, 2017). This is the responsibility of the health care. Also, there
are laws and policies that are been developed by the government. So, following all these laws
also plays an important role.
According to equality act 2010, it considers the fact that there should be no sort of
inequality or discrimination in the health care because when a person is admitted in the hospital
or health care, any sort of negative behaviour with them can actually affect their mental stability
to a huge extent. So, it is very important to ensure that in any organisation, there should be no
sort of discrimination or racism in the firm. Also, as per the law, it also ensures the fact that
anyone who is found guilty in such kind of actions may have to pay a huge amount of penalty
and also, the punishment can lead to the imprisonment of the person as well. So, following all
these policies and providing an efficient and appropriate amount of care to the person is also
considered within the personal effectiveness which helps in supporting and promoting the rights
of people as well. This can further help in maintaining a sort of balance between the operations
and functions and also in maintaining a happier and healthier culture there. It will help the nurses
to stay focused on the operations very appropriately so that the patients can also be able to get a
proper amount of attention and can get treated as soon as possible.
3.3 Ways to resolve issues in professional relations
There are some times, some situation occurs when thee comes some sort of mis
understandings or confusions between the two. In that case, some ways can be included that can
actually help in resolving those issues, thus maintaining a healthier relationship so that the whole
environment can stay fit and healthy enough. One of the very basic and well known way can be
considered as sit and talk. If there are some confusions or mis understandings between the two,
then any of them can initiate the conversation again and tell the other one to give some amount
of time so that they can clarify the issue. This can be classified as one of the basic ways that can