Unit 4 PPD: Analyzing Personal and Professional Growth in Health Care

This essay explores the critical aspects of personal and professional development (PPD) within the health and social care sector, emphasizing the integration of personal values with professional principles. It delves into the influence of personal culture and experiences on the roles of support workers, highlighting how these factors impact client and colleague interactions. The essay also addresses the dynamic nature of personal values and their subsequent effects on work performance, alongside reflections on supporting individuals during significant life events. Furthermore, it outlines the responsibilities, accountabilities, and duties of a support worker, underscoring the importance of communication skills and the use of ICT in healthcare settings. It also discusses the significance of maintaining safety and contributing to organizational policy development. The study includes a SWOT analysis for personal skill assessment and a holistic development plan with both short-term and long-term goals. Finally, it evaluates the effectiveness of teamwork and management approaches and recommends improvements to meet good practice requirements in health and social care.

UNIT 4
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE

Contents
Task 1..............................................................................................................................................6
PPD 1.1 A Comparison of your personal values and principles with the principles of
support for working in your workplace...................................................................................6
PPD 1.2 Assess how personal culture and experience influence your role in supporting
clients and colleagues in your workplace.................................................................................8
PPD 1.3: Discuss how new developments and changes to your personal values can impact
on your work............................................................................................................................11
SSLE3.2 Reflect on own personal contributions to the support of individuals
experiencing significant life events.........................................................................................13
SSLE 3.3 Make recommendations for improving the support available in a health and
social care organization for individuals and their social networks when affected by
significant life events................................................................................................................14
TASK 2.........................................................................................................................................15
4.1. PP) Explain own role, responsibilities, accountabilities, and duties in the context of
working with those within and outside health and social care workplace.........................15
1.2 COM) Use of communication skills in a health and social care context......................17
3.1COM) Access and use standard ICT software packages to support work in the
health and social care..............................................................................................................19
3.3HS) Evaluate own contribution to place and safety needs of individuals at the center
of practice.................................................................................................................................21
PP 4.2 Evaluate own contribution to the development and implementation of health and
social care organizational policy.............................................................................................22

PPD 2.1: Assess your current skills ability and learning style by using the SWOT
Analysis, Honey and Mumford learning style or any other assessment tool.....................23
PPD2.2 Produce a holistic development plan for myself with short, medium and long-
term goals.................................................................................................................................28
PPD 2.3 Monitor tour progress against the plan according to the requirements of a care
practitioner, revising the plan as required............................................................................29
PPD2.4 Evaluate the effectiveness of the development plan to your development as a
health and social care practitioner.........................................................................................30
TASK 3.........................................................................................................................................31
3.1 Explanation of the nature of different professional relationships in the context of my
workplace..................................................................................................................................31
3.2 Evaluation of my personal effectiveness in promoting and supporting the rights of the
individual in my workplace.....................................................................................................33
3.3 Ways to resolve issues encountered in professional relationships in your workplace.36
Task 4............................................................................................................................................38
4.1: Evaluation of the effectiveness of my personal contributions when working with
others in my workplace...........................................................................................................38
4.2Explaination for how the limits of my work role impacts on work with others.........41
4.3 Analysis of my role in minimizing barriers to effective teamwork in my workplace.43
4.3 Make recommendations to develop own contributions to meeting good practice
requirements............................................................................................................................47
4.3 Evaluate how own development has been influenced by management approaches
encountered in own experience...............................................................................................48

Personal and professional values both are different from each other. Personal values are related
to the individual goals and the standards set by the society. There are some tasks which define
the various personal values which affect the health and social care sector and some cultural
values which affect the working environment of the organization. This Professional and personal
development is made to understand the application of principles of professional engagement with
the user in various departments. If both personal and professional values do not match with each
other then there are lots of chances of occurring conflict in the workplace. This essay is made to
develop to concentrate on the personal and professional development of a person in health and
social care. This essay is being prepared to provide the information regarding the roles and
responsibilities of Support Worker so they provide better services to their patients. This essay
will help in improving the skills of the worker in respect of health and social care sector.

Task 1
Personal and professional development is also known as continuous professional development.
Personal and cultural values are critical elements in health and social care sector. These are the
individual goals and standards which are set by the society. Personal values are creating the
opportunities to think in the area of their overall improvement and have proper knowledge about
the desired goals and what they actually want in their life. In this essay, we get to know about the
comparison between personal values and principles with the principles of support for working in
our workplace. The focus of this report is on the personal and professional development of an
individual in health and social care workplace.
PPD 1.1 A Comparison of your personal values and principles with the principles of
support for working in your workplace.
Values: Values helps in deciding what is right and what is wrong and how can to act in different
situations. Values may differ from person to person or from religion to religion. There are
various kinds of values include ethical/moral values, doctrinal/ideological such as political,
religious, values, social values, and aesthetic values. Your personal core values define who you
are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For
individuals, the character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
Personal values are requiring for making decisions which are based on values and standards that
go beyond self-interest (Scotland, 2016). Here are some principles that help in decision making-
 Individualization
 Acceptance
 Self-determination
 Confidentiality
 Respect
 Safety etc.

Personal values have come from family, society, religion, culture it also effects from the
workplace and the most important form the historical events such as natural calamities,
world war etc.( Tetley, et. al., 2015)
Principles of support in health and social care
Successful health and proper social care are necessary. Personal values and principle consistently
influence the work of all staff members as well as my work also. For making health and social
care setting support is necessary. Health and social care services play an important role in
everyone's life as are used for the lifetime of a person. So everyone thinks that they choose the
best among available resources. Principles are providing a basis for the understanding of
promoting and providing good health. In health and social care services critical thinking is
required so that people can able to think in the right direction of the professional work (Cieciuch,
2012).
Everyone's personal values and principle influence their work. Kingdom Healthcare Ltd.is a
company which provides temporary as well as permanent staffs to healthcare establishments
across the UK (Scotland, 2016). This service provider company provides medical services too.
Personal values and principles of support both influence each other.
(Figure1: The Health and Social Care Act 2012)
(Source: Alevelpolotics.com 2012)

PPD 1.2 Assess how personal culture and experience influence your role in supporting
clients and colleagues in your workplace.
PERSONAL CULTURE
Culture is a social behavior which founds in human beings; it is related to the nation, society and
the family. Everyone has their own different culture. With the example of two countries it is
possible to understand the difference between different culture easily – like in India ladies wear
sari and suits at their home and at their office too but in other countries, ladies wear the jeans and
skirts so it defines the various culture of the people.
There are some factors which influence personal culture and experience in our role- Family,
Society, Education, Belief, Life events, Age, and gender, etc. Values and belief provide equal
rights to each and every person of the organization so that they provide better services to their
clients and they do not have any kind of competition among them. If employees get the equal
rights then they protect their clients from any kind of abuse and harm and if they had experience
then they provide better services to their clients. Personal culture and experience both helps to
maintain the proper system so that the service user gets the fair and effective treatment (Tetley,
et. al., 2015).
(Figure1: Factors that affect employee ethics)
(Source: By Author)

Values are the things which describe what is important for us in our way of living. There are
some values which impact our work environment of health and social care –
 If a person has a value of trust and they trust everyone then it is good for health and
social care business because here customer relies on the company that they provide best
people for their loved ones as their caretaker (Griffiths, et. al., 2012).
 Values have a negative impact on both the workplace and in personal life as they also
create some conflict with work (Scotland, 2016).
 Sometimes values create stress in your work as you work according to your values given
by the family but they actually do not applicable at your workplace. Hence, it creates
some problem for you and the result is stress.
 If you have different personal values and professional values then it may create discord
between your personal and professional life.
 Sometimes it also occurs conflict between workers.
 Values also influence leadership style and behavior (Scotland, 2016). As a leader people
consider their own values and by them, they influence the working environment of the
organization.

PPD 1.3: Discuss how new developments and changes to your personal values can impact
on your work.
With the change in the technologies, environment, personal values are also changes. People
change their thoughts about the particular things and with the change in the personal values it
affects the work of that people. New development and changes are required for everyone as in
today's world no one wants to live with the old thoughts and the concepts those are not matched
with the current situation. There are some new developments which affect our work – legislation,
priorities, research, policies and principles and values (Cirnu and Kuralt, 2013). There are some
new Acts are introduced by the government so that people get the equal opportunities, equal
right, and women also get the opportunity to live as they want.
There are various changes in the role of the health and social care sectors; there is no sex
discrimination present in these field equal opportunities to both male and female worker. There
are some new acts which are developed in the area of health and social care; The Care Act 2014
in these act rule and responsibilities are prepared so that the proper care is given by the service
provider and properly get by the service receiver. Introduction of care certificate to replace
Common Induction Standard; induction standards are those which are developed for the new
employee or for those who change their job roles (Chicoine and Aselton, 2014). Standards are set
according to the quality of work which has to be provided to the customers.
There are some standards for the health and social care sector
 Understand the role
 Personal development
 Duty of care
 Communication
 Privacy
 Safeguarding children

 Safeguarding adults
 Health and safety etc.
There is some new development also done this sector –change in qualification requirement for
care worker, the introduction of the code of conduct and also the development in the equipment
and technology in health and social care.