Personal Professional Development Plan: NHS, Health & Social Care

This report presents a personal professional development plan tailored for a role within the NHS, specifically focusing on health and social care. The plan begins with an introduction to the broad scope of health and social care and the importance of provider values. Task 1 explores personal values and principles, including rights, diversity, and respect, as they relate to working in health and social care. It then delves into how personal culture and experiences, such as educational background, supportive upbringing, and childhood experiences, influence the individual's role in supporting service users. The report analyzes the impact of these values and experiences on the individual's performance within the NHS. It also compares personal traits with the expectations of the NHS, highlighting areas needing development, such as integrity and soft skills. Task 2 focuses on current skills, learning styles, and the creation of a holistic development plan, including short, medium, and long-term goals. The report concludes with a summary of the key findings and recommendations for professional growth within the health and social care sector.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1: Personal Values and Principles with the Principles of Support for Working in H&SC......3
1.2: Personal Culture and experience influence own role in supporting users of services and
others in H&SC setting...............................................................................................................5
1.3: New Developments and Changes to personal values can impact on work in Health &
Social Care..................................................................................................................................6
TASK 2:...........................................................................................................................................7
2.1 Current Skills and abilities and learning Style......................................................................7
2.2 Holistic Development Plan in with short, medium and long term goal................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONA84046
Health & Social Care is a broad term used to identify various providers who render heath
& social care. It is often misunderstood that if a person is provided with effective health care,
then, it is enough, but, a sick person also need social care in order to heal faster (Adams, 2007).

That's why, here comes the need of Health & Social Care Providers. Their duty in an
organisation is to provide effective care to people who need by making the process easier and
enjoyable, rather than tolerable. It is very vital to understand various personal values and
principles possess by these care providers in order to state the importance of their behaviour in
an health & social care unit to implement the importance of their behaviour in healing a patient.
TASK 1
1.1: Personal Values and Principles with the Principles of Support for Working in H&SC
Values refers to as those principles which help business associates to take right decisions as well
as shows the difference between what is right and wrong. It also aid to business how to act in
various situations prevailing in the market. Whereas, principles are those beliefs, fundamental
laws, assumptions and doctrine which a organization adopts in their working premises as
principles.
Rights: Rights are legal, social and ethical principles of freedom. Every organization has
their own rights as well as freedom to do anything they want.
Diversity: Personal characteristics like, age, sexual orientation, nationality, gender etc.
that trigger others to treat or behave with people as a member of a group rather then individuals.
Respect: Respect is a positive feeling for someone elicited by their qualities, or abilities.
Everyone in the society wants to treated with due respect. As well as employees working in any
organization also should be treated with respect so that they stay for longer time duration inn the
competitive world.
Personal Values is what makes a person in context to how they behave and respond to a
situation. These values plays a major role in the segment of Health & Social Care as a provider
may be facing a lot of trouble but they cannot show it on their face as demanded by their
profession. These values have a major impact on an individual in respect to Health & Social
Care.
Principles refers to the ideologies of a person as in which they believe. For example,
gravity, it is a natural occurrence, similarly, principles are natural phenomena as if a person lied
to his friend, then, the friend will not trust his friend that's a natural law. Principles plays a vital
role in this sector as if a provider will not have ethical principles, they will not be able to relate
with the pain or the care they need to do for that person(Belbin, 2004).

Personal Values and principles are two parts of a person, which are often get confused
with but they are quite different. Personal values refers to qualities possessed by an individual
whereas Principles refers to rules or beliefs governing a person. Personal Values are the choice,
which can be compromised if needed but a person never compromise with their principles.
Principles Professional Achievements: NHS does not hire people with just a degree, they need staff
with professional frontier and achievements which make them easy to adapt in NHS and
patients feel they are in the right hands as they exit the gate of NHS when they are fully
cured.
 Growth and development: It is very important for me to have a continuous growth and
development in whatever I am doing and pursuing in order to grow and learn new things
in order to achieve my goals and objectives.
Positive Values Positive Approach: The most important requisite while working for NHS is to have a
positive outlook for things. NHS needs staff that have a positive approach as it will them
in the long run.
 Effective Communication: The communication skills plays a crucial role for the
establishment of an effective relationship between patients and NHS as it will help in
decreasing the pain and make it tolerable for the patients.
As a Dental Nurse in NHS England. The main role of my work does not limit with dental
practice but involves various other departments as well.
The personal values and principles I have observed in myself while working for NHS are:
Empathetic: I have realised that I am very empathetic towards the other patients as if
they are in pain, I am not able to see it and try to erase it as soon as possible. This is better for
short term but for the long run I need to establish a professional code of conduct in order to have
a high scale graph.
Personal Behaviour in workplace: I have managed to step aside by personal behaviour
and reasons away in my workings as whatever I am feeling or stressing about does not show on
my work.

Professional code of conduct: It refers to my abilities to work with a person that does not
possess same approach towards things at workplace like me. I observed that I am able to work
with such a person as it helps in learning new things towards the same thing I know.
Comparison Between my personal traits and as needed by NHS
Personal Values NHS
The personal values extracted from my
personal review helped in knowing that I
possess following values:
 Empathetic: This quality will not be
sufficient in context to NHS as they do
want empathy from their providers but
not more than necessary.
 Personal Behaviour in workplace needs
to limited in order to create an effective
code of conduct at NHS.
 Professional Code of Conduct needs to
be efficient as it is important at NHS.
The personal values expected from Health &
Social Care providers at NHS includes:
 Positive Approach is much needed as it
helps in long run ans always
appreciated by NHS, which I need to
develop.
 Effective Communication: I feel I have
these skills and will help in establishing
a relationship with patients.
 Professional Achievements: This is the
quality I am proud of as I don't judge
my colleagues or patients, I just do
what is required.
1.2: Personal Culture and experience influence own role in supporting users of services and
others in H&SC setting
Personal culture and experiences are the second most important quality needed after
personal values and principles. Personal Culture and experiences are important in regarding the
behaviour of an individual as it helps in growth and development of person in their initial years
of childhood. For instance, if a black person felt discrimination in their early years, then, it may
leave an impact on them for their whole life (Belbin, R. M. Team 2010).
In the context of Health & Social Care, personal culture and experiences plays a crucial
role as it determines the behaviour of an individual in the organisation. Taking the example
mentioned earlier further, that black person may not be able to take care of a white person
efficiently due to the discrimination faced.

Health & Social Care Providers are expected to be happy and should not feel any sort of
stress due to the work load and series of activities expected from them to perform. The roles and
responsibilities performed by them includes plenty of duties from taking care of needs of patients
to answering queries of the relatives of patients, they need to maintain their compose and be
calm (Bolton, 2005). And this can only be done when an individual have certain peace in them
which can only be provided with the culture they belongs from and the experiences they faced.
The personal culture and experiences faced by me that can influence my roles in NHS:
Educational Background: It is very important in my culture and family to have a strong
educational background, which results in I getting a professional degree in order to lead my life
successfully, as presented to me. This function may have an influence on me as I may not
consider a person successful who does not have a professional degree, but, happy with what they
are doing with their life.
Supportive: My culture and norms suggest that we need to be supportive and happy with
others accomplishments. This can be turned as a major reason for me to have a stable growth in
my professional as I don't get influence with the others matter and always happy with other
people are achieving.
Childhood Experience: As I was younger, our neighbour was very rude and does not let
us kids to play outside his house, he was old and German. That is why, I have a certain
unlikeness towards Germans, especially, old as I feel I may not be able to provide intensive care
to them which I can provide to my other patients.
These instances may have either positive or negative influence on my behaviour towards
my profession as my profession involves me to be caring and helpful to my patients. Also, at
NHS wants their care providers to be professional and this kind of influence may hamper my
growth in the organisation.
Difference between Individualism and Collectivism are explained as follows:
Basis Individualism Collectivism
Meaning It means giving priority to
one's identity on the basis of
personal attributes rather than
group identification.
It refers to as giving priority to
goals of one's group and
defining one's identity
respectively.

Valuation In this case uniqueness is
valued. It has changed our
culture because customers are
valuing things which are
unique and has different
features in it. It is changing ta
a rapid scale which is positive
sign for the company.
Here, social harmony is
valued. It is changing the
culture of the community in a
positive way as social
calmness is more important
rather then any thing in the
market.
Importance Speaking one's mind set is
important. It is influencing
more as reading bout
individual mind set and
working accordingly is big
challenge.
Modesty is more important in
collectivism. It also changing
the culture as by modesty
further improvements can be
done for the betterment.
1.3: New Developments and Changes to personal values can impact on work in Health & Social
Care
There are certain values I realised I lack that can be an obstacle in my growth in NHS. In
order to be more useful to NHS, there are certain values I can develop which can prove me as an
asset for NHS. Some of them are:
Integrity: A Health and Social Care provider needs to be honest and should have strong
support towards their ethical values, that is why, I need to have a strong adherence towards the
ethical and moral values so that I can treat my patients equally and protest against any unethical
activities that may surround my domain.
Soft Skills: These skills refers to development of attributes in order to enhance
interacting skills of an individual to carry out the communication effectively and efficiently.
These skills will help me in building a strong relationship with my patients and also help me in
levelling up my position in the hierarchy of NHS.

Compassion: It refers to the feeling of an individual in respect to the concern and
misfortunes of someone else. A care provider should be compassionate in order to feel the pain
of their patients, but, if these feature overlaps then it may become a problem. I feel I am way too
compassionate which is not efficient, in my timeline in NHS, I need to reduce my this ability for
the long run.
Perseverance: It refers to carry out an act despite the difficulties and delays in
establishing achievements. It is very important to have perseverance, though, I am a dental
specialist nurse, but, I participate in all the department services, which make me encountered
with various depressed and suicidal patients, which are not to tackle. At this point I need to be
more persistent in handling these patients.
These qualities will help me in providing effective and efficient services to my patients.
Also, these services will help me in my growth and development while working for NHS.
TASK 2:
2.1 Current Skills and abilities and learning Style
In order to know what are my current skills and abilities, I need to analyse my current
skills and abilities (Brotherton and Parker, 2013). For that, I am ascertaining my strengths and
weaknesses to see where I stand and what are the obstacles that may hinder my growth.
According to the skills required, I am performing a Personal Skill Audit Plan, in order to
know my strengths and weaknesses. My personal Skill Audit Plan:
Personal Skill Audit Plan
Sr. No. Skills and Competencies Self-assessed
Score
Score from
others
Variances
1 Team Building Ability 9 10 -1
2 Disciplined 6 7 -1
3 Optimistic 9 7 2
4 Accountable 9 8 1
5 Communication skills 8 10 -2
6 Patient 9 8 1

(Negative Variance in the chart showcases my strengths and positive variances showcase my
Weaknesses.
My strengths and weaknesses according to this plan are:
Strengths Weaknesses
 From the above analysis it can be
ascertained that I am a team player and
which helps me in building an effective
team.
 While working with NHS, it helped in
having a disciplined approach in my
workings which is my strength.
 Communication skills helps in building
an effective relationship with patients
and colleagues and that is my strength.
 I am not very optimistic in my nature as
felt by my colleagues as this is thing
which I need to develop.
 I am not very Accountable person as I
don't want to be held responsible for the
mistake of others.
 Patience is a great virtue, but I lack it as
I am not very patient in my approach
towards work and needs to do work in
tip of my fingers.
 I felt that lack of service lines and
marketing deficiencies.
 According to me there are services too
stretched for additional activity.
Opportunities Threats
According to me there are lack of dominant
competition due to which there is huge
opportunities for growth in this sector.
I found problem while handling new entrances
strategies in the market. As they are coming
with innovative idea which is a threat to the
existing companies.
Professional Development Plan:

It is a plan that tells the variety of skills and capabilities that a person needs to develop in
order to achieve their goals and objectives in an organisation (Cottrel, 2010). My professional
development as a nurse in NHS is given below

Short term Where am I
now?
Where do I want
to be?
Actions to
support
development
Criteria to
measure/assess
achievment?
Optimistic Currently, I do
not posses this
quality as I do
not have
optimistic view
I want to be
optimistic with the
team members in
effective manner so
that goals can be
achieved easily.
It can be
developed by
watching video
and by meeting
with peple who
are optimisticin
natire.
I can measure
them by staying
grateful and
looking at your
accomplishment
Medium
Term
Where am I
now?
Short term Where am I
now?
Where do I
want to be?
Accountability I do not take
responsibilities
as much as I
should
Optimistic Currently, I do
not posses this
quality as I do
not have
optimistic view
I want to be
optimistic with
the team
members in
effective manner
so that goals can
be achieved
easily.
Patient I am very
impatient in
the way of
handling duties
and
responsibilities
allotted.
By listening more
what others try to
say provide them
resolution. I should
reply calmy to their
problems without
getting hyper.
I can develop it
by doing
mediation and
listing video
regarding habit of
laistening to
others and
iomplementing it
in the daily
routine.
By asking the
collegues
members about
the results on
contionius basis.
Long Term Where am I
now?
Where do I want
to be?
Actions to
support
development.
Criteria to
measure/assess
achievment?
Services I am currently
working as
To improve the
services facilities in
In order to
develop this i
By looking at the
prvious and
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care supervisor
in health and
social care.
thios sectoer i need
to gain enough
information and
knowledge about it.
So that changers
can be done
accordingly.
have attended
many taniong
session regarding
servicves and has
attained
informatoive
knowledge about
services.
currenrt
scenartiop it can
be measured
weather services
has changes or
not.
2.2 Holistic Development Plan in with short, medium and long term goal
To understand the professional plan in regards to short, medium and long term goals. The
SMART model will be undertaken (Cuthbert and Quallington, 2008).
SMART Model
This model helps in establishing in goals and objectives that can be attainable and
achievable in regards to the time allotted. This model will be established in order to analyse the
various goals that needs to be implemented in the workings in order to create more efficient work
environment. It consist of five factors, namely, specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and
timely, thus, forming SMART (Fook, 2007).
This model is used to analyse what are the goals I need to select and in what time they
will be achieved.
The SMART Model
Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Timely
Short term:
Optimistic
It is specified
that the things
will be seen as
a key to achieve
goals and
objectives.
It can be
measured by
the positive
outlook towards
things.
It is
attainable in
such a short
duration by
reading
motivational
books.
It will help
in achieving
the positive
approach
towards
patients
3-6 months
Medium: It needs to be It can be It can be It is relevant 6-8 months
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