Career Development: Skills Audit for Health and Social Care Roles

This report details a personal skills audit and career development plan within the context of health and social care. It includes a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, followed by a personal development plan (PDP) aimed at enhancing leadership and research skills. The report also analyzes the skills necessary for an effective manager in the health and social care sector, emphasizing team working, leadership, motivation, collaboration, and technical skills. Furthermore, it reflects on key concepts learned from a module, such as the importance of helping colleagues, effective communication, overcoming introversion, and supporting team members. The conclusion highlights the significance of career development in improving work performance and abilities.

AND CAREER
DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................1
1. Auditing own skill and competency...................................................................................1
2. Analysing skills required to an effective manager in Social and Health Care...................3
3. Concepts learned from the module.....................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Career development is very important for the person to have a good personal and
professional life. When a person is focused towards the career then this provides for the better
and effective working experience and growth and development. Hence, in the present report the
audit of personal will be undertaken. Thereafter, the analysis of the skills necessary for the
manager in health and social care will be disused. In the end the learning of the different concept
learned during the module will be highlighted in order to develop the effective learning.
TASK 3
1. Auditing own skill and competency
Analysing the skills of the person by themselves is very important because when the
person will not evaluate their skills then this will be affecting the working to a great extent.
Hence, with the SWOT analysis a person can analyse all their strength and weakness and along
with it all the opportunities and threats present in external environment.
Strength
Team working skill
Communication skill
Interpersonal skills
Time management skills
Weaknesses
Leadership skill
Researching skills
Opportunities
Developing knowledge relating all the health
care tools and techniques
Development of the researching skill
Implementation of the referral program with
the patients
Threats
Increased competition in health care setup
Frequent government changes
PDP- the PDP that is personal development plan is assistive for a person to develop those skills
which are necessary for them to be possessed by the person. This PDP is helpful in developing
the skills in which person is lacking as identified in SWOT.
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Skill to be
developed
Actions to be
taken
Resources Duration Success criteria
Leadership skill The major action
taken for the
development of
the leadership
skill is to develop
critical thinking
and patient
listening skill.
This is pertaining
to the fact that
when the leader
will be patient
listener then this
will improve the
leadership skill.
As such there is
not much any
requirement of
the different
resources as
leadership is
being developed
by practice.
The duration of
inculcating this
skill is almost 3-
4 months.
The success
criteria for
leadership skill
will be the I am
able to lead a
group of people
in proper and
effective manner.
Researching skill For improving the
researching skill,
the major action
taken will be the
effective use of
internet and try to
find different
websites and
online tutorial to
increase the
researching skills.
The major
resources
necessary for the
effective
attainment of the
researching skills
is the internet and
other related
products.
The time duration
for learning the
researching skill
is approximately
5- 6 months.
The success
criteria for
analysing the fact
that whether I
have learned the
researching skill
is that I am in
position of search
any topic very
easily.
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2. Analysing skills required to an effective manager in Social and Health Care
For working within the social and health care setup it is very essential for the people that
they must effectively possess the necessary skills. The reason underlying this fact is that when
the person will be having different skills then they will be in position to effectively assist in
personal and professional working (Konttila and et.al., 2019). Hence, there is a list of different
skills which are essential for the effective working within the health care setting. The major skill
necessary within the health care sector is the effective team working skills. The team working
skill will assist the health care practitioner in effectively work and try to reach the objective for
which patient has come. This is basically because of the reason that when the team work will be
good then this will be better for the environment of the health care setting.
Along with this, effective supervision and leading skill is also very important. The major
reason pertaining to this fact is that when the health care practitioner will be good leader then
they will be able to manage the work in proper and effective manner. Hence, this will provide a
good base to the health care practitioner in controlling all the activities in proper and effective
manner. Along with this the good leadership skill will assist the health care practitioner in
managing the working in proper and effective way. This is particularly because of the reason
that when the leader will be good then they will be in position to manage and maintain all the
working in proper and effective manner (Janati and et.al., 2018).
Moreover, in addition to this, another skill necessary to be possessed by the manager in
health and social care is to possess good motivation skills. The major reason pertaining to this
fact is that when the leader will be motivating then this will be beneficial to the health care
setting. This is particularly when all the staff and patient will be motivated then this will assist
the health care setting to work and operate in proper and effective manner (Serrano-Ripoll and
et.al., 2020). Hence, the proper motivation will assist the person in managing the environment in
the health care setting. Along with this, the use of collaborative skills is also very important for
the manager within health care setting. This is particularly because of the reason that when the
working will be collaborated then this will assist the manager in maintaining the link between all
the activities. This in turn will ensure that all the activities are being performed on time and the
patients are being happy and safe within the health care setting.
Moreover, another major skill which need to be possessed by the manager in health care
setting is the good technical skills (Senthilkumar and et.al., 2018). The major reason underlying
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this fact is that when the manager will be having good skills then this will improve the working
capability of manager. The reason underlying this fact is that when the manager will be having
good technical skills then they will be in position to effectively manage any of the situation.
Hence, this will result in proper and effective attainment of the objectives of the health care
setting.
3. Concepts learned from the module
With the module there were much different learning which will be assistive in the future
working and will improve my performance. This is pertaining to the reason that there were many
different types of learning like how the people can help one another, how communication is
necessary between colleagues and much other learning. All these learning will be helpful for me
in my future working within the health care setting or any other place of work. Hence, within the
learning I evaluated that helping one another is very important within the workplace. This is
particularly because of the reason that when the people will not be working in proper and
effective manner then this will reduce the working efficiency. Hence, it is very important for the
people working in corporate or other business environment must have the ability to help one
another. From the module, I have learnt that helping others is a sign for them to show that one
care for another person (Fraher and et.al., 2020). During my course, I have analysed that
healthcare workers are the ones who deliver their services to the needy and help required people
in order to make their life easy and comfortable through certain measures. There are many ways
through which one can support others each day. They approach the people and goes a long way
in order to support others and gets more connected to the people around them. They primarily
have to open up in front of the people who requires help so that the other people will elaborate
their issues in detailed manner. They basically assist people to cope up with their life challenges
by acting as a guideline for them to raise awareness about their requirements and thus provide
them solutions as well. With the complete study I got to understand the roles and responsibilities
of social as well as health care people towards the people who are living in the society. They
have to work hard while searching for the people who need their help and with proper analysis
of their situation help the persons towards the challenges that they are facing in their life. They
also act and plays a part of guardian as well quite sometimes. Different workers plays different
roles in the society and thus share their services accordingly.
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The another module is related to the importance of the ways in which one can
communicate between colleagues as a social or health care worker. From the teachings of my
tutor I got to evaluate that in order to communicate effectively, primarily the person have to
listen actively and carefully so that they are able to resolve the issues of other people. Actually
listening actively shows that one is interested in what your colleague has to say and that the one
has respectable feeling for other as well. The person have to speak with discretion and talk face
to face with the other people shows interest and helps in building trust along with openness
between both of them. Talking face to face helps in resolution of issues and fix complex
problems in quick manner (Davydenko and et.al., 2020). It enables the person to build and even
earn trust and respect for each other. Act consistently and integrity will enables the individual to
build trust factor among colleagues. While doing communication it is necessary to utilise
concise and precise form of speeches in order to make others understand about the feelings and
the expressions that one required to explain in front of another one. Overall, I got to learn and
understand that in order to communicate effectively treat others as the way in which you would
like to be treated by others.
Module related to how not to be introverted helps me in make myself extrovert in nature.
Initially I was always thought about the concept of not being introverted but with the help of this
module I got to understand the ways which will enables me or help me to make myself
expressive in front of others (Smith and et.al., 2018). As as social and health care worker being
extrovert is highly important for me. With restricting spending time in alone, share views in
front of others openly without having any kind of fears and being obsessed over spreading or
expanding social circle will enables an individual to become quite extrovert in nature which
helps them in every field of their life personally as well as professionally.
The last module which was related to the expressions which help us to support each other
concept has helped me a lot in order to understand the the concept in detailed manner. I
understand that in order to help or support others, it is required to having interest of doing work
in collaborative manner. Certain measures such as always ask for the advice, communicate
directly with the team member, do not complaint directly to the management, engage in the law
of reciprocity, celebrate and reward great work, going for informal outings and finding of
challenges along with obstacles in combined format helps an individual to support each other in
most appropriate manner (Payne, 2018). With the complete and varied details in different
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module I was able to understand all the aspects of the topics along with their significance as a
social and health worker in personal as well as professional life.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that interests towards career development
enables the person to learn better aspects of their work and thus amend their abilities. The study
includes the SWOT analysis of myself in order to audit my personal skills and abilities. The
report effectively able to described the evaluation of the skills that are required for the manager
in health and social care along with different learned concepts during the module.
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