LC580: Reflective Commentary on Skills & Bucks Graduate Attributes

This reflective commentary delves into the development of transferable and employability skills, particularly in relation to the Bucks Graduate Attributes. It critically reflects on the relationship between theory and practice in work-related contexts, including employment, volunteering, and university settings. The commentary articulates the implications of experiences, skills, competencies, and knowledge in these settings, while also discussing personal transferable skills. Learning from work-related experiences is applied to future goals and career plans, with a focus on continuous improvement and the identification of areas for further development, such as problem-solving and time management skills. The ultimate aim is to enhance employability and professional skills for future job opportunities and to deliver better care services as a social worker.

Reflective commentary

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
To have continuous in skill and knowledge level is tend to be important and vital for all
individual as it supports higher employability along with improved opportunities and betterment
in future. Further, the process of the skill development is tending to be related and associated
with the identification of the skill gap that is existing within an individual so that the required
training and employment benefits can be provided to improve and mitigate their skill gap
(Winberg et. al., (2020)). The current project is based on leading reflective commentary about
the relationship between relevant theory and practice in work-related contexts and evaluate the
implications of the experiences, skills, competencies and knowledge in work-related settings.
Further, a reflection on and apply learning from work-related experiences to future goals and
career plans has been also made within current project. Further, within current project based on
the Reflective Commentary Use of the Kobb/s reflective cycle 1984, Gilbbs reflective cycle
1988, Schon reflective model 1983 has been also made (Eldeen et. al., (2018)).
MAIN BODY
Gibbs reflective cycle refers to the framework that are effective and allow to provide better
and effective response towards taking care of better expression to the experience which has been
gain during the professional practices. This can allow to get better and effective response that are
associated with ensuring about the better role (Kapareliotis et. al., (2019)). Here, some of the
element are present in the Gibbs reflective cycle that are effective and allow get better sharing of
experience that are associated with showing better care and help in improving better response for
further improvement. Gibbs reflective cycle include different element like description, feelings,
evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan.
Description- As a social care worker, it is essential to develop skill that can be highly
effective and have better response towards care of effective learning through implementing
different skill that can be useful in the professional practices (Sarkar et. al., (2020)). As a social
worker I need to possess some skills that can help me to perform my job practices in effective
way. Here, I needed to learn different transferable and employability skill that can help me to
learn various skills that are necessary to use while performing any job role. Here, I also need to
take care about the effective response that can help me in gathering better and effective response
which are associated with improving my skill and knowledge for ensuring about better care and
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support services for people while performing my job role (Asonitou, (2019)). In this, I needed to
learn various skills like communication skills, problem solving skill, leadership skills and many
more which are highly important for any individual within care services specially for the social
worker who need to provide their service in caring to people in performing their daily activity.
Here, I have also learned about the Bucks Graduate Attributes which can have the focus on the
development of innovative leaders within professional that should have creative capacity and
should perform well in making positive impact as the global citizens. Me as a student, I need to
learn about the graduate attributes which can be effective and allow to include the different high
level qualities, understanding and skills which are associated with student which they should
gain the result in learning and getting better experience that can help to get engage in the
professional practices in future (Bridgstock et. al., (2019)).
I have learned about the analytical reasoning, critical thinking, adaptability, problem
solving, teamwork, communication and writing skills that are effective skills and should be
learned to perform better while working as a social worker professionally. Here, through using
these skill, I have used those in my academic time that allow me to get good in these skills and
help in performing well that can allow to achieve better practices as the social worker (Simon et.
al., (2018)). I am possessing some skills which includes working under pressure, logical
thinking, creativity, time management and meticulous attention to details. I have worked and
have experience as an assistant warehouse that are effective and lead to create high impact on
delivery of better response towards working professionally. Here, I have learned about ensuring
about the delivery which include pickup according to schedule like pack, load, label, wrap and
ship. I also have the experience of inventory control and maintain quality standard. I have also
experience of working as a sales assistant, self-employed and many more (Adeyinka-Ojo,
(2018)).
Feelings- It has been seen and analysed by me that there is various relevant theory that are
having the significant relationship within the practice in work-related contexts. In context to a
health and social care organisation. It has been seen that the Patient Confidentiality, Patient
Relationships, Malpractice and Negligence, Informed Consent and Issues Related to Physician
Assisted Suicide (PAD) are vital Ethical issues that needs to be taken into consideration at the
workplace. Here, I have felt that there is need to ensure about taking care of all the skills which
should be effective and needed to take care that can allow to get better and effective reposnse
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which are associate with taking care of good health (Succi, (2019)). I have felt that there is need
to learn different skills which may include communication skill, problem solving skill, time
management skill and many more other skills that can help me to improve the care services.
These are the skills that should be taken in consideration that can help me to use those skills
during working as a social worker. During education, I have learned about the different skills
that are effective and allowed me to use those skills even in the academic time which also help in
making different activities and allowed to take care of better response which are associated with
improving skill and utilise those in delivery of better and effective care services. I have also felt
that I have learned about using the skills which are effective and help to get better care and
services which are associate with ensuring about better development of professional skill that can
be used for better learning (Carada et. al., (2022)).
Evaluation- I have evaluated that I should improve my possessed skills which are effective
and should take care of effective care for allowing to improve those skills that can be used in the
professional practice during working as a social worker (Olivares et. al., (2019)). I have also
evaluated that I have learned about different skills which has been leaned during the academic
and have better response towards providing better care and support client health. It can be
evaluate that it is essential to learn different skills which can be highly effective when can allow
to perform the professional development. They can also help in me to perform various activity
working as a social worker. I should also evaluate that there are some of good experience
through learn during my academic time where communication skill and problem solving skills
are needed to be improved that can alarm it to perform very well as a social care worker (Allatt
et. al., (2019)). Here, it include different things which get well and which learning skills allow
me to perform very well in my academic and help to get for professional job. I also evaluated
that many people contribute to academic learning my skill. It can help to improve my skill
through providing some guidance and helping me to showing sometime that can help to improve
my skills and allow me to improve my professional practices. I also evaluated that improving
different skill can also be effective and can allow me to perform very well while providing my
practices as a social care worker. This can help me to use my skills while delivering my social
work practices.
Analysis- I have analyse that through using my transferable and professional skill that
can be highly effective and can help me to perform very well while performing my professional
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practice (Hains-Wesson et. al., (2020)). I have also learn that these skills can be highly helpful
and can help me to improve my professional development. It can also allow me to perform my
social worker role in efficient way that can allow me to improve my care services to my client. It
can also helpful and performing professional practice and help to improve the positive outcome
in context to delivery my service is a social care worker. I have learned that there are many
things which has been going right which may include learning different skills and patients level
that allow me to perform very well and help during my graduate learning (Nauffal et. al.,
(2018)). It can also help me to use those skills in practical manner that help me to improve those
skills and learn to implement in to get positive outcome. I have also analyse implementing and
provide an outcome as a social care worker. I also analyse that that are various skills which I
need to improve that can also be helpful as an employ-ability and professional practices and help
me to get better opportunity to seek any job and deliver my care services as a social worker.
Conclusion- I have concluded that I have learned different skills like communication
skill, problem-solving skill, time management skill, patience level, creativity and various which
are highly effective and allow me to perform very well in my academic graduation. This also
help in my professional development and allow many individual to perform and utilize these
skills as professional that can help to provide the positive outcome towards delivery of care
services as a social worker (Adeani et. al., (2020)). I have also learn about my limitation where I
need to improve my problem-solving skills and time management skill more efficiently. This can
enable me to perform my activity is more effectively. I also conclusion that there are some of the
positive situation where educator were involved to improve my problem-solving skills and
communication skill. It allow me to perform very well in social worker practice to the client.
Action Plan- In future, when I need to get any another job opportunity I would like to
improve my employability and professional skills that can be highly effective and can help to
utilize those skill as a professional (Ezezika et. al., (2022)). I will also need to get ensure that in
future, such type of skills can be used more effectively that can help to improve the positive
outcome and deliver better care service to the large population. Here, I need to develop some
skills that can be effective and help me to perform well as a care worker. Here, I need to improve
my communication skill, problem-solving skill along with time management that can be highly
effective and are necessary to take care of a client in more effective way. As a social worker, I
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need to improve those skills that can be highly effective and can help me to interact with my
client is more effective to get better and positive outcome (Pieper et. al., (2021)).
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can be concluded that there are various emplobility and
professional skills which should be learn by any individual and that can allow to perform well
and achieve a better opportunity to get a job. It is necessary to learn different skills that can be
highly effective and allowed to perform well any professional practices. The social worker also
need to learn several skills that should be interact for providing positive outcome to the client.
Through implementing those skills that can help to improve quality of care services. There is
discussion about experiencing different skills that can help to provide a opportunity for get a job
as a social worker. There is also discussion about different skills which are necessary to learn for
providing better services to the client.
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