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(T/618/4172) Unit 6 Personal and Professional Development in the Health and Social Care Sector - ATHE Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care
Level - 3
Learning outcome 1: Understand career and progression opportunities in the health and social care sector
Learning outcome 2: Understand professional development in health and social care
Learning outcome 3: Understand how reflective practice supports personal and professional development
Learning outcome 4: Understand how to plan own personal and professional development in health and social care
Indicative Content
1 Understand career and progression opportunities in the health and social care sector
• Career areas in health and social care; access points for careers.
• Roles and responsibilities in health and social care.
• Progression opportunities; career progression; training and qualifications.
• Skills and knowledge required for a specific role; qualifications and experience seen as meeting skill and knowledge requirements.
2 Understand professional development in health and social care
• Membership of professional bodies; standards and codes of practice.
• Continuing professional development; what is it; why is it required; professional requirements.
3 Understand how reflective practice supports personal and professional development
• Definition of reflective practice; how it supports development; impact on colleagues, service users.
• Models of reflective practice e.g. Kolb's learning cycle, Gibbs' reflective cycle, Schon's Reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action
• How to identify own values, attitudes and beliefs; importance of self-awareness; potential impact on work practice.
• How to keep a reflective diary.
4 Understand how to plan own personal and professional development in health and social care
• Stages in personal/professional development planning: identifying development needs; writing SMART targets; range of development opportunities to meet learning needs e.g. training courses, on the job training, mentoring, coaching, informal learning from peers/colleagues; implementing development plans; review (and importance of review).
• Identifying development needs e.g. feedback, reflection, skills audits.
• SMART targets - Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound
• Writing a personal development plan; format e.g. needs, targets, activities, deadlines, review.
Assignment
You are to consider your own potential career in health and social care in your chosen country. You will need to look at career opportunities and professional development and prepare your own personal development plan for a chosen career role.
The Study Skills used, developed and assessed through this assignment are as follows:
• Critical thinking
• Planning, organising and time management
• Research
• Gathering information, note taking and summarising
• Analysis
• Written skills
• Academic skills, including referencing
• Application of IT skills
• Reflection
Assessment Problem 1
Further to research on careers and job roles in the health and social care sector within your chosen country. You should:
• Write an outline of a range of careers and job roles in health and social care
• Explain progression within a chosen health and social care career area.
• Identify the standards relating to professional development for a range of health and social care roles.
Assessment Problem 2
Consider the requirements of continuing professional development and how you can assess and plan your own development. You should:
• Assess the need for continuing professional development in health and social care.
• Explain what is meant by reflective practice
• Explain theoretical models of reflective practice
• Outline the stages in planning own personal and professional development
• Explain how to identify development needs
• Explain how to write SMART targets for own personal development
Extension activities:
To gain a merit grade, you should also:
• Assess how reflective practice supports professional development
To gain a distinction grade, you should also:
• Analyse the benefits of reflective practice
Assessment Problem 3
For a specific job role/ career pathway in health and social care that you are interested in, you should:
• Analyse skills and knowledge required for a specific role in health and social care
• Analyse impact of own attitudes, values and beliefs on provision and practice of care
• Reflect on own learning
• Create own personal development plan for a chosen career role
Extension activities:
To gain a merit grade, you should also:
• Assess the continuing professional development requirements for a chosen health and social care role
• Carry out a skills audit to identify development needs
Attachment:- Diploma in Health and Social Care.rar