Refocusing on your thinking and knowledge to generate new ideas. Look at your behaviour, learning needs and your judgement. Why is reflective practice important? Reflective practice is important for you to focus on how you interact with your colleagues, customers and the each environment that you will be in. It’s an impact on yourself learning and knowledge you have gained.
332 2.1 The Importance of Reflective Practice Reflective Practice is the opportunity to review what has been done, what worked well and what didn't work so well. From this you can identify areas that need to change or develop so as we can constantly strive to improve our teaching practice. Reflective practice can also be applied on a personal level so as we are better able to identify what we are doing well, how we need to improve or develop and how our knowledge and current practice may benefit the team within which we are working. Reflective practice can be carried out by keeping a reflective journal to record our experiences. Over time the information will give us a good picture of how our practice has developed, what we use over and over again that seems to guarantee results and where we are struggling.
It means thinking about how we could have done something differently, what we did well and what we could have done better. It also means reflecting our own values and beliefs and experiences which shape our thoughts and ideas. This will allow individuals to obtain a clearer picture of their own behaviour and a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, so they can learn from their own mistakes and take appropriate future actions. 1.2 Explain the importance of reflective practice in continuously improving the quality of service provided Reflective practice is about taking a look at yourself and evaluate the effectiveness of your work and taking in consideration the views of the individual you support. The reason this is important is so you can make changes to how you work that lead to continuous improvement in the way you provide services.
Ex7 B. The purpose of a personal development plan (pdp) is to improve and develop your practice by thinking about what you are doing. A pdp is beneficial to me because becoming a reflective practitioner means thinking not only about my actions but also about the people I support. Whilst learning to reflect I will understand people better because of learning to take the time, considering why people act in a certain way. Spending time getting to know the people I support will in turn help me provide a better service.
Principles of personal development in adult social care setting Task A Ai) a) Reflective practice is when you look back at a moment in time, in the case of care you would look back at a call you did and evaluate it. b) This method is a very useful training tool as when you reflect on call you can see if any aspect of the call can be improved, if there can be improvement’s made a good carer may be able to transfer these new skills to another clients thus improving more than once clients care. c) As already mentioned in the second part of this question reflective practice is important as it can show ways of improving care provided and once a new skill has been fount it is easy to transfer it to other clients, you can also pass the skill on to your colleagues, thus the whole work force can benefit from one session of good reflective practice. d) Good reflective practice is a tool that can used during supervisions and team meetings, high standards of training provided during these reflective practice sessions will mean that the care has all the training and knowledge needed to provide the high standard of care expected not only by our company but the client and their families. Aii) a) It is important for a care worker to seek feedback so that they may improve the care they give, either by learning new skills or by learning how the manage their timing better when caring out the tasks need for the clients call.
* Conduct regular market research and performance reviews * Ensure each team member has individual job criteria so they know what their goals are and what is expected of them. * Regularly check that their goals are being met and they are following their plans * Conduct surveys from customers asking them how they were treated and if they were satisfied with the outcome of their visit. Also ensure the surveys state who dealt with them * Feedback information to the team member and discuss the outcomes. * Ensure you discuss what they need to work on and improve and how they can achieve their goals more efficiently if needed. * Always finish on a positive discussing what they do well and how many goals they have managed to achieve.
Using reflective Practice you will be able to contribute to your service provision by being able to reflect .process, evaluate and achieve progress through your better understanding of client group/user. Also thinking about your personal reflection what have you done well, what can you improve on, what have I learned from this? How standards can be used to help social care workers reflect on their practice? Using company policies familiarize yourself with your companies working standards. What is your work standards, what does your social care employee expect of you and what is it aim for for the service provision?
Supervisions are regular, between myself and my manager. They are designed to help improve the way I work, they offer practical and guidance and support in areas that I need to improve. After supervisions are the appraisals. They evaluate what was covered in the supervisions to make sure that improvement is occurring and to set new goals. My supervisions are taken on shift, my manager will watch how I work, how I integrate with the team of staff and with the clients in the care home and put forward any ideas on what I could do differently but also explain what I am doing well.
What actions would you take to ensure that employees in the organisation understood the need for improvement and were able to cope with the accompanying changes? In your report use examples or scenarios to support your theories and to demonstrate the need for effective continuous improvement processes. Tables, graphical diagrams, charts or statistical information can be included to help you explain and support your work. You will need to utilise works by several authors to develop the
Benefits of continuous improbement: An opportunity for you to affect and improve how things work in your department A chance to share your ideas on how to provide even better service to the people you help: students, faculty, staff, parents and alumni Time to stop and think about what would make your job easier and less stressful An opportunity to learn new skills A less frustrating way to get things done A better working relationship with the people on your team and with other departments Q2 Continuous improvement manager The role of the continuous improvement manager has evolved from traditional task-oriented work groups such as Six sigma teams. These teams were formed to implement procedural changes with the objective of obtaining better results. Over time the benefits of these procedural changes tended to fade and fizzle out due to a lack of supervision. This caused the new procedural systems to devolve, thus re-creating the original problem. As a result, many businesses and corporations began to implement the continuous improvement manager role to maintain and expand upon the results of process