Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings Links to: SHC32: 1.1 and 1.2. Personal development and reflective practice is an integral part of working with children and or young people. To support you in reviewing the need for personal development in relation to your work role produce the following: a) Write a description of the duties and responsibilities of your own work role b) Prepare an explanation of the expectations about your own work role as expressed in relevant standards. (Standards may include: codes of practice, regulations, minimum standards or national occupational standards. Context and principles for early year’s provision Links to: EYMP1: 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), (2012) states that the role of the practitioner is crucial in observing and reflecting on children’s spontaneous play, building on this by planning and providing a challenging environment which supports specific areas of children’s learning and extends and develops children’s language and communication in their play. (See appendix 1 note 2) Another role of the practitioner is to work professionally and responsibly such as to ‘work as part of the team, work with parents and partners, participate in providing an environment that is welcoming and stimulating’ (Tassoni P, et.al, 2007 page 137) and to meet the learning needs of each individual child by providing a range of activities and experiences. A1 While attending placements I have worked to support the learning needs of children in this particular role by working with my supervisor, other staff members and parents or carers. When doing this, practitioners should always be professional, for example using a polite tone of
Discuss why a model of social pedagogy for work with children, young people and families may be beneficial. What barriers may there be for implementing this model in the UK? Social pedagogy is a system of theory, practice and training that teaches the use of hands, head and heart when dealing with children and young people. Social pedagogues are trained to engage with children using emotional awareness and genuine empathy. It is a holistic approach to caring for children which combines education with care and recognises that we all have a shared responsibility when it comes to caring for children, young people and adults.
The roles of different agencies involved in safeguarding then welfare of children and young people are:- Children’s Charities: NSPCC, Barnados, Childe Line which are there to support children and allow the child to talk with confidence knowing help and support is at hand. They also can help and support family, parents and any one working/caring for children and young people. Social Care: This involves social workers who are assigned to children, young people and families cases as and when needed to identify any kind of abuse. They can be contacted by the Hospital (A&E), School, Police and even parents themselves. NHS: The NHS can be involved through going into schools on the vaccination programmes, hearing and eye test’s also height and weight checks as part of the feel great programme.
Assessment Task – CYP Core 3.6 WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. Q 1.1 . Explain the importance of multi-agency and integrated working? A. Multi-agency working is about different services, agencies and teams of professionals and other practitioners working together to provide services that fully meet the needs of children, young people and their parents or carers. Integrated working focuses on enabling and encouraging professionals to work together effectively to deliver frontline services.
SHC 31 Promote communication in health and social care or children’s and young people’s settings • An identification of the different reasons people communicate Effective communication is important when working with children, young people, colleagues and parents. Reasons why people communicate • To build relationships: A simple smile, a friendly wave or just by saying, “hello” to a new child, new parent or new colleague can be the starting point of building a relationship • To maintain relationships: Much of our language and communication we use in the work setting accounts for the maintenance of our relationships • To gain and share information: Information in the work setting needs to be shared with everybody; children, young people, families, colleagues and other professionals. This information will help us work effectively • To gain reassurance and acknowledgement: To make the setting work effectively, it is important for colleagues to also acknowledge and reassure each other as well as providing reassurance and acknowledgement to children and young people • To express needs and feelings: It is important for children and young people to feel that they can express themselves. They can become very frustrated and/or isolated if they do not have the opportunity to do this • To share ideas and thoughts: All adults, children and young people have different thoughts and ideas that they will want to share with others There are many reasons why people need to communicate differently with each other. WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE • To give and receive instructions: To make sure that the child or young person understands what is being asked of them throughout their daily routine or activities.
1.1 Identify the features of effective partnership working Effective partnership working (also known as Interagency, multi-disciplinary, multi-professional and interprofessional) aims to meet the child’s needs and wishes, along with those of the parent, by keeping them at the heart of everything that is done. This is done as a collaborative, collective effort which may include working with different independent bodies, and can include creating an organisational structure or process in order to work and implement a shared vision, through either staff or resources. In order to ensure the needs and wishes of individuals are met, it is essential that a number of factors are taken into account. * All goals should be shared This ensures that everyone is working together towards the same goals and not pulling against each other, which can lead to ineffective partnerships and the waste of people’s time and effort. * Sharing of expertise This allows the partners access to a wider variety of knowledge and ideas, it can also highlight different issues and problems, and however effective partnerships are more effective at working and addressing these problems.
Unit 302- Engage in personal development in health social care and young people’s settings Understand what is required for competence in own work role 302.1.1 Describe the duties and responsibilities of own work role My duties and responsibilities as a foster carer are to provide care to looked after children (LAC) and young people of various ages. To help and protect children who may have come from difficult backgrounds and experienced abuse, neglect and a chaotic or disruptive family life. We help the child to prepare for returning home to the birth family or for an adoptive/permanent family situation. We promote and be positive about contact with the child’s parents or any wider family members. We have to work with social workers and other outside agencies and share good practice to make the placement a positive situation for the child in our care.
Principles for implementing duty of care in health, social Care or Children’s and Young Peoples Settings 1.1- Working in Health and Social Care means that we as Key Workers we have a duty of care for people we work with. This means we have a responsibility for the safeguarding and quality of care that is provided for your clients. When doing home visits for Re-engagement we are always on the look out for potential issue concerning clients that might have children. If concerns present themselves around children I have a duty of care to inform/report information to appropriate personal. I have a LEGAL Obligation to adhere to as set out as a standard of reasonable care.
Unit 052 Engage In Personal Development in Health, Social Care Or Children’s And Young People’s Settings Outcome 1 A residential care worker main aims are to provide care, protection and support to children and young people through facilitating their physical, emotional, psychological and developmental needs in line with their individual care plans. This will be achieved by being responsible for assisting in the promotion of good childcare practice, in accordance with Departmental policy and procedure, will provide care for young people in residence, participating in the assessment of their needs and the implementation of plans for their future. This will entail providing for the personal needs of young people in co-operation with other team members, liaising with relatives, other significant people and outside agencies, forming relationships with Young People which will facilitate the care and assessment process and encourage them to participate fully in the opportunities offered by the Home, participating in the formal assessment process, providing oral and written contributions to reports where appropriate Keeping up to date with the developments in theory and practice of childcare. 1.2 All employees at Bright futures are aware of what is expected of them with in the working environment in order to fulfil their roles to the highest standard in order to give the children and young people an outstanding standard of care. Every staff member has access to an employee handbook which sets out everything have policies and procedures, these abide by the law and the National Minimum Standards in which can be found within OFSTED's website.