Understand how to reflect on practices in adult social care. 1.1. Explain what reflective practice is? Reflective practice is a process to help evaluate your work. It provides opportunities to learn from your experience and develop your working practice.
1.2 Within my own job role I support effective communication on a daily basis. Interpersonal skills enable me to interact, resulting in successful communication. Positive relationships with families, friends and my clients are vital in order to meet the individual’s needs and compile their care plan. I may share information with health care professionals on a one to one basis and/or with my client also present. During resident’s monthly meetings, I am able to talk within the group, whilst also ensuring that each individual can hear and understand me.
Evidence provided by the learner must always be his or her own work and must not have been carried out by anybody else and there must be no interruption or interference from other team members during the assessment process. This is very important in making sure the learners complete the qualification by doing all necessary work on their own with no assistance. Appropriate assessment opportunities must be used so that the risk of over assessment is minimized. Evidence from these assessments must meet all set standards. This is vital in making sure that everyone is assessed equally.
Formative assessment highlights the importance of monitoring student learning by providing ongoing feedback. (Williams, 2008)Teachers and students gain an invaluable insight through formative assessment which improves their teaching and students improve their learning. Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods Biggs Constructive Alignment (1999) focuses on the strict correspondence between learning outcomes, learning activities and assessment methods. It is clearly seen in the short course template that this alignment is adhered to throughout the 6 weeks. The teaching, learning and assessment methods are constructively aligned in order to achieve the learning intentions and thus the learning outcomes over the six-week course.
Unit 115. (1) 1) Explain how legislation, frameworks, codes of practise and policies relating to positive behaviour support are applied to own working practise. In all aspects of my role I am regulated by my company’s policies and government legalisation. I have been trained in mandatory training courses that cover the children’s act and child protection making sure that I understand the legal policies in place to provide the best care for the young people I support. I have also been trained in Team Teach which is a course that focuses on positive handling techniques and de-escalating behaviour.
A written piece discussing models of supervision and its importance to the counselling process On entering into education about or practicing as a counsellor, an individual is committing to an ongoing process of supervision. The goal of this counselling supervision is to create a trusting environment in which developing students are able to enhance their skills and competence (Carifio & Hess, 1987; Hess, 1987; Ronnestad & Skovholt, 1993). It is a process of professional and personal development which encourages a counsellor to reach higher levels of competence. This in essence provides an environment for counsellors to discuss their work regularly with an experienced counsellor and supervisor. It is through these supervision meetings that the supervisee is able to reflect on their own practice, drawing from active counselling sessions, the practitioners own thoughts, feelings and reactions and is able to examine these and develop/adapt strategies for client work.
I hold monthly team meetings, staff have six formal supervisions over a twelve month period which are scheduled to take place on alternate months, and they then also have their yearly appraisal. I type the items which I want to raise prior to the supervision to ensure that everything is raised as required and will then add to this throughout the supervision, two copies would then be printed and signed by both myself and the member of staff. I listen to staff concerns and give advice and / or guidance where needed as part of the process, I speak with them about any progression that they make and then ensure that I set SMART objectives at the end of the supervision. Active communication with staff occurs on a daily basis when they may contact me for guidance / advice, to communicate something that has happened within the service or to make me aware of an incident / accident. This requires actively listening to the staff and giving them the feedback they need, whether this be immediate or within a set time scale.
You are not allowed to even think about hurting others let alone talk about it. Satya means truthfulness. You must always speak the truth and what you talk about can have no harmful effects on others. The next vow is Asteya, which means not stealing. You cannot take into possession anything that is not willingly offered.
Reflective practice is essential to personal development and the goals and targets put in place at performance reviews can help to focus you and give you a renewed sense of ability to succeed and achieve. If needs have been identified then additional training can be arranged to help you become more effective in your role and improve your confidence. When considering reflective practice you need to be open to ideas and criticisms of others. Your should reflect on your own work and the work of others around you. You need to be constantly thinking of ways to develop and improve your practice and be able to
My experience will help me to approach such challenging situations with a positive mindset. Being innovative and possessing the people person skills that I have I will be able to network to receive necessary resources. Through networking and liaison with administration, parents, caregivers and the wider community I will be in a better situation to achieve the required academic success. I know that I will be required to go above and beyond the call of duty to achieve academic success. My experience in Social Services has taught me to be understanding to the needs of young people from different socio-economic background.