The purpose of person centred planning is to enable people to live the lives they want in their communities. People who have used person centred planning are finding that it can: • Helps people work out what they want in their lives and make them feel stronger and more confident. • Clarify what support people need to pursue aspirations. • Bring people together to support people in joint problem, solving and to energise and motivate people based upon, better understanding of and commitment to the person. • Help direct and shape the contributions made from service agencies, to ensure they are based upon what is important to a person from their perspective.
These ways of working needs to be enforced by management and needs to be continually monitored, with supervisions and staff meetings held regular. Management should also be checking on the feedback sheets that are filled in at the training courses to ensure that staff are receiving the correct and relevant training. Because if they are not being trained in the correct ways to start with the whole process will produce negative feedback and reduce staff moral if they feel they are not supported regularly. Unfortunately if management sometimes fail in not holding regular staff meetings to gain feedback and to promote a good working environment staff moral will deteriorate, which in turn will affect the level of care being provide to individuals in our care and staff retention will fall. If management enforce following these ways of working and passing on all positive comments and praising good working practice would ensure that all members of staff are working towards the same goals and to achieving good working
I can also refer to service users care plans or ask my manager for training on things I may find difficult. To develop a personal development plan I would ask my manager for assistance and would also involve any family members or advocates for advice and information. Personal choice for the person the plan involves is imperative to make it correct. I have recently completed a dementia awareness course this made me more aware of the different behaviours and
Duty of care also involves safe guarding, protection of vulnerable adults from abuse and harm, social care workers have duty of care to report allegations and suspicions of abuse and whistle blowing policy. Aii: How the duty of care affects the work of a social care worker It means the duty of care you have in your job is to keep yourself safe and your service user safe. Keep up to date on your training. All ways wash your hands before attending a service user before and after, and wear the protective aprons and gloves that are supplied by your work the duty is in exercising caution and to refrain from causing another person injury or loss. In tort law, a duty of care is a legal obligation imposed on an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of “reasonable care” while performing any acts that could foreseeable harms others.
The policies and procedures explain what is expected of me in my role and what is also not acceptable. It describes how my employer requires me to perform within my specific job role. If there is failure to do this, it could cause harm or danger to myself or others. This may result in disciplinary actions. The term also refers to the care plan, to implement agreed ways of working when following the care plan.
the code of practice explain the way that we should be working, you can use them to think about the way you work and compare them to your own work and decide if you need to make any improvements. They enable us to gain professional development and provide a way to identify good practice. 1.4 Describe how own values, belief systems and experiences may affect working practice Values, belief systems and experiences may affect my working practice because if I treat people differently or force my views and opinions on to people it can cause conflict. By listening and understanding other people’s values and beliefs I can understand them and their beliefs better and improve communication with
1.2 Reason why reflecting on work activities is an important developmental skill: • It allows you to review how and why you carry out a particular task or range of tasks which in, turn gives indications that identify possible areas of improvement in your role as carer • Indicates better methods of carrying out the role of carer • May Indicate possible areas of further training that may be needed • Indicate areas to be discussed in our annual personal development plan review 1.3 Ways to ensure personal attitudes do not obstruct the quality of work • Have self awareness of innate attitudes and those acquired through peer pressure • Develop an understanding and awareness of other people’s attitudes and convictions and accepting and respecting these personal differences even though you may not fully agree with them. 2.1 How a learning activity has improved my own skill • A resident with Parkinson’s Disease had progressed to a stage where she was now unable to stand without assistance. For carers’ personal safety there is a not lifting policy in the care home. A Team leader trained me in the safe use of a harness in conjunction with
It’s an impact on yourself learning and knowledge you have gained. Helps you to recognise on how to what you have done well so it can be put in practice for other situations. Also means in reflecting your own values, beliefs, and experiences which will help your thoughts and ideas to share with your colleagues. Use this to gain better strength weakness so that you learn from your own mistakes and take the appropriate actions in future. Improves your basic judgement and professionally enables you to apply skills to the personal development cycle.
Factsheet - Person Centered Planning Summary • Person Centered Planning is a way of assisting people to work out what they want; the support they require and helping them get it. • Person Centered Planning has the person at the center, is carried out in alliance with friends and family and is focused on getting real lives for people. • Person Centered planning plays a particularly important role in delivering objectives in the “Valuing People Now” document. What is Person Centered Planning? Person Centered planning is a way of enabling people to think about what they want now and in the future.
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