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?
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.
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
further training, can improve working practice and as such, improve the standards of care provided. It can also identify areas of good practice that can be shared with others. How standards can be used to help a social care worker reflect on their practice? As social care workers, we all work to a set of standards that determine how we carry out our working practice. These standards are guidelines, policies and procedures that we are expected to follow, that identify the quality of care we are expected to achieve and deliver.
Improves your basic judgement and professionally enables you to apply skills to the personal development cycle. How reflective practice contributes to improving the quality of service provision? Contributes to improving the quality of service provision as the care worker constantly revises the policies and procedures and new standards that are being constantly set. Being up to date on the relevant new policies and procedures help the care workers to do their job and maintain of what is expected from them. How standards can be used to help care worker reflect on their practice?
1.1 Explain what reflective practice is Reflective practice is, in its simplest form, thinking about or reflecting on what you do. It is closely linked to the concept of learning from experience, in that you think about what you did, and what happened, and decide from that what you would do differently next time. 1.2 Explain the importance of reflective practice in continuously improving the quality of service provided the importance of reflective practice is to to focus on what has worked well and what needs to be improved, it enables you to find if a different approach or technique is needed and helps develop self awareness 1.3 Explain how standards inform reflective practice in adult social care Standards may include the Code of practice, regulations , Essential Standards and national occupational standards. these standards inform reflective practise by informing own learning, helping one to think about professional accountability,enabling professional development and providing a way of identifying what is required for good practice 1.4 Describe how own values, belief systems and experiences may affect working practice Own values, belief systems and experiences may affect working practice by preventing conflict with others, fostering understanding of others’ views and perspectives, improving communication with others, favouring those who share your values, belief systems and experiences, not respecting others who do not share your values, belief systems and experiences 2.1 Explain how people may react and respond to receiving constructive feedback people may react by agreeing with the points raised and expressing a desire to improve, they may also ask questions or ask you to expand on exactly what is being said. they may also be defensive or express anxiety 2.2 Explain the importance of seeking feedback to improve practice and inform
Therefore reflection can be a key skill to learn and a way of developing working practice which is anti-oppressive as well as empowering for service users. As part of the GSCC (2004) requirements it states that social workers need to use… ..’reflection and critical analysis to continuously develop an improve their specialist practice, including their practice in inter-agency contexts, drawing systematically, accurately and appropriately on theories, models and up to date research.’ (GSCC, 2004, pg16) According to Payne (2005), the work of Schon (1983, 1987), in exploring how professionals utilized their knowledge in working with people, first gave rise to the importance of reflective thinking for professional practice. Dewey (1991) and Jasper (2003) suggest that reflection is a deliberate and cognitive process which incorporates a gradual self awareness, transformation and critical appraisal of the social world. Taylor (2000) defines reflection as... ‘…the throwing back of thoughts and memories... (Taylor, 2000, pg3) ..Thinking about them in order to make sense of them and as necessary make appropriate changes. Johns
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.
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.
You did said that you are applying for a place on my course about reflective practice and I wanted to give you a fair explanation of how standards inform reflective practice in adult social care so it can help you to know more about it before you enrol on this course The standard inform of reflective practice in adult social care are personal attitudes and beliefs. This is one way that can affect the way that you work and the reflective. Standards such as the code of practise 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 practise. Anyway I hope I have given you enough information about of how standards inform reflective practice in adult social care and this is where I end my letter and see you soon I hope.