1. Developing Your Knowledge and Practice Unit SHC32
Involve me and I understand
Development is always self-development
Making learning your priority and everything else will be a spin-off
Experience is the greatest teacher
You are what you learn

2. Understand what is required for competence in own work role
Learning Outcomes
Understand what is required for competence in own work role
Be able to reflect on practice
Be able to evaluate own performance
Be able to agree a personal development plan
Be able to use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development

3. CPD
Continuing
Professional
Development

4. Personality types – self-developers (source: Peter Honey Publications)
Put themselves first
Strive to improve their performance
Prepare themselves in anticipation of changes
Deliberately seek out opportunities to develop
Get learning mileage out of planned and unplanned experiences
Assess their own needs and set their own learning opportunities
Assess their own progress
Experiment and try new things
Review experiences
Draw conclusions
Plan to implement what they have learned
Tolerate short-term discomfort in the interests of long-term gains

5. Learning Styles
Activist
Reflector
Theorist
Pragmatist

6. Duties
To provide personal care
Responsibilities
To maintain dignity
Standards
NMS Standard 10 Privacy and Dignity

7. The Reflective Cycle (Gibbs 1988)
Description
What happened?
Action plan
If it arose again, what would you do?
Feelings
What were you thinking and feeling?
Conclusion
What else could you have done?
Evaluation
What was good and bad about the experience?
Analysis
What sense can you make of the situation

8. Did it challenge your assumptions. Did you get further feedback?
Reflective account
Did it challenge your assumptions. Did you get further feedback?
How did the learning take place, and did you record it?
How your practice has changed by your learning?
What was the activity?

9. Feedback…
should be both positive and negative
can come from anyone around you, including the individual in your care
should be used to improve your practice.

10. Using evaluation to improve practice
Constructive feedback
Reflective practice
Improved practice

11. What opportunities are there to learn?
Induction
Supervision
Shadowing
Coaching
Mentoring
Instructing
Team meetings
In-house training
Counselling
Questioning
External courses
Projects

12. What methods are there for keeping your skills up to date?
Reading
Observations
Personal reflection

13. What is supervision / appraisal?
Monitoring standards
Sharing practice ideas
Sharing concerns
Two-way process
Developing a learning plan
Setting a time frame to meet goals

14. Interpersonal strengths Knowledge-based strengths
Developing strengths
Interpersonal strengths
Knowledge-based strengths