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

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

CPD Continuing Professional Development

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

Learning Styles Activist Reflector Theorist Pragmatist

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

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

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?

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.

Using evaluation to improve practice Constructive feedback Reflective practice Improved practice

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

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

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

Interpersonal strengths Knowledge-based strengths Developing strengths Interpersonal strengths Knowledge-based strengths