CU2924 Promote professional development
1: Understand principles of professional development
All companies need to develop a learning culture with work based learning at the heart of it. Continual professional development is a process of life-long learning that meets the needs of clients and enables care workers to expand and fulfil their potential. It is important to continually improve my knowledge and practice in order to remain aware and keep updated in current guidelines, legislations and standards related to my sector.
In my role and responsibility to ensure all staff are kept up to date with legislation, standards and guideline changes. The GSCC code of practice state that Social care employers must provide training and development opportunities to enable social care workers to strengthen and develop their skills and knowledge. The white paper – Modernising Social services promoting independence, improving protection, raising standards Identified that 80% of all care staff had no formal training and that there were no national standards of practice. It stated that A competent and confident workforce is an essential component of the modernisation of the social services. More recently there has been a consultation paper called Independence, well-being and choice: Our vision for the future of social care for adults in England (2005) which set out further proposals about the future of social care. Part of the paper was focused again on the skills and status of the workforce in social care and how improvements to the training and development of the staff can lead to improvements in the social care sector as a whole. Personal development benefits the individual. the organisation they work for and the people using the services. Better knowledge leads to better practice.
There are many potential barriers to professional development, which are:
Personal Barriers :
Intellectual barriers – feeling over confident in your own abilities.
Social Barriers – A lack of encouragement from senior team
All companies need to develop a learning culture with work based learning at the heart of it. Continual professional development is a process of life-long learning that meets the needs of clients and enables care workers to expand and fulfil their potential. It is important to continually improve my knowledge and practice in order to remain aware and keep updated in current guidelines, legislations and standards related to my sector.
In my role and responsibility to ensure all staff are kept up to date with legislation, standards and guideline changes. The GSCC code of practice state that Social care employers must provide training and development opportunities to enable social care workers to strengthen and develop their skills and knowledge. The white paper – Modernising Social services promoting independence, improving protection, raising standards Identified that 80% of all care staff had no formal training and that there were no national standards of practice. It stated that A competent and confident workforce is an essential component of the modernisation of the social services. More recently there has been a consultation paper called Independence, well-being and choice: Our vision for the future of social care for adults in England (2005) which set out further proposals about the future of social care. Part of the paper was focused again on the skills and status of the workforce in social care and how improvements to the training and development of the staff can lead to improvements in the social care sector as a whole. Personal development benefits the individual. the organisation they work for and the people using the services. Better knowledge leads to better practice.
There are many potential barriers to professional development, which are:
Personal Barriers :
Intellectual barriers – feeling over confident in your own abilities.
Social Barriers – A lack of encouragement from senior team