You are going to be a mentor for a new social care worker as part of their induction process. Part of your role is to help them prepare for the review after their probation period.
Ai Create a guide for the new social care worker about how to reflect on their practice. The guide must include the headings listed with an explanation of each.
a) What is reflective practice?
b) Why is reflective practice important?
c) How reflective practice contributes to improving the quality of service provision.
d) How standards can be used to help a social care worker reflect on their practice.
Aii You arrange a mentor meeting to feed back to the social care worker. You have comments to make which include both praise and constructive criticism.
Write notes to prepare for your. In your notes, explain:
a) Why it is important for a social care worker to seek feedback on performance.
b) The different ways that people may react to receiving constructive feedback.
c) Why it is important for a social care worker to use the feedback to improve their practice.
Task B Personal development plan (PDP)
Bi Design a template for a personal development plan (PDP) that you could use to improve your learning, development and professional practice. For each heading in the template, provide a brief summary describing what should be included.
Template
Training completed
Accomplished training
Appraisals
Supervisions
Bii Explain how a PDP can help a social care worker identify improvements in their knowledge, understanding and practice.
It can help a social care worker identify improvement
Biii Identify sources of support for planning and reviewing your development.
Biv Identify people who can help you develop your knowledge, understanding and practice.
Those that can help me develop my knowledge, understanding and practice are my manager, deputy manager, service users, family, friends, leaflets, NVQ assessor, Other professional