Promote Professional Development
LHS2 – Promote professional development
Outcome 1 – Understand principles of professional development
1.1
The important of continually improving knowledge and practice is that you can ensure that you are aware of any new relevant legislation and also you can improve the service that you provide. It also gives you the opportunity to reflect on what you are good at as well as what you are not so good at, so that you can see what areas you can improve in.
Professional development is an opportunity to reflect, share common goals, support each other as well as learn from others knowledge, expertise and experience. Regular supervision and training of staff can lead to reduced sickness and absence, it can improve the service that they provide and allow them to reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses. It will eventually lead to an increase in accountability and motivation in the workplace and improve recruitment and retention of current members of staff. The members of staff will improve in the service they provide and be more confident.
Professional development also assists in the everyday pressures and challenges that are faced in our line of work, and enables us to deliver appropriate and relevant care to our service users.
1.2
Potential barriers to professional development may be a lack of facility with language or literacy and members of staff may be embarrassed that others may learn of this. Dyslexia and learning difficulties may make professional development a longer more intense learning path.
Another barrier may be that members of staff may already think they hold the relevant knowledge they require to fulfil their jobs from many years of being in the profession.
Age can always be a major barrier to someone’s professional development as if a member of staff is of an older age they may be reluctant to learn new skills as the number of years they have left before retirement may be short. So they see it as a waste of time and
Outcome 1 – Understand principles of professional development
1.1
The important of continually improving knowledge and practice is that you can ensure that you are aware of any new relevant legislation and also you can improve the service that you provide. It also gives you the opportunity to reflect on what you are good at as well as what you are not so good at, so that you can see what areas you can improve in.
Professional development is an opportunity to reflect, share common goals, support each other as well as learn from others knowledge, expertise and experience. Regular supervision and training of staff can lead to reduced sickness and absence, it can improve the service that they provide and allow them to reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses. It will eventually lead to an increase in accountability and motivation in the workplace and improve recruitment and retention of current members of staff. The members of staff will improve in the service they provide and be more confident.
Professional development also assists in the everyday pressures and challenges that are faced in our line of work, and enables us to deliver appropriate and relevant care to our service users.
1.2
Potential barriers to professional development may be a lack of facility with language or literacy and members of staff may be embarrassed that others may learn of this. Dyslexia and learning difficulties may make professional development a longer more intense learning path.
Another barrier may be that members of staff may already think they hold the relevant knowledge they require to fulfil their jobs from many years of being in the profession.
Age can always be a major barrier to someone’s professional development as if a member of staff is of an older age they may be reluctant to learn new skills as the number of years they have left before retirement may be short. So they see it as a waste of time and