Understand Principles of Professional Development
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Unit 502: Promote Professional Development Unit code: SHC 52
Unit summary
The purpose of this unit is to assess the learner’s knowledge, understanding and skills required to promote the professional duty to maintain the currency of knowledge and skills and the need to continually reflect on and improve practice.
1. Understand principles of professional development
1.1 Explain the importance of continually improving knowledge and practice An important principle of CPD is that it includes much more than going on courses. All organisations need to develop a learning culture with work based learning at the heart of this. 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 your knowledge and practice in order to remain aware and keep updated regards current guidelines, legislations and standards relative to your practice. As manager it is your role and responsibility to ensure staff are kept up to date with and 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’ (written in 1998) 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
©HSC DIPLOMA HELP 2012 modernisation of the social services. More recently there has been a consultation paper called ‘Independence, Wellbeing 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
Unit 502: Promote Professional Development Unit code: SHC 52
Unit summary
The purpose of this unit is to assess the learner’s knowledge, understanding and skills required to promote the professional duty to maintain the currency of knowledge and skills and the need to continually reflect on and improve practice.
1. Understand principles of professional development
1.1 Explain the importance of continually improving knowledge and practice An important principle of CPD is that it includes much more than going on courses. All organisations need to develop a learning culture with work based learning at the heart of this. 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 your knowledge and practice in order to remain aware and keep updated regards current guidelines, legislations and standards relative to your practice. As manager it is your role and responsibility to ensure staff are kept up to date with and 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’ (written in 1998) 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
©HSC DIPLOMA HELP 2012 modernisation of the social services. More recently there has been a consultation paper called ‘Independence, Wellbeing 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