LO1 Explain the role of reflection in health and social care practice.

• STUDENT NAME AND ID NUMBER

• Qualification: Pearson BTEC Level 4 Higher National Certificate in HealthcarePractice for England (Healthcare Management)

• ACADEMIC YEAR: 2022 – 2023

• Unit 2: Demonstrating Professional Principles and Values in Health and Social Care Practice

• Assignment Title: Becoming a Professional and Reflective Practitioner in HSC settings.

• Type of Assignment: Essay

• Weighting: 100%

INTRODUCTION

Reflecting on our daily activities is an automatic process: it is part of human nature, and something conducted often unconsciously. Reflective practice involves self-observation and evaluation with the goal of refining practice on an ongoing basis. Reflecting on what we do is a fundamental skill that helps us to develop, improve personally and professionally. It is an active, dynamic process that also helps develop confidence in our ability to perform our daily working practice and to become proactive, professional leaders. The art of reflection is a tool that students will carry with them through and beyond their educational journeys and is a requisite for many roles in the sector. Developing the necessary skills early helps students to be prepared for their career progression pathways. This unit is intended to run alongside other units in this qualification in order that students may gather evidence to compile a Professional Learning and Development Portfolio (PLAD) which captures evidence of learning and development against a framework of Practice Themes which forms the essential core running through the unit. The unit aims to develop the skills and knowledge necessary for students to reflect on their own and others’ daily practice and improve students’ own practice and professional development.

Learning Outcomes

• LO1 Explain the role of reflection in health and social care practice.
• LO2 Use the Practice Themes as a framework for reflection.
• LO3 Demonstrate active, ongoing, critical reflection of learning experiences.
• LO4 Assess the overall success of own reflective journey and consider future career pathway. Important: The Unit 2 is 30 Credit Value

This assignment consists of two activities.

Activity 1 (LO1, LO2)

Format: Essay Word count 2500

This activity requires the submission of an ‘Essay’ that will explain the role of reflection in health and social care practice by using the practice themes as a framework for reflection and assess the overall success of own reflective journey and consider future career pathway.

Activity 2 (LO3, LO4)

Format: LO3 (P6) Form HCP 4 – Tracking of Practice Evidence Against the Practice Themes

Format: LO4: Essay & Personal and Professional Development Forms & SMART goal setting template (PDP)

This activity requires the submission of HCP 4 and PPD forms that will produce a portfolio of practice-based evidence of reflection using the practice theme as a framework and demonstrate active, ongoing, and critical reflection of learning experiences in health and social care setting.

Note: HCP 4 and PPD forms have been uploaded on the Moodle. The learner must download the forms and fill out with relevant information.

Activity 1 (LO1, LO2,)

You are required to write an essay, which should be word processed and may contain mixture of text and relevant diagrams, tables, and illustrations. Provide information to the following:

LO1 Explain the role of reflection in health and social care practice.

• Evaluation on how own reflections can impact on personal and professional development and that of individuals using health, care, or support services.
• Review the ways that reflective practice is applied in health, care,or support service environments.
• Explain the purpose of reflection in health and social care practice.
• Describe models and tools that can be used for reflection in health and social care practice

• Assess the effectiveness of the plan in supporting the development of own reflective practice skills.
• Produce a plan for reflecting on own learning and development using the practice themes and other assurance indicators.
• Explain how the practice themes can be used to underpin reflection in learning and practice.
• Illustrate in detail the links between the practice themes and other performance indicators.

Assignment Submission Format (Essay)

To do this

• Use a cover page.
• Use pictures/images (when possible).
• Use at least 1.5 spacing and Times New Roman / Arial font size 12. 
• Use headings, paragraphs, and subsections as appropriate.
• Support the work with research and in-text citations.
• Use the Harvard Referencing Style for in-text citation and reference list.
• Provide a reference list using the Harvard referencing system.

Practical Learning, Assessment, and Development (PLAD) and Work- Experience

Activity 2 (LO3 & LO4)

LO3: In this activity, the student is required to produce an essay and upload a completed

word processed HCP4 form to the Personal Learning and Development Portfolio

(PLAD) as indicated below.

LO3: Demonstrate active, ongoing, critical reflection of learning experiences To do this

• Evaluate own holistic professional learning and development through practice. Essay
• Analyse own performance and learning using the framework of practice themes and other quality performance measures. Essay
• Explain methods used to gain evidence of effective reflective practice in own area of work practice. Essay
• Produce a portfolio of practice-based evidence of reflection using the practice themes as a framework. HCP 4 Form

LO4: Assess the overall success of own reflective journey and consider future career pathway.

To do this

• Evaluate own holistic professional learning and development through practice - Essay
• Assess own personal learning and development in terms of its contribution to own journey towards a future career pathway - Essay
• Review evidence gathered in own portfolio regarding its contribution to own personal and professional development - Essay
• Produce targets for the development of own professional career pathway – PDP Form

Form HCP 4 – Tracking of Practice Evidence Against the Practice Themes

Unit 2: Demonstrating Professional Principles and Values in Health and Social Care (LO3.P6)

Practice Theme 1: Law, Regulation and Ethical Practice

Evidence of experience of working in line with regulated ways of working and duties in supporting and caring for individuals and others including:

• 1 responsibilities and duty of role
• 2 case management
• 3 supervision and teaching
• 4 personal development
• 5 team working
• 6 assessment of individual’s needs
• 7 communication strategies
• 8 person centred personal care and wellbeing 9 physiological care
• 10 risk management Evidence of taking personal responsibility Evidence of working independently within defined parameters of practice Using initiative in a variety of situations

Practice Theme 2: Professional values, attitudes and behaviour in HSC practice evidenced through

• Exploring own values, attitudes and behaviours and how they impact on the work done with others
• The values, attitudes and behaviours of others and how to promote positive working and caring relationships
• Exploring own communication style and how to use and adapt communications to different audiences reflecting individual needs of others
• Communicating purposefully and appropriately using different forms; verbal, written, electronic, non-verbal
• Exercising own skills, attitudes and behaviours to support personal development of self and others
• Commitment to adopting a person-centred approach: working with colleagues and individuals to promote quality care and services that ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of individuals Demonstrating courage to challenges faced in different contexts and be adaptable to change

• Carrying out roles and responsibilities in ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of colleagues, service users and others visiting the premises
• Own roles and responsibilities following and adhering to safeguarding and protection e.g. Whistle blowing, recording and reporting, knowing when to escalate concerns and seek support

• Own fair and equitable treatment of and response to individual service users and others, inside and outside own work setting, regardless of their personal defining characteristics
• Making adjustments to own working practices, behaviour and approach to meet the needs of individual service users and their loved ones
• Making adjustments to own working practices, behaviour and approach to meet the needs of the organisation, colleagues and other professionals
• Actively valuing and promoting the individuality, diversity and inclusion of others to include: age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sex, religion, culture and other protected characteristics

Practice Theme 5: Promoting physical and mental health and wellbeing in HSC practice evidenced through

• Demonstration of knowledge and skills in supporting individual needs of service users
• Knowledge of different needs and possible outcomes where quality support and care is not provided
• Developing and sharing strategies for disseminating awareness to others of needs of individual service users using evidence-based practice

• Use of IT technologies, e.g., healthcare specific technology
• Technologies used in GP practices
• Administering medications
• Taking, recording and interpreting accurate physiological measurements from patients or service users
• Office work and other day to day activities

LO4: Personal and Professional Development Forms

Professional career action plan (LO4)

My professional career pathway is

Practical Learning, Assessment, and Development (PLAD)

PLAD: A portfolio of practical learning, assessment, and development (PLAD) is expected to be completed for this unit and throughout your learning for the Level 4 component of your qualification. The PLAD should be presented as a PDF file, showing development in practical work, and learning on placement (which may include scanned or photographed physical work). Links to any separate video files should be included within the PDF. When presenting examples of physical work, attention should be made to using appropriate lighting, shooting angles and general views to present the qualities of the work clearly. Your PLAD will consist of several forms and records listed in the PLAD guidance. (PLAD) which contains evidence of your practice, development, and reflections in learning through work over the course of the Level 4 element of this qualification. Your portfolio should include reflections that reflect the six themes and other quality performance measures and should also combine reflections from other units taken as part of this qualification.

Six Practice Themes as a Framework for Reflection

Theme 1. Law, Regulation and Ethical Practice:

• Evidence of understanding and experience of working in line with regulated ways of working and duties in supporting and caring for individuals and others, e.g., responsibilities and duty of role, case management, supervision and teaching, personal development, team working, assessment of individual’s needs, communication strategies, personal centred care and wellbeing, physiological care, risk management, equality and diversity and quality care procedures
• Evidence of taking personal responsibility, working independently within defined parameters of practice
• Using initiative in a variety of situations and performing a range of skills consistent with own roles, responsibilities, and professional values

• Exploring own values, attitudes, and behaviors and how they impact on the work done with others
• The values, attitudes, and behaviors of others and how to promote positive working and caring relationships
• Exploring own communication style and how to use and adapt communications to different audiences reflecting individual needs of others
• Communicating purposefully and appropriately using different forms, verbal, written, electronic, non-verbal
• Exercising own skills attitudes and behaviors to support personal development of self and others ▪ Commitment to adopting a person-centred approach, working with colleagues and individuals to promote quality care and services that ensure the health, safety, and wellbeing of individuals
• Demonstrating courage to challenges faced in different contexts and be adaptable to change

• Carrying out roles and responsibilities in ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of colleagues, service users and others visiting the premises
• Own roles and responsibilities following and adhering to principles of safeguarding and protection, e.g., whistleblowing, recording and reporting, knowing when to escalate concerns and seek support

• Own fair and equitable treatment of and response to individual service users and others, inside and outside own work setting, regardless of their personal defining characteristics
• Adjusting own working practices, behavior, and approach to meet the needs of individual service users and their loved ones
• Actively valuing and promoting the individuality, diversity, and inclusion of others to include age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sex, religion, culture, and other protected characteristics

• Demonstration of knowledge and skills in supporting individual needs of service users
• Knowledge of different needs and possible outcomes where quality support and care are not provided
• Developing and sharing strategies for disseminating awareness to others of needs of individual service users using evidence-based practice

• Use of IT technologies, e.g., healthcare-specific technology
• Technologies used in GP practices
• Administering medications
• Taking, recording, and interpreting accurate physiological measurements from patients or service users
• Identifying statistical trends and use of statistics in research
• Office work and other day-to-day activities

Academic Integrity (Note to avoid Plagiarism)

Academic integrity is a fundamental expectation for all college/university students and while it is acknowledged that mitigating circumstances might be raised as factors in student behavior, cheating cannot be disregarded. GBS definition of plagiarism, as contained in GBS Academic Good Practice and Academic Misconduct Policy and Procedure has been expanded to make explicit that copyingfrom texts or web sources and copying work from other students constitutes plagiarism.

“Plagiarism is the act of taking or copying someone else’s work, including another student, and presenting it as if it were your own. Plagiarism is said to occur when ideas, texts, theories, data, created artistic artefacts or other material are presentedwithout acknowledgement so that the person considering this work is given the impression that what they have before them is the student’s own original work when it is not. Plagiarism also occurs where a student’s own work is represented without being properly referenced. Plagiarism is a form of cheating and is a disciplinary offence.”

Plagiarism is easy to avoid by making sure you reference all the sources ofmaterial that you use in the completion of your work. Pearson has developedGuidelines on Harvard Referencing which are available in Academic SupportArea for Students on Moodle (VLE) as well as on respective unit pages.

If you are concerned about referencing techniques, please draw the matter to your Unit Lecturer or Academic Support Team on: [email protected] so that you may receive extra advice. Group coursework may be designed so that the contribution of each student is identifiable, but inclusion of plagiarised material is still the responsibility of the whole group. All members of the group should exercise vigilance to ensure that work is correctly referenced; in group-work, students have. a shared responsibilityfor the assignment.