Introduction

Care Certificate Standard 2 focuses on personal development and the responsibility health and social care workers have for maintaining and improving their knowledge, skills and working practice. This online course explains how feedback, supervision, reflection and continuing professional development can help workers improve the quality of care and support they provide. Learners will also explore how to identify development needs, create a personal development plan and use appropriate learning opportunities to support their professional growth.

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Aims

• This course aims to help learners understand:

  • Why continuing professional development is important
  • How their knowledge and skills affect the quality of care they provide
  • How to identify strengths and areas for development
  • The purpose of a personal development plan
  • How feedback can improve working practice
  • The importance of supervision and appraisal
  • How reflective practice supports learning
  • Where to find learning opportunities and professional support

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Objectives

• The Care certifications, which outline the essential skills you'll need to be competent when working in the health and social care sectors, can be utilised as part of your introduction.
• It is necessary to complete and assess each standard before you are able to work independently. This may be done gradually and should happen right at the beginning of your job.
• If you achieve the criterion, you could be permitted to carry out the tasks covered by it without direct supervision, while you might still require supervision in other contexts.

Using e-learning, this Care Certificate - Standard 2: Your Personal Development is provided online. Instant access to our interactive LMS, which provides round-the-clock study access, will be granted to students enrolled in the "Your Personal Development" course.

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What you will learn?

After completing this course, learners should be able to:

• Explain why personal development is important in health and social care
• Identify their current knowledge, skills and development needs
• Describe how literacy, numeracy and communication skills may affect their role
• Explain how to create and maintain a personal development plan
• Identify appropriate short-term and long-term development goals
• Use feedback from colleagues, managers and the people they support
• Explain the purpose of supervision and appraisal
• Describe how reflection can improve future practice
• Identify suitable learning resources and development opportunities

Personal Development Plans:

A personal development plan is a structured record of a worker’s learning and development needs, objectives and agreed actions.

Development goals should be relevant to the worker’s role and responsibilities. Wherever possible, goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.

The plan should be discussed and reviewed regularly through supervision, appraisal or another agreed workplace process.

Reflective Practice:

Reflective practice involves thinking carefully about experiences at work and considering what went well, what could be improved and what should be done differently in the future.

Reflection can help workers learn from feedback, incidents, successes and challenges. It should be used constructively and in accordance with confidentiality, data-protection and workplace requirements.

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Assessment

This online course supports the knowledge requirements of Care Certificate Standard 2. Learners should develop and review their personal development plan with their employer, manager or supervisor. Completion of the online course does not replace workplace supervision, appraisal or assessment of applicable skills and behaviours.. After completing the online learning materials, learners must complete a multiple-choice assessment. A minimum score of 80% is required to pass. Results are provided automatically after submission. Learners who do not achieve the required score may review the course materials and attempt the assessment again, subject to the course’s current retake policy. Avoid promotional wording such as “Be at ease even if you fail.”! The test is available for twenty (20) attempts. When you utilise all twenty (20) tries, you will need to purchase the same course again.

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Course Duration

• The online care course needs a minimum of one hour to complete. This can be a guide to the educational hours needed, and it depends on how quickly an individual can understand the course. The training is online. It may be displayed over multiple sessions or done in one session.

• Learners will have access to the present course for up to nine months from the date of joining. There's no pressure to finish the course in a short time.

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Certificate

Our nationally acclaimed online social care courses are approved by the Continuing Professional Development (CPD). You will receive a recognised certificate in PDF format as soon as your evaluation is finished, and it will be instantly available. Hard copies of the certificate are offered at a higher cost. For your future reference, all proof of completion and certification will be kept on file in our system.