302 Task A Guidance

302 Task A Guidance

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.

What is reflective practice?

Reflective practice is a process by which you: stop and think about your practice, consciously analyse your decision making and draw on theory and relate it to what you do in practice.

Why is reflective practice important?

 It is the opportunity to look over what you have done, see what needs to be improved and what worked well. Make a record of what went well and look for ways to improve the things that need to go better.

How reflective practice contributes to improving the quality of service provision.

If workers think about what they are doing and what they can do to make it better their work will improve and so will the service provision.

How standards can be used to help a social care worker reflect on their practice.

Standards help social care workers so they work in the same level as other social care workers or even their peers! It helps standardised the service they are giving to the community. By having a standard, they can always reflect with it and achieve the same standardised level. It's all about everyone giving their best to the community after all

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 meeting. In your notes, explain:

Why it is important for a social care worker to seek feedback on performance.

One reason why everyone wants feedback is to pursue improvement. In a social care worker's case, they need feedback so they can serve the community better. They might be able to find alternatives and new ideas so they can give more to the community. By giving feedbacks on their performance, it helps them to evaluate what should they stop doing or what should they constantly do

The different ways that people may react to receiving constructive feedback.

People may lose their composure and lash back or respond defensively to criticism. Others may become depressed or very anxious that they are not doing the job properly.

Why it is important for a social care worker to use the feedback to improve their practice.

Because feedback informs you of the areas of your work that may need fine tuning/further training or a different approach and also what you are doing very well and have been praised for by a client or two for instance. It also gives you the opportunity to ask what to do with the feedback, say, where to gain training required and when, how to improve on certain skills