Year 1 - Semester 1 Module: Personal and Professional Development Essay: Discuss the following in relation to choosing your work placement: Rationale for choice of placement Personal attitudes & beliefs and how they may impact on your placement Challenges you may encounter Lecturer: Siobhan Fogarty Word Count: 1056 While the job market is becoming more and more competitive it is in my best interest to do an unpaid work placement that will give me a head start looking for a paid job when I have
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I. Reflective Report II. Appendix A III.References My Placement journey has been one of many mixed emotions. I have found myself at times feeling very frustrated and despondent but on the upside I have been given opportunity to meet and learn from some very skilled and professional youth workers. My Placement began at my current workplace and I had completed 100 hours‚ but I was finding it hard to separate myself from my worker role to my student role also at times some minor
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INTRODUCTION In this essay‚ I will reflect upon my practice placements and discuss my development in relation to professional/ethical practice‚ care delivery‚ care management and personal/professional development. These are the four domains related to the learning outcomes required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC‚ 2004)) for entry in to the professional register. They are all concerned with promoting high standards of professional practice and good quality of patient’s care. I will also
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Housing Association. In 2010 the service contract went through the tender process and Nottingham Community Housing Association was awarded the contract and my employment contract was transferred under the TUPE regulations. I embraced the changes‚ so my work was consistent in my allocated projects‚ which were a shared house accommodating 8 medium- high risk service users and a block of 7 self-contained flats accommodating 7 low risk/ ready for move-on service users. Although the change of management did
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Reflective work Based on the feedback I received I could improve my essay but discussing about satisfaction theories and ways which lead to employee satisfaction. I could also discuss theories such as the goal setting theory‚ flow theory‚ job design and work environment. One of the major factors‚ which resulted in loss of marks‚ was the format and the referencing .I should have studied the correct way of referencing http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm for guidance. It was pointed out
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„visioning and goal-striving‟ and „action and monitoring‟. Even more fundamental to my personal and professional development than such invaluable learnings‚ however‚ is the fact that my placement with Aftercare has enabled me to achieve the over-riding ambition implicit but unstated in my Student Placement Learning and Supervision Contract‚ that of overcoming my previous fears of working with people suffering mental illnesses. In my relative ignorance of mental illnesses following the study
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Entering the field of social work was an uncertain journey for me. There were times when I questioned whether this was the right profession for me. Having a background in psychology has made me question quite often if I should venture back and continue with school psychology instead of Social work. Social work to me has always seemed to be quite intrusive. This year‚ working as a social worker intern has been frustrating‚ demanding and rewarding. I found it to be quite frustrating to sit with
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Reflective practice helps us to recognise the important links between theory and practice‚ and to appreciate the risks of treating them as if they were separate domains with little or no connection to each other (Thompson‚ 2009). This statement stresses the importance of both theory and practice‚ and if not used together can have damaging results. By highlighting the importance of my experiences‚ values and beliefs within social work practice‚ this assignment will provide a reflective analysis of
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and blend it with my learning during the college process. Firstly I would like to state that the views and experiences expressed in this essay are not general statements directed at the travelling community as a whole but just my own personal experiences with individuals‚ this also holds true for members of the settled community that I will discuss. In the essay I will give a brief outline of my history to date both as a social care worker and as a self-employed business person at the time. The
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223 S. 2nd Street Sunbury‚ Pa. 17801 The date TITLE OF YOUR ESSAY On February 24‚ 2010 my supervisor‚ Roy Love and I had a 45 minute Meeting concerning a few of the problems‚ which I feel was a bad Reflection of our ability to perform what was required of us at Congra. I felt the problem of fellow co-worker taking too much Time off‚ which was putting too much burden on the rest of the Of my co -workers. We also discussed the problem of a fellow Co-worker Performing the duties
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