The importance of reflective practice to improve the quality of the service we provide it is to focus on what has worked well and what needs improving. Also for us to use a different approach and to apply it when needed. We may need to consider new approaches and new ways of learning to help us develop and progress in our careers, and achieve a greater self awareness and the best support we can provide to the people we support, meeting care standards and expectations in social care at all times. By constantly reflecting on our practices we can assess where we may be lacking in skills and knowledge and we can update these regularly to keep our services up to date and as supportive as possible.
• Explain how standards inform reflective practice in adult social care.
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They will then liaise with the locality manager and arrange for a review date where these strengths will be discussed about. Our managers may even decide on additional training to better the staff, ie diplomas in health and social care.
• • Areas for development
Where areas of development are needed, the senior support worker will address these areas with us, he /she will contact the relevant people i.e locality manager and maybe training department, together they will arrange for all training to be undertaken at a suitable time for the staff. If the areas of development are about the way we conduct ourselves or attitudes we will be spoken to accordingly and explained to that this is unexceptable, we will be given a timescale to improve, if this is not met then the locality manger is informed where we may face a