Personal Development in Care Settings
Plan your own development, use feedback and reflection, build your core skills, and record your progress as a care worker.
A short presenter-led introduction to “Personal Development in Care Settings” will appear here.
About this course
This course covers Care Certificate Standard 2, Your personal development. You will learn how learning needs are identified and a personal development plan is agreed, how feedback, supervision and appraisal help you improve, what literacy, numeracy, communication and digital skills your role needs, how to reflect on your work and measure yourself against published standards, and how to use learning opportunities, record your progress and understand why continuing professional development matters. Five modules, eighteen lessons, around two hours, finishing with an assessment and a SupportiveBridge certificate.
What you'll learn
- By the end of this module, you will be able to describe how your own learning needs are identified and how a personal development plan is agreed and who takes part, and you will know how to contribute to your own plan (Care Certificate Standard 2, outcome 2.1).
- By the end of this module, you will be able to explain why feedback from others matters, describe where it comes from at work, and describe how feedback can develop your knowledge, skills and understanding (Care Certificate Standard 2, criteria 2.1b and 2.2d).
- By the end of this module, you will be able to describe the level of literacy, numeracy, communication and digital skills your role needs, and find information and support to check and develop each one (Care Certificate Standard 2, criteria 2.2a and 2.2b).
- By the end of this module, you will be able to describe how reflecting on a situation or learning activity improves your knowledge, skills and understanding, and know how to measure your own knowledge and performance against relevant standards (Care Certificate Standard 2, criteria 2.2c and 2.2e).
- By the end of this module, you will be able to list the learning opportunities available to you and how to use them, know how to record your progress, and explain why continuing professional development matters (Care Certificate Standard 2, criteria 2.2f, 2.2g and 2.2h).