RCC3.14 Engage in professional development in residential childcare settings : Assessment Plan

Assessment Plan

In this unit, you will gain an understanding of what is required for competence within your own job role in a residential childcare setting. This includes the duties, responsibilities, boundaries and expectations of your own job role and the importance of your own resilience, maturity and emotional intelligence when working in a residential childcare setting. The unit will enable you to reflect on and evaluate your own practice through knowledge of the cyclical process of reflection, evaluating your own knowledge and understanding against relevant standards and your own performance using feedback. You will be able to engage with professional supervision to plan and review your own development and use reflective practice in order to contribute to your professional development.

Learning outcome 1 will be written in either essay format or on the workbook provided.

Learning outcome 1

Understand what is required for competence in own job role in a residential childcare setting.

The duties, responsibilities and boundaries of own job role: contractual responsibilities e.g. hours, lines of reporting; specific roles and responsibilities e.g. behaviour support, supporting children and young people with special educational needs, supporting bilingual children and young people; compliance with policies and procedures of setting e.g. behaviour, children and young people protection, health and safety; keeping up to date with changes to procedures; keeping up to date with changes to practice.

Expectations about own job role as expressed in relevant standards; Special educational needs and disability code of practice; National Care Standards; standards relevant to own role; Quality standards for the health and well-being of looked after children; national occupational standards for Learning and Development (NOS CCLD), national occupational standards for Learning, Development and Support Services (NOS LDSS) in relation to own duties and responsibilities e.g. role to support child or young person with special educational needs, expectations to meet standards.

The importance of own resilience, maturity and emotional intelligence when working in a residential childcare setting: ability to emphasize; respect individuals; non-judgmental attitude; development of own practice, skills and knowledge; application of different approaches; using supervision effectively; ability to reflect.

Ways to ensure that personal attitude or beliefs do not obstruct the expected standard of own work: regular reflection; structured approach to practice; view from different perspectives; self-awareness of values, beliefs that affect approach to practice; recognition of conflicts between own values and beliefs; respect and fairness in attitude.

Please remember to reference any sources of information used in your written work.

Your assessor will arrange to come and do an observation of your supervision and will also ask questions or conduct a profession discussion to cover learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, and 5.  She may ask you to complete a reflective account.