Unit 502 Promote Professional Development
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care
Promote professional development
Learning Outcome Assessment
What does this Assessment Cover?
The purpose of this unit is to assess the knowledge and understanding required to promote the professional duty to maintain your knowledge and skills and the need to continually reflect on and improve practice.
How are we going to achieve the evidence for these units?
SHC 52 – Promote professional development –
Assessment covers: 1.1-1.4, 4.1-4.4
Command Words – Page 20
Please read the meaning of these words as they will help you complete the work booklet
Learning outcome1: Understand principles of professional development
1. Explain the importance of continually improving knowledge and practice within your role
(SHC 52 – 1.1)
It is important that I strive to continually improve my knowledge and practice within my role to ensure that I remain up to date at all times with new policies and procedures that lead the way in health and social care.
Continued professional development can be a benefit in many ways such as:
It helps me to ensure that I am offering the best service I can to service users, carers and families
It provides a challenge for me and helps me to stay motivated it reassures local authorities and the public that I am and will remain competent in my role it helps me to update skills and knowledge and develop expertise needed
CPD gives me the confidence I need to identify areas of development that are relevant to my role and to encourage me to learn and develop from feedback from others
Other benefits to CPD are it helps me to maintain my current position and from a business point of view it can help me to get ahead of the competition.
CPD has been increasingly acknowledged and in some cases has become a mandatory activity.
My own experience of CPD has been beneficial to my role, undertaking this qualification in particular has widened my knowledge base around
Promote professional development
Learning Outcome Assessment
What does this Assessment Cover?
The purpose of this unit is to assess the knowledge and understanding required to promote the professional duty to maintain your knowledge and skills and the need to continually reflect on and improve practice.
How are we going to achieve the evidence for these units?
SHC 52 – Promote professional development –
Assessment covers: 1.1-1.4, 4.1-4.4
Command Words – Page 20
Please read the meaning of these words as they will help you complete the work booklet
Learning outcome1: Understand principles of professional development
1. Explain the importance of continually improving knowledge and practice within your role
(SHC 52 – 1.1)
It is important that I strive to continually improve my knowledge and practice within my role to ensure that I remain up to date at all times with new policies and procedures that lead the way in health and social care.
Continued professional development can be a benefit in many ways such as:
It helps me to ensure that I am offering the best service I can to service users, carers and families
It provides a challenge for me and helps me to stay motivated it reassures local authorities and the public that I am and will remain competent in my role it helps me to update skills and knowledge and develop expertise needed
CPD gives me the confidence I need to identify areas of development that are relevant to my role and to encourage me to learn and develop from feedback from others
Other benefits to CPD are it helps me to maintain my current position and from a business point of view it can help me to get ahead of the competition.
CPD has been increasingly acknowledged and in some cases has become a mandatory activity.
My own experience of CPD has been beneficial to my role, undertaking this qualification in particular has widened my knowledge base around