10. Personal Development and Learning
Keeping up to date with changes in practice and participating in lifelong learning, personal and professional development for one’s self and colleagues through supervision, appraisal and reflective practice.
‘This capability focuses on the need for the practitioner to take an active role in their own personal and professional development. In the same way that service users should be viewed as active partners in their care, not passive recipients, practitioners should be active participants in their own development.’
(Department of Health 2004)
What this means is: Keeping up to date with changes in the way that services are delivered. Taking part in learning throughout the whole of your life. Making sure that you (and the people you work with) get advice and support through supervision, regular reviews of progress and opportunities to think about the way that things are done.