Professional development

CHCPRP006 Lead own professional development

This unit is about analysing your own values, goals and professional well-being as part of an ongoing review for sustaining professional effectiveness. It includes the ability to create a self-directed professional development plan that incorporates strategies to enhance the coherence and effectiveness of practice.

This unit applies to professionals or managers who operate with autonomy in roles in the community sector.

 

How you will be assessed

RE CA

You will be assessed on the job by:

Show your assessor:

  1. your self-evalation
  2. your professional development plan
  3. your personal research with strategies to address professional practice issues

You must have:

  1. Engaged in a structured process of critical analysis and professional reflection that includes:
    1. evidence-based analysis of your values, goals, current practice and their coherence
    2. research of current and emerging best practice, trends and skills requirements
    3. creation of a professional development plan that includes strategies to enhance effectiveness and coherence of practice
  2. Developed strategies to address at least three different professional practice issues.

 

Interview/assignment questions

RK

  1. What legal and ethical considerations affect independent professional practice? (E.g. codes of practice, duty of care, work role boundaries – responsibilities and limitations.)
  2. Explain each of these requirements for professional well being:
    1. work/life balance
    2. emotional well being
    3. physical well being
    4. workplace health
    5. personal skills.
  3. What is current best practice in your area of professional practice?
  4. What trends in skills requirements are emerging in your area of practice?
  5. Explain how to:
    1. Create a personal development plan
    2. Set personal goals
    3. Set realistic timeframes
    4. Measure progress and performance.
  6. Your analysis of your values, goals, current practice must be "evidence-based." What comprises "evidence"? How objective is it?
  7. What kinds of personal and professional development opportunities and options are available to you? How can you access them?
  8. What kinds of work and practices can improve personal performance?
  9. What sustainability factors affect independent professional practice? Consider:
    1. environmental,
    2. economic,
    3. workforce and
    4. social sustainability.
  10. In professional practice when working with complex issues, how are conflict and cohesion manifest? How they can be managed and minimized? Give at least two examples.
  11. How are critical thinking and problem solving techniques used to analyze complex and conflicting information? Give at least two examples.

Note: Your assessor may also ask you a variety of what if questions.

 

Detailed requirements

1. Review your professional goals and values. El 1/PC, RS, L Id

  1. Reflect on your personal values in a professional context.
  2. Re-confirm your professional goals.
  3. Evaluate your own values and goals against professional objectives and relevant codes of ethics, using a range of valid evidence.
  4. Analyse the coherence between your job functions, values and goals.
  5. Determine strategies to improve coherence and manage areas of conflict.

2. Review the effectiveness of your practice. El 2/PC, RS L Id

  1. Assess your professional attainments and the skills and knowledge involved.
  2. Evaluate areas where you could improve your professional practice and required skills and knowledge.
  3. Research and integrate information about current best practice and likely future needs and trends.
  4. Determine impacts of practice on yourself and others through self reflection.
  5. Identify coherence between professional practice, values, achievement of goals and work outcomes.
  6. Create a plan and put it into practice to develop required skills, knowledge and coherence.

3. Maintain your professional well being. El 3/PC, RS. L Id

  1. Evaluate requirements to maintain your professional well being in the context of individual practice.
  2. Develop strategies to maintain your professional well being.
  3. Pro-actively identify options and ask for support, where necessary, to maintain your professional well being.
  4. To maintain your professional well being, be pro-active in identifying options and ask for support if you need it.

4. Sustain your professional effectiveness. El 1/PC, RS. L Id

  1. Make reflection and review an integral part of your ongoing professional practice.
  2. Engage with professionals within and beyond your own area of practice to develop your ideas and practice further .
  3. Identify and access professional support and development opportunities for your areas of need.
  4. Adjust your work processes and practice to improve your professional outcomes.

5. Other.

  1. Manage tasks and contingencies on the job
  2. N/a Follow Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards, and industry codes of practice.

 

Code for unit reqts:
CA: Conditions of assessment
El/PC: Element & criteria
RE: Required evidence
RK: Required knowledge
RS: Required skills

Code for Foundation skills:
L: Learning
Id: Identify beliefs & thinking
R: Reading
W: Writing

N: Numeracy
O: Oral communication
N: Navigate world of work
In: Interact with others
G: Get work done