REFLECTIVE
PRACTITIONER
How to develop skills of self awareness
and analyse skills
Completion of Placement portfolio
Objectives
To know how to organise portfolio sections
To know the evidence logs that need to be in each section
To review Gibbs Reflective cycle.
To work in pairs (peer assessment) to review a unit and placement reflection.
AIM: TO KNOW HOW TO COMPLETE
VOCATIONAL PORTFOLIO
1 reflective entry every day you attend placement
what % of your attendance?
MAKE REGULAR REFLECTIVE ENTRIES IN YOUR
PERSONAL JOURNAL OF YOUR EXPERIENCE IN
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PLACEMENT.
Vocational log
Placement details
Contact details
Authentication of names and signatures
Induction checklist
List of activities completed
Time logs
Witness Logs
Observation Report
Placement report
PORTFOLIO OF EVIDENCE FROM PLACEMENT THAT
DEMONSTRATES THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR OWN
PRACTICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTING.
Reflect on the skills you have gained and give examples of
how you have put this into practice to make a difference to
teams and individuals.
BE ABLE TO REFLECT UPON AND PLAN FOR OWN
DEVELOPMENT.
Use your own self reflection of your practice, what you did well in
different situations, how you could do better, considering different
placement requirements.
Also reflect on the comments in your time logs, witness logs,
observation and placement reports from staff you have worked
with.
EVALUATE HOW YOUR OWN EFFECTIVENESS
AS A CARER HAS DEVELOPED AS A RESULT OF
PLACEMENT EXPERIENCE.
The model mostly used in Nursing and Social Work
CPD records.
GIBBS REFLECTIVE CYCLE
First, describe the situation in detail. At this stage, you simply want to know what
happened – you'll draw conclusions later. ( Witness logs etc)
Consider asking questions like these to help describe the situation:
When and where did this happen?
Why were you there?
Who else was there?
What happened?
What did you do?
What did other people do?
What was the result of this situation?
STEP 1: DESCRIPTION
Use questions like these to guide you:
What did you feel before this situation took place?
What did you feel while this situation took place?
What do you think other people felt during this situation?
What did you feel after the situation?
What do you think about the situation now?
What do you think other people feel about the situation now?
Tip 1:
It might be difficult for some people to talk honestly about their feelings. Use
Empathic Listening at this stage try to connect emotionally, and to try to see
things from others points of view.
Tip 2:
You can use the Perceptual Positions technique to you see the situation from other
people's perspectives.
STEP 2: FEELINGS
Now you need to look objectively at what approaches worked, and which ones
didn't.
Ask yourself:
What was positive about this situation?
What was negative?
What went well?
What didn't go so well?
What did you and other people do to contribute to the situation (either positively or
negatively)?
If appropriate, use a technique such as the 5 Why’s to help you uncover the root cause
of the issue.
STEP 3: EVALUATION
Once you've evaluated the situation, you can draw conclusions about
what happened.
Think about the situation again, using the information that you've
collected so far. Then ask questions like these:
How could this have been a more positive experience for everyone
involved?
If you were faced with the same situation again, what would you do
differently?
What skills do you need to develop, so that you can handle this type of
situation better?
STEP 4: CONCLUSIONS
You should now have some possible actions that you can take to deal with
similar situations more effectively in the future.
In this last stage, you need to come up with a plan so that you can make
these changes.
Once you've identified the areas to work on, and agree a date on which
you will review progress.
STEP 5: ACTION
This tool is structured as a cycle, reflecting an ongoing coaching relationship. Whether you use it
this way depends on the situation and your relationship with the person involved in your coaching.
Key Points
Graham Gibbs published his Reflective Cycle in 1988.
There are five stages in the cycle:
1. Description.
2. Feelings.
3. Evaluation.
4. Conclusions.
5. Action.
You can use it to help yourself and team members think about how they deal with situations, so
that they can understand what they did well, and so that they know where they need to improve.
TIP
Either:
Ask each other the questions and record the answer, written
or recorded.
Each complete the reflections separately then review each
others, feedback suggestions to improve if questions are not
followed.
Help each other to correct SPaG, and ensure submission
format is correct.
WORK IN PAIRS
Objectives
Do you know how to organise portfolio sections
Do you know the evidence logs that need to be in each section
Have you used Gibbs Reflective cycle.
Have you work in pairs (peer assessment) to review a unit and placement
reflection.
DO YOU: TO KNOW HOW TO
COMPLETE VOCATIONAL
PORTFOLIO?