Professional Development, Supervision & Performance Management

The unit ‘Professional Development, Supervision & Performance Management’ for the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care explores the skills and knowledge needed to promote and implement the personal development of self and others. It also looks at related topics including self-reflection, supervision and performance management.

There are 4 learning outcomes and a total of 23 assessment criteria.

• 1. Understand principles of professional development in adult care settings
  • 1.1 Importance of continuously improving own knowledge and practice and that of the team
  • 1.2 Importance of reflective practice in improving performance and the use of models to support the reflective practitioner
  • 1.3 Mechanisms and resources that support learning and development in adult care settings
  • 1.4 Technology used in supporting learning activities
  • 1.5 Potential barriers and constraints in relation to professional development in adult care
  • 1.6 Factors to consider when selecting and commissioning activities for keeping knowledge and practice up to date
• 2. Understand the purpose of supervision in adult care
  • 2.1 Principles and scope of professional supervision
  • 2.2 Theories and models of professional supervision and developing policies
  • 2.3 Ways in which legislation, codes of practice and agreed ways of working inform supervision
  • 2.4 Impacts of research findings, critical reviews and enquiries and how these can be used within professional supervision
  • 2.5 Uses of professional supervision in performance management
  • 2.6 Factors which can result in a power imbalance in professional supervision and how to address them
• 3. Provide professional supervision
  • 3.1 Establish agreement with the supervisee on key areas
  • 3.2 Support supervisees to reflect on their practice using the range of information available and their own insights
  • 3.3 Provide constructive feedback that can be used to improve practice
  • 3.4 Review and revise targets to meet objectives of work settings and individual objectives of supervisees
  • 3.5 Support supervisees to explore different methods of addressing challenging situations in their work
  • 3.6 Record agreed supervision decisions
  • 3.7 Adapt personal approaches to professional supervision in light of feedback from supervisees and others
• 4. Understand how to manage individual’s performance in adult care settings.
  • 4.1 Procedures which address performance management and related issues
  • 4.2 Meeting current legislative and regulatory requirements
  • 4.3 Possible outcomes in disciplinary cases