...Diploma in Health & Social Care Level 3 | Unit number and title | Unit 44: Vocational Experience | Hand out Date | w/c 9th September 2013 | Hand in Date | 13th June 2014 | Learner Name | | Assessor name | Adelaide McLaughlin & New Lecturer (TBC) | | Assignment title | Vocational Experience | Criteria Assessed | P1 explain the structure and function of a health or social care organisationP2 report on own contributions to a specific team activity relating to health and social careP3 make regular reflective entries in a personal journal related to own contributions to work in a health and social care settingP4 present a portfolio of evidence from all placements that demonstrates the development of own practice in health and social care settingsP5 explain how continuing development of staff influences practice in settings.M1 assess how their contributions to the team influenced the success of the activityM2 assess how own development of knowledge, skills and understanding has made a difference to teams and individuals in health and social care settings M3 assess how continuing development of staff can enhance the care of patients/ users of services.D1 make recommendations as to how they could have adapted their own contributions to the team to enhance the success of the activityD2 evaluate how own effectiveness as a carer has developed as a result of workplace experiences. | The purpose of this assignment is to: to explore a health and social care organisation...
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...Diploma in Health & Social Care Level 3 | Unit number and title | Unit 44: Vocational Experience | Hand out Date | w/c 9th September 2013 | Hand in Date | 13th June 2014 | Learner Name | | Assessor name | Adelaide McLaughlin & New Lecturer (TBC) | | Assignment title | Vocational Experience | Criteria Assessed | P1 explain the structure and function of a health or social care organisationP2 report on own contributions to a specific team activity relating to health and social careP3 make regular reflective entries in a personal journal related to own contributions to work in a health and social care settingP4 present a portfolio of evidence from all placements that demonstrates the development of own practice in health and social care settingsP5 explain how continuing development of staff influences practice in settings.M1 assess how their contributions to the team influenced the success of the activityM2 assess how own development of knowledge, skills and understanding has made a difference to teams and individuals in health and social care settings M3 assess how continuing development of staff can enhance the care of patients/ users of services.D1 make recommendations as to how they could have adapted their own contributions to the team to enhance the success of the activityD2 evaluate how own effectiveness as a carer has developed as a result of workplace experiences. | The purpose of this assignment is to: to explore a health and social care organisation...
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...Work Experience M3 Strengths At my work placement my strengths were the ability to use my own initiative and I had a great motivation. On the first day I was introduced to the gym and I was told what kind of activities I would do, it included cleaning, tidying up, litter picking and maintenance around the gym. Each day I turned up I knew what I was doing so every morning I grabbed pair of gloves and bin bag and went outside to do my daily litter pick to make sure that the car park was clean, it was my strength as there was no litter about during my stay there. Cleaning was a big part of my duty as there was a lot of dust on the machines and it was visible so I made sure every 2 days that there was no dust on the machines so they remain clean. I paid attention to every possible detail and used my own initiative during boring moments in the gym so I decided to look for any loose objects hanged on to the wall and screwed the screws in as well as cleaning all the trophies and pictures in the gym. Area for improvement I could have improved on organisation because I used to turn up without a note pad and didn’t note down what I could do through the day. I could have also brought a bigger lunch with me because this job was very demanding and required a lot of physical work especially during tidying up the gym including lifting heavy weights and putting them back on the racks. I feel like I should have brought more water and food with me instead of 3 sandwiches. I could have tried...
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...................................................................................... Presentation ............................................................................................. 8 Important mistakes to avoid ......................................................... 10 Words which make an impact ................................................... 13 An example of a chronological and skills based CV .... 14 Check your CV ..................................................................................... 18 Further help .......................................................................................... 18 1 1. Introduction It is easy to produce a good generic CV that is a basic summary of your experiences. Recruiters can receive hundreds of these, so submitting one will not get you noticed. For your CV to succeed in getting you an interview it must contain evidence that you are the right for the role. If you are a research student or are looking for a part-time job read Effective CVS...
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...TOUR 140 – TOURISM CO-OP WORK EXPERIENCE REPORT On completing the 500 hours of your co-op work experience, you are asked to submit a written report. Inadequate reports will require re-writes before credit is assigned for TOUR 140. Report due: September 10, 2014 – Wednesday by 5pm. Turn in to Christy Dodds in CE318. Mandatory co-op debrief workshop: September 15, 2014 – Monday 6-9pm (LB322) Report Objectives 1. To allow students to re-visit original work objectives and evaluate them against their actual work experience. 2. To provide documentation of the co-op work experience to assist faculty in evaluating the work placement. 3. To provide a resource to assist future students in their co-op job search. 4. To provide faculty the ability to become familiar with your work term learning experience. Report Evaluation Criteria Your report should: Follow standard report format – the body of the document should use 12 point Ariel or Calibri only, use 1.5 spacing, set your margins to 2cm or 1” on all sides, include a table of contents and a cover page, include page numbers. Be factual and accurate; source if you are using information that is not your own Be free of spelling errors and typos Be between 5-8 pages in length. The Real Story The work term report is meant to do several things. It is a legacy piece long engrained in the community-based culture of the School of Tourism Management. First, your report out of the company/organization that you worked for, as well as the...
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...Every company needs a “signature experience” that sets it apart. By explicitly communicating what makes your firm unique, you can dramatically improve employee engagement and performance. What It Means to Work Here by Tamara J. Erickson and Lynda Gratton IT’S THE HR EQUIVALENT OF KEEPING UP | 104 Harvard Business Review March 2007 | hbr.org Jason Greenberg with the Joneses: In their quest to find and retain top talent, businesses often try to match competitors’ offers, ensuring that their compensation schemes, health care benefits, training programs, and other talent-management practices are in line with the rest of the industry’s. While this strategy may be useful for bringing job candidates to the door, it’s not necessarily the most effective way to usher the right people across the threshold – great employees who will be enthusiastic about their work and fiercely loyal to the organization and its mission. What It Means to Work Here Nor does marching in lockstep with industry standards prompt companies to consider what’s unique about their histories and values or potential employees’ attitudes about work. Certainly, reasonable pay and a breadth of health care options matter to prospective hires, as do the tasks they’ll have to perform. But people also choose jobs–and, more important, become engaged with their work – on the basis of how well their preferences and aspirations mesh with those of the organization. Imagine yours is one of three job...
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...The two articles that I have chosen to analyse deal with travel stress among business people and their career options and aspirations. “Executive travel stress: Perils of the road warrior” by Richard S DeFrank, Robert Konopaske, John M Ivancevich focuses on the concept of travel stress at the executive level, including the sources and the potential impact of stress before, during, and after travel. It also offers practical information for both organisations and individuals about how to prevent and deal with executive travel stress (DeFrank, Ivancevich & Konopaske, 2000). Managers have to travel nowadays more than ever before. Due to a fast globalisation process, executives have to be in several different places (i.e. countries, even continents) in a very small period of time. Michael Bonsignore, the CEO of Honeywell, explains that travel brings along not only negative factors such as sleep deprivation, time pressure and delays, unavoidable changes in eating habits but it has also advantages (DeFrank et al, 2000:58). “I learn a hell of a lot more doing this than sitting in my office reading historical information… Today we can’t be making decisions based on historical information because things are changing too fast” (DeFrank et al, 2000:58) said Michael Bonsignore. Apart this, travel represents a very important way for executive to learn new business techniques while travelling and even come up with new product ideas. According to a survey (DeFrank et al, 2000:59) taken in...
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...conflict in this case is a relationship conflict resulted mainly from a lack in the emotional intelligence from the Greek Team side. The Greek Team who are college students were making demeaning comments against the materials produced by the experienced workers without paying attention to the experienced worker’s feeling. 2. Using the conflict model in Chapter 11, a) identify the structural causes of the conflict There are two causes: I. Differentiation: There is a cultural difference between the young generation “ the Greek Team” and the older workers. The Greek team which are college students considered throwing the comments even if those comments are demeaning comments ,as described in the case, against the older worker’s work will be accepted. II. Communication Problem: The Greek Team members lacked the necessary skills of communication. It was supposed from them to communicate with the older workers diplomatically rather than arrogantly. Unfortunately, The Greek Team’s manner for the way of dealing with the older workers impacted negatively on the overall performance of Tamarack Industry and ultimately it may decrease customers satisfaction level. b) discuss the escalation of the conflict. As a part of the conflict episodes is the conflict escalation and this was shown obviously in our case. However, the conflict escalation passed through different stages. The stages are arranged based on the time of their appearance: • Stage 1: Low morale ...
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...INDUSTRIAL PLACEMENT HANDBOOK –PART 2 (PA003-5-3) CONTENTS Introduction 3 Internship Mechanism and Process Flow 7 Visiting Academic Supervisor/ Industrial Placement Handbook 12 Part 2-During Internship Appendix 1 – Logbook Template 18 Appendix 2– Logbook Cover Page 19 Post-Internship Appendix 3 – Content Guidelines for Industrial Placement Essay 20 Appendix 4 – Industrial Placement Report Cover Page 27 Appendix 5– Essay Clearance Form 28 Appendix 6 – Student Feedback Form 29 Assessment and Grading Appendix 7 – Industrial Placement Essay Assessment 31 Appendix 8 – Industrial Placement Visit Report Form 34 Appendix 9 – Industrial Placement Assessment Forms 36 Introduction 1. Industrial Experience Rationale The aim of the Industrial Experience programme is to enable students to gain industrial or professional learning experiences to develop transferable skills for employability and thereby to enhance their future value to employers. Familiarity with all common processes is essential and exposure at a practical level to a wide variety of processes is required at a level appropriate for young professional. Whilst it is clearly desirable for students to get a feel for the skills involved, the central aim is to achieve appreciation of business processes. Industrial training is a key component of learning...
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...Personal & Professional Development Overall Summary of Placements Over the past year, I have had work experience/placements with children and also adults with learning difficulties. As it has now came to the end of the academic year there are many different skills which I have gained as well as learning about many different parts of health and social care which I never knew before I went on my work placement in both the nursery unit and a supportive living accommodation. I am now going to produce an end of year reflection report concentrating on my personal development, academic development and professional development within work experience/placement. During the past year there are many things which I have learnt about myself which has impacted the work which I carry out in placement. I have learnt that it is important to have more confidence in myself and I have proved myself wrong on a number of occasions by thinking that I could not do something, however once I put my mind to it I was able to carry it out no problem. “Self-confidence is considered one of the most influential motivators and regulators of behaviour in people's everyday lives.” (Bandura, 1986). For example, when I went to my nursery unit placement, I did not think that I could cope with so many young children, however as much as I thought this once I got there and completed my first day, I was shocked to realise how easy it was compared to what I thought. Witnessing staff on how they dealt with it...
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...2 The effective mentor Key points r There are many aspects to the role of the mentor r A student’s welcome and induction is crucial in setting the tone for the placement r Active listening is a key skill in forming effective working relationships r The concept of toxic mentoring is a useful guide as to how not to do it! NMC 2008 Domains and outcomes for a mentor related to this chapter Establish effective working relationships r Demonstrate an understanding of factors that influence how students integrate into practice r Provide ongoing and constructive support to facilitate transition from one learning environment to another r Have effective professional and interprofessional working relationships to support learning for entry to the register Create an environment for learning r Act as a resource to facilitate personal and professional developments of others Context of practice r Set and maintain professional boundaries that are sufficiently flexible for providing interprofessional care Leadership r Be an advocate for students to support them accessing learning opportunities that meet their individual needs – involving a range of other professionals, patients, clients and carers r Prioritise work to accommodate support of students within their practice roles The effective mentor 17 The many roles of the mentor According to Homer’s Odyssey circa 800 BC, Mentor was the name of the person Odysseus asked to look after his son whilst he was...
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...A REPORT ON THE EXPERIENCE AGAINST THE OBJECTIVES SET OUT IN THE MODULE ACTION PLAN FOR 5ED004. BY KIMBERLEY WILLETTS DATE: 15/05/15 Acknowledgements I would like to thank my facilitator and the rest of the staff at my work placement for the opportunity and guidance during my placement. Introduction I undertook work experience in a primary school setting in my local area. They are a primary learning academy which gives them more freedom of the curriculum, staff pay, school hours and shape of the academic year. The school motto is ‘child-centred, learning focused’ which is evident in the ethos of the school. ‘The quality of education provided by this school is outstanding because all the major elements of the schools work are at least good’ (Ofsted, 2007, p4). The aim of placement is to gain more confidence and experience of the primary school setting and the role of teachers. See specific objectives in Appendix 1. Findings: Objective 1 (See Appendix 1) was achieved although it could do with being developed. As set out in my aims every opportunity presented to engage in group work was taken. On a few occasions I worked with children of a lower ability or children that have difficulty concentrating. This was challenging as it meant that each child needed the same amount of attention and support. To keep children engaged I communicated effectively using clear and concise language. ‘Good communication at work involves being able to relate to people from different...
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...Accounting and finance degrees: is the academic performance of placement students better? Abstract The relationship between placement and academic performance on accounting and finance degrees is significantly under-researched. This paper examines the relationship between a number of factors, including placement, and academic performance as measured by average marks. Readily available data on placement status, gender and prior achievement for the academic years ended 2004, 2005 and 2006 for an accounting and finance degree were used. Linear regression models were constructed using two versions of the data – one with all students in it and the second with graduates only. Placement students perform significantly better than full-time students and, in the Graduates model, it is the female placement students who perform significantly better than their male counterparts. Most recent prior academic performance is significant in all models whereas gender had no separate significant effect on performance in the second and final years of the degree. The paper concludes with suggestions for further research into placement. Keywords: academic performance, placement, gender, work-based learning Introduction There is a considerable body of UK and overseas research investigating the influence of particular factors on academic performance. Factors such as gender, prior academic achievement and course type have been examined over a wide range of degree courses (see for example Morrison et...
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...for example, graduates.’ Defining sectors is a way of being able to examine the labour market in more detail, and helpful in getting a hold of relevant information. The graduate labour market is a distinct sector within the labour market which simply means ‘the demand is for graduate level jobs, for which the jobseeker must have an undergraduate degree.’ According to Done and Mulvey (2011 p.5) ‘The basic principle of the graduate labour market is that two equally important elements must be in place for the market to work, namely: supply and demand.’ The market place for graduate employment is vast, and there are a number of different opportunities in all disciplines available for students who have just finished university and are seeking graduate employment. There are various websites and publications that are specifically targeted towards graduates by only advertising vacancies from companies who are offering graduate positions. Websites such as Rate My Placement are a good online source to use as they list the top 75 employees for graduate opportunities. The Times (2013) also list the top 100 graduate employers which are updated on a yearly. However, according to The Independent (2011) the number of graduates applying for each job has doubled since 2009, making it harder for graduates to find a post-graduate job. Although the number of available jobs in the UK is slowly increasing, figures have revealed that the largest employers now receive on average 83 CVs for each job...
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...have been opening opportunities for people across Australia. Today, Open Colleges is blazing a new trail in online education – creating Australia’s leader in next generation learning. Why study with Open Colleges? • Freedom – study where you want, when you want • Our courses and learning materials have been designed specifically for online learning • Our trainers and assessors are industry professionals with experience in supporting online students • Our dedicated student support team is there to help you every step of the way • Our virtual campus – OpenSpace – provides you with opportunities to interact with trainers and assessors, and students • Many of our courses are nationally recognised and meet professional licensing or registration requirements. of teaching and training Certificate III in Education Support CHC30213 This new qualification has been developed specifically to provide those working as teacher aides – or seeking work in the field – with the skills to assist teachers in a range of classroom contexts. The role of teacher aide is a popular first step for individuals seeking to establish careers working in education, as well as parents interested in flexible employment that fits around caring for their own children. Teacher aides support the teaching and learning process in both primary and secondary schools, working closely with teachers to supervise ...
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