1. Discuss the role of a Healthcare Assistant as a member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. Make specific reference to your responsibility within this team with regard to

• planning,
• prioritizing,
• observing and
• Reporting of care.

Reflect on your personal strengths and weaknesses (areas of development) that are applicable to your role (Healthcare Assistant) and describe how you plan to further your career based on this reflection

2. From a personal or professional experience, write a reflective account of an experience (positive or negative) that occurred when facilitating or supporting a person who required care.  Reflect on the experience using Gibbs reflective framework pictured above

In relation to the experience you have reflected on, discuss how the care you gave that person impacted (positively or negatively) on their:

• Autonomy
• Dignity
• Respect
• Independence

In relation to the experience you have reflected on, discuss the importance of the communication and interpersonal skills you used when delivering your care

Conclusion

Having written a reflective account, how will this process of reflection assist you in the future in the development of your role as a Healthcare Assistant