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Personal responsibility and development

Evidence 1: For this piece of evidence identify 3 areas within your department requiring you to use different skills and knowledge.

 

These are not necessarily 3 different physical areas but could just be 3 different sorts of tasks carried out in your area that require different skills and knowledge, for example:

 

  • Answering the telephone requires good communication skills

  • Opening and sorting samples requires good observation skills

  • Working on your own at night or a weekend may require multi-tasking and time management skills

 

All the above tasks are underpinned by knowledge for each task for example:

 

  • Answering the phone, you will need knowledge of the different departments and GP practices and also the sorts, types and urgency of samples they send.

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  • Sorting samples will require to un know the different test and the associated samples tubes that can be used for each.

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  • Multi-tasking will require you to know what work is urgent and what can be carried out at a later time in order that you can prioritise those patients requiring the most urgent care.   

 

 

When you have described each of the three tasks (and the different skills and knowledge required for each) you will then need to give an example for each when you needed to seek further advice (i.e. when your limit of responsibility had been reached).


For example, for the the multi-tasking task given above – can you think of a time when you needed to ask for help or advice from a BMS or other staff member during a shift when you were working on your own multi-tasking?

 

Evidence 1 continued: Complete the table below (write a paragraph for each box) – do not use the example included in the table.

 

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1. Three areas requiring different skills and knowledge

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  • Ensure you use your own previous experiences within your working practice when completing this table:

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Evidence 2: You will need to provide an example on how you improved the way you work to benefit the department following reflective practice.

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Reflective practice is the ability to reflect (look back) on one's actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning.

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Remember you should be carrying out reflective practice at all times throughout your career and not necessarily only when something went wrong!

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You may have already completed a reflective statement using the following STEAM template when completing the Certificate of Achievement part I:

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Carry out another reflective statement using the following template:

You will notice that this reflection has an additional section that includes a ‘feed forward action point’ that you and your mentor will also need to complete.

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Once you have carried out this supplementary task and have evidence that is has been carried out then include this as a piece of evidence within your portfolio. This evidence can be glued or pasted directly into your portfolio (remember to also describe this piece of evidence to give it some context).

Evidence 3: For this piece of evidence describe an area of your work that you feel you could improve on. This could be either knowledge or skills (or a combination of both).

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It will help if you split your description down in the following sections:

 

  • Title: Area requiring improvement:

  • Description: What is required to be done in this area

  • Deficit: How are you lacking in this area

  • Improvement: What would you need to improve / achieve in this area

  • Summary: How and Why would this benefit the department or service users

3. Area of your work requiring improvement :

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  • Deficit:

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  • Improvement:

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Evidence 4: This piece of evidence will require you to visit the IBMS web site and then to select 3 statements from their code of conduct page (see link below) – you will then need to describe how each statement you chose applies to your own role.

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IBMS web site: https://www.ibms.org/my-ibms/code-of-conduct/

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You can choose 3 statements from any for the 3 areas:

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  1. Professionalism

  2. Competence

  3. Behaviour

 

 For example: below is a statement taken from the professionalism area of the code of conduct:

 

1.3: Respect the confidentiality of patients, employer, and service users unless disclosure is permitted by law and justified in the patient’s interest.

 

For this particular statement you would then need to describe how it applies to your own role. It may help if you take the key parts out of the statement and turn them into questions, for example:

 

  • How do you respect confidentiality?

  • What are service users?

  • What is patients’ interest in regards to our organisation and the work we do?

 

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Evidence 4 continued: Complete the following table:

4. IBMS codes of conduct

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  • Ensure you use your own previous experiences within your working practice when completing this table:

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Sign off: After you have collected each piece of evidence, hand them into your trainer / mentor who will then countersign them. Please note that they may ask for additional evidence or ask you follow up questions. Also ensure that:

 

  1. You have date and signed your work

  2. You only submit evidence for checking once it is completed (you may take individual evidence pieces out of your portfolio)

  3. Ensure any countersigned checked work is returned back (in order) to your portfolio 

 

Try not to hand in multiple pieces of evidence for marking at once - this will create too much work for your trainer / mentor, instead spread submissions out throughout your training.

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Trainer notes: Ensure the candidates line manager completes the 'Line Manager's Comments' section as each module in the portfolio is completed - continuous assessment of the candidates work is required throughout the training period.

 

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