Standard 6: Professional development, supervision and performance management

This unit is part of the Manager Induction Standards and has the following learning outcomes and assessment criteria:

1. 6.1. Professional development
   1. 6.1.1. Outline your responsibility as a leader to support the overall development of the social care workforce through a range of methods, e.g. Apprenticeships, internships, qualifications
   2. 6.1.2. Explain your responsibility for identifying and ensuring learning opportunities to meet development objectives and reflect personal learning style
   3. 6.1.3. Explain how to identify quality learning that is current and effective and will lead to positive change in the service
   4. 6.1.4. Outline potential challenges and constraints to professional development
   5. 6.1.5. Explain the importance of a professional development plan
   6. 6.1.6. Explain how to ensure a culture where new learning can be applied in the service, the importance of learning transfer and how the impact can be measured
   7. 6.1.7. Explain how to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of the selected learning opportunities to ensure they make a positive contribution to the services provided
2. 6.2. Developing appropriate literacy, numeracy and digital skills
   1. 6.2.1. Explain the importance of literacy, numeracy and digital skills in the range of roles in social care
   2. 6.2.2. Explain how you might assist others to assess their level of literacy, numeracy and digital skills in relation to their work and how to access support for further development of these skills
3. 6.3. Professional supervision
   1. 6.3.1. Explain key principles of effective supervision
   2. 6.3.2. Describe the scope and practice of supervision in adult social care
   3. 6.3.3. Describe how to plan, revise and review objectives for supervision
   4. 6.3.4. Explain how you could adapt own approaches to supervisions in light of feedback from supervisee and others
   5. 6.3.5. Describe how equal participation can be managed within support and supervision
4. 6.4. Performance management
   1. 6.4.1. Define your organisation’s formal and informal processes for managing performance
   2. 6.4.2. Describe your role in addressing conduct and performance issues
   3. 6.4.3. Explain the discipline and grievance procedures in your organisation and your role in that, if any
   4. 6.4.4. Describe how supervision can be used to inform performance management