In planning and organising your individual film presentation, each of you is required to do the following:
-Outline the needs of a service-user group with a protected characteristic
-Has the service-user group selected increased over time? If yes, why?
-To what extent has/can the service-user group selected been/be discriminated?
-Account for the role and main duties, responsibilities and tasks of the profession/occupation you have chosen, and the difficulties/frustrations and the eases/joys it has encountered, in developing a response to those needs - answer the following questions:
-How do the needs of a service-user group with a protected characteristic are met by your professional group?
-What are the main duties/responsibilities of the professional group involved?
-What have the main challenges in dealing with this service-user group been?
-What arrangements would you have for improving equality and diversity?
-Analyse the relationship between a professional/occupational group and a service-user group with a protected characteristic
-Under which circumstances would you have contact with the service user group?
-What services would you/are you be able to offer the service user group?
-What specifically can you offer the service user group in respect of their protected characteristic?
-Do you think that your service is effective in supporting the service user group in respect of their protected characteristic? If yes, why? If not, why?
-What evidence do you have to support this? If not, what would you recommend?
-An analysis of relevant policy and legislation of your service-user group with a protected characteristic, assessing whether they are meeting the needs of your chosen service-user group.
Students will write a 500-word Individual Reflective Commentary providing an analysis of the strengths and limitations of their performance in the individual film presentation. You should reflect on:
(a)What did I do well in my presentation?
(b)What could have I done better in my presentation?
(c)Did I speak clear and loud enough?
(d)Was my body language appropriate?
(e)Given the short allocation of time I had to talk, did I organise my script in a consistent and straightforward way?
(f)If I had to do the same task again, which aspects of my performance would I be trying to improve?
-How do existing policy and legislation protect vulnerable service user groups from being discriminated?
-Does existing policy protect the needs of your service-user group?
-Is there any guidance from your professional body on how to deal with this service user group or with service user groups with protected characteristics?
-Provide at least one recommendation as to how the professional role performed by each of you could further be developed in relation to your service-user group.
-How could the relationship between the professional/occupational group and the service user group be improved? What measures could be taken to improve the services provided?
-Account for the benefits of working inter-professionally with the other team workers.
-How do you make sure the team is efficient in meeting the needs of the service-user group chosen?
-Write your Individual Reflective Commentary (500 words) – use the template provided on BREO
-You are encouraged to use the 1st person as you are reflecting on your own experience
Account for the role and main duties, responsibilities and tasks of the profession/occupation you have chosen, and the difficulties/frustrations and the eases/joys it has encountered, in developing a response to those needs - answer the following questions:
Has the service-user group selected increased over time? If yes, why?
How do the needs of a service-user group with a protected characteristic are met by a team of different professionals?
What are the main duties/responsibilities of the professionals involved?
What have the main challenges in dealing with this service-user group been?
To what extent has the service-user group selected been discriminated?
What arrangements would you have for improving equality and diversity?