Care Certificate, Standard 2 of 15
Your personal development
Personal development plans that are actually useful, how to get value from supervision and appraisal rather than sitting through them, sources of feedback on your practice, and how learning is recorded and evidenced in care work.
Why this standard matters in practice
The difference between a care worker at one year and at ten is rarely raw experience; it is whether anyone ever looked at their practice with them and whether they acted on it. This standard is the mechanism for that.
How it is assessed
The knowledge in this standard is assessed by a knowledge check, which you can take here as part of the Care Certificate course. Attempts are unlimited and marking happens on our servers, so the answers are never sent to the browser.
Your employer's assessor must also observe you applying it in practice before this standard is complete. That is how the Care Certificate is designed, and it is the reason a purely online Care Certificate does not exist however it is advertised.
Questions about Standard 2
What should a personal development plan include?
Specific things you want to be better at, what you will do about each, who supports it and when it is reviewed. A plan that says 'improve communication' is decorative; a plan that says 'lead handover twice a week and get feedback from the senior' develops someone.