To Help Complete Your NVQ Health & Social Care Level 3

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Ask your assessor for access to the City and Guilds Smart Screen website:
http://www.smartscreen.co.uk/

    • Smart Screen offers you, the learner, a range of dedicated, unit-specific online support for over 125 City & Guilds qualifications
    • Smart Screen can help guide and support you throughout your qualification and provide you with unique resources that will enhance your learning and achievement and get you motivated!


    As a learner Smart Screen will...

    • Allow you to access learning support 24 hours a day from any terminal that has an internet connection
    • Save your time by providing relevant, qualification specific support all concentrated in a centralised place
    • Support material is endorsed by City & Guilds and written by subject matter experts
    • Help you prepare for assessment and allow you to stay on top of your studies
      Provide you with qualification specific career advice that will help your employment and progression prospects
    • The site is constantly evolving with new content and services being added all the time


    Smart Screen can also help...

    • Improve the quality of learning support available to you
    • Remove the barriers to learning
    • Achieve your potential
    • Encourage self-direction, autonomy and development
    • Provide personal and academic development and experience beyond scheduled sessions
    • Get you engaged and motivated. The learning support aims to improve the learning experience and attainment levels of all learners.

Is your NVQ centre subscribed?
In order to gain access to Smart Screen your centre will need to subscribe. Once your NVQ assessor/NVQ centre has subscribed you will then be able to register to the site - please ask your NVQ assessor for details.
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Guidelines on writing your reflective accounts


Insert unit number and title in the top of the page.


Reflective accounts are about:

    • What you did!
    • How you did it!
    • Why you did it!
    • How you felt!
    • What went well!
    • What you would do differently!
    • Who else was involved!

     

  • Always introduce your reflective account by giving a brief description of the situation to set the scene.
  • Include the date of the event and any related product evidence, such as daily recordings etc (including their whereabouts in the workplace)
  • Leave a margin to write in your related performance criteria knowledge specification and scope that the account covers.
  • Always keep the performance criteria with you when you are writing our own reflective account. This will remind you of the standards (questions) you are covering.
  • Always use the first person e,g, I ............, as the account is about what you did.
  • Do not include any identifying names, addresses or details.
  • Always sign and date your reflective account.
    The event you are writing about must be current, as your assessor may ask to see relevant documentation to - check dates etc.
  • Refer to laws, legislation, minimum care standards, policies and procedures that effect the way in which you work.
  • Who would you be passing any information on to?
 

*A full length example of a reflective account can be found in the NVQ Study Aid.

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Ask your NVQ assessor or manager for use of any relevant reference books that are available. Some examples of useful books are:

    • Supporting You: Supporting Others Health and Social Care (Children and Young People) Level 3 - By Siobhan Maclean and Rachel Moore. http://www.kirwinmaclean.com
    • Supporting You: Supporting Others Health and Social Care (Adults) Level 3 - By Siobhan Maclean and Iain Maclean. http://www.kirwinmaclean.com
    • Social Care and the Law an NVQ Related Reference Guide - By Siobhan Maclean and Iain Maclean. http://www.kirwinmaclean.com
    • From Birth to Eighteen Years Children and the Law - By Siobhan Maclean and Iain Maclean. http://www.kirwinmaclean.com
    • Cultural Sensitivity in Social and Health Care - By Rachel Moore and Iain Maclean. http://www.kirwinmaclean.com
    • A Jargon Busting Dictionary for Social Care - By Bridget Caffrey and Siobhan Maclean. http://www.kirwinmaclean.com
    • Health Care Issues for Social Care Staff - By Siobhan Maclean, Fern Basnett,
      Dave Drayton-Green and Colin Blunn. http://www.kirwinmaclean.com
    • The Abuse of Vulnerable Adults, What Care Workers Need to Know - by Siobhan Maclean, Iain Maclean and Fern Basnett. http://www.kirwinmaclean.com
    • Protecting Children and Young People
      from Harm and Abuse, Recognition and Response - By Rita Hannah Langton and Siobhan Maclean. http://www.kirwinmaclean.com
    • A Handbook of Theory for Social Care, Volume One & Volume Two - By Siobhan Maclean and Iain Maclean. http://www.kirwinmaclean.com
    • S/NVQ Level 3 Working with Children and Young People - By Yvonne Nolan. http://www.yvonnenolan.com
    • S/NVQ Level 3 Health and Social Care (Adult) - By Yvonne Nolan. http://www.yvonnenolan.com
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Ask your NVQ assessor for a copy of the National Minimum Standards relevant to your particular workplace or service user group.

    • The national minimum standards constitute the minimum expectations the state sets for English, Welsh & Scottish care providers in the services they deliver.
    • E.g. If you work in a residential childrens home you would use national minimum standards for childrens homes.
    • This is a very useful document to refer to and to quote when writing reflective account or doing assignments. (NVQ assessors like references and examples relating to guidance given in this document).
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Include as many work based products as possible

    • The NVQ qualification is work based. Therefore the majority of paperwork you do on a daily basis can be submitted as useful evidence. This can avoid having to write lengthy reflective accounts for each unit.
    • Read the units question - then think about what you have already done (on a day to day basis in work).
    • Submit any reports or documents that you have already completed. (BE SURE to anonymise them before submitting them as evidence.
    • When on shift, (if you have any colleagues who are assessors or expert witness), ask them to write up an observation of you whilst working.
    • Submit a copy of your induction as evidence, this often covers a lot of evidence for Health and Safety, Equality and Diversity etc.

*Full length examples of work based products can be found in the NVQ Study Aid.


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