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As an early years practitioner it is essential for you to develop professional skills in order to plan for the children’s care and learning needs. You will need to be able to communicate effectively with all children, parents and your colleagues. Active listening is vital for when communicating with parents. Through active listening and coherent speech this will show that you are interested in what the parent is saying to you and will help to build up trust. In my setting I ensure that I am actively listening at all times by smiling when appropriate. We also have an open door policy where parents are allowed to visit the setting at any time that is convenient for them, for example to talk to their child or the child’s key worker. This approach
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We refer children to other agencies who may need extra help and support. For example if a child struggled with communication we would refer them to a Speech and Language therapist with the parent’s permission. Practitioners should also share observations as they talk, plan and reflect on things together, by this way they are ensuring that the provision for the child remains consistent, thoughtful and …show more content…
Practitioners must work in partnership with the parents to work efficiently with the child, as the parents are the primary carers and they will know what their child’s interests are. When working with multi-agencies to help plan for the child’s needs you will need to have regular meetings with all these different services, as this will help to monitor the families of the child and will ensure that a fundamental quality of support is
Simple changes as everyone using the same mugs and staff having drinks at the same time as people who use the service.
A. There are many potential barriers to communication such as language barriers, it can be hard to communicate with someone who does not understand your language or vice versa. Also cultural differences may be a problem as different communication aids such as touching, eye contact, or tone, which may be acceptable in one culture may not be
As child practitioners we must work on our skills in communicating with children because the way we communicate with them is important not only for their communication and language development, but also the development of our relationship with them. Young children often aren't able to express their thoughts and feelings in words, or express them poorly. Because of this, it's important that child practitioners can listen carefully and help children to learn how to express themselves and also provide what they need.
Integrated working is achieved through effective collaboration and co-ordination across all services and sectors including voluntary who work with children, young people and their families. These sectors could be housing, police, health, child-minders, community groups or early year’s workers. The above services are a fundamental role for both children, families and carers who may need the support of these agencies .Multi- agency Collaboration is crucial in partnership working, to support better outcomes for children and their families. Integrated working brings many benefits to delivering a more improved service by:
The role and responsibilities of an early year’s practitioner follow a number of codes. When working with children there are many care needs of children, such as special needs, safeguarding children, children’s learning, behaviour, and working with parents. Early years practitioners have set responsibilities when working with children, like meeting the learning needs of a child, providing an environment which is welcoming and also they have to work together as part of a team to provide good service for both children and parents.
Over the year both positive and negative influences have influenced my learning. The skill I have developed for learning is my aspiration is to become a midwife, this influences my learning in the way that it gives me the hunger to learn new things and improve my knowledge and grades. By improving my knowledge I will be able to go onto the next stage of my development. I believe that if I did not have such a desire to be a midwife, it would affect my learning by creating a mental blockage which would stop my ability to take things in and learn as I would become lazy and not interested from the lack of direction in my life. As soon as I realised what I wanted to do as a career, it really highlighted my priorities and I found that I have
Health Promotion This is the process of allowing people to have more control over their health as this will help improve their health and well-being. It focuses on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and interventions. Health promotion is how health is shown for example to challenge obesity change 4 life is used so people can have a guidance on how to make their lifestyle healthier. It also shows that health promotion is aimed at individuals whose health is at risk from any diseases from lifestyle factors, which lets individuals take control over their health. By being able to have control over their health it shows individuals what may have happened if nothing was done of it
When an individual is referred to as having a deficiency, it means that there is the absence of a particular nutrient in the body. This could be due to the lack of that nutrient being provided though the diet or could be due to a
As people get older they lose independence, they become less mobile and aren’t able to do everything for themselves any more. It is important to ensure that they keep as active as they can to ensure they keep their independence for longer.
P1 – Explain potential hazards and the harm that may arise from each in a health and social care setting.
It is very important to recognise that parents and practitioners have different kinds of relationships with the children in their care. Practitioners need to develop consistent, warm and affectionate relationships with children especially babies but they should not seek to replace the parents. Babies need to be with the same people each and every day to develop social relationships. This is why the EYFS requires all early years settings and schools to implement a key person system. Parents and practitioners have one thing in common that is very important: they all want the best for the child. The roles involved are not the same yet they are complementary. Parents know their own child best. Practitioners have knowledge of general child development.
‘Early years practitioners have a key role to play in working with parents to support their young children. This should include identifying learning needs and responding quickly to any difficulties. Wherever appropriate, practitioners should work together with professionals from other
Communication is very important, not only with the child/ young person but also their parents/ careers. Parents and careers need to be kept updated with everything that happens with their child/children and information that they need to know about the nursery itself. The stronger the relationship between the practioners and the parent/ career the stronger the trust the parents/ careers have with their child/ children in your care.
The rationale for this choice was that the authors clinical background is health visiting and therefore has prior knowledge of good practice in child and family settings, an understanding of child development stages and experience of supporting children with complex needs and their families. Additionally, the author has previously been involved in shadowing opportunities within their own organisation and knows service areas well. By choosing an area unfamiliar to the author, a fresh eyes approach could be pursued and limited the potential for bias.
Working closer with parents and other supportive agencies makes practitioners better informed so that they can deal not only with the problems but also secure a way forward. I believed, and still believe, that it is by working together as part of a multi-agency team that the foundation stones for continuing education may be laid. At the point where any universal service needs the support of another, information and action plans should be shared. It is not conducive to progress to work in isolation. Each step of the plan should be reflected in the work from each agency involved to gain the maximum effect.