Competency Sort Assessment

Many assessment tools and interviewing skills are available to the clinical social worker within a mental health setting. This paper will examine one such assessment tool, the competency based assessment, and its applicability in a mental health setting. A comparison will be made between this advanced assessment method and a generalist social work assessment. Interviewing people who have mental health concerns can offer challenges for clinical social workers. Several interviewing techniques that can help with some of these challenges will be outlined.

This week’s assignment started by directing us to complete a self-assessment, which I felt was a well laid out chart with established skills and a level in which to rate yourself from 1 being poor up to 5 being good. I think it was a good exercise, giving us a better insight to our strengths and weaknesses. I do in fact think that I learned something new about myself and could more easily answer the question of “tell me your strengths and weaknesses”, which is often asked at interviews or promotion boards.

I have a CNOR certification. Therefore, the organization I picked is Competency and Credentialing Institute. It provides CNOR (Certified Perioperative Nurse), CSSM (Certified Surgical Services Manager), CRNFA (Certified RN First Assistant), CNS-CP (Certified Perioperative Clinical Nurse Specialist) and APRN (Advanced Practice Registered Nurse).

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2015) states that all nurses should be competent at carrying out an accurate assessment on patients of all ages safely using invasive and non-invasive procedures. Benner (1982) formed the stages of competency: Novice; this is where I started in year one, I had never done a manual blood pressure before and lacked confidence. Advanced beginner; this is where I feel I am at present, I can take a manual blood pressure with occasional supportive cues, I am more confident than the first time and my knowledge is improving. Competent; this is the stage I expect to be at when I qualify, I would like to feel confident and I intend to know exactly what I am doing and why. Proficient; this is where I expect to be

The data set collected reveals the students within the Career and Technical Education program, throughout the school, division, and state, who have passed the occupational competency assessments and earned credentials recognized by the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) within the past three years. The assessments includes the NOTCI assessments, state licensure examinations, industry certification examinations, and workplace readiness skills assessments. The data presented is descriptive statistics. The scales of measurement that are used in this data set are ratio and ordinal. According to the student population represented in the first chart of the enrollment

“Social workers continually strive to increase their professional knowledge and skills and to apply them in practice (NASW, 2015).” As stated above the facilitators should research self-harm as a coping mechanism, a search for such a situation in a group setting could not be found, but I have found peer reviewed articles regarding the issue. It appears that there are varying degrees of seriousness, but “there is a stigma, myths and lack of understanding that foster burgeoning resentment among others can perpetuate the cycle of shame and guild among people that self-harm, which subsequently increases their dependence on the behavior (Long, 2013, p. 106).” The IASWG standards sections II competency-based assessment includes, emphasis on members strengths and concerns, empowerment, empowerment, and the type of group influences what worker does and how the group accomplishes its goals (IASWG International Association for Social Work with Groups, Inc. , 2015).” I do believe that the group being made up of social work students could possibly impact how the members and the facilitators handle the critical incident. I believe that the group as a whole as well as F4 will be empowered by addressing the thoughts of self-harm.

Competency based assessments ensures that organizations are aware of what their developmental needs are. Competency based assessments will also benefit the employees by providing them with a better understanding of what their role requires and where their interests lies.

An assessment center will simulate common situations which the candidate will face in his new role and each situation is an effective measure for the required knowledge, skills, and abilities (Terpak, 2008). Moreover, the use of an assessment center will test one fundamental paradigm, either the candidate has the needed knowledge, or he doesn’t (Terpak, 2008).

Self-Management: here we are identifying self-confidence, the ability to manage stress, personal creditability, creativity, and flexibility. Likely, an individual may test high in creativity, flexibility, and confidence (Janz, & Mooney, 2000). Whereas, they may score lower on self-starter, and attention to detail. This individual shows strength in an ability to work in a non-conformist business, they tend to approach ideas from a new vantage point, however, they are less likely to pay close attention to detail or begin a project until creatively inspired (Janz, & Mooney, 2000).

The purpose of the assessment is to help me understand how my current work habits fit with making plans and setting goals.

Career assessments can be defined as the process of accessing your skills, personality traits, interest, and values. Partaking in a career assessment helps you discover careers that fit you best. These assessments allow you to see how high you score in various careers based on your answers to questions pertaining to your interests, skills, personality traits, and values. There is no right or wrong answers in these assessment. To gain a better understanding of my skills, personality traits, interest, and values in various careers, I participated in the Focus 2 assessment on the GRU career service website. Partaking in this assessment assured me that my current major has various occupations that relate to my skills, personal traits, interest,

The chart below is the result of the assessment representing both the work and home standpoint:

Purpose of assessment is to understand the forms of influence that I have when working with coworkers and the preference of each that my results have displayed.

PE1.2 Conceptual understanding of the mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics and computer and information sciences which underpin the engineering discipline

Determine the skills of the employ and their level of fit in the current work position.