Elements and Performance Criteria
- Model high standards of performance
- Determine personal development needs
- Assess personal skills and knowledge against relevant benchmarks to determine development needs and priorities
- Identify changes in professional practices and codes of conduct
- Use feedback from colleagues and clients to identify personal learning needs and areas of professional development
- Identify future career options
- Update and document personal learning needs
- Discuss personal development needs with relevant personnel for inclusion in professional development plan
- Participate in professional development activities
- Select development opportunities suitable to personal learning styles to support continuous learning and maintain currency of professional practice
- Participate in professional networks to support continuous learning and to maintain professional practice
- Use technology to maintain regular communication with relevant networks, organisations and individuals
- Reflect on and evaluate professional practice
- Research developments and trends impacting professional practice and integrate into work performance
- Use feedback from colleagues, supervisors, staff and clients to identify and introduce improvements in work performance
- Identify innovative and responsive approaches for improving professional practice using continuous improvement techniques and processes
- Track progress through a personal portfolio or other mechanism
- Manage records, reports and recommendations for improvement