Importance Of Maintaining Fitness To Practice

The aim of this assignment is to discuss my understanding of maintaining fitness to practice and making orientation to how the writer will establish and keep personal and professional boundaries; acting with integrity and honesty in my dealings with others.

Health and Care Professions Council states that when somebody is fit to practice they mean that they have skills, knowledge and character to practice their profession safely and effectively. The standards of proficiency are the professional standards which every registrant must meet in order for them to be registered. They must maintain these standards in order for them to maintain their registration. Professionals are expected to keep these standards of conduct, performance, ethics and standards for continuing professional development. According to the standard of proficiency registrant social worker must be able to practice safely and effective within their scope of practice, that is to know the limits of their practice and when to seek advice or refer to another professional, to recognise the need to give to manage their own workload and resources and be able to practice accordingly. Should be able to undertake assessments of risks, need and capacity and respond appropriately and should be able to recognise and respond appropriately to unexpected situation and manage uncertainty. Maintaining fitness to practice Is to maintain the standards of proficiency by being able to practice within the legal and ethical boundaries of the profession that is to understand current legislation applicable to the work of their profession, to understand the need to promote the best interest of service users and carers and to understand the need to protect, safeguard and promote the well-being ...

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...ry, 2009). Here the quality of the relationship is formed by the care and awareness that the social worker both explicitly and implicitly displays. This will have a sizable influence on intervention outcomes. Needless to say, practices that are unethical, discriminatory or exploitative can do much harm than good.

To conclusion this, ethical issues rising in social work have regularly received substantial attention but responses to them have habitually been premised on the conviction that professional boundaries are clear for all to see and are professionally determined on the basis of separation and passivity as opposed to connection and dynamism. Working together with the client in the setting of professional boundaries is most likely to have a optimistic impact on the quality of the relationships we have with clients itself a vital factor in successful outcomes.