Example Action Plan for Reflective Practice

Action Point / What will I do to action this? / Possible Obstacles / How will I know I’ve achieved it? / Target / review date
Complete Assessment work considering risk to siblings related to aggressive behaviour of eldest child within the family home.
Expand knowledge base around issues related to violence from children. /
  • Undertake work with family
  • Consider views of others including professionals and those in wider network
  • Draw on practice wisdom
  • Consider evidence base to this assessment linked to issues around attachment and domestic violence for example.
  • Discuss learning needs in supervision.
  • Identify learning resources eg training course, journal article, learning set or elearning and complete activity.
  • Review learning in light of impact on practice.
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  • Resistance from family through struggling to engage
  • Being aware of my own assumptions in this piece of work and how they impact on this situation.
  • Difficulty in contact other professionals and them agreeing on significance of this piece of work.
  • Lack of appropriate learning opportunities
  • Competing pressures in supervision reduce time for clinical component.
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  • Assessment completed and family and other professionals are aware of the conclusions of this piece of work.
  • Manager has agreed that this piece of work is complete to required standard.
  • Will be able to review learning in supervision.
  • Will be able to reflect on changes to practice.
  • Consider service user and carer feedback and how this changes following refinements to practice.
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  • Assessment to be completed within 1 month.
  • Review after three months.
  • Set as appraisal goal and review in 6 months.

Action Plan for Reflective Practice – A tool

Overview

An example action plan, which could be used by individuals or teams to help monitor progress in a number of areas i.e. work undertaken or elements of learning. Think about the use of SMART objectives when working with this tool.

Action Point / What will I do to action this? / Possible Obstacles / How will I know I’ve achieved it? / Target / review date