Enabling Others

Enabling Patients/Clients

As a newly qualified practitioner it is essential that you develop the clinical skills to help and enable people meet their daily health and wellbeing needs. Remember that the emphasis of your development within this section is such that you support and enable the patient/client to do these activities for themselves (rather than you doing it for them). Identify with your preceptor the opportunities within your clinical area to enable people to meet their daily health and wellbeing needs.

Building your skills to enable others

Select areas where you can practice your skills to facilitate and develop the patient/client to maintain their own health and well being. This might also involve teaching another healthcare professional or student to develop these skills. Develop an action plan to build upon your knowledge, skills and experience in enabling others. In conjunction with your preceptor choose cases which progress in terms of their complexity. This will enable you to build up your confidence and competence over the episodes of care.

Discussion Forum

From your learning there will be good examples which could be shared with other newly qualified practitioners. Here are some suggestions to help you take this forward;

• You could post a question on the NHS Flying Start Discussion Forum to stimulate professional debate
• You could work through the selected scenario with a peer group
• You could write it up and put it in your portfolio

Sharing Good Practice

Consider the way your team enables patients/clients and identify areas of good practice or where improvement is possible. You may wish to refer to:

• Teamwork
• Safe Practice

Prepare your ideas for sharing in a multidisciplinary or peer group setting. Ask the group if your ideas can be taken forward in practice. Reflect upon this experience and make an entry in your portfolio.

Portfolio - Enabling Others

Identify the enabling skills that you require to develop in order for you to carry out your post safely and effectively.

• With your NHS KSF reviewer agree your Personal Development Plan for the next 6 months
• Decide upon dates for reviewing your progress in this area with your preceptor.