Tools

You can download a set of tools for use in older peoples’ cases:

Templates – blank for use – compilationDownload tools as a PDF file

  • Includes
  • Chronology
  • One-page profile
  • Ecogram – notes on how to draw one
  • Carers assessment
  • Support plan

Download tools as a PDF fileAction planning tool

This tool can be used on your own, in supervision or in a group to:

  • Identify how you will use learning about good practice with carers to improve the way that you work
  • Put together a plan for how your practice will improve
  • Identify the factors that will support you to use learning in practice.

Download tools as a PDF fileCPD record

Record of Continuous Professional Development: to be used as your record of evidence of CPD for re-registration with your regulatory body. Keep any evidence together with this record.

Download tools as a PDF fileCritical reflection tool

The first aim of supervision is to improve the quality of decision-making and interventions. When you are dealing with a difficult issue or case, critical reflection can help you identify what you are doing right (so that you can learn from this good practice) and where you can improve your practice.