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Professionally Competent and Confident - Level 9

Students should be able to demonstrate broad and integrated levels of professional confidence and competence.

  • By this stage students should be able to demonstrate both within a practice and academic setting that they are taking responsibility for their own professional development and practice. This means that they are prepared for supervision and tutorials and take some responsibility for contributing to the agenda. Specifically in relation to child care and protection they need to demonstrate that they see the relevance/centrality of this to their professional practice.

  • Students should be demonstrating that they can constructively challenge peers and other professionals. We recommend that HEIs and practice teachers make explicit links to child care and protection. A good example would be of 'Nurse 1' who did not agree that Caleb Ness should be discharged to his parents care and told the O'Brien Inquiry that she "did not appreciate that she should ask for her dissent to be recorded" (at the case conference), (O'Brien, 2003, 3.6.8).

  • Students should be able to explain the processes behind their assessment and intervention and demonstrate that they can critically evaluate the impact of their intervention and other's interventions. For example, if a decision is made that an adult requires to be detained under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Scotland Act 2003 , they would need to demonstrate that the needs of any children had been fully considered.