Prac Recap

Well I'm late writing this but better late than never!

My prac placement was a day program for adults with disabilities, everyday there was an activity happening and we would pick up the clients before doing the activity. The activities could be anything from the movies to mini golf to the casino to cooking to visiting a park for a BBQ, each day there was a different group of clients (though some clients would come multiple days).
As I had a prac evidence booklet I spent one day a week filling it out in the office, looking up policies, chatting to the office staff to get information how the organisation worked and gathering information I needed. My booklet was around 10/15 pages to start with and it was easily 40 pages by the end including all the evidence to back it up. I wanted to justify my answers with the evidence and for some of the questions I needed to highlight photocopies of the policies. I also had to rewrite a policy for the Policy section in the book and despite me being super anxious about, it turned out really well (also why did they have to put first in the booklet apparently it caused everyone to freak out about the whole booklet!). I ended up selecting the social media policy as that was the one I had done for a class assignment and we were encouraged to use past assignments as resources to make the prac booklet easier. I adjusted it to make it specific to the organisation and using similar wording to the original.

As I didn't want to do my prac placement full time, I was able to negotiate to do it one day a week for 4 weeks and then during the block placement I only had to do 4 days a week for 3 weeks instead of 5 days a week for 4 weeks. I had to do a total of 120 hours and as the days were 7.5 hours long (and I didn't take a lunch break as I was with the clients) it was exactly 16 days. I started my block placement a week earlier as I had passed the class component of my course so I didn't need to turn up to class for the final week before the official block placement started. I did it Monday - Thursday with Fridays being the day I crashed and recharged (I can honestly say doing 5 full days would've wrecked me!).

I really admired all the staff for choosing to be support workers and it was easy to see that they all loved their jobs and were passionate about the clients.
All in all it was an interesting placement and I liked getting to know about another of community services.




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