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Continuing Professional Development for Physiotherapy Support Workers. Workshop learning outcomes. By the end of the workshop, participants will: Understand the theory of CPD Understand some of the key issues around access and barriers to CPD
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Continuing Professional Development for Physiotherapy Support Workers
Workshop learning outcomes By the end of the workshop, participants will: • Understand the theory of CPD • Understand some of the key issues around access and barriers to CPD • Understand the principles of portfolio-keeping and reflective practice • Develop skills to articulate and evidence CPD • Identify skills gaps and develop an action plan
The CPD process Identify learning needs from gapsin skills, knowledge & abilities Define needs by writing intended learning outcomes Match activities to outcomes, and undertake learning Evaluate learning, clarify actual learning outcome, and review work practices
Examples of CPD activities • workplace coaching • job shadowing/observing others • reading books or journals • researching then writing a leaflet or information sheet • attending a course
Supporting access to CPD • Time, money and backfill – self defeating arguments • The benefits of training and developing you in key areas • Gaining recognition for the skills you have and need • Using your appraisal and development review to identify core training needs • Using your steward • Using your manager
Purpose of a Portfolio • Record professional development and experience • Organise and plan learning • Encourage reflection on practice • Analyse work practices • Identify and set goals/targets
Providing evidence of CPD • A Portfolio is a private collection of evidence that demonstrates learning and development as well as a tool for planning future learning • A Profile is a collection of evidence which is selected and extracted from the portfolio for a particular purpose and for the attention of a particular audience
KSF/Appraisal Portfolio Job applications Vocational awards Types of profiles Promotion /regrading AP(E)L Registration/Regulation?
Portfolio How? Reflective Practice Certificates Dev review/Appraisal C.V. Journals Teaching Audit Post outline Reviews Projects
Some key principles (1) • Organise it how YOU want so you can use it easily • Don’t fill it with reams of information, use clear referencing/signposting to other docs where needed • Build in regular review and updating e.g. of CV
Some key principles (2) • A ringbinder will do, no need for a ‘special’ folder • Start from today (your CV is your historical record) • MUST include others’ views/feedback • Must be evaluative, not just descriptive
Journals for Reflection • A source of material on which to reflect • Confidential & private • Can be very simple notes as an aide memoire • Selected entries used to write a more full reflective record at regular intervals • Key features • Invariably an individualised account • Reliance on memory • Has person’s own interpretative bias
Practice Assimilation Journalising EVIDENCE Learning Needs Reflection Learning outcomes The reflective cycle
What are learning outcomes? • A means of expressing your learning in a way that explicitly states what you have achieved in terms of what you know or can do. • Reflect the changes that have occurred as a result of your progress through a learning experience
Identifying and arguing for CPD you need • Why do you need it • Who will it benefit: • the Service • Patients • Yourself • Why is it important? • What options are available?
Make sure that . . . • your evidence is good quality: it is not about quantity! One piece of good evidence can demonstrate a whole range of skills and knowledge • you have a good mix of evidence types, not just lots of the same thing. • you have cross referenced it well to the appropriate KSF performance indicators (where appropriate)
And remember ...... The more evidence you have from others, confirming how skilled/ knowledgeable/ wonderful you are, the better! So. . . . Seek testimonials and feedback whenever you can (and again, make sure you cross reference it to the appropriate KSF performance indicators)
CSP contacts Catherine Smith, Associate Member Officer Tel: 020 73147843 Email:smithc@csp.org.uk Penny Bromley, National Officer, Research and Policy Tel: 020 73066685 Email:bromleyp@csp.org.uk PebblePad www.csp.org.uk