Importance of maintaining Continued Professional Development (CPD)
Health
All HCPC CPD registrants must meet the following standards:
- Maintain a continuous, up-to-date and accurate record of their CPD activities.
- Demonstrate that their CPD activities are a mixture of learning activities relevant to current or future practice.
- Seek to ensure that their CPD has contributed to the quality of their practice and service delivery.
- Seek to ensure that their CPD benefits the service user.
(Health and Care Professions Council, 2021)
Education
The Teachers’ Standards (Department for Education, 2016) set out a number of expectations about professional development outlining that teachers should:
- Keep their knowledge and skills as teachers up-to-date and be self-critical.
- Take responsibility for improving teaching through appropriate professional development, responding to advice and feedback from colleagues.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn and how this has an impact on teaching.
NASUWT continues to call for all teachers and school leaders to be given a contractual and statutory right to continuing professional development (CPD).
(NASUWT, the Teachers’ Union 2021)
The benefits of attending our HCEST accredited courses will:
- Fulfil requirements from service settings to keep professional development upto date
- Develop and help individuals to regularly focus on how they can become a more competent and effective professionals.
- Increases confidence, overall capability and compliments career aspirations.
- Opens doors to excellent future employment opportunities.
- Promotes independent learning.
- Demonstrates ambition and commitment to professional self-improvement.
The following HCEST courses have been CPD accredited to meet required standards:
- CRT and Loneworking (Care Services)
- CRT and Positive Handling Education and Childrens Services
- Mental Health and Learning Disability Services
- Restrictive Interventions