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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio

Welcome to a new way for you to record your CPD!

Do you find it challenging to stay on top of recording your continuing professional development (CPD) and making sure you meet the HCPC standards? 

We’ve teamed up with CPDme to give you access to an online platform and app designed to make CPD recording easy and accessible. You can now record your CPD activities, reflections and evidence in one place, and on the go – all included with your RCOT membership!

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Why you should use the CPD portfolio 

  • It’s a place to capture your lifelong learning and development, no matter your role or career stage
  • It’s easy:
    • Pick up and put down your recording easily.
    • You can choose the reflection templates which suit you best. Use it as a single place to record your activities, learning, reflections and evidence. 
    • Your progress is saved and a traffic light system indicates a percentage level of completion for each CPD diary entry you’ve made. 
  • The new HCPC registration period and CPD recording cycle started on 1 November 2023 – start good CPD habits and record your CPD regularly.
  • Know you’re meeting the HCPC CPD standards – feel as prepared as possible for future CPD audits.

Your CPD portfolio helps you meet HCPC standards

Standard 1: Maintaining a list of CPD activities

Adding dated CPD entries and reflections creates a dated list and helps you to meet standard 1. 

Standard 2: Demonstrate that your CPD is a mixture of learning activities relevant to your current or future practice

Every time you add a CPD entry, you’ll choose a CPD type that this fits within. So, at a glance, you’ll be able to see how many CPD activity types you’re carrying out, helping you to meet standard 2.

Standards 3 and 4: Seek to ensure that your CPD contributes to the quality of your practice and service delivery, and that your CPD benefits the people you work with

Recording CPD entries, reflections and uploading supporting evidence helps you to meet standards 3 and 4. 

Standard 5: If you are selected for the HCPC audit, you’ll need to submit a CPD profile

  • Keeping all your CPD in one place will make this process much easier. You can: 
    • export your dated list of CPD activities as an attachment 
    • demonstrate you’re carrying out a mixture of learning  
    • write your practice/ work summary and personal statement as you move through this two-year cycle 
    • easy access to any evidence you’ve been keeping, allowing you to choose which bits of evidence you want to include as part of your profile. 

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Learn more about the CPD portfolio and how it will support you 

If you’d like to meet the team and see the CPD portfolio in action, make sure you sign up to our launch event 6–7pm, Tuesday 9 January 2024. It would be great to see you there!   

We’ll share a recording of the webinar after it’s taken place.

Take a look at our FAQs below; if you've got any further questions please contact prof.dev@rcot.co.uk.

FAQs

What is a CPD portfolio and why do I need one?

It’s a way to capture your lifelong learning and CPD in one place, no matter your role or career stage. It’s easy to record reflections and evidence and it’s designed to support us to meet the HCPC CPD standards. We’ve teamed up with CPDme to deliver this new member benefit.

Why are we doing it? 

Many of you told us you were looking for a way to keep track of the CPD and learning you do. We want to make recording CPD as simple and easy and as possible, so we looked into ways to support you with this. Now, as part of your membership you have access to your own ‘CPD portfolio’

How did we get to this point? 

Since February, we’ve been working with an external company (TPX Impact) to help us identify a platform. An evaluation process found CPDme as a potentially suitable web and app-based platform, which we piloted with members between June and September. Members involved in our pilot were highly satisfied with the CPD portfolio.

How do I access my CPD portfolio?

You can access it via your member portal, or download and log into the CPDme app.

What if I already have a CPDme account?

If you already use CPDme as an individual member and wish to move your account to the RCOT platform, email team@cpdme.com or call them on 01254 943159 and the team will help move your CPD portfolio to the RCOT platform.

What if my log in email for CPDme and RCOT are different?

You can add more than one email address within the ‘profile’ tab of your CPD portfolio. Alternatively, you can email team@cpdme.com for your email address to be updated.