Continuing Professional Development Tools

CPD Tools are of a variety of types designed to facilitate your CPD along the lifelong learning journey. Your CPD portfolio is a tool that should summarise this journey. It should reflect evidence of learning in the areas of skills, knowledge, attitudes, understanding and achievements. CPD portfolios should be for personal use only, 'as a database to collect and collate evidence of both professional and personal development, yours to control, decide what goes in and how the information is formatted' (after Lillyman and Evans 1996).

We recommend that a CPD portfolio includes the following five elements. How you structure your portfolio is down to individual choice and/or local service arrangements.

1) Career History and Current Job Description/Profile
2) Personal Development Plan (PDP) and most current Performance Appraisal
3) Reflection Logs and tools
4) Sample achievements of learning (e.g. research paper, improved client outcomes in practice, design of new rehabilitation programme)
5) Other (e.g. course certificates, letters from users, carers, colleagues, etc)

The College has developed templates that can be used to record your PDP and your reflections on learning (reflection logs). See links below. In addition, further tools to aid this process are also available - see 'Role Undertaken' and ' SWOT' analysis.

If you have problems accessing or opening any of the links below, please email Zoe Parker, Education Manager (Lifelong Learning) on zoe.parker@cot.co.uk

Using the OT Support Worker Framework to turn your job into a career

This is the guidance that goes with the Occupational Therapy Support Worker Framework.

Latest Additions to the CPD Archive

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CPD Profiles for the HPC	Professional Development Plan
A link to NHS Education Scotland resources to help all AHPs with HPC audit CPD educator profile CPD manager profile CPD practitioner profile CPD Session Be prepared for HPC audit CPD Session Be Prepared for HPC CPD Audit Form to record CPD for the HPC Guidance for "Recording CPD for the HPC" form Index of CPD activities for the HPC Linking HPC CPD standards to KSF Video of OT successfully audited by HPC Word version of CPD record form for HPC	Personal Development Plan (PDP)
e-learning Resources	Reflection Tools
Work Matters: An Online Learning Resource	Career Narrative Tool Recording CPD: Transforming practice through reflection Reflective Log Tool Role undertaken SWOT Analysis
Occasional Papers	Resources
Clinical Leadership Lifelong learning is meaningful occupation - moving forwards as a profession Mentorship Professional Suitability Social Capital	The job application process The OT Support Worker Framework Using the OT Support Worker Framework to turn your job into a career

British Association of Occupational Therapists
College of Occupational Therapists