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This document discusses changes to continuing professional development (CPD) requirements for social workers in the UK. It notes that the regulatory body has shifted from focusing on hours to a range of planned learning activities with reflection. Employers are now expected to support social workers' CPD needs and help them maintain registration. This poses a challenge for recruiters to ensure locum social workers can meet CPD standards through opportunities like training, supervision and maintaining a portfolio of learning activities and reflections. The document provides guidance on how recruiters can help locum social workers satisfy the new CPD requirements.
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- 1. The Future ofSocial Work CPD Training Is Now Here Elevate Training & Development
- 2. The New Approachto CPD Changed from the General Social Care Council to Health & Care Professions Council requirements for CPD Elevate Training & Development
- 3. The New Approachto CPD Continuing professional development is essential to ensure that social workers remain up to date with professional developments, and can adjust their practice in line with new evidence Elevate Training & Development
- 4. The New Approachto CPD Recognition that learning can, and does, take place in a range of different ways and circumstances. It is not always associated with a course and the development need may be met through a range of different activities. Elevate Training & Development
- 5. The New Approachto CPD Outcomes of learning and career development routes are identified within the professional capabilities framework (PCF) Elevate Training & Development
- 6. PCF Elevate Training &Development
- 7. The New Approachto CPD “Social workers will be supported by employers and expected to take professional responsibility for developing their skills to a high professional level, through undertaking learning and development activities over and above the core standards required for re-registration with HCPC” The College Of Social Work Elevate Training & Development
- 8. The New ApproachTo CPD This principle makes explicit the need for social workers to take responsibility for identifying and meeting their individual professional needs. Learning activities will arise from everyday work, as well as any other requirements imposed by external circumstances or organisational needs. Professional social workers are expected to be proactive in identifying needs and ways of meeting them Elevate Training & Development
- 9. Social Work ReformBoard & TCSW 8 Standards for Employers of SW in England and Supervision Framework This is a requirement for Recruiters too! 6. Provide opportunities for CPD, as well as access to research and practice guidance 7. Ensure social workers can maintain their professional registration 8. Establish effective partnerships with HE institutions and other organisations to support the delivery of SW education and CPD Elevate Training & Development
- 10. The New Approachto CPD GOOD NEWS FOR RECRUITERS! Elevate Training & Development
- 11. The New Approachto CPD No Training is the right training, CPD should be based on the needs of the social worker to develop the professional-self using a range of training which supports self learning and development with the social worker evidencing through their portfolio how they use this learning for the benefit of service users Elevate Training & Development
- 12. A Range ofL&D - Action learning sets - Access to research - Professional supervision - Critical incident analysis - Critical reflection Elevate Training & Development
- 13. Broadening Opportunities In-house External Distance learningcourses Academically accredited modules/courses “Master Classes” Master Level CPD courses Elevate Training & Development
- 14. The New Approachto CPD Even with out the onus from the Reform Board for employers to support this development Recruiters still need to ensure their locum social workers are fit for purpose and support them to register a portfolio in line with these changes, helping them to track their CPD Elevate Training & Development
- 15. The Challenge forRecruiters How do you evidence locum Social worker to re- registration, assess their learning needs, offer CPD so that they can stay employable? Elevate Training & Development
- 16. The Challenge forRecruiters Learning and development needs must now be identified, planned for and monitored through annual appraisal cycles and supervision Elevate Training & Development
- 17. The Challenge forRecruiters Mechanisms for recognising and recording CPD activities will be established to provide clarity of process, and port ability across the country How will this be possible for Locum Social Workers who move frequently from job to job? Elevate Training & Development
- 18. Meeting The NewApproach Now Focus not on hours but the regulator expects a range of planned learning activities through out the 2 year period with reflection on the impact of practice of that learning. Each time it comes to an end each worker will have to summarise their CPD and its impact, starting at 2012. A random 2.5 % of SWs be chosen to as evidence It is important that social workers keep their learning log Elevate Training & Development
- 19. The Regulator: HCPCWebsite 1. Maintain a continuous, up-to-date and accurate record of their CPD activities; 2. Demonstrate that their CPD activities are a mixture of learning activities relevant to current or future practice; 3. Seek to ensure that their CPD has contributed to the quality of their practice and service delivery; 4. Seek to ensure that their CPD benefits the service user; and 5. Upon request, present a written profile (which must be their own work and supported by evidence) explaining how they have met the standards for CPD. Whenever a profession renews its registration, we randomly audit (check) the CPD of 2.5 per cent of professionals from that profession. Those registrants who are chosen for audit must submit a CPD profile to show how their CPD meets our standardsElevate Training & Development
- 20. How To Meetthe Requirements Standard 1. (HCPC) Make sure your locums are keeping a continuous record or log of the types and dates of activities they are doing – A CPD profile : List covering 2 years and an individual learning plans Elevate Training & Development
- 21. How To MeetThe Requirements Standard 2. Have the evidence accessible in one place so it can be printed off for the Regulators if required, this is the portfolio – including a detailed personal statement Elevate Training & Development
- 22. How To MeetThe Requirements Standard 3. Make sure your locums have been doing reflective logs of a good standard on a regular basis over the 2 years - using a reflective template that shows development Elevate Training & Development
- 23. How To MeetThe Requirements Standard 4. Ensure that the reflective logs that your locums are doing over the 2 years - identify the impact of their development on service users Elevate Training & Development
- 24. How To MeetThe Requirements Standard 5. Give the Regulators the completed portfolios of all your locums if requested – an easy to use process of gathering information Elevate Training & Development
- 25. The CPD ProfileFor Locum Social Workers A CPD profile has four components: List of CPD activities (for the last two years) Summary of recent work (for the last two years) - 500 words maximum Statement of how standards have been met - 1,500 words maximum Supporting evidence Elevate Training & Development
- 26. How We AssistRecruiters www.SocialWorkProcesses.co.uk www.SocialWorkManagement.co.uk Membership Portal For Locum Social Workers ePortfolio Reflective Log Template Training Needs Analysis CPD Training ASYE – Assessed and Supported Year In Employment Learning and Development Advisor Elevate Training & Development