Portfolio Development

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Portfolio Development

• Life Long Learning Project

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Objectives

• Define lifelong learning and CPD
• Discuss how to put a professional portfolio
  together
• Identify the links between a professional
  portfolio, PDPs and KSF
• Define reflective practice
• Identify different models of reflection
• Discuss the benefits that reflection can have on
  practice
• Discuss action plans for the future

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Life Long Learning

• a continuous development process which can
  be said to belong to an individual.
• (Teare et al 1998)

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Continued Professional Development (CPD)

• a range of learning activities through which
  professionals maintain and develop throughout
  their career to ensure that they retain their
  capacity to practise safely, effectively and
  legally within their evolving scope of practice.

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CPD

• A process (not a product)
• Lifelong throughout professional life
• Systematic and planned
• Embraces both formal and informal learning
• Builds on previous / existing knowledge to expand
  and help fulfil potential
• Can develop and enhance practice, having a
  positive impact on health outcomes

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What does it mean to me?

• Higher standard of professional performance
• Increased job satisfaction
• Enhances professional knowledge, skills and
  status
• Promotes awareness of new developments and
  concepts
• Expands expertise and improves personal
  efficiency
• Provides framework for making informed decisions

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Examples of CPD

• Work-based learning
• Professional activity
• Formal/educational activity
• Self-directed learning
• Other activities

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What is a Portfolio?

• Show evidence of good and up to date practice
• Can demonstrate competence
• Record of learning experiences
• Evaluation
• Impact on practice
• Encourages reflection

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What can you use a portfolio for?

• Job interview
• Individual personal development/CPD
• HPC re-registration
• KSF development review
• In 11 with manager
• Clinical Supervision

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Re-registration with the HPC

• Need to demonstrate process of learning and CPD
• Need to provide evidence of this
• Need to develop portfolio

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Registration

• New regulation for AHPs
• HPC consulted in 2004
• Regulations to be introduced July 2006
• All registrants will be required to undertake CPD
  as a condition of their registration

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HPC standards state registrants must

• 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
• Present a written portfolio containing evidence
  of their CPD upon request

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Re-registration Process will operate by

• Each registrant making a self-declaration at
  registration renewal that they continue to meet
  the Councils Standards for CPD
• Sample audits of registrants taken at random from
  each section of the register
• Submission of a profile of evidence by
  registrants selected for sample audit
• Assessment of profile against the Standards of
  CPD using appropriate and experienced partners

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The Profile Content

• Front cover (pro-forma will be provided)
• Contents page
• Summary of practice history for the last two
  years (maximum 500 words)
• Statement of how Standards of CPD have been met
  (maximum 1500 words) on the pro-forma provided
• Documentary evidence to support the statement

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Simplifying a Portfolio

• Can buy ready prepared portfolio costly
• Use A4 folder and divider be creative and use
  your imagination
• Remember use it as a marketing tool for .. YOU.

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Section 1

• Personal details
• CV
• Personal summary
• Professional / formal qualifications
• Other responsibilities e g school governor

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Section 2

• Your current role
• Job description
• KSF Post Outline
• KSF Review/PDP
• Own development plan

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Section 3

• Your current activity your reflections on it
• Clinical/Managerial/Leadership role
• Responsibilities
• Contributions to service improvements
• Developments in practice
• Projects
• 11s
• Clinical supervision / mentoring / coaching
• Reflective pieces

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Section 4

• Feel good factors / achievements
• Thank-you cards
• Letters of acknowledgement from patients,
  relatives, managers
• Anything that promotes you as an individual

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Section 5

• Course related CPD
• Certificates of attendance at courses
• Reflection on these courses and the impact what
  did you learn that you can bring back into your
  practice

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KSF Overview
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What is the Knowledge Skills Framework?

• Defines and describes the knowledge and skills
  which you need to apply in in your job in order
  to deliver quality services
• Provides a single, consistent, comprehensive and
  explicit framework on which to base review and
  development for all staff

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What is the Purpose of the KSF?

• Providing better services to meet our patients
  needs
• Better staff development
• Staff and managers being clear about what is
  required of them
• Promote equality and diversity of all staff

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KSF does not seek to describe what people are
like or their attitudes it focuses on how
people need to apply their knowledge and skills
within the NHS
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How will the KSF and Development Review process
benefit you?

• Enable clarity of knowledge and skills you need
  to apply
• Framework of appropriate learning and development
• Relate your work to the work of others
• Define lifelong learning and CPD
• Provides a structure for you throughout your
  working lives in the NHS

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Benefits at Organisational Level

• Workforce with better, clearer understanding of
  roles
• Improved knowledge base of workforce
• Motivated workforce
• Link between service delivery workforce
  development
• More effective recruitment selection process
• Provide targeted training development
• Equality diversity

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How is the KSF Structured?

• Made up of 30 dimensions
• 6 of the dimensions are core- they are relevant
  to every post in the NHS
• The remaining 24 dimensions are specific they
  apply to some but not all jobs in the NHS

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The Core Dimensions

• Communication
• Personal people development
• Health, safety and security
• Service improvement
• Quality
• Equality and diversity

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What does the KSF look like?
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What Are KSF Outlines?

• A KSF outline sets out the dimensions and levels
  that apply to that post
• Must be realistic
• Consistency will be checked across a number of
  post outlines National Library is being
  developed to be shared across the UK
• Are about posts not people

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KSF Post Outline example
NHS KSF DIMENSIONS Needed For post? Level for post Level for post Level for post Level for post Level for post
Basic Grade OT Y/N 1 2 3 4 Notes
CORE DIMENSIONS relates to all NHS posts
Communication Y v Needs to be able to use IT as well as written oral. With users, carers, team, care coordinator, other healthcare professionals.
Personal and people development Y v Includes participation in basic grade development programme KSF development review
Health, safety and security Y v Trust Risk assessment procedure. Lone working policy.
Service Improvement Y v Audit, clinical effectiveness and user satisfaction surveys all part of post.
Quality Y v
Equality and diversity Y v
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Reflective Practice
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What is reflective practice?

• A way of learning from our experiences in order
  to understand and develop practice
• Three main elements
• Things that happen to a person (experiences)
• The reflective processes that enable you to learn
  from these experiences
• The action that results when new perspectives are
  taken

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Why Bother?

• Demonstrate reflection in and on practice
• Provide critical evaluation of theory-practice
  issues
• Identify future development needs
• Demonstrate understanding of professional
  practice

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We learn by thinking about what has happened to
us and seeing them in different ways that enables
us to take some kind of action

• Experience Reflection Action

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We learn by thinking about what has happened to
us and seeing them in different ways that enables
us to take some kind of action

• Experience Reflection Action
• What? So What? Now What?

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Where is the evidence?

• One piece of evidence will cover more than one
  KSF dimension
• Evidence should be easily to locate
• Portfolio needs to be user friendly

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Where is the evidence?

• Contents page
• For portfolio
• For KSF dimension
• Colour coding
• Matrix

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Dont Forget!

• There is no right or wrong way to present a
  portfolio.
• It is as individual as you are.
• Go ahead try it out you will be surprised at
  the evidence you already have!