Welcome to this Research in Practice video,
which will show you how to record your continuing professional development
or CPD on our websites and keep a record of your learning with us.
This could be useful if you want to remind yourself
of what you've learned or show others what you've learned.
For example, during a professional development meeting,
or when creating a CPD record with social work,
England or CPC.
If you don't have an account already,
you can create one by clicking on the tab here.
If your local authority or organisation has a membership with us,
you'll be able to select that here, allowing you to access
all the resources and events that they have membership for.
Set up an account by entering your email address
and then selecting your
organisation from the list.
You then need to fill in your details
and click submit to create an account.
If you have an account already,
click here to sign in.
If there's a resource that you found helpful
to your practice that you want to make sure you've recorded,
you can do that by pulling it through to your CPD record.
For example, you might want to learn more about recognising
and responding to discriminatory abuse in practice.
You can search for this using the search function
and find this podcast
as part of your learning.
You might listen to the podcast and you might also look
at some of the additional resources that are mentioned in it.
You can add your learning and your reflections about what
you've listened to your CPD record by selecting this button here.
When you're writing about your CPD,
it's important to reflect on the impact that this has
had on your practice and on the people that you're working with.
In this box.
You can write about what you learned and how it affected your practice.
Perhaps you talked about this podcast with a colleague or your manager
in which case
you can also record what you learned from talking about this with a peer.
And this can be used as peer reflection.
If you need to make the box bigger or smaller,
you can do that by putting it at the corner.
Once you've written as much as you want to click submit
and it will be saved to your CPD record,
you can edit what you have written later if you need to.
To see your CPD record, go to your account
and then your CPD.
You'll see here
that any time the CPD button has been pressed, the resource
and any reflections about it have been saved.
All of our resources are mapped against the social work post qualifying
standards, Professional Capabilities Framework, the Care Quality Commission
standard for adults and the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Standards
for Occupational Therapists as and when relevant.
If you want to edit your comments, you can click on the title page.
This will return you to the resource where you can edit the CPD you have recorded.
You can use your research and practice CPD record
to support you when writing your CPD Reflections.
For example, for Social Work England or CPC,
you can use this
button to select the resources that you want to reflect on
and then download the reflections as a PDF or Excel spreadsheet
you could fill to the mount by date
and also by different standards.
In this example, we want to add our reflection
of listening to the podcast, so we'll select this box here
and we'll click download.
Occupational therapists
who need to submit a CPD profile could use their reflections
as reminders for their written statement about how they've met The CPD standards
as part of their dated list of CPD activities
to remind them of what they've done things on,
or as part of their supporting evidence for their CPD profile.
Social workers can copy and paste their comments into the social work
England form or use them as reminders for written reflections.
Social workers can also upload
this document to the Social Work England website if they'd like to,
but it's important to also answer all the questions
on the social work England form.
If you need guidance on uploading your CPD record
to those websites, both HPC and Social working with websites
have detailed guidance pages which we will provide links to below.