There are four sections of your CPD profile:
1 Summary of recent work / practice (up to 500 words)
We ask for this information so that we can assess whether your CPD is relevant to your current or future practice (standard two).
Your summary should describe your role and the type of work you do. The summary should include your main responsibilities, identify the specialist areas you work in and identify the people you communicate and work with most.
It may be appropriate to base this part of your CPD profile on your job description.
When you have written your statement about how you meet our standards for CPD, you may find it helpful to go back over your summary of work, to make sure that it clearly explains how your CPD activities are relevant to your current or future work.
2 A dated list of your CPD activities
In this section you will need to either upload or input a dated list of all the activities you have undertaken since you last renewed your registration. This list shows how you meet CPD standard 1
Your dated list might be something you produce as a result of the audit, looking at your personal CPD record, or might be something you can produce automatically if you are using an electronic record-keeping system.
If you have a gap in your CPD activities of three or more consecutive months, please explain why in your statement.
3 A personal statement (maximum 1,500 words)
When you write your statement, we expect you to concentrate on how you meet standards 3 and 4 – how your CPD activities improve the quality of your work and the benefits to service users.
You could do this by picking a number of CPD activities undertaken in the last two years and explaining what you did, what you learnt, what you do differently as a result of the activity and, finally, who has benefited from the changes made.
Writing your statement in this way can be a clear and simple way of showing us how you have met the standards. However, there is more than one way of completing your statement so this is only a suggestion.
Other ways might include using your professional development plan or similar (if you have one) or structuring your statement around each of the CPD standards
4 Supporting evidence for your CPD profile
Upload all the examples of CPD evidence that you are writing about in your CPD profile.
In your personal record of CPD activities you may have a large amount of evidence relating to certain activities.
However, you do not need to upload all of this information, you only need to include evidence to support the activities discussed in your personal statement.
