CPD for clinical support roles: I design and plan learning

Practice evaluation (category 1)

• Undertake an annual structured conversation/performance appraisal with your head of department/practice, manager or a trusted colleague including on your educational role to review your professional activities, development needs, learning goals and plans for the following year.
• Undertake a critical reflection on your education development work and develop a plan for practice change. Potential topics for reflection are in the key areas.
• Participate in a cultural safety activitySee the Support across work roles > Providing a culturally safe practice tab for more information with a view to better understanding cultural safety and implications for education development practice. Following this activity, consider undertaking a critical reflection on what you have learnt and what it means for your practice.
• Formally engage with a mentor to further your professional goals for your education practice. Claim hours spent doing so under the mentoring activity.
• Ask colleagues to provide you with multi-source feedback (clinical support), with a trusted colleague collating the feedback and discussing it with you.
• Ask a colleague to complete a peer review of educational practice, providing feedback on the Designing and planning learning domain.
• Participate in a peer support group of self-selected peers with expertise and interest in education. Potential areas of focus for the group are listed under key areas. See the resources section to support selection of peer support group discussion topics.

Knowledge & skills (category 2)

• Participate in committee work related to your education development role and claim this under education/research committee work.
• Contribute to the development of educational resources for trainees and their supervisors, including with emerging teaching and learning technologies, relevant to your scope of practice. Claim this under education development.
• Undertake a formal educational qualification and claim time spent doing this under formal courses.
• Read peer-reviewed journals relevant to your educational practice (see key areas to consider) Learning and growing as an educator, including your professional supports and networks; Enhancing your communication skills; Undertaking literature reviews to inform educational development; Analysing learner needs to direct planning and design; Developing educational strategy; Developing curriculum content, teaching and learning resources, educational tools and rubrics; Planning content delivery and assessment; Managing and evaluating educational programs, resources or learning environments; Integrating new technologies into your practice; Enhancing your understanding of educational theory and practices and claim this as journal reading.
• Attend face-to-face or virtual learning sessions relevant to your educational practice (for example: conferences, podcasts, webinars; see key areas to considerLearning and growing as an educator, including your professional supports and networks; Enhancing your communication skills; Undertaking literature reviews to inform educational development; Analysing learner needs to direct planning and design; Developing educational strategy; Developing curriculum content, teaching and learning resources, educational tools and rubrics; Planning content delivery and assessment; Managing and evaluating educational programs, resources or learning environments; Integrating new technologies into your practice; Enhancing your understanding of educational theory and practices). Claim time spent doing this under learning sessions.
• Present on a topic relevant to your educational practice at a conference/other meeting. Claim time spent doing this under presenting.
• Contribute to the publication phase of a research project (literature review, write up, responding to reviewer comments). Claim time spent doing this under publications.