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In the second of a series of three articles on an important topic for healthcare estates professionals, Chris Parker, IHEEM’s membership development manag- er, continues his look at Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Here he considers the obligations placed on IHEEM members under the Institute’s Code of Conduct, and offers some guidance on what makes appropriate CPD.
It is an obligation of membership of IHEEM that CPD is planned, undertaken, and recorded. IHEEM recommends that members carry out regular reviews of their career aims and objectives, and identify education, training, and assessment needs. Having identified such needs, members should then ensure that sufficient CPD activities are undertaken to meet those needs.
Code of Conduct
The Institute is currently developing an updated Code of Conduct, which will contain a greater emphasis on the need for members to maintain and enhance their competence. The current Code and future updates can be found at
http://www.iheem.org.uk/Membership/ Code-of-Conduct Additionally, registration with the Engineering Council places obligations on registrants to maintain and develop professional competence. Equally, members who are professionally registered in other disciplines will also be required to maintain their professional competence.
Any member who wishes to upgrade their membership with IHEEM, or register as a professional engineer with the Engineering Council, will be required to provide evidence of the CPD activities.
All members of IHEEM are expected to: n Be committed to continuous learning and improvement.
n ‘Own’ their own development. n Manage their development in a systematic manner – in particular through the processes of planning, doing, recording, and reviewing.
n Provide evidence of their development, when required.
n Focus development on achieving outputs, defined through professional or other competence standards.
Your CPD should ideally be a combination of approaches, ideas, and techniques that will help you manage your own learning and growth. The focus of CPD is firmly on results – the benefits that professional development can bring you in the real world. Perhaps the most important message is that one size doesn’t fit all. Wherever you are in your career now, and
whatever you want to achieve, your CPD should be exactly that: yours.
Everyday activities count It’s guaranteed that you’re already doing some form of CPD, because we all learn new things on a regular basis – whether it’s talking to colleagues, listening to the radio, or reading a relevant publication. CPD embraces all these everyday activities – it is not just about going on courses, and needn’t involve a great investment of time or money.
Anything that helps you to meet your development objectives could count as CPD – as long as you can demonstrate real value in your work. So, if you do something at the weekend that changes your perspective on teamwork, or teaches you something about interpersonal communication, you can use it in your CPD record. Similarly, if there are personal learning experiences you don’t want to share, leave them out; you decide what goes in and what stays out. Activities relevant to your own professional development may include the following. The list is not exhaustive, and you should also identify other activities that meet you own specific requirements. n Attending IHEEM or other professional body branch meetings.
n IHEEM committee work. n IHEEM seminars. n Attendance the Healthcare Estates annual conference.
n Reading technical articles, including in Health Estate Journal (Note: you should record what you learnt from individual articles, and how you will use it).
n Planned coaching from colleagues or specialists.
n Attending seminars, courses, and conferences.
n Mentoring. n Studying towards further qualifications. n Special project work or job secondments.
n Discussions or training with colleagues. n Developing practical skills such as IT, or giving presentations.
n Anything else that enhances your knowledge and job performance.
n Developing your technical knowledge and skills in your current field.
n Broadening your technical knowledge and skills into parallel fields, thus enabling you to move into another
Doing
n How will you achieve your plan?
n Know yourself! n Make time to make it happen.
n Gain support. Planning
n Think about your goals n Think about what you need to do to achieve them.
n Prioritise. n Set objectives. n Write them down.
Reviewing
n Your diary should tell you it is time to review.
n Consider each item on your plan – have you achieved it?
n How well have you got on? n Ensure you review short and medium-term goals regularly.
Recording
n Keep a log of your learning. n Review your learning n Decide what competence each piece of learning is linked to.
n Collect evidence.
Figure 1: A useful process for developing your own CPD.
job or role should the need or opportunity arise.
n Acquisition of non-technical knowledge and skills, e.g. management techniques, communication and presentational skills, law (health and safety, environmental, employment), finance, and languages – thus preparing you to assume wider or greater responsibilities when the opportunities arise.
IHEEM members are employed in a very varied range of jobs, and at all levels of responsibility, and it is recognised that this will be reflected in their continuing learning needs, which will be equally varied.
Health Estate Journal 7September 2016
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