Learning


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)


Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a process by which individuals take control of their own learning and development – by engaging in a continuing process of reflection and action.


The process should be both empowering and exciting, to stimulate you to achieve your aspirations and move towards your dreams. As a healthcare estates or healthcare engineering professional, Continuing Professional Development gives you the opportunity to look at your career progress from a wider perspective. It challenges you to make time for regular personal reflection and review. It reminds you that you have the responsibility for developing yourself, rather than pushing the onus onto your managers, peers, or others in your organisation. CPD is all about keeping your hard-won skills and knowledge completely up to date.


A successful CPD programme will meet the goal of creating an environment that enables you to remain professionally competent throughout your working life. This is done by providing information and guidance to assist you to develop your expertise in recognising and planning your learning needs – recording the activities which you undertake to satisfy those needs, thus maximising your effectiveness, efficiency, and employability. However, there is equally an emphasis


on competence. Many IHEEM members are required to exercise professional engineering judgement, often on matters


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linked to health and safety. Only someone able to demonstrate ongoing competence will be able to make a reasonable professional judgement in such circumstances. The benefits of CPD are not, though,


only felt when you are going for promotion, seeking another job, or upgrading your institute membership. Many employers now value ‘learning agility’ as a core competency. As organisations shift the responsibility


for personal development back to the individual, the ability and insight to manage your own professional growth is seen as a key strength.


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. Those members of IHEEM who are also


registered engineers, at Engineering Technician, Incorporated Engineer, or Chartered Engineer levels, are further obligated by their registration to maintain their competence to retain and update their skills and knowledge.


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