We are delighted to announce that we have recently been accredited by the CPD Standards Office (CPDSO) for our popular Managing Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work course, which means delegates can collect CPD points upon completion of the learning activities. Delegates completing the one-day course can request a Certificate of Attendance and Learning Tool to log 6.5 CPD points in your record. The CPDSO certificate also comes with a reflective learning tool on the back to help you put together a reflective statement.
We are hugely proud of this accreditation and plan to add more courses to our accredited portfolio.
What is Continuing Professional Development?
CPD is important for any professional, some sectors are governed by a Professional Body or Regulator each of which have a CPD policy that their members must adhere to.
Regulated professionals need to maintain their CPD record in order to continue to practice and this can be measured by the number of CPD hours (or points) a professional undertakes, or else in an outcomes based way. This means that individuals must self prescribe learning they feel they need, and then reflect on how it has helped them to improve in their role.
If you are not required to have a formal CPD record for your professional registration that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep a personal one. Research has shown that a CPD section on a CV can greatly improve employability prospects (The CPD Research Project 2010).
Undertaking and recording formal CPD is a great way to demonstrate to your current or prospective employer that you work hard to keep up to date. Keeping a record of your formal CPD can help you not only progress in your current role and keep up to date within your industry but it can also help with a career change across sectors.
What is the CPD Standards Office?
The CPD Standards Office is part of the Professional Development Consortium and is an organisation that offers accreditation for formal training and learning activities alongside running continuous research into new and better ways of doing CPD. The aim of the CPD Standards Office is to ensure that the CPD provision on offer to professionals across ever sector is varied, engaging and effective.
The CPD Standards Office assessment process
The Thrive Team’s ‘Managing Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work’ course has undergone a detailed assessment process with the CPD Standards Office which involved a review of how the content is developed and delivered, as well as a review of internal processes.
The assessment process at the CPD Standards Office has been based on the CPD Research Project into new and better ways of doing CPD, and aims to ensure that the learning provided is engaging and delivers transferable skills. Since it’s creation, the process is reviewed and updated regularly, in partnership with the CPD Standards Advisory Board, which is a group of academics, professionals and professional bodies that all contribute to ensure the process moves with the learning and development industry.
What does that mean for delegates of our Managing Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work course?
Delegates can be confident that they are engaging with high quality, innovative and informative content that will provide knowledge that is applicable in the workplace.
You can request a formal CPD certificate to log CPD points in your record once you have completed our accredited training. The CPDSO certificate also comes with a reflective learning tool on the back to help you put together a reflective statement.
What does that mean for employers commissioning our ‘Managing Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work course’?
For employers, it is important to demonstrate to staff that you are invested in their development, offering CPD accredited activities is one way to demonstrate that.
Employees can use the certificate and CPD points in their professional record to help them progress in the future beyond their current role, and that kind of encouragement and dedication to learning can help motivate a team. The CPD Standards Office accreditation is recognised internationally and so delegates can rest assured that the CPD points can be counted in a CPD record wherever they are based. CPD is also an international term, although the phrasing changes, CE (Continuing Education) for example. This means that wherever your professional career takes you, the commitment to professional development and competency is demonstrated and recognised.
If you have any other questions about CPD please get in touch at [email protected]
