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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FEATURE Resources Resources, including time, money, travel, technology, personal commitments, organisation and manager support, and professional isolation, is a common theme. In the current climate these issues are unlikely to improve, which makes it is even more important to recognise and be aware of the value of the everyday work that has potential to become CPD (Hearle et al 2016). We have received positive feedback from health and social care professionals and students who are already using TRAMmCPD to structure their CPD and from occupational therapists and students who attended Sarah’s session at RCOT 2018. The use of TRAMmCPD may help you become more aware of the learning and potential CPD you are already engaging in. We will continue to update the model based upon the findings from our research and information is freely available from the website. References Health and Care Professions Council (2017) Continuing professional development and your registration. London: HCPC The RCOT Career Development Framework: Guiding Principles for Occupational Therapy is an over-arching set of guiding principles for occupational therapy and offers a structured process to guide careers, learning and development within our profession. It contains four interacting Pillars of Practice each with nine Career Levels: Professional Practice; Facilitation of Learning; Leadership; and Evidence, Research and Development. It can support you to identify the things you have already learned and areas for continuing professional development. The framework is already being used at different levels; on an individual level, you can map current level of experience and plan future learning and on a service level, you can identify strengths in the team and future needs when recruiting. The framework will evolve through a process of continuous evaluation and updates to remain contemporary for the profession. Its future relevance and success will require ongoing co-creation with those who use it. Visit: www.rcot.co.uk/practice-resources/ learning-zone/career-development- framework. carried out on behalf of HCPC is to link CPD to annual appraisal systems. The positives of this are considered to be a robust system and structure to support learning and streamline and avoid duplication (Illing et al 2017). Negatives may be that learning may be aligned more to organisational requirements rather than individual needs and interests. While some already include the need to engage in CPD in their annual appraisal, progress towards identified learning needs should be monitored, linked to personal outcomes with engagement and impact on the individual, service users and/or organisation measured. Hearle D, Lawson S and Morris R (2016) A strategic guide to CPD for health and care professionals: The TRAMm Model. Keswick: M&K Publishing Hearle D and Lawson S (2016) Are you and your team really engaging in Continuing Professional Development? College of Occupational Therapists 40th Annual Conference and Exhibition. Harrogate Illing J, Crampton P, Rothwell C, Corbett S, Tiffin P and Trepel D (2017) What is the evidence for assuring the continuing fitness to practice of Health and Care Professions Council registrants, based on its continuing professional development and audit system? London: HCPC Lawson S, Morris R and Hearle D (2014) A continuous, dynamic and strategic journey, Occupational Therapy News, 22(5): 34 Morris R, Salmon T, Lawson S, Leadbitter A, Morris M, Margaret Mandizha-Walker and Hearle D (2011) Creativity through appreciative Inquiry, Occupational Therapy News 19(6): 26-27 Sarah Lawson, occupational therapist, MPhil/PhD student, graduate lecturer, Wrexham Glyndwr University, and member of the RCOT conference development team, and Deb Hearle, occupational therapist, professional head, Cardiff University. For further information or to provide us with your feedback please email Sarah ([email protected]) or Deb ([email protected]); follow us on Twitter @SLawsonOT; @HearleD; @TRAMmCPD; or see the TRAMmCPD website at: www.TRAMmCPD.com OTnews January 2019 31