January 2025 Newsletter
Dear All,
The BU CPD team would like to wish you all a Happy New Year and hope that you all had a restful and restorative festive break.
We are all back in full swing this week with a lot of work going into the revalidation process for the CPD framework. I am meeting with all academics to review the unit specifications and Intendent Learning Outcomes to ensure that our offer meets the needs of practice, not just now, but in the future. For example, we have met with stakeholders to consider a pathway for Newly Qualified Social Workers to support them to grow their skills and expertise, to develop their professional identity and then step up their legal literacy. With current government reviews of previous recommendations to structure an early career framework for Social Work, we want to support Local Authorities to meet the learning needs of their staff. If you have any specific questions about units that support Newly Qualified Social Workers, please contact Andy Morris.
Many of you have shared thoughts and ideas with us at our practice partner events in the summer and autumn 2024 and I wanted to say ‘Thank You’ for all your input. It has really helped us as a team to look at what we are good at and where we need to develop: from processes, to teaching materials and student support. We are now at the stage where we are reviewing all of our paperwork and getting it ready for presentation at the revalidation panel with external reviewers in the Spring!
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Jenny Bigmore is retiring
Jenny Bigmore is retiring
Many of you will know Jenny Bigmore, who has been a part of the academic team at BU for 20 years! ….
Jenny is retiring in February and I would like to take this opportunity to say Thank You and Goodbye to a trusted colleague who has taught thousands of students over the years, including myself!
Jenny will be dearly missed in the team but we wish her all the best in the next stage of her life.
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Supervison Unit
Supervison Unit
By popular demand we are able to offer the Professional Supervision in Health and Social Care unit this academic year. The unit aims to support practitioners to evaluate and synthesis the theoretical frameworks and research related to the study of supervision and assess their relevance to the health and social care context.
They will gain in-depth knowledge and critical understanding of the current policy drivers in health and social care services and their impact on their role supervision strategies in their organisation.
As such they will develop advanced knowledge and critical understanding of the personal skills, professional standards and approaches needed to engage in effective supervision.
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New look to our online application portal
New look to our online application portal
You may notice a new look to your approval portal.
Following feedback from users Wozzad have updated the system to make application approval quicker and easier.
Click here to watch the latest demonstration video.
Please feel free to casade this to your colleagues.
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CPD Units
CPD Units
And as usual, here are the dates for the units running over the next few months with the application deadline approaching:
Evidencing Professional Learning 1 Leading Self (Dorset Healthcare only)
Start Date: 18/03/2025 / Application Cut off Date: 04/02/2025Advanced Mental Health Practice – London cohort
Start Date: 27/03/2025 / Application Cut off Date: 03/03/2025Mental Capacity Act 2005 In Practice
Level 6
Level 7
Start Date: 08/04/2025 / Application Cut off Date: 25/02/2025Developing Specialist & Professional Practice (DPSP)
Start Date: 01/05/2025 / Application Cut off Date: 20/03/2025Strategic Leadership
Start Date: 01/05/2025 / Application Cut off Date: 20/03/2025Developing Professional Practice (CPD – DPP ASYE)
Start Date: 02/05/2025 / Application Cut off Date: 21/03/2025Graduate Certificate In Professional Practice (ASYE)
Start Date: 02/05/2025 / Application Cut off Date: 21/03/2025Self Leadership
Start Date: 07/05/2025 / Application Cut off Date: 26/03/2025Evidencing Professional Learning 2 Managing And Leading Organisational Change (Dorset Healthcare only)
Start Date: 22/05/2025 / Application Cut off Date: 10/04/2025Resilience, Advocacy And Wellbeing
Level 6
Level 7
Start Date: 05/06/2025 / Application Cut off Date: 24/04/2025