The London College: Human Resource Management in Healthcare CPD Report

This report delves into Continuing Professional Development (CPD) within the healthcare sector, examining its core concepts, benefits, and relevance. It differentiates between training and development, identifies individual training needs, and explores key principles of CPD. The report addresses the constraints of CPD, evaluates the role of staff training, and presents a CPD plan to improve staff development. It also discusses facilitating CPD and linking it to institutional development, concluding with the significance of CPD for career growth and organizational productivity. The report is based on the provided assignment brief for Healthcare Practice for England, focusing on Human Resource Management in Healthcare at The London College.

Human resource management in health care
sector
Task 2

Table of contents
• Introduction
• What is CPD? Core concepts of CPD
• Differences between training and development
• Identifying individual mandatory training and development needs
• Benefits of CPD
• Key principles of CPD
• Relevance of CPD
• Constraints of CPD
• Evaluation of own role and training of staff
• CPD plan to improve own and staff training and development
• Facilitating CPD and linking it to institutional development
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Continuing professional development refers to process of tackling and
documenting skills, knowledge and experience that is achieved by an
individual in both formal and informal manner. It includes the on-going
procedure developing and maintaining professional skills. In context of
this project, it will focus on continuing professional development and
its benefits, contains and relevance for staff.

What is CPD? Core concepts of CPD
CPD stands for continuing professional
development which can be defined as an
intentional development and
maintenance of skills as well as
knowledge level to perform
professionally in effective manner.
It includes the criterion of continuous
learning and training to enhance skills
and abilities for improving performance.

Differences between Training and
Development
Training is mostly for short duration of time with a concrete goal and
focuses on role along with revolving around the immediate or present
need. It includes the fact that training programs are general job role
specific and formulated for a group including events, workshops,
seminars etc.

Identifying individual mandatory training
and development needs
The identification of individual training & development needs is required to
formulate appropriate learning activities or programs for welfare of
employees.

Benefits of CPD
CPD has several benefits as it is helpful to make sure standards across
the organisation are high & consistent. It includes the profit of
promoting greater workforce involvement and improves staff
commitment to their job roles. Meanwhile, it involves the benefit of
permitting the sharing of best practices and maximise the potential of
staff members working in an organisation.

Key Principles of CPD
The key principles related to CPD are required to be followed to attain
improved outcomes. It includes number of factors which are mentioned here.
• Principle 1: It should benefit the service users.
• Principle 2: It is required to be owned by a person and be supported as well
as facilitated by employer.

Relevance of CPD
The CPD has relevance to enhance the skills and knowledge level
which helps to develop future opportunities to enhance professional
career.
It includes the importance of CPD for improving performance in order
to gain better incentives and success at work place.

Constraints of CPD
In context of CPD, it has some
of constraints such as it is a
time consuming process on
regular basis which can
develop difficulty to manage
daily operational and
administrative tasks.

Evaluation of own role and training of staff
Being an employee, I have a role to share innovative ideas and actual
need of learning in organisation to superiors along with own specific
training needs. It includes the criterion of communicating with peers,
juniors and seniors to evaluate actual and important learning
requirements related to training of staff to conduct same effectively for
gaining desired outcomes.

CPD plan to improve own and staff training
& development
CPD plan is favourable to enhance weak skills and abilities with the
help of training sessions which facilitate development of employees.
It is helpful to improve skills of employer to organise more effective
learning programs along with boosting up abilities of staff to perform
well.