Professional Development Plan

Your Professional Development Plan is a key document which can be used to summarise your current activities, identify your aims and goals over a defined period and outline the activities required to achieve these goals. As far as possible you should bring together your personal aspirations and your organisational needs resulting in an agreed personal development plan for the immediate future.

Wherever possible we plan ahead, identifying individual training needs, drawing up a programme and budgeting accordingly. Pre and post-course briefing sessions are held to discuss the purpose of the training, identify specific objectives and review the outcomes. (Helen Redmond-Cooper)

The period covered by the Professional Development Plan can vary. The majority of members will carry out an annual review, but those on short term contracts may benefit from a more flexible approach to CPD, i.e. the setting of goals for the duration of the contract rather than a fixed 12 month period.

The Professional Development Plan will become an essential element of your Portfolio of Evidence.

Download a model development plan in MS Word (21kb) or Adobe Acrobat formats.

Last modified 06/11/2005