Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio

Adding dated CPD entries and reflections creates a dated list and helps you to meet standard 1. 

Every time you add a CPD entry, you’ll choose a CPD type that this fits within. So, at a glance, you’ll be able to see how many CPD activity types you’re carrying out, helping you to meet standard 2.

Recording CPD entries, reflections and uploading supporting evidence helps you to meet standards 3 and 4. 

• Keeping all your CPD in one place will make this process much easier. You can: 
  • export your dated list of CPD activities as an attachment 
  • demonstrate you’re carrying out a mixture of learning  
  • write your practice/ work summary and personal statement as you move through this two-year cycle 
  • easy access to any evidence you’ve been keeping, allowing you to choose which bits of evidence you want to include as part of your profile. 

It’s a way to capture your lifelong learning and CPD in one place, no matter your role or career stage. It’s easy to record reflections and evidence and it’s designed to support us to meet the HCPC CPD standards. We’ve teamed up with CPDme to deliver this new member benefit.

Yes, you can backdate entries, as well as forward date any future planned CPD. You can also go back in to edit dates, change titles, and anything else you’ve recorded across diary entries, reflections and evidence. Your CPD entries and reflections will show in date order. 

Yes, when adding a reflection you can chose from a selection of reflection frameworks. The fields below then auto-populate with prompts specific to the reflection model you’ve chosen to use. 

We also have CPD resources on the RCOT website including five minute reflection templates which you can use to support your CPD, and upload as evidence to your portfolio. 

You can access it via your member portal, or download and log into the CPDme app. See detailed steps on how to do this in the answers below or see these slides. 

Both the desktop and app versions are the same and fully synced, so you can you use both of these at any time, and when on the go. 

This is available for all RCOT members, no matter your membership category. A change to your membership category will not affect your recorded CPD – this is safe and is linked to the email address you use. Your email address can be updated at any time. 

• Go to https://portal.rcot.co.uk/login
• Once logged in, go to manage your account where you will find your member portal dashboard.  
• On the left hand side you will see a ‘CPD portfolio’ tab.  
• Click on the ‘Access my portfolio now’ button. 

• Search for the app 'CPD Portfolio Builder - CPDme'.
• Download the free app and log in. You don’t need to select ‘sign up’. 
• Make sure you use the same email address that you use for RCOT membership when logging in.  
• The app won’t recognise your RCOT password. Instead, click on ‘forgotten password’. The app will then generate a one off secure log in which will not affect your RCOT log in details. 

You can add more than one email address within the ‘profile’ tab of your CPD portfolio. Alternatively, you can email team@cpdme.com for your email address to be updated.

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You get access to premium membership.

Access to CPDme is a member benefit included in your membership package. Your membership fee has not been increased and there is no additional charge to you. 

If you already use CPDme as an individual member and wish to move your account to the RCOT platform, email team@cpdme.com or call them on 01254 943159 and the team will help move your CPD portfolio to the RCOT platform.

If you are both an existing CPDme subscriber and an RCOT member, there’s a couple of steps to take: 

1. Log into your RCOT member portal and click on ‘Access your CPD portfolio now!’ button (I’ve attached a short video so you can see how to do this). Once you’ve done this and providing you use the same email address for both RCOT and CPDme membership, your account will automatically transfer to our RCOT system, and you’ll see all previous entries made.  
2. Email team@cpdme.com about payment. Let them know you are an RCOT member and ask them to please cancel your subscription/ advise on payment already made. There is no additional cost to you because access to this is now included in your RCOT membership. 

Yes – it’s all linked to your email address. If you use the same email address, and you’ve logged in via your RCOT portal, this will automatically transfer you over to the RCOT system. If you’ve been using different email addresses, team@cpdme.com will be able to support you with updating your preferred email address so you can view any previous CPD you’ve logged. 

When your RCOT membership comes to an end, you'll be given 30 days to export and download everything you’ve recorded. The data you record never gets deleted (unless requested), so if you need the information after the 30 days, CPDme will be able to send this to you. 

If you later re-join as a member, all your CPD data remains safely stored and available to view because it is linked to your email address. 

Your portfolio is a continuous record linked to your email address. You can update your email address at any time.