Welcome to Falkirk Social Work Services Continuing Professional Development (CPD) website which has been set up to support you with your continuing professional development.
You can use the website to:
- apply for training and workforce development learning and development activities, courses and programmes organised by the Social Work Training and Workforce Development Service
- apply for Council, Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) and external courses
- provide evaluations of learning and development activities
- update your CPD record
- update your CPD plan
- follow links through to other websites which may be of interest to you
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is for everyone. Our approach is underpinned by our ambition of being recognised as a learning organisation. We are committed to prioritise the following:
- encouraging experimentation
- thrive on change
- reward learning
- facilitate employees to learn from one another
- encourage learning from our surroundings
The range of experiences that contribute to social work training and workforce development is very wide and should be recognised as anything that progresses, assists, or enhances your ability to perform your job or role such as:
- attendance and participation on courses, both face to face and online
- preparatory or follow up work or reflection
- reading of recommended resources, such as journals, books, research information
- watching videos and engaging in online activities such as, webinars and podcasts
- memberships of networks, reference or working groups
Your line manager will require to authorise any requests you make for training or other learning and development opportunities being promoted. You should frequently check your home page of this site for notification on the progress of requests. Please note the date and time of your request in your diary/calendar to ensure you have no other commitments when the training is authorised and a place has been confirmed. If a place has not been confirmed unfortunately a place is not available therefore, please do not attend the training event.
If a training event requires to be cancelled, you will be given advance notice. There may however be circumstances where there may be short notice cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances and we apologise if this happens.
If you are unable to attend requested training, please cancel your request as soon as possible as this will enable the place to be given to a colleague on a waiting list. It is acknowledged that you may need to cancel at short notice due to unforeseen circumstances, if this happens and/or if at short notice due to unforeseen circumstances, if this happens and/or if at short notice you are attending in place of a colleague, please email socialservices.training@falkirk.gov.uk
You will receive email notification from the CPD system from time to time. Look out for those to keep up to date with opportunities available and other communication.
We hope that you find this website user-friendly and of benefit to you when planning your CPD.
Please contact socialservices.training@falkirk.gov.uk if you have any queries or questions.