Shiatsu CPD Continuing Professional Development
From 1st September 2009 evidence of CPD is a requirement for listing as a Practitioner/Teacher member of the Zen Shiatsu Society in compliance with the National Occupational Standard for Shiatsu: CNH13.
All the information you need about CPD is below and in the attachment Click here to read.
Please send your CPD portfolio to Sue Hix, our Zen Shiatsu Society Moderator, (by the due date as advised to members by email) either by email
or post to Sue Hix
Rosewell Shiatsu Centre
Holywell Road
Castle Bytham NG33 4SL
Continuing Professional Development
This CPD scheme is based – broadly – along the lines of that adopted by Shiatsu Representatives UK. The scheme requires practitioners to accrue
an average of fifteen (15) points per year
for a 3-year minimum forty five (45) points.
With a minimum of seven (7) in any one year.
Aims of CPD:
Easy to understand.
Simple to do and easy for practitioners to fulfil the criteria.
Flexibility to meet the individual needs of a practitioner.
To recognise the many activities that most members already do.
To encourage practitioners to cover a range of subjects and activities.
It can be achieved wherever you live and whatever your resources allow, thus enabling
practitioners to fulfil CPD criteria without financial outlay.
To acknowledge the commitment of practitioners embarking on further formal training.
Click here for the full requirements and how you can gather CPD points for your portfolio.
To claim your CPD points click here.
What is CPD?
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the process whereby practitioners take
responsibility for their own learning and development and apply it to improve their
practice in the interests of clients and the development of the profession. The term CPD
is used to cover all relevant activities undertaken by health practitioners to maintain,
enhance and develop existing knowledge and skills acquired during the study and
completion of their professional practitioners’ qualification. Many practitioners, without
consciously realising it, are already actively involved in CPD.
Click here for the full requirements and how you can gather CPD points for your portfolio.
To claim your CPD points click here.
Why do we need CPD?
We all have a part to play in achieving competence and good practice. The best
practitioners are usually those who reflect on their practice and strive to continuously
improve the service they provide to their clients.
The profession must have a CPD scheme in place to help maintain standards of professional practice and competence.
Further development is needed to ensure that shiatsu maintains and builds on the
respect of the public and health care professionals alike.
It may help to raise the profile of shiatsu as a major therapy in what is a widening field of
complementary therapies.
Click here for the full requirements and how you can gather CPD points for your portfolio.
To claim your CPD points click here.
What is meant by ‘Professional Practice’?
Your professional practice includes all of these:
Your service to clients
The application of your knowledge and skills in treating clients
The customer care that you provide to clients
The type of approach that you have to shiatsu
The specialisations in shiatsu that you have.
Your practice as a business, or as an employee
Your reputation
Your accessibility to potential clients
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To claim your CPD points click here.
Why should I do CPD?
To gain a deeper or broader knowledge and understanding of your profession
To experience and develop new approaches
To improve professional relationships with other professional practitioners
To gain further professional satisfaction, enthusiasm and confidence.
CPD can assist you in assessing your own practice. Through personal reflection you can
more effectively focus your energy on areas for development.
To create greater esteem for the profession in the eyes of the public with a potential
increase in client numbers
To create greater esteem for the profession in the eyes of other healthcare professionals
who already do CPD. This may lead to increased referrals
To improve your awareness of developments in the field of shiatsu and gain much from
supporting other members
Click here for the full requirements and how you can gather CPD points for your portfolio.
To claim your CPD points click here.
How and when should CPD be undertaken?
Hopefully all full members continuously reflect on how their practice is going and on the
quality of service they provide to clients, which means that much informal CPD is done
without even realising it. We are flexible about when and how this should take place.
Where should CPD be undertaken?
This should be flexible depending upon the location of the member’s practice and the type of CPD activity being carried out. Here are examples of the flexible approach:
In the place of practice or at home
In educational establishments
On the telephone, in emails or faxes, in communication with one or more colleagues
By post
In group settings, small informal meetings, area group meetings or large formal events
Via the internet
Click here for the full requirements and how you can gather CPD points for your portfolio.
To claim your CPD points click here.
Who decides what counts as relevant learning or development?
The only person who knows exactly what activity is relevant to your practice is you.
This is why we are placing the responsibility for deciding what is relevant upon the individual members.
So, if a counselling course that you plan to do is relevant to how you work with your clients then it should count. You need to be able to demonstrate to yourself that the activity would be of benefit to your practice.
This may involve mainstream shiatsu, a specialist area of shiatsu or advanced training in
shiatsu. Other examples to convey the diversity of relevant activities include:
Other therapies – Learning or development in any other therapy where you can demonstrate learning relevant to your professional practice. Please note that this is not a carte blanche for all therapies to be included within the CPD program. You must be able to demonstrate how the activity benefited your shiatsu practice.
Counselling – any aspect of learning which helps you to develop the therapeutic relationship side of your practice including courses in such elements as Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP., listening skills, counselling, mentoring, life coaching, psychology and other similar areas.
Business skills – any learning which will enable you to develop the business side of your
practice including marketing, bookkeeping, promotion, business planning and other similar areas.
Anatomy & Physiology, including Pathology (AP&P. and condition management – any learning which will enhance your understanding of AP&P in relation to your practice including refresher/advanced learning activities and/or research into conditions, systems and other areas directly relevant to your practice.
Other relevant medical approaches – any learning, including first aid and any other aspect of medical practice or healthcare, which you can demonstrate is relevant to your development as a practitioner.
Click here for the full requirements and how you can gather CPD points for your portfolio.
To claim your CPD points click here.
I am a multi-discipline practitioner - will development in my other therapies count?
Many practitioners are trained in multiple disciplines. If the practitioner is able to
demonstrate that an activity relating to another therapy is also relevant to their shiatsu
practice then it should count. We recognise that many skills and knowledge acquired
are transferable between therapies or other health care professions.
Many complementary therapy organisations already have CPD schemes. The
remaining main organisations will follow suit very soon. Shiatsu practitioners who also
belong to other organisations will carry out development activities to meet their CPD
obligations for other organisations. Our flexible approach means that development
activity in non-shiatsu activities may well count as CPD for Shiatsu.
Click here for the full requirements and how you can gather CPD points for your portfolio.
To claim your CPD points click here.
I am also a nurse – will my nursing CPD count?
There is a great deal of professional development that nurses and other healthcare
professionals are required to undertake by their employers that would be relevant to
shiatsu practice. However it is for the individual practitioner to decide which
development that they have undertaken, for another profession, contributes to their
shiatsu practice. CPD activities for other professions could apply to several categories
of practice.
Click here for the full requirements and how you can gather CPD points for your portfolio.
To claim your CPD points click here.
I am a part-time shiatsu practitioner – do I need to do CPD?
Yes, many practitioners practise shiatsu on a part-time basis. For this reason we have
ensured that many of the possible CPD activities can be done quickly and easily. Many
activities have little or no cost and can be done locally or even at home. People often
think of CPD as solely attending courses and workshops. It’s not just attendance at
courses and workshops – it’s much more than that. It’s doing any activity that you have
determined will genuinely help maintain or improve your practice. In other parts of this
document there is advice and examples on low cost and relevant activities you can do.
Click here for the full requirements and how you can gather CPD points for your portfolio.
To claim your CPD points click here.
How do the categories and values of other CPD schemes relate to that of Shiatsu?
This scheme requires practitioners to accrue an average of 15 points per year. Some
of this total can be carried over and accrued over 3 years (15 points x 3 = 45 points.,
although a minimum of 7 hours must be attained per year. This means, for example,
that you may do 7 points in year one, 15 in year 2 and 23 in year 3. As long as you do a
minimum of 7 in any one year, and attain 45 over 3 years, you can choose when you get
your points. In most of the criteria, 1 point equates to 1 hour.
Other organisations may have different CPD categories and different point or time
values for their activities. The categories will most probably be accepted but to ensure
that they meet Shiatsu CPD requirements, members will need to ensure that they refer
to the guidelines for this CPD scheme and not those of another organisation.
Click here for the full requirements and how you can gather CPD points for your portfolio.
To claim your CPD points click here.
Please send your CPD portfolio using the CPD Points Claim Form, and remembering to state which Activity you are claiming for
to Sue Hix, our Zen Shiatsu Society Moderator, either by email
or post to Sue Hix
Rosewell Shiatsu Centre
Holywell Road
Castle Bytham NG33 4SL
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