Practitioners - Key actions and responsibilities
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Commitment to your own growth and development as a professional and to the values of CLD.
Share
- Share experience, practice and learning with CLD practitioners in other strands of work, setting and sectors
Reflect
- Critically reflect on your own practice - individually and with peers through critical conversation and dialogue
- Seek and give constructive feedback on the content and impact of current professional learning
Identify
- Identify your own professional development needs and opportunities arising from CLD plans
- Support the identification if gaps and the development of future professional learning opportunities
- Source and undertake relevant professional learning opportunities
Act
- Identify your own professional development needs and opportunities arising from CLD plans
- Support the identification of gaps and the development of future professional learning opportunities
- Source and undertake relevant professional learning opportunities
Employers
Learning
- Ensure CLD practitioners participate in relevant CLD professional induction (in house and/or external
- Ensure practitioners can make space in their workloads for professional develop and reflection on practice
- Encourage CLD practitioners to engage with a range of learning platforms
- Support practitioner autonomy to develop personal learning plans which strengthen their CLD practice
Partnership
- Continue to develop partnerships for workforce development across sectoral professional and geographic boundaries
- Support practitioners to develop their proactive through dialogue with their colleagues and with practitioners in other areas, agencies and strands of work
- Widen partnerships to include all agencies employing CLD practitioners and ensure that professional development is a central part of partnership agenda.
Strategy
- Ensure that commitments to professional developments are integrated in the development and implementation of organisational strategy (e.g. three-year CLD plans)
- Contribute to the development of improved workforce data
- Promote improvement in professional learning through scrutiny and support for self-evaluation
Workforce
- Provide professional learning opportunities, including practice placements
- Ensure that CLD practitioners in your organisations are working to the CLD Standards Council Competent Practitioner Framework competences, values and ethics
- Recognise the value of professional CLD practitioners by encouraging registration with the Standards Council through recruitment processes, induction, supervision and professional development