This book offers a simple, constructive and fully referenced guide to planning and reflecting on career development in social work, using a portfolio-based approach.

This book offers a simple, constructive and fully referenced guide to planning and reflecting on career development in social work, using a portfolio-based approach.

Fully updated to reflect the current social work landscape, including the Knowledge and Skills statements, Evidencing CPD provides a comprehensive guide to support social workers to create and develop their own portfolio and focus on critical reflection as a learning tool for CPD activities. By developing a professional portfolio all the elements of the changing environment can be brought into a single place so that individual practice lies at the heart of service improvement.  This book helps social workers to work through the process, providing hints, tips and guidance on constructing a portfolio in line with the PCF. It also helps guide critical reflection so they can learn from their own practice.

This best-selling publication is packed with examples and exercises to support personal portfolio development and is mapped to the different levels of social work progression.

• What a portfolio is
• Why and how it can help with professional development
• How it works
• What might go in – choosing your ‘evidence’
• Planning your learning
• How you can use PCF outcomes to identify your learning needs
• Learning about and using critical reflection
• Using evidence for registration
• Moving on – career development