Building your PortfolioAspiring to Excellence in PharmacyRPS Professional Recognition Programme

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I. What is the Faculty?II. How to use the Advanced Pharmacy Framework and

professional Curricula?III. How does the Faculty fit with: CPD, CFTP & YouIV. How to build your Advanced Practice Portfolio (APP)?V. Q&A

Aims

What is the Faculty?

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Research carried out amongst pharmacist told us:

I. Flexible and consistent method of professional recognition of what they do in practice wherever they work

II. Need to provide evidence of capability to patients, the public, to commissioners and to employers as well as effectiveness

III. They wanted a way of their experience and practice being recognised since the whole workforce is more mobile

The launch of the RPS Faculty

The first profession – wide

pharmacy professional recognition programme

Background to the Faculty

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Background to the Faculty

Professional recognition requires• Frameworks to give guidance on knowledge, skills, experiences and

behaviours for career advancement• Access to professional curricula that underpin advanced practice• Access to high quality accredited or endorsed resources• Credentialing of an individuals attainment (e.g awarding of post-

nominals)

The RPS Faculty does exactly this by:• Enabling you to work towards and obtain consistent and validated

professional recognition of advanced practice• Provides support in one body

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Supporting pharmacists to be the best they can be

What are Frameworks and Curricula

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The Advanced Pharmacy Framework

Development framework for pharmacists

• Used to identify where you are in your development

• Helps build a portfolio that demonstrates advancement

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6 generic clusters covering

• Expert professional practice• Collaborative working relationships• Leadership• Management• Education, training and development• Research & evaluation

Each competency described at three stages of development

Advanced Stage I, Advanced Stage II and Mastery

Cluster of the APF

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Advanced Stage I – Established

Established in a role, performing well, advanced beyond foundation years or at early stages of specialisation and advancement

Advanced Stage II – Excellent

An expert in an area of practice, experienced. Routinely manages complex situations and a recognised leader locally/regionally

Mastery – Exceptional

Recognised leader in community or primary care; equivalent leads in hospital, business / corporate leadership roles in industry; business or leader in community. A nationally recognised leader in an area of expertise

Stage of Advanced Practice

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Professional Curricula

• Knowledge, skills, behaviours and experiences that define practice in an area

• 5 Core curricula • Specialist Expert Practice Curricula• Mapped to APF & stages• Examples of evidence across sectors• Syllabus• Not prescriptive but options- what is

relevant to you

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Quality Assurance Panels

RPS Assembly

Professional Credentialing Panel

Stewards of standards/principles for assessment processes/outputs alongside development, monitoring and ratification

of recognition recommendations.

Reports to Faculty Board

Professional Curricula Panel

Stewards of curricula/syllabus for professional development beyond registration alignment

of both assessments and curricula.

Reports to Faculty Board

Professional Accreditation Panel

Stewards of standards/principles for assessment centres, assessors and education and development

providers; development, monitoring and accreditation.

Reports to Faculty Board

RPS Faculty PartnersMeets the Faculty Standards through provision of expertise/education/assessments/reviews.

Reports to quality assurance panels above

Faculty BoardStrategic direction setting and oversight, with a particular concern for the RPS reputation (related to quality/rigour) and resource

management.Accountable to RPS Assembly

What is actually involved?

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Step 1: Complete eligibility statement

All RPS Members with two years post registration practice

included in RPS membership

Gives you access to:• Tools that identify what you need to know and do at different stages

• Development frameworks- the Advanced Pharmacy Framework

• Specialist and Core Professional Curricula

• E-Portfolio- the Advanced Practice Portfolio

• Mentoring & access to experts

• Professional guidance, webinars, videos, Quick Guides, handbooks

• Signposting to accredited education & training

• Networks

• Peer assessment with feedback and PDP

• RPS Support team can help via telephone, email or website

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You have to complete the following three elements:

I.A practice-based portfolio, using the Advanced Practice Portfolio

II.Peer Assessment or Review using the Faculty Peer Testimonial Form -assess how you work with others

III.Expert Practice Assessment- by peers, reflect your area of practice, using ‘case based discussion’

(in the RPE route for those with 10 years or more this is via your CV)

On completion these documents are submitted for assessment by two trained Faculty Assessors

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Step 2: Faculty Assessment

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After independently assessing your portfolio the assessors will agree on a designated staging.

Faculty Stage Description Faculty Post-Nominals

Advanced Stage I Experienced MFRPSI

Advanced Stage II Excellent MFRPSII

Mastery Exceptional FFRPS

Step 3: Assessment Outcome

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The assessment recommendations are ratified by the Faculty Credentialing

Panel

You will then be awarded your post-nominals

Become a Member of the Faculty

Given feedback from the assessors in the form of a Professional Development Plan

Assessment and post-nominals are valid for 5 years – then undergo process

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Step 3: Assessment Outcome

RPS Vision forFoundation Practice

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Providing members with support and guidance between their pre-registration training and access to the Faculty.

New offer to include:– A Foundation Practice Framework– A Foundation Practice Handbook– An e-portfolio (The Foundation Practice Portfolio)– Work based assessment tools:

• intervention logs • further benefit of evidence gathering and building the research capacity• Multisource feedback for peer assessment• Evidence of clinical experience• Preparation for Faculty

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Foundation Practice

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Foundation Practice

The Foundation Pharmacy Framework and Handbook will be:

I. The road map for foundation practiceII. The map for knowledge, behaviours ,skills and

value in early yearsIII. The starting point for professional development;IV. The comprehensive set of behaviours and values

for those starting out on their careers, wanting to move sectors or return to practice after a career break

V. The starter guide to facilitate CPD in foundation practice

VI. The support guide for tutors, supervisors, mentors to easily identify gaps in knowledge and skills, and development needs

VII. The introduction to set of support tools to help assess and identify strengths and weaknesses and how to develop further

Foundation Programme

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Foundation Practice

The Foundation Pharmacy Framework and Handbook will also be:

I. A resource for those returning to practice after maternity leave or a career break

II. A resource for those changing sector or planning locum work

III. A resource for those involved in supervising and tutoring foundation years pharmacists

IV. A resource for Employers

Foundation Programme

How does the Faculty fit?

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How this fits with Continuing Fitness to Practice

• RPS Faculty will support pharmacists through the GPhC’s Continuing Fitness to Practice (CFTP) requirements

• The CFTP framework is made up of three components: CPD review, peer review and external performance indicators

• The RPS Faculty have been in close discussions with GPhC around these plans and have ensured that all methods of Faculty assessment (peer review and external performance indicators in the form of the Advanced Practice Framework) would be a clear quality marker for revalidation of Members

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How does this fit with you….

• Recognise your development, advancement or specialism• Demonstrate to others your stage of development/quality of service

• reassure patients, colleagues and employers• Adds authority beyond your job title• Better positioning for promotion or extended roles

• Quality assurance for commissioners and GPs• Support to advance your professional practice

• Portfolio for reflection, planning CPD, for appraisal with your manager

• Personal PDP• Prepare for CFTP• Access networks and established groups

Getting started

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Getting started

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Where to start finding your evidence?

Your portfolio :• Did you update a portfolio for your last interview, or course (e.g. prescribing)?• CPD portfolio

Do you have a collection of achievements you’re proud of from your recent career?• These may be specific roles or projects that have been successfully completed or can

be on-going

Look at your CV / job (or course) applications- a list of your major achievements• Your Job descriptions: duties or responsibilities that show you have progressed

beyond foundation years

Appraisal/ performance reviews can be a useful archive of the projects you have been involved in

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What makes good evidence?

• Your best work- only highest stage not all stages• Entry can describe a role, project etc rather than document/

certificate: demonstrate your advanced work in practice• Describe your contribution- in terms of the competencies it

maps to• 1-2 best evidence for each competency, not everything you have

done• Brief/ succinct & to the point- focus on how you demonstrated

competency• Keep ‘hard evidence’ to back up APP entry (for face to face

assessment) E.g. documents, feedback, emails, reports

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Add entry to the APP

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Map entry

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Map via Framework

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Call to Action…

• Put your own development first• Stand up and be recognised • Support the Faculty (your Royal College)• Engage with pharmacists in your different roles and spread the

work about the Faculty• Think about how you can use the Faculty to help others

(undergraduates, newly qualified, returning to practice)

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Supporting pharmacists to be the best they can be

Any Questions?