If you aren’t already a member of BAPO, consider joining your professional body. You’ll become part of a thriving professional network and gain access to a wider range of BAPO resources.
Want some insights into what your future working life might look like? Curious about what your days as a newly qualified and junior clinician might involve? Check out these blog posts.
If you’d like some inspiration about the different types of career journeys and pathways your qualification could open doors to, explore some of the real-life examples in the BAPO Human Library.
The BAPO Career Development Framework is essential reading alongside the HCPC Standards. Your professional development continues long after you finish your initial studies. The Framework outlines how your knowledge, skills and capabilities can be developed across
Practice-based learning (PBL) is a crucial part of your learning. It provides an important opportunity to apply and consolidate your theoretical learning to help you meet the requirements to enter the workforce as an HCPC registrant. This document illustrates what your PBL experiences might look like and how to make the most of them.
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The learner’s welcome pack has been designed for practice educators to edit and share with learners about embarking on practice-based placements. It is a document for practice educators to collate all the relevant information needed for learners for easy reference and can be used as a source of support for learners. The aim is to standardise the way you as the learner receive information about placement and raise awareness of and promote open conversations about the challenges of learning, mental health, and well-being including stress management, and EDI, including content on reasonable adjustments to contribute towards an inclusive placement experience. If you have not received a copy of this from your practice educator, you could download it and work with your practice educator to make sure you gather all of the essential information required for your placement. This pack is best viewed electronically as there are clickable links and resources throughout.
The placement form provides a tool for capturing key information about you as an individual learner, your approach to learning and your individual learning support needs, including any required reasonable adjustments. The completed form can be shared with your practice educator before your placement commences, to allow suitable preparations to be made to support you to maximise the learning opportunities from your practice- based education.
The BAPO Early Career Guidance Framework is designed to support newly qualificed clinicians through the transition form pre-registration learner into their first role as an HCPC registrant. It explains what Preceptorship is and how to prepare yourself to make the most of this period of individualised, structured transition support.
This welcome pack is designed to help you keep track of all the information you will need when you start your first job as an HCPC registrant. Download it and work with your employer to make sure you gather all of the essential information in one place for easy reference.
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