As CLD Standards Council members, you have committed to undertake professional learning. The renewal of registration process requires you to have your PL verified by your line manager or someone in a mentor type of role. Some CLD Standards Council members do not have access to the right person to discuss goals and achievements or to verify PL within your place of work or the organisation where you volunteer.
That's where we come in!
The role of a CLD Standards Council PL Verifier
A PL Verifier is someone who helps a CLD Standards Council member to:
- assess their PL needs and interests
- set PL goals and to draw up a plan for meeting them
- explore what PL opportunities are available
- reflect on and record the PL they have undertaken
A PL Verifier is someone who will:
- Give advice and guidance to support career development
- Ask questions that can raise awareness of practice
- Challenge appropriately when giving feedback
A PL Verifier will verify a member’s PL record for registration and re-registration purposes.
A PL Verifier will not:
- Replace your line manager
The Competent Practitioner Framework describes a competent and critically reflective practitioner, the attributes, the values and principles of CLD, the 7 competences and the Code of Ethics under which CLD Standards Council members operate. These bring both rights and responsibilities. In the context of a PL Verifier’s relationship with the member they are supporting, these would include the right to a safe space to share practice and the responsibility to challenge practice.
If a member enters into a mentoring relationship with another, the CLD Standards Council has no formal role, but we have developed some guidance and suggest the adoption of a written agreement outlining the parameters of their relationship.
Download: PL Verifier Agreement (Word Doc)
If you'd like to find or become a PL Verifier, tell us a bit more in this short survey and we'll take it from there!
If you have any ideas on how best to promote and develop this, please get in touch by emailing: contact@cldscstandardscouncil.org.uk.