Return to Practice – Health and Care Professions (HCPC regulated)

This module will enable you as a previously registered (or eligible for registration) health and care professional to undertake knowledge focused learning in order to complete the self-directed process of returning to practice as set out by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, 2017). The module will be delivered using distance learning with units of content aligned to NHSE’s pillars of education, leadership, research, and clinical practice. Your will engage with specific scheduled tutorials / learning activities through Microsoft Teams and directed learning via our virtual learning environment (Moodle). We know that your learning needs, as a returner, are varied, so within the module you will devise a personalised return to practice action plan (with support from your professional mentor (also known as personal tutor)) and will then work towards fulfilling this.

There will be opportunities for you to consider your employability skills and how these may have developed in the period during which you were not practising your health and care profession. You will also access learning resources specific to your field of practice to enable you to update on key concepts of the knowledge base relevant to your health and care profession (and as identified in your action plan).

You are expected to maintain an auditable log of the hours that you personally have completed on this module to provide evidence for your application to return to the Health and Care Professions Council register.

This module will enable you as a previously registered (or eligible for registration) health and care professional to undertake virtual practice-based and practice focused learning in order to complete the self-directed process of returning to practice as set out by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, 2017). The module will be delivered using distance learning; you will engage with specific learning events through Microsoft Teams sessions or via the virtual learning environment Moodle. Due to your personalised needs as a returner, you will select learning that helps you meet your personal return to practice action plan.

The module provides you with opportunities to engage in virtual practice-based learning, as well as develop skills and knowledge in key aspects of NHS England’s pillars of education, leadership, research, and clinical practice. There will be opportunities for you to complete specific practice-based learning activities as part of a uni-disciplinary group or an inter-disciplinary group as appropriate to the clinical activity, as well as learn what person centred / family centred care is from people with lived experience. You will also have opportunities to develop skills ready for return to employment such as managing interviews and applications. You are expected to maintain an auditable log of the hours that you personally have completed on this module to provide evidence for your application to return to the Health and Care Professions Council register.