The Ultimate CPD Guide for UK Occupational Therapists
Stop worrying about your HCPC audit. Start building a portfolio that truly reflects your skill, impact, and professional growth. Designed for OTs, by experts in HCPC compliance.
As an Occupational Therapist, you dedicate your career to helping people live their best lives. You navigate complex cases, champion independence, and apply a unique, holistic skillset every single day. It’s demanding, rewarding work that requires constant learning and adaptation.
But on top of those daily demands, you face the recurring pressure of maintaining your HCPC registration. You know you’re doing great work, but proving it in a structured, audit-ready format can be a source of constant, low-level anxiety. Sifting through paper folders, trying to link evidence to Word documents, and dreading a potential 2.5% audit notification from the HCPC—it’s a process that takes you away from what you do best.
Are You Still Managing Your OT CPD with Folders and Spreadsheets?
For years, dedicated OTs have relied on manual methods to log their professional development. But in today’s digital world, these outdated systems create more problems than they solve:
Disorganised & Disconnected
Evidence scattered across laptops, computers, and folders, making it a nightmare to compile for an audit?
Time-Consuming
Noticed that manually formatting documents and linking every activity to the HCPC standards is a tedious, administrative burden?
Audit Anxiety
When that email arrives, the scramble to get everything in order is stressful and inefficient.
Lacks Impact
A simple list of courses fails to capture the rich, reflective practice that is central to your growth as an OT and a requirement from both the HCPC and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT).
It’s time for a CPD solution built for the modern Occupational Therapist.
Introducing HandyCPD: The All-in-One CPD Portfolio for OTs
Imagine instead of an old folder with loose papers or documents that are years old you had a new option to have in clinic with you. A beautiful book or spiral bound notebook that acted as your portfolio that’s durable, attractive, filled deep with structured worksheets and templates, packed with advice on HCPC CPD requirements and advice. Where every piece of your professional development is organised, linked to HCPC standards, and ready for review at a moment’s notice. That’s what we offer here at HandyCPD.
Store paper documents
Either attach course materials, certificates, feedback, case studies, and photos within or create in tandem an online Google Drive (or other Cloud storage providers) storage space with structured folders to hold old and new physical papers using OCR within your phone.
Effortless Recording
Quickly write activities, from courses and conferences to work-based learning and reflective practice, whether its short notes to a full reflection, there’s a place in this portfolio for anything.
Audit-Ready, Always
Always have ready a complete, professionally formatted HCPC portfolio in minutes. No more last-minute panic.
HCPC Standards, Integrated
Satisfy the HCPC and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) with our guided worksheets and templates that help you write meaningful, structured reflections that demonstrate your learning and meet RCOT’s expectations for reflective practice.
Aligned with the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT)
We understand that your professional identity is shaped by the Royal College of Occupational Therapists. Your commitment to the RCOT’s Career Development Framework and Professional Standards is paramount.
While the RCOT provides invaluable guidance and resources (which you can explore on the RCOT website), our tool provides the practical, day-to-day platform to put that guidance into action.
Use our portfolio to:
- Structure your learning in line with the RCOT Career Development Framework.
- Document your progress towards professional goals.
- Create a living CPD record of your expertise that’s ready for appraisals, interviews, and your HCPC renewal.
Your Hub for OT Specific CPD Guidance
This page is just the beginning. We’re building a complete resource library to help you excel. Explore our dedicated guides and articles below to help develop your OT CPD.
A Complete RCOT & HCPC-Ready Portfolio Example
Take Control of Your Professional Development Today
Stop letting CPD admin steal your time and energy. Join hundreds of Occupational Therapists across the UK who have transformed their portfolio from a source of stress into a tool for growth.
