Introduction to the RPS FacultyAspiring to Excellence in PharmacyRPS Professional Recognition Programme

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Professionalism: Competence, regulation and leadership

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The place of professional standards and support tools

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Supporting pharmacists to be the best they can be

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Recognising what’s worked before

The ACLF covered all elements of practice and provides a useful framework to demonstrate advancement in:

I. Area of practiceII. How you work with othersIII. LeadershipIV. ManagementV. EducationVI. Research

The APF maps to the Faculty stages and forms the basis of our Advanced Practice Portfolio

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Faculty StagesFaculty Stage

Descriptions Post-nominals

Advanced Stage I

Faculty Member Advanced Stage 1 ExperiencedEither early stages of specialisation training and advancementOREstablished in a role, performing well, advanced beyond foundation years.

MFRPSI

Advanced Stage II

Faculty Member Advanced Stage 2 ExcellentAn expert in an area of practice, experienced.Routinely manages complex situations and a recognised leader locally/regionally.

MFRPSII

Mastery Stage III

Faculty Fellow ExceptionalAligned to autonomous clinical lead in community or primary care, corporate level practice in NHS; equivalent leads in academia; business / corporate leadership roles in industry; business or strategic leader in community or primary care. A nationally recognised leader in an area of expertise (often internationally) alongside a demonstrable breadth of experience and expertise.

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Governance of the Faculty

RPS Assembly

Faculty Board

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

and resource management

Accountable to RPS Assembly

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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

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We have our FIRST Faculty Board Chair

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RPS member accessing the Faculty

RPS member building portfolio

RPS member submissions for Assessment

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We have our FIRST Member journeys... since launch in June

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What we are hearing is........

“I submitted because I thought I wanted recognition but the real value was in the PDP”

“I was so happy to get my RPS Faculty Professional Development Plan today....it was like the best type of school report.”

“I’m going to incorporate my Professional Development Plan into my annual review, I might even show it to my Mum!”

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Supporting pharmacists to be the best they can be

How does the Faculty “fit”?

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I. CPD is one aspect of professional development and it is useful to consider CPD alongside the other activities undertake and record as part of professional development.

II. Postgraduate qualifications as evidence for portfolio. It all counts.

III. Review of CPD alongside revalidation

CPD is a mandatory requirement in order to retain registration as a Pharmacy professional with the GPhC.

Any training, learning or development activities that you undertake when preparing for Faculty membership can be considered when recording your CPD

Useful to include copies of your CPD record as part of your portfolio of Evidence when submitting an application for Faculty membership.

How this fits with CPD

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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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Shifting the workforce as a whole…

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What we will seek to do

I. The employers align their career progression with Faculty progression

II. That Faculty membership is desirable for advanced roles

III. That Faculty membership (and progression) is recognised as a harmonisation of knowledge and skills and experience and behaviours across GB and across new commissioning geographies

IV. We have examples where Chiefs have made RPS membership mandatory and Faculty membership desirable

V. We have examples of career structures in some of the multiples aligning with Faculty model

What we can’t guarantee

I. That employers will automatically link promotion to Faculty stages

II. That recruitment to an advanced role requires Faculty membership as an essential

III. The commissioners are required to pay for services from RPS Faculty members

All of these are ambitions but will require evidence of quality and outcomes. Longer term aspirations of the RPS

How this fits with employers

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How does it fit with Foundation Practice

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

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