CPD Portfolio is our new, member-exclusive platform to manage and record your continuing professional development (CPD)
The CPD Portfolio is the RCSLT’s new online platform to manage and record your continuing professional development (CPD). Designed with the career needs and ambitions of SLTs in mind, it makes it much easier to organise, evidence and plan your development at every stage of your career. The platform replaces the old CPD diary with a brand new and improved user experience, a more intuitive interface, and the ability to use it on your smartphone.
All RCSLT members have access to the CPD Portfolio as part of their membership and it’s all on a single log-in, simply use your existing member details to login.
What can the CPD Portfolio do for you?
As an SLT, you know that continuing professional development (CPD) and lifelong learning are essential. Building up your experience and skills lets you deliver the best care and find satisfaction in your role.
RCSLT’s CPD Portfolio helps you take control of your CPD activity and make progress towards goals. By bringing together planning, reflection and evidence in one place, you can visualise where you are in your career, recognise what you have achieved and identify areas to develop.
It stays with you when you move jobs, and lets you manage your CPD even if you hold multiple roles. It works across any sector or setting, and is equally useful for employed and independent SLTs.
Watch our recent CPD Portfolio webinar to find out more about the platform and how to use it.
Record, reflect, review
The CPD Portfolio is a practical career development platform helping members throughout your professional journey. It’s been designed with user experience as a priority, and you can use it on mobile devices as well as computers. You can:
- log your evidence
- reflect on your achievements
- create a visual overview to support reflection and supervisions
- build up your skills
- plan your future CPD activities.
Get organised and ready for audit
Capturing evidence of courses, networking activities and achievements as you go helps you demonstrate that you meet the standards of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). And if you are one of those randomly selected for the biennial HCPC audit, you’ll find having all your evidence already organised makes everything much easier.
In the coming months we’ll be adding more features to the CPD Portfolio, including easy to download visual reports you can use for your HCPC audit.
Track your professional competencies
We’re embedding your career frameworks within the CPD Portfolio to make it much easier for you to map your progress and set yourself development goals.
The CPD Portfolio is ready to support the following processes:
- Newly Qualified Practitioner (NQP) goals process
- Overseas Qualified Practitioner (OQP) process
Find out more about how to get started with these on the next tab.
Over the coming weeks and months, we will be adding more frameworks to support your career development including the:
- RCSLT Professional Development Framework
- Foundation-level Eating, Drinking and Swallowing competencies
Get started with the CPD Portfolio by visiting cpdportfolio.rcslt.org and using your existing member details to login.
The CPD Portfolio replaces the CPD Diary with a brand new and improved user experience, a more intuitive interface, and the ability to use it on your smartphone. Find out everything you need to know to transition over to the new platform below.
You can retain all your records from the CPD Diary by downloading and storing them. You can also save these files on the CPD Portfolio. You will be able to do this any time until May 2028.
Certified RCSLT members
For most members, you can get started with using the CPD Portfolio straight away. Simply visit the CPD Portfolio and login using your existing member login details to get started.
Newly Qualified Practitioners (NQPs)
For NQPs, you will be in one of two groups, depending on when you began working on your goals.
- NQPs who were already using the CPD Diary before May 2026. Your information has been automatically transitioned to the CPD Portfolio, including the status of which goals have been approved and which are still in progress. Simply pick up where you left off and complete your goals in the new CPD Portfolio. Please note that diary records and attachments (such as certificates) won’t be automatically taken across to the new tool.
- NQPs who began working on their goals after 1 May 2026 have been recording their work offline. You can now start using the CPD Portfolio to add your records to the platform, and your supervisors will be able to sign off the goals within the platform. Please note, supervisors will need to log-in to the CPD Portfolio once to enable NQPs to add them as supervisors.
Overseas qualified practitioners (OQPs)
The overseas qualified practitioners (OQP) goals are available in the CPD Portfolio. If you haven’t begun your OQP goals yet, you can now access the OQP framework, record goals and get supervisor sign-off on the online platform.
If you are an overseas qualified practitioners (OQP) already working towards UK certification, you will have been working on an offline or paper-based system. We recommend completing your goals offline.
Those working on eating, drinking and swallowing (EDS) competencies
The EDS foundation competency framework will be added to the CPD Portfolio in the coming months as we add more features. If you are currently working on your EDS competencies offline or via paper-based system, please continue to do so.
Help and advice with the CPD Portfolio
Anyone using the CPD Portfolio, including supervisors, NQPs and SLTs, can get practical tips from the online help centre and FAQs within the CPD Portfolio. For individual support, contact RCSLT’s Professional Enquiries Team info@rcslt.org.
