CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
And Registered Horticulturist
Status
Principles of the Institute of Horticulture Scheme
for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and enlistment as
a Registered Horticulturist can be found by clicking
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IoH Roll of Registered
Horticulturists
'CPD' embraces all avenues by which an individual's
knowledge, learning, scholarship and skills relevant to your professional
life are enhanced and increased. Professional life should be interpreted
as extending beyond the confines of your employment and workplace.
The process of CPD promotes knowledge, learning, scholarship and
skills and is not restrictive in the types of activities that
are eligible. The IoH Scheme is deliberately designed to be flexible
and thereby embrace the many and varied definitions of 'Professional
Horticulture' and is tailored so that the individual has ownership
and responsibility for his / her own professional development.
Members are expected to provide evidence of continuing development
in their specific field, but personal professional development
should not solely focus on core activities. The wider aspects
of horticultural scholarship and experience (such as studies of
sectors of horticulture outside members' normal activities), management,
business development, research, teaching and training, could also
be acceptable. Members will need to identify their context in
relation to their current professional standing and future aspirations.
Supporting the profession, through the promotion of the Discipline
of Horticulture, educating and training fellow professionals,
and participation in their Professional Body are added aspects
which extend professionalism and which can be considered in their
proposals. Successful involvement in the IoH CPD Scheme leads
to enlistment in the IoH Roll of Registered Horticulturists.
The key aspects of the IoH Scheme are that it is available to
Fellows, Members, Associates and Affiliates, irrespective of their
current professional achievements and that each person's CPD Scheme
is driven by their own motivation and concern for advancement.
The Institute will recognise other CPD achievements undertaken
through other comparable organisations - for example other professional
institutes and learned bodies, employers' schemes or the BASIS
Scheme., These may in whole or in part fulfil the requirements
for Registration with the IoH CPD. The IoH Scheme encourages members
to use a wide range of methods with which to pursue their continuing
development.
Extract from the Institute of Horticulture Code of Conduct relating to professional development
Members should take all reasonable steps to maintain
and develop their professional competence by ensuring that they
are informed of developments in the profession and broader aspects
relevant to their career, for example
ensure that their practice, expertise, knowledge,
skills and techniques are up-to-date, both generally and particularly
in relation to their careers and employment.
continue acquiring knowledge and experience in their area of specialism
or expertise, and disseminate these more widely into the discipline
of horticulture through informal or formal channels.
promote horticulture to both lay and expert audiences, including
other professionals not necessarily familiar with the discipline
of horticulture.
members should encourage those for whom they have responsibility
to increase their knowledge and performance and develop their
potential through education, suitable training and continuous
professional development.
How the IoH CPD Scheme operates
Applicants should complete the attached Application Form, this
also requires members to identify and enlist a Mentor. The Mentor
is key to the success of each CPD Scheme. He/She should have a
good knowledge of the member's current professional standing and
be able to comment in a positively critical manner on the proposed
scheme.
Mentors will be contacted by IoH and formally
accepted by the Institute for this task
CPD Review and Action Plan Forms should be completed.
The Review requires members to describe themselves, current qualifications,
career practice, main area of work, responsibilities and projects
and aspects of informal professionalism undertaken. The Action
Plan requires members to identify in detail their plans for Professional
Development over the 12 month period. Members should also ensure
that their Mentor has read and accepted both the Review and Action
Plan.
Send all three documents to IoH Headquarters.
For preference this should be done electronically but paper copies
are fully acceptable. These should reach IoH Headquarters by 30th
September.
IoH Professional Development Panel will then
vet the documents . If the proposal scheme is acceptable to IoH
then members and their Mentor will be asked to proceed.
The IoH CPD Scheme will operate on an annual
basis. All individual CPD Schemes will start on 1st January and
terminate on 31st December.
By 1st December in the first year of the CPD
programme members should submit a Report on the progress made
and the problems encountered AND plans for a subsequent year of
CPD to both their Mentor and to IoH Headquarters.
The Institute's Professional Development Panel
will consider these Report and where the requirements have been
satisfied enter the member's name on the List of Registered Horticulturists
by 31st January.
Members' names will be retained on the Roll of
Registered Horticulturists while they continue to remain within
the IoH CPD Scheme and annually submit acceptable Reports to the
Professional Development Panel.
Members wishing to undertake
CPD through the IoH should submit their application and proposed
scheme with a view to starting their CPD programme in January
of 2005 and at the start of each following year.
Alternatively please contact:
Institute of Horticulture
Institute of Biology, 9 Red Lion Court, London EC4A 3EF
Tel:+44 020 7936 5957, Fax:+44 020 7936
5958
