Professional Development Academy

About Us.

The Professional Development Academy programmes are designed to help you address your Continuing Professional Development requirements, improve your performance and keep up-to-date.

Our programmes are are all relevant to community-based practice; learning opportunities that are workplace-based and work-related to ensure that you will develop and build the skills necessary to deliver health care in an ever changing environment. We recognise that the workplace is a learning place and your own work-related projects can be used as part of your structured learning units and formal assessments.

"Learning is part of work and work involves learning... these are not separate functions but intertwined. The separation we have made of them is artificial and often does not serve us well" Dixon. The Organisational Learning Cycle. 1999

The Professional Development Academy provides high-quality learning opportunities that have been designed to enhance your skills and make you better able to do your job. These courses will meet your needs at a variety of levels and in addition to improving your performance, will help you to develop and extend your career.