CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The SA Hindu Maha Sabha commits to encourage professional conduct through integrity, quality and ethics ensuring a productive holistic approach within the delivery of priestly services. Our CPD policy is therefore deliberately simple to allow members to embrace the system.
CPD provides continuing development of:
a) Professional knowledge
b) Professional skills;
c) Professional values, ethics and attitudes;
d) Competence, ie: the ability to perform a role to a defined standard with reference to real-life working environments
All members, are required to maintain appropriate records and supporting documentation of all CPD activities completed.
Appropriate records could include but are not limited to –
- Recording details of the learning activities on the SAHMS CPD system; or
- Keeping a spreadsheet of the learning activities undertaken; or
- Recording relevant learning activities in a diary.
Members may use their discretion in determining the supporting documentation required to demonstrate participation in a relevant CPD activity.
Supporting documentation would include but is not limited to –
- certificates of attendance;
- attendance registers;
- minutes of meetings;
- examination results;
- course outlines or teaching materials;
- independent assessments of a learning activity performed;
- publication of an article or results of research – Newspaper articles / photograph
Members have two options for maintaining CPD records:
- Members may record CPD activities on the on-line CPD system; OR
- Members may maintain their own records and provide SAHMS with an annual declaration that they are undertaking relevant professional development activities.
Explanation Members who select the option of maintaining their own records are electing the “self-compliant option” and as such are required to maintain their own records and supporting documentation. The following details may be recorded:
- Date of CPD activity;
- Whether it was a SAHMS or non-SAHMS activity;
- Description or title of activity;
- Type of activity, for example course, e-learning, meeting;
- Provider of the activity;
- Duration (expressed in hours or quarter-hour increments)
- Whether the CPD activity constitutes verifiable or non-verifiable CPD.
An illustration of the format of record keeping
Once a member has decided that this is the most suitable option for him/her the next step is to either –
- Select the “self-compliant option” on the SAHMS CPD system; or
- Complete the self-compliant declaration form (found on the SAHMS website and sent out electronically with the annual subscription fee invoice) and return it to SAHMS via e-mail.
All records/documents should be kept for 5 years in case they are required for an audit. The self-compliant option is valid for a single calendar year. This is not the preferred option for SAHMS.
REGISTER CPD POINTS ONLINE
Fill in the fields below with the required information and it will be submitted for record keeping.