PDP


PDP Timeline

Last year's PDP

When you are inside an Appraisal, your Current PDPs (i.e. that you have spent the year working towards) are known as your Last Year’s PDPs.

If you completed your last appraisal with Appraisal Toolkit your Last Year’s PDPs are added to your appraisal automatically.

If it is the first year you are completing an appraisal for an organisation using Appraisal Toolkit you can manually add your last year’s PDPs.

If this is your first ever appraisal for your organisation you do not need to enter this information.

Tick  on the Last Year’s PDP page. 

To add your Last Year’s PDPs: 

  • Go to your appraisal and click Last Year’s PDP in your left navigation bar. 
  • Click  at the top of the table. Complete the Details tab and click

    You can complete the Development Evidence tab in two ways. You can:

  • Link items from your Portfolio to your PDP item by ticking  and selecting the items from the table.
  • Enter text into the two text boxes 
  • When you have added your Development Evidence, click

    When you have completed the Details and Development Evidence tabs, you can upload documents into the Documents tab.

Linking appraisal evidence to your PDPs:

You can link your evidence in two ways:

  1. Through the Last Year's PDP section (see above)
  2. Through the PDP tab when editing an item in an appraisal (see below)

  • Within your appraisal, edit the item you want to link to your PDP
  • Click the PDP tab
  • Tick the box of any items you want to link 
  • Click 

For more information you can watch the video below!

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Proposed PDP

You can suggest PDPs you think would be beneficial for you to work towards over the next year in your appraisal as Proposed PDPs in section 3 of your appraisal. Your Appraiser will review these and accept, change or reject them. If they are accepted they will be added to your Agreed PDP for next year.

All PDP items should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time bounded). With Appraisal Toolkit there is no limit to the number of Proposed PDP Items you can add. It is suggested you use this section if there are areas within your practice in particular you wish to improve.

  • Go to your appraisal and click "Proposed PDP" in your left navigation bar
  • Click  at the top of the table. Complete the Details tab and click

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Agreed PDP

These items are added by your Appraiser after your appraisal meeting. They are the PDPs that were agreed upon by yourself and your Appraiser during your appraisal meeting that you will spend the next year working towards.

When your appraisal is “Complete”, these will become your “Current” PDPs.

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