I have been enjoying the portfolio immensely – it will be so helpful throughout my professional career, and one less thing to worry about as it is clear and straightforward to complete.

This is a brilliant programme to be a part of, I really enjoy the monthly meetings and feeling like part of a wider AHP community.

The programme is really helpful. You can share your thoughts and concerns because you know that everyone is in the same situation with you and ‘it’s okay’ to feel like that during your first steps.

It has had a positive impact on patient care, because this has helped me identify areas that I need to expand and sometimes putting theory as well as practical tips/advice to provide the best care for patients.

I just wanted to thank you all so much for all the time and effort that went into the sessions I’ve attended over the past 9 months. They have been incredibly beneficial as well as it being nice having an opportunity to network with other newly qualified AHPS. It’s also always a lovely opportunity to rekindle that AHP passion.

It is a great way to evidence the amount of learning and experience you have gained as a band 5 practitioner and newly qualified professional. It allows you to formulate the learning in a succinct and concise way, demonstrating skill and development in an array of clinical areas.

The Preceptorship, and in particular completing the portfolio, has helped me to take on leadership roles as a band 5, for example supervising students and OTAs and working on service development, which makes me feel more ready to progress towards band 6.

I have gained a huge amount from the preceptorship program, not only has it helped me build my clinical knowledge and skills, improve clinical reasoning through case discussions and break out rooms, gain confidence in my own ability and make me feel more at place as a qualified clinician, but through providing evidence for my preceptorship competencies, I have built up an extensive portfolio that has helped me evidence competencies for a band 6 role in my team.

I would strongly recommend the beyond preceptorship to my friends and colleagues. Having not completed the first preceptorship programme, I was unsure of what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised that the course was full of beneficial training and support to help progress in my career and develop my abilities. My favourite part was learning about the wider service opportunities available and being able to listen to and share professional stories with not only those on the course, but also from the guest speakers. It was a delight to get to know Felicity and Hannah and to be able to see all of the effort that they put into helping others develop.

It allowed me to set, follow and adapt goals that I had made suited to myself, within a busy time a work these helped me in staying focused, it helped me not only adapt my own supervision but the supervision I provide with my students and support staff and allowed me to build the confidence to have a conversation (which I initially found very difficult) with my b8.

I have taken on a lot of the leadership qualities / what is involved with leadership, I used the session of the supervision and what I took from there with the students and my therapy enabler and felt I was better equipped to manage it. I can better recognize the difference between what a band 5 and band 6 is / does.

I would recommend both programmes! Both are very well lead and are fantastic learning opportunities for new 5/6s

I am happy that completing this beyond preceptorship has ultimate got me my band 6 role and I am excited to what the future holds. I also think if you ladies were to do the band 6 to band 7 program I would also come to that! I also think the knowledge / awareness of the AHP preceptorship is important and I’m happy my trust made me aware of it, I think for all junior newly qualified members should have access to these programs and support, they are really important especially in this current age of some NHS trusts where there is lack / little support when starting.

The preceptorship programme not only provided much support as a b5 but created a community that I felt comfortable voicing my opinions to. Once I completed that and moved to by b6 post (prior to enrolling onto the Beyond Preceptorship programme) I felt somewhat lost and didn’t have much guidance from my team.