From the moment you register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) you become accountable and are expected to be autonomous with a responsibility to uphold the professional standards set by your professional body and HCPC.
Preceptorship is defined by the Department of Health (2010) as ‘a period of structured transition for the newly registered practitioner during which he or she will be supported by a preceptor to develop their confidence as an autonomous professional, refine skills, values and behaviours to continue on their journey of lifelong learning’.

The AHP Preceptorship Programme is a step-to-step guide to help with your transition from student to newly qualified AHP. This programme has been designed to be inline with the HCPC Principles of Preceptorship (2023) and meet NHS England’s AHP Preceptorship Standards (2022). The Speech and Language NQP Goals June 2026 have also been aligned to this programme.

Podiatry
Occupational Therapy
Speech and Language Therapy
Physiotherapy
Dietetics
Radiography
Art Therapy
Drama Therapy
Paramedic

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

(Elizabeth) Caroline Brown MSc BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy MCSP HCPC Physiotherapist (she, her, hers)

AHP Lead Workforce & Education at UHNM

Wendy Hollands MSc BSc (Hons)
HCPC registered Dietitian (she, her, hers)

AHP Professional Lead for Workforce at MPFT

You can contact us via our email or website registration form.
Website:https://midlandsahppreceptorship.com
Email: MidlandsAHPPreceptorship@mpft.nhs.uk

Preceptee – Newly Qualified AHP
Preceptor – clinical supervisor/line-manager to the Newly Qualified AHP
Your Team/Service Lead or AHP Preceptorship Leads will sign of your final portfolio

For Preceptee’s

Monthly virtual meetings for Preceptee’s with the Preceptorship Leads
A Preceptorship Portfolio
1:1 virtual meetings
CPD, support and guidance
Optional Preceptorship Accreditation from LSBU – 20 masters credits for a completed Preceptorship Portfolio
Meeting an AHP Community across the systems you work in

For Preceptor’s

AHP Preceptorship Training
Bi-monthly Preceptor meetings
1:1 virtual meetings
AHP Preceptor community

You will be provided with an AHP Preceptorship Programme Portfolio where you’ll be able to collate your evidence for each competency, Curriculum Vitae, Supervision sessions, Observed Clinical Practice, CPD Certificate and Endorsements.
For each competency and evidence you will be required to fill out the HCPC Standard 3 & 4.

Our core competencies cover;
Communication
Personal and People Development
Health Safety and Security
Quality
Equality and Diversity
Profession and Post Specific

The AHP Preceptorship Programme is designed to be completed in the first twelve months post qualification on entering employment as a qualified clinician.

We recommend monthly Preceptorship meetings with your preceptor to discuss the progress with your portfolio.

At 6 months we would recommend a half way review.

You are still welcome to join the programme. You can backdate your evidence.

What if I’m already completing a profession specific Newly Qualified Practitioner programme i.e. RCSLT NQP Goals?

The AHP Preceptorship Programme compliments other programmes, and you can do them alongside each other.

The programme has been aligned to the new RCSLT NQP Goals published in June 2026. We have created a guide on how you can use the programme to evidence your NQP Goals and AHP Preceptorship Competencies. This can be downloaded and sent to the RCSLT on completion of your preceptorship.

RCOP, CSP, RCOT and BDA do not have mandatory competencies to complete as a Newly Qualified Practitioner.

Being part of a wider AHP community and an AHP community that are Newly Qualified. Some AHP’s may be the only Band 5 in the team.

CPD is AHP specific
Additional support for Preceptor’s and Preceptee’s
Preceptorship Training (for preceptor’s) which is aimed for AHPs, includes HCPC standards and supervision.
The Programme is currently virtual which means it is easily accessible
The portfolio has generic competencies which everyone completes and also has the flexibility to be adapted to each profession and role
Optional LSBU Preceptorship Accreditation which means they can gain 20 masters credits for the completion of the portfolio.

Reflections
Referrals/Reports
Care plans
Clinical notes
Audits
Supervision notes
Feedback forms
Handover notes
Datix/Incident reports
Emails
Risk assessments

We offer 1:1 virtual meetings to go through the Preceptorship Portfolio. This can be done with your preceptor.

Speak this through with your preceptor or the AHP Preceptorship Leads

Yes. You can use one good piece of evidence (referral, report etc) which can cover multiple competencies.

You do not need to have a separate piece of evidence for each competency.

We can discuss with you how to link evidence in a 1:1 virtual meeting.

A small paragraph for each. Please see example below.

HCPC Standard 3 – How have you benefitted from this CPD activity?

“I have learned that observed practice is a positive experience and realise that putting on a ‘professional face’, pretending that everything is OK, will not help me to develop”

HCPC Standard 4 – How has your learning benefitted your service users?

“Service users will benefit from my learning as I now feel more able to discuss weaknesses in my practice with a senior colleague. The questioning during the reflective debrief allowed me to identify different strategies for managing challenging service users which I will try and implement in the future”

Oxlease AHP Preceptorship proudly partnered with London South Bank University to accredit the original programme delivered by Oxleas AHP Preceptorship pre April 2026.

The accreditation has an additional costs. You can request for funding through your Trust’s CPD budget.

The course involves a 4 hour enrolment with the university which can be done virtually.

You will have to complete your portfolio with evidence based reflections and have a professional conversation with a lecturer at the university once you have completed your portfolio.

You will gain 20 MSc credits once completed.

You can complete our Preceptorship Programme without the accreditation. If you want to explore this please discuss with your preceptorship lead.

Please contact us on our email address MidlandsAHPPreceptorship@mpft.nhs.uk with your name, your profession and the Trust you work for.

We will add you onto our emailing list and send you a link to the meeting.

If you are unable to attend we record all of our meetings so you are able to watch at any time.

Yes

If you are unable to attend the live session we will still send you a certificate once you have sent us your HCPC standards 3 & 4.

Please contact us on our email address MidlandsAHPPreceptorship@mpft.nhs.uk with your name, your profession and the Trust you work for.

The training is currently virtual and held every 2 months. We will send you a link to register your interest via MSforms. We will then send a link to the training closer to the training date.

We will add your email onto our emailing list to send links to our bi-monthly preceptor meetings.

You will finalise your evidence with your preceptor. Once your preceptor is happy with your evidence it will be given to the Manager/service lead who will sign it off formally.

Once it has been finalised by preceptor they will confirm with the AHP Preceptorship Leads who will either meet with you face-to-face or virtually. You will be given a Preceptorship Completion certificate.

Yes. Once you have completed the Preceptorship Programme you can complete the Preceptorship Training to become a Preceptor.

Becoming a Preceptor means you will develop your leadership skills and help in developing another member of staff. This will really help your career progression.