Educators

Advice and guidance for physiotherapy educators is available further down this page including details of our professional advice service. You can also find out what's happening in our current developments summary.

Get involved

How about getting on our register of approved external examiners or acting as a CSP representative:

• External examining: if you have 5 or more years experience within UK higher education and are looking for personal development opportunities find out more on iCSP: subscribe to the Subject Head and Course Leaders network.
• CSP representatives: we are looking to recruit representatives to effect arrangements for approving and advising on the development of qualifying and postqualifying physiotherapy education programmes. We are currently recruiting to three roles:
  • visitor representatives for physiotherapy degree programmes
  • advisory representatives for physiotherapy degree programmes
  • postqualifying representatives for physiotherapy programmes with HEI links

  Alternatively, we are also looking for educators who would be willing to be involved as scrutineers to advise and endorse support worker programmes and physiotherapy programmes of study that do not attract academic credit: find out more on iCSP.
  
  We also look at regular intervals for educators to sit on a number of internal groups such as the CSP's Education Committee, QAE group and Research and Development Committee. For less formal involvement and a chance to network with colleagues from around the UK we host three other fora: Educators' Forum, Practice Educators' forum and Admission tutors' forum - see more details on their respective iCSP networks.

Advice and guidance

Advice for educators

The CSP has a dedicated Professional Advice Service (PAS). PAS offers confidential advice and guidance on matters of behaviour, conduct, individual scope, scope of the profession, duty of care, the role and responsibilities of a chartered physiotherapist and the translation of health and social care policy as it impacts on the practice and service delivery of physiotherapy. Contact our enquiry team to access PAS: phone 020 7306 6666 or email enquiries@csp.org.uk.

The CSP also has dedicated education specialists who can assist with, for example, student related matters, quality assurance and enhancement queries and interpreting education, health & social care policies as they impact on physiotherapy education at all levels (support worker, qualifying and post-qualifying education).

In addition, we provide a range of guidance and information papers, which can be found on this website, through iCSP or via our online library catalogue.

Current developments

SKIPP

Supporting Knowledge in Physiotherapy Practice is about sharing, developing, and disseminating the clinical knowledge of the profession to support clinical practice and service organisation and supporting the profession to better articulate the physiotherapy contribution to a healthy society. See more in the SKIPP section of this website.

CSP ePortfolio

Our upgraded ePortfolio tool supports HEIs to fulfil their requirements around personal development planning and provides an interactive system to support student reflection and learning. See more in our ePortfolio section.

Programme approval & endorsement

The CSP approves and endorses a range of qualifying and post-qualifying programmes:

• qualifying physiotherapy degree programmes approved by the CSP
• post-qualifying programmes endorsed by the CSP

If you are interested in putting either your support worker or post-qualifying programmes for CSP endorsement we would just like to remind you that this opportunity is free for all institutions with CSP approved qualifying programmes.