Welcome to APEX
Your Journey to Fellowship
A very warm welcome!
The aim of this site is to help ensure that you have identified the most suitable route for Fellowship, and to guide you through the process of developing and submitting your claim for Fellowship.
How to find your way around
Resources to help your Fellowship journey have been arranged under Pre-Flight, Boarding, Inflight, and Landing. Please navigate to the relevant section to find the information you are looking for to support your engagement with the written or professional conversation route to Fellowship.
Pre-Flight
Pre-flight resources provide a background to the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) and the APEX scheme at Portsmouth. They also provide information on our two paths to Fellowship via the written route or the professional conversation. Not sure what category of Fellowship is the best fit for you - then start by completing the AdvanceHE Category Tool as this will help to point you in the right direction.
Introduction to APEX
Written Route v Professional Conservation
Collaborative Partner Guidance
Introduction to UKPSF 2011
Introduction to the UKPSF 2011
Categories of Fellowship: Associate Fellow (D1), Fellow (D2), Senior Fellow (D3)
Which category is the best fit for you - using the UKPSF Category Tool
Supporting documentation that you need for your claim including: claim form, advocate statement form, annotated CPD record.
Boarding
Boarding resources cover the key steps to getting started on your Fellowship journey. Download your registration form and then check upcoming dates for orientation events, micro-clinics and writing retreats. Interested in the professional conversaton route ? - you can find details here along with the dates and booking links for briefing meetings and cohort launch dates.
Getting Started
First steps towards Fellowship
Pre-flight checklist
Registration form and guidance
Planning Your Journey
APEX Submission dates
Details about upcoming orientation events, micro-clinics and writing retreats
Details about professional conversation briefing meetings and cohort launch dates.
In-Flight
The in-flight pages contain all the resources required to help you develop your claim with detailed guidance sheets on Areas of Activity, Core Knowledge and Professional Values. Examples of Fellowshiup claims are also available.
Developing Your Claim
Resources to help you develop your claim:
UKPSF Resources
Descriptor Criteria
Areas of Activity information sheets
Core Knowledge information sheets
Professional Values information sheets
Developing your claim - examples of submissions
Professional converation activity instructions
Mentoring guidance
Landing
Claim ready to submit? The landing pages contain all the information needed to help submit your claim for both the written route and professional conversation and to ensure that you have assembled all the required elements needed for a successful submission.
Submitting Your Claim
Submitting your claim for the written and professional conversation routes
Booking for Professional Conversation event
How our review process works
Not successful - guidance on referrals and resubmissions
Guidance for your advocates on writing your advocate statement
Just in the case - the legal bits
Don't forget to check out parallel CPD programme and our Principles to Practice portfolio.
Our new Principles to Practice CPD programme has been developed around a series of core learning and teaching thematics. For each theme we have developed three 2-hour workshops which are collectively designed to provide a foundation to each thematic area. You are welcome to join any session, but we recommend that you attend the first session as an introduction and then take sessions 2 and 3 in the order that suits you.