Specsavers Optical Group Ltd is a multinational optical retail chain, which operates in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Nordic countries. The chain offers optometry and optician services for eyesight testing, sells glasses, sunglasses, contact lenses and hearing aids. PowerHouse Hub provides the Continuing Professional Development platform for the Australian operations.
CPD events attended and managed
CPD documents and plans downloaded
CPD courses completed
Professionals completing the CPD programs
The Specsavers MyCPD platform - setting high professional standards
Specsavers is the fastest growing and most progressive optical retail company in Australia and New Zealand. Specsavers employs over 35,000 people worldwide and operates in 10 European countries.
MyCPD was created in collaboration with PowerHouse Hub and is a virtual portal for over several thousand of Specsavers’ industry-leading optometrists to manage their professional development and accreditation.
Featuring real-time visual reporting, CPD credit points, resources and training, MyCPD enables Specsavers to ensure compliance, deliver training and quantify real-world outcomes.
The CPD platform is also a Risk Mitigation platform where optometrists could manage their points / credit in Australia and New Zealand in line with each country’s regulatory requirements.
The CPD platform provides a repository of training and CPD courses for Australia and New Zealand.
It includes a visual dashboard of points/credit and status and the ability to record and track training outcomes and the accreditation of optometrists’ workforce compliance – Australia (AHPRA) and NZ (ODOB).
What did PowerHouse Hub deliver
PowerHouse Hub established a dedicated CPD portal for Specsavers with secure hosting on AWS servers in country.
The PowerHouse software developers enhanced the platform to allow Specsavers to deliver unique CPD programs to each of their business groups with advanced reporting.
Our design team customised the PowerHouse Upskill platform to feature the Specsavers stylesheets, branding and styles.
Our training team provided extensive training to the Specsavers subject matter experts to allow the to plan, build and publish interactive online CPD courses with text, images, video and multimedia.
Our training included instruction on the Learning Plan Manager to build sequential eLearning programs with prerequisite online courses. We also worked with their team to explain how they could plan, publish and implement their face-to-face CPD training events.
The Specsavers MyCPD Portal provides their staff with the following features:
- A CPD Workforce Wallet for all staff
- A dynamic CPD Training Record
- Real-time tracking of annual CPD targets
- Access to a selection of online CPD Courses
- Access to a library of CPD documents to download
- A list of face-to-face CPD Training Events with registration
- Streaming CPD News
- A set of professional industry links
- User can set their own professional learning goals
The CPD Tools
- CPD Course Publisher with SCORM import capability
- CPD Webinar Manager (links with Zoom, Teams and GtM)
- CPD Events Managers (with auto registration + waitlist)
- CPD Job Role Compliance and Upskilling Frameworks
- Extensive Reporting for Admin and Line Managers
- CPD News, broadcasts, documents, records and links
