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An employer's perspective: Supporting a registrant through fitness to practise proceedings
Ruth Clement is Head of Kent Children’s Therapies at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. A concern was raised about a HCPC-registered therapist that Ruth line-managed. Here she gives her perspective on the events and shares tips for employers or managers in similar situations.
Revised standards of conduct, performance and ethics
Information about the revisions to the standards of conduct, performance and ethics, which were consulted on in 2023 and came into effect on 1 September 2024.
Section 1 – Your details
In this section we ask you for your personal and contact information
Keeping information safe
You need to take all reasonable steps to protect information about service users. By ‘reasonable steps’, we mean that you need to take sensible, practical measures to make sure that you keep the information safe.
Students’ health and character issues
An overview of the information contained in this section, and how can support education providers make decisions about students' health and characer issues.
Case studies of fitness to practise concerns
Our case studies illustrate the types of issues that are taken into consideration by a panel when deciding if a registrant’s fitness to practise is impaired
Leadership
Leadership is a skill anyone can demonstrate, at any level. In its simplest form, it means acting as a role model and displaying the core aspects of professionalism.
Upskilling and training responsibilities
Our changes provide further guidance around scope of practice and highlight the need to make sure registrants have the knowledge, skills and experience to practise safely and effectively.
Geraldine Kinkead-Richards
Council Apprentice
How we investigate health concerns
The HCPC takes a proportionate approach to investigating concerns about a registrant’s physical or mental health
Professional bodies for arts therapists
Professional bodies typically promote the profession, represent their members and provide curriculum frameworks, training and CPD.
Disability History Month: Disability networks and support for HCPC-registered professionals
Adrian Barrowdale writes about the recently-published list of disability networks and initiatives for the professions that the HCPC regulates.