An opportunity to join our Council and help keep patients and service users safe
As we enter the final year of our current Corporate Strategy, the HCPC is looking to recruit four new members of our Council: one registrant member and up to three lay members.
The health and care sector faces a crucial moment. The new government has set its sights on long-term reform of the NHS. The big challenges are well-known. Practitioners will need to pull together across the public and private sectors to address backlogs in appointments, tackle workforce pressures, embrace innovation, and do more for patient safety.
The HCPC is an important part of this sector, full of talented and dedicated people with a common purpose of ensuring high standards of care and protecting the public. An essential part of the Council member role is to set goals and strategy, governance and culture, and provide support, guidance and constructive challenge to the executive team.
Being a Council member is a truly rewarding and fascinating role. The successful applicants will gain a unique opportunity to share their opinions and perspectives and help to shape the HCPC’s progress on important issues such as regulatory effectiveness and reform, environmental and financial sustainability, and equity, diversity and belonging. They will also help ensure that the standards we set for healthcare professionals, the education programmes we approve and the actions we take as a regulator, keep the public safe.
I am keen to welcome applicants from all sections of the community and from people with diverse and divergent experience and backgrounds who feel they can embrace our values of fairness, compassion, inclusivity and innovation.
The outgoing members of our Council, Sue Gallone and Steven Vaughan have been instrumental in shaping the HCPC during their tenure, at a pivotal time for the organisation, and I thank them warmly on behalf of all of us.
I look forward to welcoming the new Council members to a supportive and forward-thinking team of people, to help drive the HCPC onward, shape the future of healthcare, and protect the public.
Applications are accepted until 9am on Monday 25 November 2024. More information about the application process and the criteria we’re looking for can be found below.
HCPC Chair of Council