Canlyniadau chwilio am the care act 2014

Registrant Council member

Learn what we mean by 'reflection' and how you can use it to gain insight into your professional practice

Our registrants must treat service users, carers and colleagues with respect and dignity, and maintain appropriate professional boundaries.

Responding to discussions among our registrants, here’s some background on why some titles are regulated and others not.

Our quality assurance approach means we use data and intelligence to inform how we undertake assessments. A great example of this is some work we recently carried out with Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW).

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.

We have developed an eLearning module which combines a refresher on EDI and includes aspects of unconscious bias and sexual harassment. In addition, all partners have to receive training on information security as they deal with information on behalf of the HCPC.

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is an important area to the HCPC, to ensure learners are properly supported and prepared for practice. We have identified good practice and challenges with education provider approaches to embedding EDI into their programmes.

'As much as the situation is crazy and almost worthy of an apocalypse film, I feel lucky I can go to work every day and mix with friends and colleagues. It keeps some sense of normality day to day.'

Claire Molyneux is a HCPC registered arts therapist, practicing as a music therapist.

We are reviewing our English language proficiency requirements and have launched a consultation which will run from Monday 16 October 2023 to Friday19 January 2024.