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Working with employers
Employers, including those who manage, supervise or lead the work of HCPC registered professionals, play a key role providing a number of functions, including checking their employees’ registration
Understanding advanced levels of practice as a manager or employer
This page provides information for managers, multi-disciplinary strategic leaders and employing organisations that work with registrants working at or towards advanced levels of practice.
Disability in Healthcare: Celebrating History, Championing Inclusion, and Driving Change
Rachel Booth-Gardiner and Georgia Vine are occupational therapists with lived experiences of disabilities and founding members of disability network AbleOTUK. For Disability History Month 2024, they explore the history of disabled healthcare professionals, celebrate the achievements of AbleOTUK and review the sections of the HCPC standards relating to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Consent and confidentiality
It is important that you get the service user’s permission, or ‘consent’, before you share or disclose their information or use it for reasons which are not related to the care or services you provide for them
Statement on the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine
John Barwick, CEO of the HCPC, has issued a statement on the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine
Guidance on confidentiality
How to ensure you meet our standards when handling information about service users
What the standards say
Information on the specific sections of our standards, and how to meet them.
Maintaining professional boundaries
As a registered professional, it is your responsibility to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with service users, carers and colleagues.
Standards in practice: being open when things go wrong
The duty of candour is important for anyone working in health and care, but what does it mean in practice?
Health and wellbeing : 2023 student competition
Learning resources on health and wellbeing, created by the 2023 student competition winners.
What are advanced levels of practice?
Levels of practice form a workforce development framework, with advanced levels building on earlier stages like entry, foundation or newly qualified.
My Story – Prabha Vijayakumar (South Asian Heritage Month 2024)
Prabha, a registered occupational therapist, shares her journey from India to the UK, and how she discovered her calling.
Revised standards of conduct, performance and ethics: now in effect
Today the revised HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics, and guidance on social media which sits alongside the standards, come into effect. It is now every registrant’s responsibility to be familiar with the changes and meet the revised standards.