UKPHR launches Employer Toolkit to promote practitioner registration

The Toolkit aims to encourage employers to enable more public health workers to become registered as professional public health practitioners and specialists. Registration gives accreditation to staff, and assurance to employers and the public that those working in public health are being trained and developed to do the best job possible to improve and protect the health of our population.

 

Public health practitioners achieve registration via local schemes across the UK such as The Public Health Practitioner Registration Scheme for Wales. This involves presenting a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and application of core public health standards. UKPHR registration gives independent, robust quality assurance for practitioners working in all areas of public health.

 

Registration enables employers to guarantee that their whole public health workforce is meeting the highest standards of conduct and competence, helping them to better protect the public. Registration can enable employers to recognise and reward the expertise of individual employees too.

 

Support from an employer can make all the difference in helping public health workers to become registered. The UKPHR Employers’ Toolkit is designed to help employers to help their employees to register as public health practitioners. It provides guidance on creating demand for registration, as well as supporting public health staff in building their portfolio of evidence and undertaking professional development. The toolkit also helps employers to share best practice within their teams too and celebrate the successful professional registration of their staff too.

 

Kelly McFadyen, Learning and Development Manager at Public Health Wales said:

 

“We are currently reviewing our Public Health Practitioner Registration and Professional Development Interim Action Plan 2019-21 in light of the UKPHR’s Employers Toolkit."

 

" I would welcome hearing from anyone who would like to find out more about how they could contribute to practitioner registration in many ways. This could be as assessors and verifiers, advocating in your role as a line manager or more generally as a champion of practitioner registration. Equally if you have any suggestions for how we can embed and value practitioner registration in Wales, please get in touch.”

 

For more information on the Public Health Practitioner Registration Scheme for Wales please visit: https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/the-public-health-practitioner-registration-scheme-for-wales/