Practitioner standards and room licences

Before you start

Documents are uploaded to the private practitioner area and checked individually.

• Proof of qualification from a recognised training route.
• Current registration with the professional body relevant to your discipline.
• Current professional indemnity and public liability insurance naming your scope of practice.
• Enhanced vetting where you will work with children or adults at risk.
• A signed room licence and a signed copy of this policy set.
• Evidence of continuing professional development, and supervision where your body requires it.

Keeping it current

Expiry dates are tracked. A lapsed insurance certificate or registration suspends practice from the space on the day it lapses, without exception and without discussion, until it is renewed. It is your responsibility to upload the renewal before the date, not after.

Scope

Practise only what you are trained, registered and insured to practise. Do not diagnose outside your competence. Do not advise a client to stop or change prescribed medication. Refer on rather than stretch.

Advertising and claims

Everything written about your work here must be capable of substantiation and must comply with advertising rules and, where relevant, the Cancer Act 1939. Describe what happens in a session. Do not promise what it will achieve. Testimonials may not be used to make a claim that could not be made directly.

The licence

A room licence is a licence to occupy, not a tenancy, and it does not create an employment relationship. You remain self employed, responsible for your own tax, your own records and your own clinical decisions. Notice periods, hours and access arrangements are set out in the licence itself.

Ending an arrangement

Either side may end a licence on the notice stated in it. Where a serious conduct or safety issue arises, access can be withdrawn immediately while the matter is looked into. Clients are told only that a practitioner is no longer working from the space, and are helped to obtain their records and continue their care.