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Professionalism & Professional Standards for Healthcare Professionals (HCPC)

A 2.5-hour CPD course built around the HCPC's Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics, effective September 2024, working within your limits, communicating effectively, delegating and managing risk, and raising concerns, including the new Standard 7.5 on bullying and harassment. Written for all 15 HCPC-regulated professions.

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Who this is for

Is this you?

We wrote this for three kinds of HCPC-registered professional. Most people reading this are at least one of them.

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You supervise, delegate to, or manage risk for others in your team.

Knowing whether a delegated task is genuinely within someone's competence, keeping a risk assessment current rather than treating it as a one-off, these are everyday judgement calls this course works through directly.

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A communication gap, scope question, or team concern has tested you recently.

Whether it's a service user who genuinely didn't understand you despite your best explanation, or recognising you've drifted beyond your own limits, this course covers the standing discipline side of professionalism.

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You want CPD that covers the genuinely new 2024 standards, not an older version.

The HCPC added an explicit new sub-standard on bullying and harassment in September 2024. This course covers it directly, alongside the standing conduct standards many older courses were written before.

The HCPC sets ten standards. This course covers the standing conduct ones.

Professionalism and our Ethics course are designed as a pair, covering the HCPC's Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics fully between them without repeating each other. Here's where this course sits.

Standard 3

Scope & Referral

Working within your limits and referring appropriately when needed.

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Standard 2

Communication

Genuinely effective communication across real barriers, spoken and written.

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Standards 4 & 6

Delegation & Risk

Appropriate delegation and ongoing risk management as a standing discipline.

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Standard 7

Raising Concerns

Including the new 2024 standard on bullying and harassment, and online conduct.

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About this course

What it covers, and why

Course description

A 2.5-hour CPD course on the standing conduct side of the HCPC's Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics, effective September 2024, built for HCPC-registered professionals across all 15 regulated professions. It covers working within your limits and referring appropriately, communicating effectively across genuine barriers, delegating and managing risk, and raising concerns, including the new Standard 7.5 on bullying and harassment, and online conduct.

Why it's relevant

The HCPC's September 2024 revision added a genuinely new, explicit sub-standard requiring registrants to raise concerns about bullying, harassment, or intimidation, territory many older courses simply haven't caught up to. This course covers it directly, alongside genuinely mixed scenarios drawn from across different HCPC professions rather than defaulting to one.

How it improves your practice

You'll finish able to work confidently within your own scope and refer appropriately when a situation genuinely exceeds it, communicate effectively across real barriers, delegate and manage risk as a standing professional discipline, and raise a concern properly, including about bullying or harassment, while meeting the everyday conduct standard online.

What it covers

The course runs across five modules:

  • Competence and scope of practice, working within your limits and referring appropriately
  • Communicating effectively, across genuine barriers, spoken and written
  • Delegation and managing risk as an ongoing, standing discipline
  • Raising concerns, including the new 2024 standard on bullying and harassment, and online conduct
  • Applying every standard together, with a complete worked case

Who it's for

Any HCPC-registered professional, at any career stage, across any of the 15 regulated professions, NHS, private practice, or independent practice. Especially relevant if you supervise a team or delegate tasks to others. Part of the wider CrownEthics library of CPD courses for UK healthcare professionals.

Related courses

This course stands on its own. These pair naturally if your situation calls for it:

Every course above is standalone and priced individually.

What you receive

Everything included

Format

19 lessons across 5 modules, self-paced, around 2.5 hours

Assessment

Four short knowledge checks, plus a final 15-question assessment (80% to pass, unlimited retakes)

Certificate

Downloadable certificate of completion, permanent access

Review

Reviewed by qualified professionals for accuracy

Access

No expiry, revisit any time

£75one-time · lifetime access
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Frequently asked

Questions about this course

Does this course count as CPD?

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Yes. It provides 2.5 hours of documented CPD learning with a certificate on completion, valid supporting evidence for your CPD record and HCPC registration renewal.

Is this course based on the current HCPC standards?

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Yes. The course is built around the HCPC's Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics as revised in September 2024, including the new Standard 7.5 on bullying and harassment, not an older version of the standards.

How is this different from the Ethics course?

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Ethics covers genuine ethical reasoning, promoting service users' interests, confidentiality, candour, honesty. This course covers standing conduct, scope of practice, communication, delegation, risk, and raising concerns. Together they cover the HCPC's ten standards fully; either stands alone.

Does the course cover the new bullying and harassment standard?

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Yes, directly. Module 4 covers Standard 7.5, the HCPC's 2024 addition requiring registrants to raise concerns about bullying, harassment, or intimidation of a service user, carer, or colleague, whether experienced directly or witnessed.

Does the course cover delegating to support workers or students?

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Yes. Module 3 covers delegation directly, including the distinction between delegating a task and remaining accountable for the decision to delegate it, and how this applies to a genuinely mixed team of colleagues, support workers, and students.

I'm not sure this applies to my specific HCPC profession, does it?

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The HCPC's Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics apply to all 15 regulated professions equally, and this course is written using scenarios drawn from across different professions specifically so it genuinely transfers to your own practice.

How long does the course take, and is it self-paced?

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Around 2.5 hours in total, fully self-paced. Your progress saves automatically. Access does not expire.

Is there an assessment, and what happens if I don't pass?

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Yes, a 15-question final assessment covering all five modules, requiring 80% to pass and unlock your certificate. Retakes are unlimited, and four shorter knowledge checks along the way don't count towards your certificate.

Who reviewed this course for accuracy?

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The course content was reviewed by qualified healthcare professionals to make sure the standards, case scenarios and regulatory references reflect how these situations are actually handled across HCPC-regulated practice.

Can my organisation enrol multiple staff at once?

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Yes. We offer team access and bulk pricing for NHS Trusts, private providers, and independent practices, with an individual certificate issued for everyone who completes the course. Contact us for organisation-level enrolment.

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