Addendum to disciplinary procedure

The Trust’s Professional/Statutory Registration Policy and the Procedures for the monitoring of registered staff set out the requirements and processes for all staff who are legally required to maintain their professional registration.

The professional registration bodies exist to safeguard the health and wellbeing of the public, and to provide assurance to patients and employers that all professionally registered staff are properly qualified and competent to work in the United Kingdom.

This registration must be maintained and renewed when instructed by the relevant professional body.

Practitioner responsibility

It is the professional responsibility of the member of staff to ensure that they have current and valid registration with their professional body that allows them to practice as a registered practitioner, and any registrant that allows their registration to lapse will be required to make an application for readmission to regain access to the register. Failure to maintain required registration will result in a suspension of pay and suspension from duty, pending reinstatement of registration.  Failure to take the appropriate steps within a reasonable timeframe to re-register may result in a disciplinary sanction. 

Registration lapse and/or failure to revalidate

Whilst failure to maintain registration and/or revalidate is a conduct issue and may lead to formal disciplinary action, in the first instance, the Trust would wish to support the member of staff to re-register as quickly as possible and to minimise the time that the member of staff is out of the workplace.

Where it can be demonstrated that the failure to register was due to system or administrative failure by the professional body, the Trust will not take formal action however, the employee will be suspended from duty without pay until their registration has been reinstated.

All other lapses in registration will be addressed via this addendum with a possible pre-determined disciplinary sanction which will be issued by letter without the requirement to investigate in the first instance. If members of staff repeatedly fail to comply with the legal requirement to maintain statutory registration and/or revalidate, there may be a requirement for an investigation to take place in line with the disciplinary process.

To view the addendum in full, please see the download 'Addendum to Disciplinary Procedure'.