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Maintaining Professional Ethics

Upcoming Courses

Maintaining Professional Ethics 17/19 November 2020

Maintaining Professional Ethics 1/3 December 2020

Please note, all our fixed-date courses are now being run live online.

This course aims to help improve awareness and responsibility around establishing and maintaining professional ethics. It is helpful where there are concerns, allegations or findings in relation to issues such as:

Dishonesty / probity issues
Plagiarism/misattribution
Research/audit fraud
Falsifying notes
Breaching confidentiality
Failing to maintain accurate records
Unauthorised accessing of records

Inaccurate CV’s
Misuse of prescription or non-prescription medication
Causing unnecessary delays in the progression of cases
Personal criminal or civil cases which affect work
Emotional over-involvement with patients
Non-sexualised inappropriate interactions with patients.
Other conduct related issues

Who Is The Course For?

The course is for people in roles working with people, including medicine, nursing, social work, ministry, education, therapy, criminal justice, corporate and political settings.

When The Course Is Helpful

The course is for professionals who have a need to look at ethics and/or conduct related issues. It may be helpful when there are concerns about ethics or probity, and when there are disciplinary or conduct hearings or other professional processes.

It is helpful where there are concerns, allegations or findings – it is important to understand that the course has been helpful to people who face allegations, including where allegations are contested.

Learning Methods Include

Pre-course reading
Conversations with the trainer
Evidence from research
Eliciting core values
Recorded lectures
Group discussion

Working in pairs
Acted Scenarios
Presentations
Playing The Professionalism Game^®
Playing Lumination^®
Creating a Personal Development Plan

Content Includes

Attitudes towards power and authority
Belief and its functions
Blind spots
Cognitive distortions
Core Values
Counter-dependent ways of being
Distinction between context and cause
Dynamics of risk
Ethics in professional life

Impact and consequences
New ways of relating and being
New ways of communicating
Notion of total responsibility
Power differentials.
Practitioner self-disclosure
Relationship with vulnerability
Three stages of moving on

Goals & Intended Outcomes

The course goals are:

To increase professional responsibility and awareness on ethical practice
To increase awareness of vulnerabilities and risk factors
To put in place a personal plan

By the end of the course, participants will:

Improve understanding of personal history and antecedents to problems
Consider needs for further professional assistance and personal development
Understand the impact of actions on others
Learn techniques for establishing and maintaining sound ethical practice
Improve understanding of professional role

Timings

Day 1: 09:00 – circa 18:20
Day 2: 09:00 – circa 18:30
Day 3: 09:00 – circa 17:45

Booking Process & Fee

There are 5 places on each course.

Each participant is required to complete a pre-course form, returning it at least 3-weeks before the start of course. The information requested is confidential and explores the context, substance of the issue/s faced and personal perspective. This information will ensure the course facilitator is fully informed as to the circumstances that bring you to us.

COST: £1,5000 +VAT [£1,800]. Places are secured when payment is made.

All bookings are made in agreement with our terms and conditions. Payment is by bank transfer and places can be held for 24 hours to enable payments to be made. Payment plans are available on request.

What Our Clients Say...

The Facilitation was…
Superb. Very easy to talk to, made it a very comfortable learning environment and yet appropriately challenged us

Medical Trainee | MPE July 2020

If you would like to know more about the course, please download our full course brochure or contact us