Essential Policies for Private Practice

This course is a high level view of a range of different policies necessary for conducting private practice in Australia. Particularly focused at AHPRA registered professions (although applicable for counseling and psychotherapists) this webinar looks at the various policies you may wish to put in place to protect your private practice and meet your statutory requirements.

Learning Outcomes

• Understanding the Function of Policies.
  
  • Guiding business, minimizing risk, meeting your statutory requirements.
  • Internal and External policies,
  • Statutory policies, website policies, client policies, workplace policies, governance policies.
• Statutory policies:
  
  • Privacy policy;
    • Legislative basis;
    • Content;
    • Specific clauses for private practice.
  • Whistleblower policy
    • Legislative basis;
    • Content,
    • Entities that are required to comply.
• Website policies
  
  • Website privacy policy: Why this differs from your internal privacy policy.
  • Terms of Use: Protect yourself when publishing online.
  • Various other website policies that meet Google’s criteria.
• Client policies.
  
  • Artificial Intelligent Policy: Meet ARPRA’s requirement for digital competency.
  • Cancellation Policy: A uniform, and certain protocol.
  • Child Protection Policy: Meet the disparate reporting requirements across various state and territory laws. 
  • Confidentiality and Record Keeping Policy.
  • Social Media and Advertising Policy.
  • Feedback and Complaint Policy.
• Workplace policies
  
  • Considering the application of the work health and safety legislation,
  • Grievance policy: Minimize the risk of disputes escalating. 

Included for free are the Therapas template slides.

This is a beginner level training that provides a bird’s eye view of all the necessary policies you may wish to put in place to protect your practice and bring it into compliance with applicable laws.

CPD

Practitioners can claim up to 1 CPD unit/point. This Training has been designed to run for 1 hour, however, training lengths can vary depending on the level of questions and discussion. If you are in doubt, please verify with your CPD Rules. 

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