Ensuring the probity of practice is
important both to those who are directly affected but also
to the standing of the profession as a whole.
The main factors to be observed are:
Providing clients with adequate information
Financial arrangements
Conflicts of interest
Care of self as a practitioner
Practitioners are responsible for clarifying the terms on which their
services are being offered in advance of the person legally responsible for
the client incurring any financial obligation or other reasonably
foreseeable costs or liabilities.
All information about services should be honest, accurate, avoid
unjustifiable claims, and be consistent with maintaining the good standing
of the profession.
Particular care
should be taken over the integrity of presenting qualifications,
accreditation and professional standing.
Practitioners are required to be honest, straightforward and accountable
in all financial matters concerning their clients and other professional
relationships.
Conflicts of interest are best avoided, provided they can be reasonably
foreseen in the first instance and prevented from arising. In deciding how
to respond to conflicts of interest, the protection of the client's
interests and maintaining trust in the practitioner should be paramount.
Attending to the practitioner's well-being is essential to sustaining
good practice.
Practitioners have a responsibility to themselves to ensure that their
work does not become detrimental to their health or well-being by ensuring
that the way that they undertake their work is as safe as possible and that
they seek appropriate professional support and services as the need arises.
Practitioners are entitled to be treated with proper consideration and
respect that is consistent with this guidance.
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