Resources for Professional Practice
EXPERT KNOWLEDGE
The
H Club has received commissions and have had articles published on health and wellbeing topics for Woman’s
Health, The Woman, Salon Magazine, International Therapist, Knutsford Guardian and The Professional.
Gill continues to write editorial for The
H Club for publication to promote awareness of complementary and holistic wellbeing practices and techniques
in relation to health care choices and development.
Indeed, during 2003, The H Club
was commissioned by the Federation of Holistic Therapists to author and produce its press releases.
Gill has guest lectured for The H Club
at Bradford University School of Health Studies, on complementary health and dementia care.
Her lecture topics were recorded and used on the post graduate distance learning video for Dementia Care.
Member practitioners have the opportunity to access our knowledge of therapies and conditions,
how to treat pregnant clients, etc etc by e-mail, telephone or face to face.
PROMOTION OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
The
H Club is actively involved in the promotion of professional practice in the field of complementary health
and well-being. Our web site is under development and will include advertising
of members services by location.
Elected General Secretary during 2003-2004 of the General Council for Massage Therapies, our
founder has continued to urge practitioners to welcome professionalisation of our services.
The
H Club keeps member practitioners in touch with the evolving trends and conditions relating to professional
practice in our field. We actively update members on areas such as: pricing,
regulation, Continued Professional Development, insurance and National Occupational standards.
MENTORING NETWORK
The
H Club provides a mentoring network for independent wellbeing practitioners including giving free access to advice on business development, service/therapy delivery, quality standards, marketing
and other related matters.
Our sharing of experience and skills includes comment on the best and worst courses, cost effectiveness
of the numerous advertising offers members receive, how to avoid scam offers and much, much more. Our members can access vastly reduced, certificated training in topics ranging from First Aid to Reiki.
ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY
The H Club fully supports accreditation and quality improvement within the complementary
health, fitness, coaching and lifestyle professions.
Indeed, as a representative for the Professional Association of Clinical Therapists, our founder
member worked closely to assist GCMT in its quest to become the Lead Body in Voluntary Regulation of Body Work Therapies including
Massage with the aim of raising standards and appropriately accrediting courses for professional practice.
Every Member Practitioner is professionally
qualified in their chosen areas and carries full professional indemnity insurance.
The H Club is actively involved in promoting knowledge and delivering wellbeing sessions
in the community and assisting individuals to make an informed choice with regard to Integrated Healthcare and selection of
professionally accredited and trained practitioners.
In 2004, our founder was solely responsible for developing four health and wellbeing courses
accredited by the Open College Network. Student and Social Memberships are available
to those who do not hold any appropriate professional qualifications but are interested in our activities.
Further, The H Club
offers its members vastly reduced rate access to training courses from qualified teachers.
If they wish to participate, members can access courses to help develop business skills and to maintain professional
accreditation, ie First Aid Certification, Reiki Certification and training in a whole range of other areas, including Business
development, Anatomy & Physiology and Diet and Nutrition.
BEST PRACTICE
In 2005, The H Club’s
work was recognised after numerous nominations for the Positive Action Awards North West.
Organised by Warrington Disability Partnership, organisers of Disability Awareness Day (Europe’s
largest voluntary led Independent Living Exhibition) supported by the Northwest Regional Development Agency, the awards recognise
exemplary practice in the field of employment, service delivery and individual merit.
CAN WE WELCOME YOU ?
We retain complete independence of all institutes, schools and colleges and have a number of membership
categories to meet the needs of different like-minded individuals.
Click on the link to find out more about our Categories of Membership
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