If you used to be a health care professional, and now do something else, what is it and how do you keep your professional registration up?

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I'm a HCP. An opportunity has come up at work that involves doing something health related, but not clinical practice. I'm very tempted to apply but would want to be able to keep my professional registration in case I need it one day. There may be the chance to do clinical practice 1 day a month.

What did you do in a similar situation and how did it work out for you?

Is the new opportunity classed as a HCP role similar to your own? If so you may be able to keep your professional registration without taking on additional work to maintain clinical practice (unless of course you want to do this).

I am a registered nurse and there are many non clinical roles where nurses can still keep their NMC reg eg practice educator, lecturer etc.

Hi Tower, no it's not a HCP role and there's no clinical aspect to it. Think project management

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I’m a uni lecturer so can keep my registration just by lecturing.

I’m technically still on the hospital bank but haven’t done a shift in ages.

I would try for that opportunity to do the clinical practice one day a month then, just in case you ever wanted to return to that type of work. I'm not sure how the HCPC works but for nurses we would end up having to do a return to practice course if we fell short of clinical hours required

If you go into the nmc site they tell you what you need to register if you're out of clinical practice, there used to be one specially for managers