Professional services unit

About the professional services unit

UNISON's professional services unit (PSU) consults and maintains realistic and internationally relevant standards of professional competence and ethics for all of our professional members in health, local government, education and the voluntary sector.

We discuss, design and faciilitate courses with competent institutions and especially our partners UNISON Open College and the Open University to promote and uphold the standards of the professions.

The PSU exists to promote, for the public benefit, the advancement of all professions to advance public education in the field and to represent the needs and interests of all our professional members in the provision or advancement of health care, social care and education.

The PSU represents members in fitness to practice cases where they have allegedly failed to maintain the standards of registration in health, competency or conduct.

UNISON has members registered in eight of the nine health registration bodies and with the General Social Care Council. We have members in the majority of the 12 professions registered with the Health Professions Council and a number of the 30 emerging professions who are in discussions with the HPC.

Contact us
You can contact the professional services unit by email at professional.services@unison.co.uk and individual officers:

Stewart Rouse, s.rouse@unison.co.uk

CONTACT DETAILS
• For urgent help and advice at work go to Help at Work
• The head of the professional services unit is Stewart Rouse.
UNISON professional services unit
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
Email: professional.services@unison.co.uk
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New A4 booklet explaining, in clear terms, for activists, how to handle members' cases under the new POVA/PoCA regulations.

Link to a PDF document on this siteA UNISON guide to handling POVA/PoCA cases

Link to a PDF document on this siteUNISON Members guide to fitness to practise cases

Link to a PDF document on this siteA guide for branch and regional officers advising registered members who face allegations via their registration body