
Are you a Practice Manager who would like to undertake additional training?
Would you like to ensure you are complying with the most up-to-date requirements?
Do you have gaps in your knowledge that you’d like to fill?
Then the Dental Practice Management Certificate (Level 2) is for you!
Your Practice Management Certificate – keeping your knowledge up-to-date
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**Please note: access to the course will not be granted until payment has been made.**
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What makes the Dental Practice Manager Certificate (Level 2) unique?
- Our easy-to-use online system will let you work through the training at your own pace
- You’ll be able to test your knowledge along the way with quizzes and tests to identify gaps in your knowledge
- Hear from our wide range of experts from consultants to lawyers specialising in issues specific to dental practice management
- Access to a wide range of tools, templates and checklists that you can download and start using in your practice straight away
- Download your specialist certificate at the end of your course to demonstrate your learning and preparation
Agenda
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- Module 1:
Exploring the role of the Practice Manager
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Nicki RowlandPractice Management Consultant
- The ever expanding & evolving role of the practice manager
- The importance of your role
- Professional development for the practice manager
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- Module 2:
CQC Inspection – your complete guide
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Nicki RowlandPractice Management Consultant
- Understanding the current framework
- A guide to the four key questions
- Getting to grips with the KLOEs
- The new Provider Information Collection Forms
- The role of the practice manager in preparing for inspection day
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- Module 3:
Compliance and practice management
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Nicki RowlandPractice Management Consultant
- What are your obligations?
- Complying with policy and procedure requirements
- Common pitfalls
- Model policies and procedures
- Staff training requirements
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- Module 4:
Financial management for the Practice Manager
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Tracy DellGP Practice Business and PCN Manager, trainer and consultant
- The Practice Manager’s role in financial management
- Budgeting and identifying areas for savings
- Boosting income for your practice
- Managing the budget in uncertain times; top tips and hints
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- Module 5:
Staff recruitment, retention and employee engagement
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Yvonne HardimanChartered MCPID, MA (Management)
- Staff recruitment procedures – making the best hires
- What is employee engagement?
- Assessing current levels of engagement in your organisation
- Implementing engagement strategies
- Maintaining engagement during times of change
- Wellbeing and engaging your employees
- Successful performance management
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- Module 6:
Supporting staff mental health
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Yvonne HardimanChartered MCPID, MA (Management)
- Promoting employee wellbeing
- Raising awareness and removing stigma
- Developing a mental health framework
- Understanding your obligations as an employer
- Managing employees with mental health issues
- Tackling work related stress
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- Module 7:
Data protection and GDPR
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Errol ArcherSolicitor, Archers Law
- The current data protection landscape
- Effectively managing security risks
- Detecting security breaches and minimising impact with things go wrong
- Secure data sharing
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- Module 8:
Employment law essentials
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Yvonne HardimanChartered MCPID, MA (Management)
- Maternity, paternity and adoption rights
- Managing sickness and absence
- Discipline and grievance
- Termination of employment
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- Module 9:
Complaints management; your step-by step guide
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Nicki RowlandPractice Management Consultant
- Taking preventative steps to avoid the most common complaints
- Implementing a robust complaints process
- Using online systems to manage complaints
- Using feedback to implement change
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- Module 10:
Marketing your practice
- What should you be doing to market your services?
- Proven strategies
- Boosting your social media engagement
- The importance of word of mouth
Speakers
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Errol Archer
Solicitor, Archers Law
For over 20 years, Errol Archer has successfully acted for businesses and clients, regulators and central government departments at the highest levels, including advising senior civil servants and government ministers. He has worked both in-house and in private practice.
Practice areas
Health and social care law, regulation and compliance; acting for providers.
He works alongside owners and directors of:
- care homes;
- independent hospitals;
- home-care agencies; and
- children’s homes
- Care Quality Commission;
- Ofsted;
- Health and Safety Executive; and with other regulators.
- won appeals at tribunal against CQC and Ofsted Notices of Decision;
- successfully challenged Notices of Proposal;
- persuaded regulators to withdraw Fixed Penalty Notices;
- successfully defended and mitigated Health and Safety Prosecutions; and
- guided provides through local authority safeguarding matters.
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Nicki Rowland
Practice Management Consultant
In 2005, Nicki and her husband dentist set up Perfect 32 Dental Practice in Beverley that won many industry and Chambers awards and the National Training Awards for the small employer over the years. Nicki herself won The Association of Administrators and Practice Manager’s (ADAM) Practice Manager of the Year award in 2011.
3 years ago, Nicki set up her own practice management consultancy, compliance and training company, Practices Made Perfect. She offers many business services including compliance health checks to dental practices, GP practices and care homes. These assessments identify gaps in compliance and aid in setting remedial wheels in motion to support organisations pass their CQC inspections. Further services include full compliance set-ups and on-going compliance support and training.
Nicki works in collaboration with many companies to deliver the best range of services to health and social care sectors. She is regularly a keynote speaker at industry events such as the British Dental Association Conference and BDIA Showcase.
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Stewart Duffy
Partner and Solicitor at RadcliffesLeBrasseur
Stewart is a solicitor and partner at RadcliffesLeBrasseur advising healthcare professionals and organisations on professional discipline and a variety of regulatory regimes relevant to the healthcare sector including privacy, data protection and the GDPR. Stewart is dual qualified in medicine and law.
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Tracy Dell
GP Practice Business and PCN Manager, trainer and consultant
Tracy has been employed as the Practice Business Manager at Plane Trees Group Practice since 2003 and has previously worked as a healthcare manager within secondary care and the voluntary sector. She also works freelance providing training, coaching, mentoring and management support services to Practice Managers, GP Practices, PCNs, CCGs, GP Federations and LMCs in all aspects of primary care.
With a passion for workforce development and collaborative working, Tracy was a one of the key drivers in the formation of a successful eleven practice collaborative in Calderdale, development of the first Primary Care Home in Calderdale and is now the lead manager for the North Halifax Primary Care Network.
Tracy is a trustee for Calderdale Carers Project, Inspiring the Future volunteer and is an advocate for improving the care our armed forces veterans receive in general practice. She recently completed the level 7 Diploma in Advanced Primary Care Management and is the current Primary Care Manager of the Year awarded by the National Association of Primary Care.
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Yvonne Hardiman
Chartered MCPID, MA (Management)
Yvonne believes that people doing great things make great businesses.
We all need to be clear about what is expected of us at work, what our employers will do in return and what how we will be supported if things don’t go quite to plan.
Businesses need to know how to do all this within the framework of current regulations and legislation! This is where HR comes in.
Yvonne has a wealth of experience of managing people and businesses. She began her people management career at BSI as Head of Delivery where she managed a publishing, printing and warehousing division of over 50 people. Eleven years later, she went on to join what was then one of the top 500 law firms in the country firstly as their HR Director. In recognition of her contributioin to the business, in 2009 she became one of the first non-lawyer partners in the UK. She continued to provide an HR service to the law firm and also worked very closely with employment solicitors to provide an HR consultancy service to their clients.
Yvonne developed a passion for supporting HR and non-HR managers to manage people in their businesses. In 2012 she decided to set up her own HR consultancy.
Yvonne has a unique insight into how businesses can become successful and how HR can help. This, coupled with a great knowledge of employment law is a winning combination. She helps anyone who has responsibility for any aspect of HR in small, medium and large businesses across many different sectors.