Legal Essentials: Contracts, Policies and Processes

Starting out in private practice? Feeling overwhelmed by all things data protection? Stressed about the legalities of your practice? Convinced you are going to do something wrong, breach GDPR (UK data protection law) and end up in prison?

Never fear, the legal stuff is actually a pretty helpful framework to help us provide good quality, safe practice for our clients. But you didn’t become a mental health professional to spend hours reading up on data protection law or setting up GDPR compliant systems and processes. 

You want to run your practice with confidence that your policies and contracts have got your back should anything go wrong, like a complaint from a rogue client or a dispute over fees. But you don’t want to become a lawyer yourself.

That is why I pulled together the dream team, Clare Veal from Aubergine Legal, Anna Bunch from Psych Va and me, Dr Rosie Gilderthorp to create a package that takes away the stress and confusion of setting up your practice legally and getting your data protection right.

In this pack you’ll find:

• Legal training from Clare Veal, commercial lawyer so you understand your obligations and how to operate in a GDPR compliant way from day one.
  
• Perfect processes training and templates from Anna Bunch so you don’t have to do any thinking. Plug in the systems Anna and I developed together and you have a GDPR compliant practice minus the stress.
• Welcome guide to help you navigate the pack and get started with confidence.

Essential guidance documents including:

• Data Privacy Essentials Checklist

• GDPR Guidance

• Psychologist Safeguarding Guide

• Cookie Guide

• Launch a Website Checklist

• Al Compliance Checklist for Healthcare Practitioners

• Data Retention Periods - Psychology Practice Guidance

Templates for all the legal documents you need including:

• Therapy Terms Template 

• Psychology Website Privacy Policy Template

• Privacy Policy Offline Template 

• ASD and ADHD Assessments Insert

• Psychology Cookie Policy Template

• Website Terms and Conditions Template

• Supervision Business Terms Template

• Virtual Assistant Services Agreement Template

• Psychology Record of Processing Activities

• Data Protection Impact Assessment Template

• Appropriate Policy Document

In summary, I created this to give you peace of mind because you really don’t need to worry about this stuff once you have the right advice from experts.