Supporting workers
23.—(1) The registered person must have suitable arrangements in place in order to ensure that persons employed for the purposes of carrying on the regulated activity are appropriately supported in relation to their responsibilities, to enable them to deliver care and treatment to service users safely and to an appropriate standard, including by—
(a)receiving appropriate training, professional development, supervision and appraisal; and
(b)being enabled, from time to time, to obtain further qualifications appropriate to the work they perform.
(2) Where the regulated activity carried on involves the provision of health care, the registered person must (as part of a system of clinical governance and audit) ensure that healthcare professionals employed for the purposes of carrying on the regulated activity are enabled to provide evidence to their relevant professional body demonstrating, where it is possible to do so, that they continue to meet the professional standards which are a condition of their ability to practise.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), “system of clinical governance and audit” means a framework through which the registered person endeavours continuously to—
(a)evaluate and improve the quality of the services provided; and
(b)safeguard high standards of care by creating an environment in which clinical excellence can flourish.