Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
*Original content created March 2023
Chair
Alison Smith, Principal Decision Maker, Victorian Building Authority
Professional Skills
What Motivates Acceptance of the Decision? Current Thinking
- How do you effectively communicate your decision to the recipient? Plain English communication
- Engagement with the parties
- Method of delivery of the decision
- Embedding the approach within normal process
Presented by Dr Jamie Orchard, AHPRA General Counsel, AHPRA (Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency)
Presenters
Dr Jamie Orchard, General Counsel, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
Dr Jamie Orchard is the General Counsel of AHPRA and as such oversees the operations of the AHPRA in-house National Legal Practice. With lawyers in every state and territory, that Practice handles all regulatory, civil and criminal litigation on behalf of AHPRA and National Health Practitioner Boards and provides advice on any regulatory, corporate, governance, FOI and privacy issues that arise. Jamie has extensive experience as a regulatory lawyer, having held senior executive level roles in Australia and internationally in regulators such as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Dubai Financial Services Authority, the Qatar Financial Centre and the Australian Financial Ombudsman Service. Amongst other qualifications, Jamie holds a Doctor of Juridical Science in the field of natural justice in dispute resolution.
Alison Smith, Principal Decision Maker, Victorian Building Authority
Before joining the VBA’s Practitioner Discipline Unit, Alison was an appointed member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (and formerly the Social Security Appeals Tribunal) for 12 years. Alison joined the VBA in 2019 and acts as a delegate in disciplinary proceedings against building practitioners. Alison has taken a lead role in developing and maintaining the VBA’s regulatory and disciplinary strategy in relation to the non-compliant use of combustible cladding in a cross-divisional team of lawyers, technical experts, and investigators.
