Becoming a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner is good for your own career and good for the profession.
Chartered status is a quality standard for EHPs. Those who have achieved it are seen as exemplars and ambassadors for the environmental health profession.
The gateway to Chartered status is the Assessment of Professional Development (APD). This tests the key skills and competencies needed to work as an EHP, and serves as a verification of a member’s professional development.
Members with Chartered status are required to do 30 hours of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) rather than 20, and to submit an annual CPD declaration.
Chartered status is not for everyone, but if you are able to ‘go the extra mile’ and achieve it, your efforts will be very worthwhile.
Applying for Chartered Status
There is currently no fee for applying for Chartered Status.
You will need:
- 5 years of work experience as a qualified EHP
- 3 years of Graduate and/or Voting Membership of the CIEH
Either:
a) To have passed APD parts one and two; or
b) To have passed APC more than 12 months ago.
- 60 hours of compliant CPD records from within the last 3 years.
Full details of the requirements as well as some guidance on applying are included in the Chartered Status Regulations.
Notice for members with Chartered status
Chartered Environmental Health Practitioners are required to make an annual declaration that they have met their CPD requirement, or apply for and be given a dispensation in order to retain their Chartered status.
New for 2010
In contrast to previous years, this year's declaration can now be submitted online, eliminating the need to complete and return the paper-based form.
In addition, we have made the declaration even more simple.
The declaration can be found online here.
Please remember to supply your name and email address.
If you are subsequently requested to forward your CPD records for verification as a result of the annual random sampling programme and cannot demonstrate meeting the requirement, this would be considered to be a serious breach of the Code of Professional Conduct. In such circumstances, action would be taken against you under the Chartered Institute's disciplinary procedures.
If you have not been able to meet your CPD obligations for 2009 you can either:
- make a declaration that you have not met the requirements and request that a dispensation is granted to you. You would need to to make good the deficit.
or; - declare that you no longer wish to retain Chartered status and confirm that you will desist from using the title "Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner".
If you have had any difficulties with your CPD in 2009, or have any questions about the form please contact us. We would also be interested in any comments you have on this new online facility.
Thank you once again for your continuing support, we wish you all the best for 2010.
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