Guidance for Registrants

Delegation is a vital component of health and social care practice, particularly in settings where there is a need to distribute tasks effectively across a team to ensure safe and efficient care.

Under the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics, CORU registrants must only delegate tasks to individuals they believe possess the necessary knowledge, skills, competence and experience to perform the task safely and effectively, or to those who are appropriately supervised.

With the expansion of assistant roles across the regulated professions, registrants may increasingly be required to delegate tasks to, and supervise, those who work as assistants in health and social care services. To support registrants in meeting the requirements of the Code when delegating to and supervising the work of assistants, CORU has developed the below guidance resources.

A document providing guidance on Ensuring Safe and Appropriate Delegation to Assistants in Health and Social Care is available here.

A video resource has also been developed to illustrate the key points of the guidance.

Please find it below.