URGENT-Has any one tried to join CSP & Failed?

[poison ivy]

I am a UK Physiotherapist and hold HPC registration through the grandparenting route. To get employment in the UK you have to be Chartered?? Is this true??
I applied by application form well over a year ago, recieved my certificate & eventually gained employment as a chartered physio...only to have cert taken off me this week,over a year later stating it was a mix up and it belonged to somebody else!! Not even an apology given either!!
I have now lost my employment not to mention everything that comes along with a job, and CSP are stating that I cannot join as my uni is not on their list, yet I have been fully accredited by the HPC.
I have also noticed that on the CSP website that if your coming from abroad into the UK as a Physio registered with the HPC will AUTOMATICALLY get Chartered recognition..... SO where is the fairness in that??
Has anybody else out there had this problem??
Are you not Chartered and have got employment?? What work do you do??
Please reply to this if anybody can help me I'm totally devastated..

[JAW]

Being a member of the HPC and CSP are two seperate things.
However the CSP provides the insurance and trade union for most HPC Physiotherapists who work in the UK. If you aren't a member of the CSP, you will need public liability and professional indemnity insurance through someone else, which HPC membership doesn't give you.
Membership of the CSP is not, as far as I am aware, open to all HPC registered Physiotherapists. You need to be on their list of recognised courses to join. So you are HPC registered, but not done a recognised course for CSP membership, which is why you were grandparented in, presumably because you had experience which was considered acceptable by the HPC, nothing to do with the CSP.
I think the key issue here is your insurance. Some organisations do ask for MCSP because they now what the course content is, others are happy with HPC membership. Frankly I would look for CSP membership if I employed a Physiotherapist in my private practice

[poison ivy]

Hi,
Many thanks for your reply it's been really helpful.
I am at the moment searching the net for a descent insurance company but all are saying I have to belong to an association first and the HPC is not one?? So im stuck?? Do you know of an insurance company at all??
I think my main moan with the CSP is that wether or not I did my training at a recognised uni, im still qualified under the rules & conduct of the HPC and have been accepted by them, so why woun't they take me??? Yet overseas can get automatic registration??Degree or no degree!
Not only the above but it's the job hunting, it's like you said you would only consider CSP..Could I ask if some one came to with all Insurances and a seperate trade union would you reconsider?
Thanks

[JAW]

Well if you were grandfathered in you must have completed a core skills training in something somewhere, and with other students, at a college, so there must be more of you. So I'm not really sure why you dont have a professional organisation. What training did you do?

[physiobob]

Originally Posted by poison ivy

Hi,
Many thanks for your reply it's been really helpful.
I am at the moment searching the net for a descent insurance company but all are saying I have to belong to an association first and the HPC is not one?? So im stuck?? Do you know of an insurance company at all??

You can get insurance for physiotherapy I think with Balens: http://www.balens.co.uk/

[JAW]

but that's not really the issue here is it? I am curious to know where you trained?