Registered Practitioner Service Agreement
Registered Practitioner Service Agreement
Your appointment to Singing Mamas as a Registered Practitioner
Hurrah and welcome! We are delighted to be bringing you on board as a ‘Registered Practitioner’. This document outlines the terms of engagement and provides you with all of the information you should need about your membership. We’re aware it sounds very formal in places; we just need to be really transparent about what this appointment means and what our respective responsibilities are.
- Contractual relationship
1.1 Singing Mamas Choir (trading as ‘Singing Mamas’®) are retaining your professional services on a self-employed basis. This means that you will be personally liable for your own income tax payments and National Insurance contributions.
1.2 You are not entitled to paid leave of absence for reasons of sickness, injury, holiday or for any other reason from Singing Mamas® and we would advise you to make your own sick pay and pension arrangements.
1.3 You are not entitled to any of the statutory rights extended to an employee as defined in Section 230 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and set out in that Act as a whole.
- Terms of payment
2.1 By signing up as a ‘Registered Practitioner’, you are agreeing to pay an annual licence fee of £300. This will be payable up front, or in 12 monthly instalments of £25.
2.2 Your 12-month licence will be valid from the date of your first payment and cannot be paused during this period (with the exceptions of long-term serious illness and maternity leave, notification of which must be provided in writing and signed off by the Singing Mamas® board of Directors).
2.3 If you fail to pay your monthly instalment within 14 days of it being due, and do not give us notice of this, then your licence may be withdrawn.
- Terms of service
3.1 Singing Mamas® will provide the following services to you as a Registered Practitioner:
a) Licence to use the Singing Mamas® name, brand and track record to seek local grant-funding, bid for statutory services commissions / contracts and develop professional relationships with local health services.
b) Licence to develop partnership projects based on existing Singing Mamas ® programme models
c) Access to the ‘Registered Practitioner Training Portal’
d) A personalised Singing Mamas® email address
e) A framework and set of templates to support you to write project proposals and grant funding applications.
f) A framework and set of templates to support you in relationship building and outreach with key stakeholders in your community.
g) Monthly online ‘clinic’ sessions with a Singing Mamas Director to support your development.
h) Proof reading and submission of localised grant funding applications (please note, we require a minimum of 7 working days to proofread applications).
3.2 Any training or events that fall outside of these services must be purchased at an additional cost.
- Roles & responsibilities
4.1 As a Registered Practitioner it is your responsibility to:
a) Complete all of the relevant training before applying for funding.
b) Identify local funders who can support your work.
c) Develop relationships with local funders, health services, partners and stakeholders.
d) Draft funding applications / proposals based on the project models and budgets provided.
e) Manage project staff and budgets
f) Offer peer support to other Registered Practitioners on the central forum (where appropriate).
g) Work collaboratively with other local Registered Practitioners to share learning and practice.
h) Consent to a DBS check (if required by a funder or partner).
i) Obtain sign-off from Singing Mamas® on all local grant funding applications and partnership proposals before submission.
4.2 In addition to providing the training and support outlined in the ‘Terms of Service’, Singing Mamas® will:
a) Act as the grant holder for locally funded projects.
b) Sub-contract locally funded projects to the Registered Practitioner(s) involved in their development, where mutually agreed.
c) Provide supervision to you on funded projects we have sub-contracted. The cost of providing this supervision will be built into the funding applications.
- Branding, licencing and communications
5.1 You are granted a royalty free licence to use the Singing Mamas’® name and branding to promote your groups and services for the length of time you are a Registered Practitioner.
5.2 You are also granted permission to represent Singing Mamas® to local funders, health professionals, prospective partners and statutory services within your role as a ‘Registered Practitioner’.
5.3 Whenever you are representing Singing Mamas® you should always communicate in a way which reflects the company’s values of ‘courage’, ‘connectedness’ and ‘inclusion’.
5.4 You will be provided with a suite of branding assets and templates along with ‘branding guidelines’ which you must follow.
5.5 If we believe you have deliberately or recklessly ignored the branding guidelines or values and represented Singing Mamas in a way that could damage our reputation then this may lead to your appointment and relationship with Singing Mamas® being terminated.
- Insurance
6.1 Whenever you deliver self-employed activities under the Singing Mamas® brand you will be covered under the insurance of the CIC providing you are adhering to our policies. This includes £2 million in public liability insurance.
6.2 In addition, our insurance also covers our self-employed contractors against injury of up to £10 million as if they were employees.
- Intellectual property
7.1 As a Registered Practitioner you will have access to commercially valuable information such as our training materials, handbooks and policies. Such information should be kept confidential and should not be shared.
7.2 Sharing of documents or information which is not in the public domain may constitute a breach of copyright.
- Policies and procedures
8.1 You will be provided with four key policies to support your work with Singing Mamas®: Safeguarding; Health & Safety; Equality, Inclusion & Diversity; and Data Protection. These are included within the Leader Library which you have access to as a Registered Practitioner.
8.2 To support our Registered Practitioners in understanding and implementing these policies, training material is provided on your online portal and these topics can be covered during monthly clinic sessions.
8.3 Registered Practitioners should take all reasonable measures to adhere to these policies. If we believe you have been deliberately or recklessly ignoring these policies then your appointment and relationship with Singing Mamas® may be terminated.
This doesn’t mean we expect you never to make a mistake or get things wrong. In fact, when things don’t go to plan, we want you to share it with the network so that we can all learn and improve. We are human and we will all make mistakes, and when you do you will have the full support of a network of women ready to lift you back up.
- Terms of Service Agreement
9.1 The terms and conditions of this Service Agreement have been agreed upon as part of your purchase of Registered Practitioner Membership.
9.2 This Agreement is valid for the duration of your 12-month licence. It can be renewed after this period with mutual agreement.
