Our Team
Our staff team is widely experienced and regularly supported and supervised by our Senior Therapist. We have the range of competencies necessary to engage and provide for the needs of young people and also to run a successful organisation.
Within the management team we have combined experience of over 40 years working with children and young people. Their skillset includes youthworking, management qualifications, a qualified teacher with experience of early years development, Diploma in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the use of solution focussed talking therapies.
Our team skillset includes:
- Qualified teacher
- Those qualified to teach post 14- adult students
- Qualified assessors/verifiers of curriculum work
- Counselling qualifications
- Life Coaching and Mentoring qualifications
- Level 3 Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment
- Trauma Informed Training
- Masters in CAMHS
- Level 3 or higher Child Development Qualifications
- Level 3 or higher qualifications in information advice and guidance
- All staff Early Help Module trained
Over recent years, a range of staff have accessed the following training opportunities:
- Safeguarding Children and Young people
- Safeguarding Young People with a Disability or Additional Needs
- Safer Recruitment practices
- Children who display sexually harmful behaviour
- First Aid
- Suicide Awareness
- Child Criminal Exploitation
- Gender Identity
- Loss and Bereavement
- ACES
- Trauma Informed Practice and Workplace
- Managing Sexualised Behaviours
- Safeguarding in a Digital World
- Mental Health First Aid
- Food and Hygiene Level 2
- Protective Behaviours
- Ending Gang and Serious youth Violence
- Preventing extremism and radicalisation
- Toxic Trio – issue for parents and children who are compromised by substance misuse and mental health conditions
We take seriously the need to stay up to date with current educational practices, Local Authority statutory requirements and government directives relating to our sector and therefore we endeavour to release staff for training as and when necessary in order to improve our care of and delivery to young people we work with.
In addition to paper qualifications, our staff team has a wealth of relevant experience from prior work places and volunteering such as: running youth clubs in a community setting, project leading a volunteering programme, working for the statutory Youth Service, teaching young adults with SEN to name but a few.
