At your own pace
Twelve modules on our training platform that learners work through when it suits them, including on shift. The quickest and lowest cost way in.
- £195 per learner
- 1 to 3 weeks
- Start whenever you are ready
Residential
Ready
The course that gets you ready for your first role in a children's home. Take it online at your own pace, or face to face with your team. No experience needed to start.
- Online
- £195 per learner
- Face to face
- Quoted for your group
- Online, time to complete
- 1 to 3 weeks
- Accreditation
- CPD certified
Online or face to face
The same grounding in residential practice, taken whichever way suits you or your team.
In the room with a practitioner
Practical, discussion led sessions delivered at your home or ours, so a team can work through real situations together. It costs more than online because a practitioner delivers it to your group, so we quote for each booking.
- Quoted for your group
- At your home or ours
- Delivered by practitioners
Twelve things you will know by the end
Residential Ready builds the essential knowledge and confidence to understand residential childcare and prepare for your first role. It is the course that gets you to the point where you can walk into an interview and talk about the work properly.
- Safeguarding and child protection
- Professional boundaries
- Trauma informed practice
- Understanding behaviour
- Mental health, self injury and ligature awareness
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Health and safety, fire awareness, infection prevention
- GDPR, data protection and recording
- Whistleblowing
- Medication awareness
- Missing from care
- Introduction to residential practice
Who it is for
Anyone considering a first role in residential childcare. You do not need experience, and you do not need a qualification to begin.
- Residential Support Worker in a children's home
- Support roles in supported accommodation for 16 and 17 year olds
What you gain
- Safeguarding awareness
- Professional practice
- Clear, calm communication
- Reflective practice
You finish able to walk into an interview and talk about the work properly, rather than hoping the questions stay easy.
What it does not do
This course builds knowledge. It does not make someone fully qualified, automatically compliant, or ready to work unsupervised.
Your employer still completes induction, policy training, shadowing and workplace competency sign-off before you work unsupervised.
Face to face courses
Practical, discussion led sessions delivered by practitioners at your home or ours. Our programme includes, but is not limited to:
- Appropriate Adults
- Emotionally Based School Avoidance
- Exploitation and Missing from Care
- First Aid
- Food Hygiene
- GDPR
- Harmful Sexual Behaviour
- Health and Safety
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Neurodiversity, including ADHD and Autism
- Online Safety
- Recording and Reporting
- Safeguarding
- Safer Caring
- Self-harm, Mental Health and Ligature
- Substance Misuse
- Therapeutic Behaviour Support
- Therapeutic Care Planning and Permanence
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Whistleblowing
The list above is only part of what we deliver
Leadership and management
Develop your seniors, deputies and managers, and strengthen supervision, decision making and working practice.
Health and medical needs
Specialist training supporting the health and medical needs of the children and young people you care for.
See Medically ReadyBespoke training
We can build bespoke training for your organisation to deliver in house, including the resources and consultation on how to present it.
Get in touch for detailsAnd then what?
Residential Ready is the first stage of a pathway that runs all the way to running a home. Here is the step immediately after it, and what the first paid role is worth.
Employment Ready
The practical, in the room training that gets you ready for a real shift.
1 to 4 training days, face to face. Contact us for package pricing.
Residential Support Worker
£13.49an hour to start£15.02once you hold a Level 3
40 hours a week, before sleep-ins and enhancements.
The pathway carries on through the Level 3, senior and leadership roles to Residential Manager.
See the full pathwayStart with Residential Ready
£195 per learner online, and you can begin whenever you are ready. Face to face for your team is quoted per group. Get in touch and we will set you up.