Training · Residential Care
SEMH Pathway
Social, Emotional and Mental Health focus — attachment, trauma, behaviour and exploitation. Designed for teams caring for children whose experiences of trauma, attachment disruption and adversity present through their emotions and behaviour. It builds the therapeutic understanding and practical skills staff need to respond with consistency, empathy and safety.
Level 1 Practitioner
Foundation — delivered as induction week
- Safeguarding
- Care Planning
- ADHD
- Child Exploitation
- Recording & Reporting
- Fire Safety
- Autism
- Professional Boundaries
- Medication
- Learning Disabilities
- Complaints & Allegations
- Missing from Care
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Level 2 Practitioner — SEMH
Delivered over the first six months
- ACEs & Trauma
- Attachment
- Bullying
- Child Criminal Exploitation
- Child Sexual Exploitation
- Harmful Sexualised Behaviours
- Keyworker & Planning
- Loss & Bereavement
- Mood & Behaviour Dysregulation
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Pathological Demand Avoidance
- Positive Behaviour Support
- Positive Risk Taking
- Principles of Risk Assessment
- Safe Handling of Medication
- Safeguarding Children & Whistleblowing
- Smoking & Vaping
- Substance Misuse
- Therapeutic Parenting
- Understanding Stress
Level 3 Practitioner — SEMH
Post-six months / specialist
- Attachment
- Autism
- Eating Disorders
- EHCP, IEPs & PEP
- FASD (Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder)
- Knife Crime & Gangs
- Ligatures & Self-Harm
- Life Story Work
- Radicalisation
Management & Specialist
Senior practitioner & accredited
- Safer Recruitment
- Leadership & Management
- Train the Trainer
- Supervision & Appraisal
- Stress Management
- Safeguarding for Designated Officers (Advanced)
- Attachment (Advanced Level)
- Role of the Fire Marshall
- KIT Physical Intervention (annual refresher)
- First Aid at Work (3-yearly refresher)
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