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affiliated to General Services) Association. The physical
techniques are constantly being evaluated and monitored, with
safety for staff and service users being paramount.
Team-Teach instructor courses are quality controlled and
externally moderated.
All tutors are required to undertake refresher courses if
they wish to retain their certification to teach within their
employer's organisations or Local Authority. During the following
grace period (4 months) tutors can asssit but not lead. Once
outside of the grace period tutors are no longer validated
by Team Teach to train staff.
Tutors are provided a teaching manual and a CD Rom (a visual
record of the core competency based positive and protective
handling techniques).Also a CD with the course booklet and
varios good practice documents and materials to aid the delivery
of their own courses.
Informing Team Teach: For any 6, 12 hour or refresher course,
there is an expectation that lead trainers will notify Team
Teach ( info@team-teach.co.uk ) no later than two weeks and
where possible, four weeks before the training event. This
is to comply with the Quality Control and Assurance requirements.
Trainers should provide the following information:
Names of tutors involved
Lead trainer contact details
Number of course participants
Training Venue address
Dates of training
Proposed course outline
Lead tutors are required to produce a summary evaluation
report that is returned to the Director of Team-Teach. A copy
should also be retained by the lead trainer. The summary evaluation
report will address the critical issues of safety and the
techniques being but one part of a holistic, whole setting
response to behaviour management.In addition, the individual
signed evaluation forms should be retained centrally. Principal
and Senior trainers are expected to retain all original individual
evaluations forms providing copies for the service managers
concerned.
Organisations and Local Authorities are encouraged to achieve
a gender balance when selecting individuals for tutor training.
Ideally tutor teams should be composed of a least one male
and one female. This is important when it comes to facilitating
the right approach and attitude from course members.
Intermediate tutors are NOT permitted to train new members
of staff alone. The ratio of tutors to new course members
should be no less than 2 tutors from 1-24 course members,
3 tutors are required, 25-36 course members 4 tutors are required,
the ratios then increase by 12 and 1 tutor. For refreshers
it is permitted for 1 tutor to refresh a group upto 12 in
size before being required to gain the assistance of another
tutor. For Advanced tutors this ratio drops to 2 tutors up
to 16participants, 3 tutors between 17-24 participants: Twenty-four
is the maximum size permitted for advance modular training.
Tutors are assessed in both the theory and practical elements
of the course.
Instructors become part of a"good practice" database
network..
Following training as staff become more confident and competent,
there should be a decrease in the amount of serious incidents/restraints
taking place. Instructors are required to monitor the impact
and effectiveness of their training.
Team Teach acknowledges that no single technique is foolproof.
All incidents and situations carry an element of risk. The
physical techniques in Team teach. minimise risk whilst providing
a caring and considered response.
If "authorised adults" are to acquire confidence
and competence, there will be a need for distilled number
of techniques to be selected, relevant to the setting concerned,
to be refreshed and practiced on a "regular" basis.
New staff should be introduced to Team Teach as part of their
induction, within no more than 60 working days.
Team Teach promotes cross-agency, multi-professional collaboration
- Team-Teach training has received letters of support from
unions and national Associations, as well as favourable comments
from Ofsted and the Health & Safety Executive.
An international network of over 3,500 registered tutors.
Over 90 plus Local Authorities are using Team-Teach as their
preferred training method in Children's, Adult Services, Health
Care Trust across the full range of the needs / risk continuum.
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