All our CLEAR for Learning delivery is tailored to the specific audience and delivered by qualified professionals.
Training Courses and Workshops
Level 3 Principles of Safeguarding and Protecting Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults
It is a statutory requirement for people working closely with CYP and adults at risk. This course provides a lifetime qualification. Included in the cost are 6 monthly updates, by email from CLEAR, that bring together the latest legislation, practice and learning around Safeguarding to support ongoing skills and understanding.
This training is for learners who have contact with children, young people or vulnerable adults in their working environment. It promotes awareness and sensitivity to safeguarding enabling learners to be able to identify issues. It further emphasises the responsibility and the procedures to ensure that concerns are reported and acted on appropriately.
The course covers:
- Safeguarding legislation and guidance
- Indictors of abuse or neglect
- Making judgements
- Communication
- Roles and responsibilities
- Sharing of information
- Dealing with and reporting of allegations and complaints.
It is a statutory requirement for people working closely with CYP and adults at risk. This course provides a lifetime qualification. With supplementation of updates delivered electronically and face-to-face, it supports an ongoing understanding of safeguarding and its practice.
Safeguarding Level 2
Safeguarding training (sometimes referred to as child/adult protection training) is a legal requirement for many professionals who come into contact, directly or indirectly, with children, young people and/or vulnerable adults. Safeguarding training aims to protect these people from harm, recognise maltreatment, take effective action where appropriate and help improve wellbeing. Level 2 Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults looks at signs of neglect, abuse and harm. It provides learners with an understanding of the effects of abuse on children, vulnerable adults, and their families.
This Level 2 training is for learners who have contact with children, young people or vulnerable adults in their working environment. It promotes awareness and sensitivity to safeguarding enabling learners to be able to identify issues. It further emphasises the responsibility and the procedures to ensure that concerns are reported and acted on appropriately.
The course covers:
- Safeguarding legislation and guidance
- Indicators of abuse or neglect
- Making judgements
- Communication
- Roles and responsibilities
- Sharing of information and practice
Understanding Self Harm
The training session is aimed at organisations and charities who would like to upskill and empower their frontline staff to confidently support and signpost someone who self-harms.
- What is self-harm
- Beliefs, attitudes and myths
- Drivers for self-harm
- The function of self-harm (how and why it helps)
- Psychological and neurobiological factors
- Link between suicide and self-harm
- How best to support someone who self-harm
Understanding Domestic Abuse
Domestic abuse can impact in a myriad of ways, on our friends, family and work colleagues, including health, wellbeing and attendance at work. This course is designed to:
- give an overview of facts and figures surrounding domestic abuse,
- identify the types of domestic abuse,
- understand the emotional, practical and socioeconomic impact on adult victims/survivors and
- identify how best to offer help and support and/or signposting.
It is important for us all to understand the signs and provide support.
Understanding Mental Health
This half day course is aimed at providing those who wish to have some underpinning knowledge around mental health awareness but not requiring to undertake the full MHFA. This workshop aims to support you to:
- Understand the importance of mental health and wellbeing.
- Understand how stress impacts on us personally and professionally.
- Be aware of how self-care underpins resilience.
- Increase your active listening skills.
- Understand how to promote positive mental health awareness in the workplace.
Level 1 Awareness of First Aid for Mental Health
FAA Level 1 Award in Awareness of First Aid for Mental Health (RQF) (4hrs). This Mental Health Awareness training is for everyone. Anyone can be affected by a mental health condition either themselves or a family member, friend or colleague.
This qualification provides learners with the knowledge to recognise a range of mental health conditions, start a supportive conversation, and when and how to signpost someone to professional help. Learners will learn how to recognise and manage stress. This is a great stepping stone into the subject of First Aid for Mental Health.
Level 2 First Aid for Mental Health
FAA Level 2 Award in First Aid for Mental Health (RQF). This Course is suitable for everyone but has been designed to help employers to provide a positive mental health culture within the workplace and will cover ways in which a positive mental health culture can be supported in the workplace. It will provide learners with comprehensive knowledge on a range of the most common mental health conditions, along with the skills to be able to act should a condition be suspected.
Level 3 Supervising First Aid for Mental Health
FAA Level 3 Award in Supervising First Aid for Mental Health (RQF). This course if for Trainer/ Assessors and/or supervisor level within the workplace.
A range of First Aid for Mental Health related subjects are covered including:
- What is First Aid for Mental Health?
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Identifying mental health conditions
- Self-harm
- Providing advice and starting a conversation
- Suicide
- Stress
- Eating disorders
- Mental health conditions
- Personality disorders
- Drugs and alcohol
- Bipolar disorder
- First Aid for Mental Health action plan
- Psychosis
- First Aid for Mental Health in the workplace
- Schizophrenia
- Depression
- Anxiety
Trauma Informed Approaches
Trauma-informed workplaces are becoming increasingly important in today's society.
Embedding a trauma-informed approach in organisations is a long-term change programme that supports the implementation of sustainable, trauma-informed cultural and organisational change.
CLEAR’s training and support incudes initial training for organisations, sharing the key components to becoming a trauma informed organisation, which includes:
- What is Trauma?
- Trauma Informed Key Assumptions – the four Rs
- Six Trauma Informed Principles
- Trauma Informed Framework and Tools
By adopting a trauma informed approach, organisations can create a safe and supportive environment:
For your team:
- Supports staff well-being: Buffer to vicarious trauma, burn out, compassion fatigue.
- Supports staff presenteeism and productivity.
- Reduces absenteeism.
- Improves staff satisfaction.
- Improves staff attitudes towards customers / service users.
- Enhances skills and an individual's belief in their capacity to act in the ways necessary to reach specific goals.
- Gives the organisation a strong brand reputation of being a good place to work, where colleagues are valued and supported, further supporting recruitment and retention.
For people using your service/business:
- Improves experiences of others using our services.
- Allows us to respond differently.
- Communicate in a better way.
- Approach situations differently.
- Reduces risk of re-traumatisation.
- Allows for consideration of mutuality.
- Increases likelihood of the right early help.
- Improves outcomes.
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Safe Space Training
Delivered in a half-day session, this training supports organisations to work through a bespoke toolkit covering five key areas to help you to implement a Safe Space for a person vulnerable in the moment or at immediate risk of harm. The toolkit covers:
- Planning
- Learning
- Environment
- Delivery
- Review
By the end of the session you will have an action plan to take your safe space forward.
Safe Space training is best delivered alongside our Bystander Intervention Training
Bystander Intervention Training
Have you ever witnessed a potentially harmful event or incident, wanted to intervene but didn't know how? This training is for any individual wanting to find our more.
The aims of this interactive workshop are to:
- recognise relational abuse, including sexual harassment, hate crime and bullying
- explore the barriers to intervening when incidents occur
- develop strategies to support safe intervention and prevention of harm
Training and Professional Development for the Counselling Workforce
Training in Supporting Adults Harmed by Sexual Abuse and Relationship Trauma
This bespoke training course runs for 5 face to face sessions. It also includes 6 hours of self-study. Delivered by an experienced counselling psychologist and clinical service lead alongside an experienced therapist and professional trainer it provides 30 hours of CPD to be endorsed by CPCAB. The course also includes NUCO accredited Safeguarding L3 training (children and adults) which is a lifetime qualification
Sessions cover:
- Trauma and its presentation physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually
- Defining and working with the different forms of abuse (sexual, relationship, physical, psychological/emotional, including rape and CSA)
- Guilt, Shame & Anger
- Loss & Grief
- Assessment & risk assessment
- Pre trial therapy
- Note & Record Keeping
- Therapist/counsellor self care and reducing burnout and vicarious traumatisation
- Pair skills practice and a short ending assessment/quiz
- Safeguarding L3 Lifetime Qualification (Nuco accredited)
- On completion of the training there may be an opportunity to have a clinical placement or to volunteer with CLEAR. This will depend on our capacity and a successful interview.
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Level 5 Diploma is in Working Therapeutically with Children & Young People
Our fully accredited post qualifying Level 5 Diploma is in Working Therapeutically with Children & Young People and provides specialist training for practitioners interested in working with children and young people.
Our Diploma is accredited by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body - the UK's leading counselling awarding organisation.
The course combines both practical and theoretical training together with clinical placements and group supervision. Sessions and lectures take place one weekend a month over an 18 month period.
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