Team Teach East Lothian

What is Team-Teach?
Team-Teach provides training to staff groups in education, social and health care service settings in behaviour supports and interventions.
The training combines both theory and practice, emphasising the need for staff to show restraint rather than apply it!
Providing a risk assessment structure to the selection of physical interventions that best allow the employer to provide a safe workplace for service users and staff.Proving examples of best practice paperwork that underpins practice in this area.
Following training improved performance would be demonstrated by course participants in:
” recognising the importance of and using de-escalation techniques and working as a team when managing challenging behaviours.
” applying an understanding of the legal implications of positively handling
” using a gradual and graded response to managing challenging behaviours and the use of positive handling as a last resort option.by applying an increased awareness of the need for documentation for the recording and reporting of incidents.
” using active listening skills and participating in a process of debriefing, repair and reflection
Team-Teach training is used across a wide range of service settings, age ranges, local authorities & Health Care Trusts. As a training package with a core and modular training approach, it provides service settings with the flexibility to identify the relevant skills & strategies that reduce the particular risk within the service settings concerned.

Presently, the training is being used in playgroups / nurseries, primary & secondary mainstream, children s homes & special schools of all types of described special need, including secure & psychiatric units, health care trusts & adult respite care settings.

Team-Teach Ltd was established in 1997, since this time it has become the largest provider within the U.K. Having trained over 2,000 tutors who between them have trained 500, 000 people in over 85 Local Authorities in the U.K.