SCT
At ResiAction Staffordshire Ltd, we believe that high-quality residential childcare starts with highly
skilled, well-supported, and confident staff. To ensure our team continues to develop the specialist
knowledge and professional expertise needed to make a real difference to the lives of young people,
we are proud to have formed a trusted training and development partnership with Sutton Coldfield
College.
This collaboration enables our residential care team to access nationally recognised professional
qualifications, specialist training, and continued learning opportunities designed specifically for the
residential childcare sector. Through this tailored programme, our staff are supported on structured
career pathways aligned with regulatory standards, best practice, and the real-world needs of the
children and young people we care for.
Investing in Skills, Knowledge and Future Leaders
Through our partnership, ResiAction team members are able to work towards key qualifications such
as:
Professional Level 4 in Residential Childcare
Professional Level 5 Leadership & Management
Additional specialist CPD aligned Management skills, Strategic Leadership and other career
development training
Training is delivered through blended learning, combining college expertise with on-the-job
experience and reflective practice within our residential homes. This approach ensures learning is
meaningful, practical, and directly applied to daily care experiences with young people.
A Supportive Learning Environment
Both organisations are committed to ensuring staff feel valued, motivated, and empowered
throughout their training. With access to experienced tutors, dedicated workplace mentors, and
ongoing pastoral support, learning is never an isolated journey — it is a shared commitment to
excellence.
Growing Careers, Strengthening Care
By developing our staff professionally, we are not only investing in individuals — we are investing in
safer, more nurturing, and more resilient futures for the young people in our care. The partnership
with Sutton Coldfield College reinforces our mission to build a high-quality, knowledgeable and
compassionate workforce, ready to grow and progress within the residential childcare sector.
Together, ResiAction Staffordshire Ltd and Sutton Coldfield College are shaping a workforce that is
confident, professionally qualified, and passionate about providing the very best outcomes for
children and young people.
MPS
Resi Action Staffordshire work with highly experienced and accredited psychologists and psychological therapists to ensure the care we provide is trauma-informed, needs-led and responsive.
At Resi Action Staffordshire, we work with Meadows Psychology Service (MPS) to ensure our service is offering evidence-based trauma informed and trauma sensitive support to improve outcomes for the children, young people, and families we support. MPS is a clinical psychology led service that offers bespoke consultancy and therapeutic support services for providers of residential children’s care, education provisions, supported accommodation (16+) providers, and fostering and adoption services.
Meadows Psychology Service are a centre of excellence in trauma informed practice. The service is led by consultant clinical psychologists who have over 20 years’ clinical expertise, skills, and specialist knowledge of developmental trauma and attachment. By drawing on their wealth of experience and knowledge of relevant research and evidence-based practice principles, MPS provide Resi Action Staffordshire with ongoing, tailored support, consultation, training, and supervision. This helps to ensure that:
- We embed a trauma informed, therapeutic approach to our work.
- We provide a safe, secure foundation for all young people.
- All our young people are supported to experience safety within the child/caregiver relationship.
- Our staff teams are fully supported to engage monthly consultations, reflective practice and bespoke training that enhances skills, knowledge and resilience when working within complex systems with young people who have experienced developmental trauma.
- Staff have a psychological understanding of each young person in placement, to ensure the care provided is evidence-based, trauma-informed and responsive to the child’s individual strengths and difficulties.
- We have access to specialist assessments (e.g., cognitive assessments or assessments of risk, i.e., AIM3) and bespoke training on areas of complex risk (e.g., harmful sexual behaviour, self-harm, exploitation or managing suicidal ideation) to inform care plans where relevant.
- Our young people have access to tailored individual psychological therapy.
Working with MPS provides Resi Action Staffordshire with access to a range of support from a team of specialists who are trained in a broad range of interventions and therapeutic approaches, including:
- Creative Therapies (including Art, Drama and Play)
- Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), adapted CBT (for autism or LD)
- Trauma Focused CBT (CBT-T)
- Somatic Approaches/Body-based Trauma Work
- Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Systemic Family Therapy
- Therapeutic Life Story Work
- Theraplay
- Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
- Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)
- Restorative Approaches
Meadows Psychology Service work to ensure all staff at Resi Action Staffordshire recognise the importance of, and embody, the following values in their work:
- Empowering others - noticing, celebrating, and magnifying what is working and encouraging our staff to notice and reflect on their own and others’ resources, skills, strengths and positive qualities.
- Being inclusive - championing an environment where people feel able to bring their authentic selves to the work we do together.
- Having compassion - seeking to understand, care, and make meaning of individual and team experiences.
- Adopting an integrative approach which considers an array of knowledge and skills in relational trauma in all areas of our work.
- Being responsive and adaptive to the needs of our care staff, and the young people we support.
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