Training Academy
Career Development
At Prosperity Children’s Services, we are deeply committed to the development, growth and long-term success of our people. We believe that by investing in our staff, enhancing skills, strengthening capabilities, deepening understanding of therapeutic care and empowering individuals. We create the best possible environment to nurture and support the children and young people in our care.
Our Learning and Development Assessor develops and leads a comprehensive programme of learning and development initiatives, delivered both face-to-face and remotely. These initiatives are designed to promote continuous learning, build confidence, support personal growth and enable meaningful career progression across the organisation.
We have a well-established career pathway within our Residential Services, alongside opportunities to move across our other divisions, depending on experience and qualifications. For those new to children’s residential care, once probation is successfully completed, staff are enrolled onto the Level 4 NVQ in Children’s Residential Care. This qualification equips individuals with the essential knowledge and skills required for their role and provides a lifelong professional qualification to support future career development.
As part of our commitment to leadership development, we also offer a structured Leadership and Development Programme, creating clear pathways for those aspiring to build strong, sustainable careers in residential children’s care. Through this programme, staff can progress to higher-level qualifications, including Level 5 Leadership and Management and Level 7 qualifications, supporting progression into senior roles such as Senior Residential Support Worker, Deputy Manager and, in time, Registered Home Manager.
As a growing organisation, Prosperity Children’s Services offers abundant opportunities for career progression, leadership development and professional achievement. Most importantly, our teams have the privilege of caring for, nurturing and positively shaping the futures of the children and young people we support every day.
CPI - Crisis Prevention
The focus of CPI Safety Intervention Training and CPI Verbal Intervention Training is to ensure that staff gain the essential knowledge, skills and confidence to prevent, decelerate and de-escalate crisis situations, so that restrictive practices can be avoided.
Understanding Behaviour
This course supports staff to develop a deeper understanding of behaviour, with a focus on why children behave the way they do rather than simply what the behaviour looks like. It explores the link between trauma, unmet need, development, and behaviour.
Staff will learn to view behaviour as communication and consider how relationships, environment, and staff responses can either escalate or reduce distress. The course promotes reflective, trauma-informed practice and supports staff to respond consistently and effectively in a way that improves outcomes for children.
First Aid
This certified course will provide our staff with the core skills needed to help someone when first aid is required.
Ranging from simple cuts and bleeds to life saving CPR and DeFib Training, our First Aid course will give you the tools and confidence needed for when such a situation arises.
Safeguarding Children
This Safeguarding Children’s Course will cover the fundamental areas needed to help identify signs and symptoms of harm and abuse and to gain a fuller understanding of safeguarding vulnerable children.
Health & Safety
This Health & Safety Course will look at the responsibilities and legal requirements of both the employer and the employee, hazards and risks in your workplace, safety signs at work, your working environment and workplace emergency procedures, such as fire evacuation and fire safety.
It will cover staff health in the workplace and key areas of legislation.
CCE / CSE Child Criminal & Child Sexual Exploitation
This course provides staff with a clear understanding of child criminal exploitation (CCE) and child sexual exploitation (CSE), including how exploitation presents, develops, and is sustained. It explores common indicators, risk factors, and the ways children may be groomed, coerced, or controlled.
Staff will develop confidence in recognising signs of exploitation, responding appropriately to concerns, and understanding their safeguarding responsibilities. The course reinforces that exploitation is a form of abuse and supports staff to take informed, proportionate action to protect children within our care.
Meet the Personal Development Manager / Therapeutic Play coach
Adam Sanderson – Personal Development Manager / Therapeutic Play coach
My role as the Personal Development Manager / Therapeutic Play coach is to support both our staff teams and our children through trauma informed and child centred practice.
My role focuses on developing confident staff through coaching key on-the-job skills. This includes supporting staff to understand and respond to behaviour, use our online systems effectively, oversee staff qualifications, and embed therapeutic models such as PACE and Secure Base into everyday practice. I continue to monitor and deliver training alongside our L&D Assessor, and support on-going professional development so that our children receive consistent, emotionally attuned care from skilled adults.
As a Therapeutic Play Coach, I use play as a primary way to connect with children and young people, recognising that play is often how children communicate feelings, experiences, and needs that are difficult to express in words. Through structured and child-led therapeutic play, I support children to explore emotions, develop self-regulation, build trust, and strengthen relationships.
