Paul Plummer
Qualifications
NVQ Level 5 Operational Management ILM Thanet College Summer 2008
BSc Psychology. Awarded December 1995 by the Open University.
RMA, Registered Managers Award. Suffolk NVQ Consortium (summer 2005)
NVQ Level 4 Care Suffolk NVQ Consortium (summer 2005)
Certificate of Professional Studies in the Care and Treatment of Emotionally and Behaviorally Disordered Children. Awarded December 1993 by Loughborough University.
City and guilds 7307 001 July 2001
City and Guilds, 7306 Adult Tutors award July 2001
TDLB D32/33 Assessors award July 2001
PLA Tutor/Fieldworker award. July 2001.
March 2009 Coach refresher Course NFPS
May 2009 Level 3 Award in Risk Assessment and Practice CIEH
June 2008 Btec Level 3 Coaching and instruction in Physical restraint
June 2008 Btec level 4 Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS)
June 2008 NFPS Physical restraint instructor award
May 2008 NCFER Health and safety in the work place level 2
March 2008 Physical Intervention Instructors Course. NFPS.
March 2008 Btec level 3 Physical Restraint Practice
August 2007 NCFER Safe handling of Medication level 2
April 2009 First Aid at Work St Johns
September 2006 Community Narrow Boat Association Skippers award.
Employment History
July 2001- Present
Senior Management Team member at a treatment Centre for adolescents
My role comprises of
• Providing operational direction to all staff working with our client group.
• Provide individual supervision and appraisals to develop the skills and performance of key members of the team.
• To have strategic input into the future development of the service.
• To oversee the management and administration of medication.
• To coordinate the leaning and development needs of all 42 staff members.
• To maintain membership of the Child and vulnerable adult protection team.
• To maintain membership of the intake and assessment team.
• To provide clinical input on an individual and group basis.
• To chair the fortnightly care team meetings.
• To coordinate a longitudinal research programme to assess the efficacy of our service as well as to give formative assessment to improve practice.
• To work direct frontline shifts with the resident group.
• Produce high quality reports to outside agencies.
• Liaise with external bodies in the development of residential child care such as the Children’s Workforce Development Council.
• To manage budgets.
• Develop policies and procedures in line with best practice.
Self employed trainer Jan 2001 to present
I work as a self employed NVQ assessor in a variety of adult and children’s residential settings. These have included, Elderly, EMI, Mental Health, Nursing, Forensic psychiatric, Learning disabilities and Children’s homes. I specialise in level 4 and the registered managers award RMA and now the Leadership and Management Award. This has given me a breadth of knowledge that covers all of these residential sectors. I have taken over 150 people through their RMA’s or level 4 Health and social Care.
I am a Btec qualified physical intervention coach and deliver the level 2 Btec in physical restraint practice, de escalation and breakaway techniques I am passionate about training people properly in this field to prevent people being harmed.
Senior Practitioner July 1999-2001 for Suffolk County Council at a residential centre for troubled adolescents.
This role involved.
• Leading a team of residential social workers to deliver first class residential care.
• To work in a multidisciplinary way with all relevant agencies,
• Education, social services, police and Camhs.
• To work strategically to develop the service county wide.
• To ensure effective and personalised care planning is implemented.
• To directly train care staff in residential care.
• To provide on call cover to ensure that operational performance is maintained.
• To attend Child protection conferences.
• To ensure effective cooperate parenting across all children’s homes in the county.
I also delivered training to other departments in child protection, challenging behavior and family support work.
Knossington grange Therapeutic school.
Unit Leader and KS3 science Teacher September 1991- July 1999.
Here I managed the residential unit for fifteen emotionally and behaviourally disordered children. I also was responsible for the delivery of the KS3 science curriculum.
• Ensure effective delivery of care and treatment on the unit.
• Supervise the care staff to ensure effective performance and quality of care.
• To produce and deliver schemes of work in science across the school.
• To lead morning assemblies of up to 70 troubled teenagers.
• To contribute to the strategic development of the service and ensure operational performance.
Senior Child Care Officer October 1986- August 1991.
My role at this residential special school for children with emotional and behavioral disorders involved.
• Direct care work
• Ensuring care was delivered in line with care plans
• Develop care plans based on my assessed needs of the children.
• To provide an enriched out of school curriculum which included teaching sailing and fishing.
• To work with my colleagues to ensure consistency of therapeutic intervention.
Interests
Squash, Cycling,
Literature and the outdoors.
Professional Body
Institute for Learning: Membership Number: AC052767
National Federation for Personal safety licensed centre
United Kingdom Registered of Learning Providers: 10027052