Our Staff

Staff and Training

Our homes are staffed day and night providing twenty-four hour care. All care staff are rigorously vetted and highly trained with on-going and individual training programmes. All staff attend Induction training and receive training in Non Violent Crisis Intervention, food hygiene, fire safety, moving & handling, medication, first aid, Health and Safety, Adult protection, NVQ level 2 or 3 in care and so on. We are committed to achieving a cohesive workforce through team building and on-going individual training needs analysis (which includes identifying and meeting training needs) and by appropriate levels of supervision and on-going staff appraisal. Unicorn Projects offers training for residents in Central Croydon Workshop & Staff trained at Unicorn Training Institute “C&C, Edexcel, BILD” & DFES approved

Trained workforce to include on going training:

• Health & Safety
• First Aid
• NVQ 2,3,4 and RMA
• Certificate in Community Mental Health
• Fire training
• Crisis intervention management
• Anger management and sexuality
• Divertional therapy and diffusion technique

Mission Statement

We place people first by:

1. Ensuring that right of a resident is left alone and undisturbed and that their wishes are maintained.
2. Allowing a resident to take calculated risks, to make own decisions , and improve quality of life
3. Understanding of residents’ needs & treating them with respect using CPI - Crisis Prevention domaine. “BILD”
4. Keeping all basic human rights available to the resident & Adhering to the Mental Capacity Act.
5. Giving service users the opportunity to select for themselves from a range of alternative options.
6. Enabling the residents to realize their own aims & helping them to achieve these goals in all aspects of daily living.
7. Value service Users, encourage and praise them for making decisions by themselves.