At La Volée, our team has been drawn together from a variety of backgrounds and have all been selected for their own individual skills and knowledge bases. A rigorous and carefully planned recruitment process has been developed to ensure the team is able to support children in a positive and proactive manner. The process is underpinned by the safer recruitment framework. All new employees will be subject to a six-monthly probationary period, allowing them to gain a greater understanding of the expectations within the home and the wider organisation as a whole. A clear set of benchmarks are in place to monitor and ensure that levels of expertise have been met, and only then will a permanent working contract be gained.
On-going training and personal development are encouraged, and clear career development pathways are designed to enable all staff members to continuously learn new skills and offer a greater level of expertise to the children in their care. Our training programmes include a scheduled annual training plan covering Basic Food Hygiene, First Aid, Physical Intervention, Safeguarding, Child Protection, Trauma-Informed Awareness, Child Exploitation Awareness and Fire Safety. All staff will have either achieved or be working towards an NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care for Children and Young People.