Trainer Application Form

Complete the questions below and then click the “submit” button at the bottom of the page.

This is step one in the application process. We will contact you after we receive this form to guide you through the rest of the process.

Please note that since you are applying to be licensed as an individual, not on behalf of an agency you might work for, we are asking for your personal contact details rather than contact details through an employer.

Trainer Application Form

Regional Contact Conversation

It is important that you speak to your local Signs of Safety Regional Contact before submitting your application. Have you spoken to your Regional Contact? If you have not contacted your Regional Contact, please do so before completing this application form.

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1. Child Protection Experience

Please describe your experience in working in child protection/child welfare practice. What roles have you undertaken? How long were you in these positions?

2. Signs of Safety Training and Experience

What Signs of Safety training have you received and how have you built your expertise in the approach?

3. Experience in Delivering Training

What experience do you have in delivering training? In what subject matter? Who was the target audiences?

4. Experience in Delivering Signs of Safety Training

Have you already delivered training in Signs of Safety? What was the training you delivered? How often have you done this? With which organisations or audiences did you work?

5. Signs of Safety Mapping and Group Supervision

Are you able to conduct live Signs of Safety mapping and live Signs of Safety group supervision in a learning or training context where you can both work with the practitioner whose case it is and use this as a learning experience for the other participants? When have you done this? What are the best aspects of leading learning this way? What have been the aspects of this with which you have struggled?

6. Personal Case Material and Examples

Thinking about all the Signs of Safety work (both the practice and learning methods) that you've had involvement with as a practitioner, supervisor, consultant or researcher, what case examples would you use in your role as a trainer? What are your ideas about how you will refresh and strengthen the practice examples you will refer to in the training room?

7. Strengths

What do you see as the strongest attributes of your work as someone who will be leading learning of Signs of Safety in a range of contexts, including the training room? Where do you think you need to grow?

8. Opportunities for Growth

What are the areas of the practice that you need to grow in? What are the areas of leading learning in a range of contexts that you find most challenging?