AMBIT-accredited

11th December 2015

Work in Progress


This is not yet in action, but is in active development. This is seen as a "next step" beyond the notion of an AMBIT-influenced team.

What it is:

Teams become AMBIT-accredited via a voluntary assessment of a team's competence in AMBIT knowledge and skills, conducted at least a year after training. If completed it leads to accreditation as an AMBIT-accredited team. We see this as the equivalent as a "quality kitemark" for teams working under the influence of AMBIT, with the possibility of moving towards a "membership" model that would carry certain advantages in terms of access to new training opportunities for that team, the opportunity to become satellite AMBIT training centres, and to influence the development of new content in AMBIT.

Criteria for acceptance, etc are still being worked out (Dec 2015) - and we actively invite feedback from collaborators in the AMBIT Community of Practice about these ideas, and expressions of interest in becoming an AMBIT-accredited team.

Accreditation Criteria

AMBIT Accreditation covers:

1. Moving from AMBIT-influenced practice to become an AMBIT-accredited Team

2. Moving from AMBIT-accredited Team status to become an AMBIT-accredited Training Centre


1. AMBIT-accredited Team status:


  • At least one year post an accredited AMBIT training
  • Evidence of AMBIT-influenced practice:
    • AMBIT Leads attendance at requisite number of phone/web/face to face supervisions.
    • Documented changes in practice pre- and post-training
    • Broad adherence to a pre-arranged Implementation Plan
    • Evidence of use of practice audit (eg APrAT, or PREP questionnaires)
    • Evidence of some form of local manualizing of learning (web based or other)
    • Contributions to the wider AMBIT community of practice (eg attendance +/- presentation at AMBIT annual conference, sharing best practice via AMBIT manual, buddying training relationship with another AMBIT-influenced team, etc)
  • Submit application to the AMBIT project, at the Anna Freud Centre.

2. AMBIT-accredited Training Centre status


The accreditation programme for AMBIT Training exists to accredit organisations - and individuals within that organisation - to deliver training in AMBIT.

In order to become an Accredited AMBIT Training Centre, organisations must have previously:

  • Received an accredited AMBIT training
  • Have been implementing AMBIT principles in their work for at least 12 months.
  • Have achieved AMBIT-accredited Team status.

The organisation must:

  • Identify two or more individuals to apply to become “Accredited AMBIT trainers”.
  • Agree to the following limitations:

    • Accreditation enables those individuals to deliver AMBIT training whilst in the employment of their accredited organisation.
    • Only individuals employed by an Accredited AMBIT Training Centre may apply for accreditation.
    • This accreditation does not cover any training that any individual may deliver outside of the Accredited AMBIT Training Centre. This is to ensure that all Accredited AMBIT Trainers are actively working in, and developing their training within, an AMBIT-influenced service.

Accreditation process

There are three stages to the accreditation process:

Stage 1:

Applying organisations should meet these basic criteria:
  • Have received an accredited AMBIT training
  • Have been applying AMBIT principles and practices for at least 12 months
  • Can identify at least two members of staff who have:
    • Ongoing employment in the organisation
    • Completed AMBIT training
    • Stated a wish to become Accredited AMBIT Trainers

The organisation and prospective trainers submit an application form detailing evidence of prior AMBIT training and practice as well as a 10 minute video clip of the prospective trainers presenting or discussing an aspect of the AMBIT approach.

Successful applicants will be invited to progress to stage 2 of the accreditation process.

Stage 2:

Applicants will be asked to identify a local organisation/ team who desire AMBIT training. This training will be co-delivered by the Anna Freud Centre and the prospective Accredited Trainers. In this way, prospective Accredited Trainers are simultaneously trained and assessed. The team/s being trained will reap the benefit of a training delivered both by fully trained AMBIT Trainers and the prospective Accredited Trainers, with their local knowledge and expertise.

Fees for this training will be paid to the Anna Freud Centre. Prospective Accredited Trainers effectively receive Train the Trainer training free of charge. Prospective Accredited Trainers’ expenses may be charged to the local organisation being trained.

Upon satisfactory completion of this training, trainers and their organisation will be accredited and are then welcome to offer and deliver their own trainings.

Re-accreditation


Accredited AMBIT Training Centres and Trainers must renew their accreditation bi-annually. Re-accreditation involves:

  • Submission of a reflective account of any trainings offered by the centre over the past year.
  • Standardised post-training feedback data from teams they have trained over the year.
  • A 10 minute video clip of the Accredited Trainers discussing one aspect of the AMBIT approach
    • note: we are looking for their reflections and understandings of the chosen material, not a simple re-presentation of it.
    • E.g. their experience of its application, usability and effectiveness in practice, and their experience of training workers on this aspect.
    • We are looking for reflections that include both positives and negatives.

Fees


Accredited Training Centres pay a yearly fee for accreditation of their trainers. This is to cover:

  • Administration costs
  • Quarterly telephone supervision sessions
  • An annual webinar for trainers provided by the AMBIT Project

Accredited Training Sites pay a percentage of fees charged for all training events to the AMBIT project at the AFC. This money contributes to:

  • On-going development of the AMBIT approach
  • The AMBIT manual service costs
  • Development of new Training materials

As part of the agreement;

1. Partners must notify the AFC Short Courses and Conference Co-ordinator of any AMBIT trainings that they plan to host for staff from other agencies.
2. All AMBIT trainings delivered by Partners will be administrated by the Partner.
3. All course bookings will be processed by the Partner.
4. All trainings delivered by Partners will be advertised on the AMBIT Global Network section of the Anna Freud Centre training website and will be marketed as a separate training course to the AMBIT trainings held at the AFC.
5. It will be the responsibility of the Partner to identify a suitable training venue.
6. Should Partners wish to recruit AFC AMBIT staff to tutor one or more of the training days, this will be deemed as a course expense and will be charged at a rate of £800 per day.
7. Partners are authorised to set the training fee that participants pay, but are encouraged to be advised by existing fees advertised by AFC.
8. The Partner and AFC both have to agree the overall financial plan before going ahead with a training.

Outcomes measurement


Accredited AMBIT Training Centres must collect training feedback from their trainees and submit this on the web-based POD outcomes system to enable evaluation of training by the AMBIT Project. Accredited AMBIT Training Centres will ask the teams they train to chose outcome measures for their training from a menu of measures provided on the POD (or other measures of their choosing) and collect pre- and post-training outcomes.

Benefits of Accreditation:

  • Accredited Trainers will have access to quarterly supervision sessions and an annual webinar provided by the AMBIT Project to support them in their training efforts and keep them abreast of developments within the project and wider Community of Practice.
  • Developing and maintaining the expertise required within your organisation to deliver AMBIT training can support and sustain your own organisation’s on-going implementation of the model.
  • Your organisation will become a key influence within the growing AMBIT Community of Practice, supporting the wider dissemination of AMBIT ideas.
  • Your organisation can publicise itself as an Accredited Training Centre, bearing the AMBIT Accreditation logo on your literature. You will be listed as an Accredited Training Centre on the AMBIT web pages.
  • Accreditation gives you the right to benefit commercially from training you deliver.

Differentiating Accredited AMBIT Trainers from other AMBIT Trainers

  • AMBIT Trainers – fully trained AMBIT Trainers employed by the AMBIT Project at the Anna Freud Centre
  • Associate AMBIT Trainers – AMBIT Trainers employed by the AMBIT Project at the Anna Freud Centre and enrolled on a training programme to become a fully trained AMBIT Trainers.
  • Accredited AMBIT Trainers – employed by an Accredited AMBIT Training site and licensed to offer (and charge for) their own AMBIT trainings to other organisations.
  • Local AMBIT Trainers – Trainers who have attended an AMBIT Train the Trainer programme to enable them to train workers within their own organisation. Local AMBIT Trainers are not able to provide accredited training to other organisation.

Licensing arrangements:

Note that under the existing creative commons licence under which all AMBIT materials are published on the web, anyone can offer training to others on AMBIT as long as they:

  • Credit the Anna Freud Centre as the original authors
  • Do not charge for that training or otherwise gain commercially from it.

On achieving AMBIT-accredited Training Centre Status, and in accordance with the conditions described above, a new and adapted license to use the AMBIT materials would be issued to allow the above.