Introduction
Descriptions of competencies can be a bit daunting and dry but they are also very useful in being clear about the core aspects of the model and what practitioners should know and do.
The AMBIT Project Group at the
Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families has been working on trying to define the core competencies for a practitioner working in an AMBIT trained team. We recognise that different teams will adopt some parts of the AMBIT approach more than others and that it is not a requirement that all practitioners are competent in all the 20 competencies outlined below.
We would greatly welcome comments and suggestions from current AMBIT trained teams about whether the competencies outlined here represent their understanding of the core AMBIT approach.
Adaptations of these competences for individual teams would be especially interesting and welcome.
The overall competency framework for AMBIT
Individual Competencies
AMBIT competencies for individual workers are organised into three parts;
- Part A: Basic knowledge for AMBIT
- Part B: Basic practice for AMBIT
- Part C: Advanced knowledge and practice for AMBIT.
- AMBIT Full Competency Framework adds ten further competencies (Part C) which are listed together with the ten covered in the Basic Training (Part A and Part B).
- Thus, overall, there are twenty competencies.
- There is a self-audit scoring scheme included in that list
- Embrace the importance of Work on the Self and use this to direct AutoDidact activities as teams or individuals.
Team Competencies
Because AMBIT is explicitly and exclusively a TEAM-BASED approach, there is also a list of team-based practices that require the kind of
Working with your TEAM that AMBIT promotes: