Starting his career in adult mental health services and learning disabilities, then into children’s residential care and latterly becoming a headteacher of a SEN school, Steve brings a great deal of experience to his role as a Senior PRICE Trainer.
As a qualified Applied Behaviour Analysis practitioner, Steve’s training promotes a therapeutic approach that seeks to improve the quality of life for vulnerable children and adults who suffer from psychological disorders. Steve is authorised under the RRN certification scheme to deliver approved programmes across multiple sectors and settings.
George joins PRICE Training having worked in education and residential settings. George was an in-house PRICE Trainer for several years before joining us as a full-time Trainer. With bags of enthusiasm, George has hit the ground running since starting in 2023. George is authorised under the RRN certification scheme to deliver approved programmes across multiple sectors and settings
“Becoming a PRICE Trainer made me realise just how important the theoretical side of the training is. It’s so important to work to the Principles of PRICE Training when supporting vulnerable individuals”
Having been a PRICE Trainer since 2016, Jamie has joined the team as a full-time Senior Trainer. From primarily a residential school background, Jamie has worked as a Senior Behaviour Support Worker with pupils diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and autism. Placing a significant emphasis upon learners maintaining the quality and fidelity of the techniques, Jamie prides himself on ensuring course delegates leave his courses more than just competent but instead, excelling in their technical knowledge and ability. Jamie is authorised under the RRN certification scheme to deliver approved programmes across multiple sectors and settings
Grant has been a PRICE Trainer since 2015, having previously worked as a Classroom Support Teacher in a residential SEN school. Grant himself was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and received special educational support throughout his schooling. It is this part of Grant’s life that has led him to pursue a career in behaviour support training. With his lived experience, Grant offers the team an invaluable insight into the emotional impact of restraint, as well as contributing to PRICE Training’s course design and content.
Corrie-ann comes from a learning and development background rooted in adolescent to adult life preparation services for adults with autism. She has been a Senior PRICE Trainer since 2015 alongside training in a range of other mandatory care sector courses (First Aid, Medication, Safeguarding and SPELL (an individualised and person-centred approach to support people on the autistic spectrum). Corrie-ann promotes a person centred, holistic approach to behaviour support and she is authorised under the RRN certification scheme to deliver approved programmes across multiple sectors and settings.
Mike is the Operations Director of PRICE Training, balancing his role between primarily delivering training and supporting customers. With over 25 years’ experience in adult mental health and children’s residential care, Mike places customer support at the very heart of what we do. Taking a lead on the quality assurance of the physical components of PRICE Training courses, Mike seeks to uphold the highest standards of course delivery as well ensure the fidelity of the PRICE techniques are never compromised. Mike is the Lead Senior Trainer is authorised under the RRN certification scheme to deliver approved programmes across multiple sectors and settings.
As a Principal Trainer, Colin primarily focuses on course delivery for instructor courses. Prior to becoming a trainer in 2010, Colin came from an operational management background in children’s residential childcare both the statutory and independent sectors. As a qualified social worker, he has worked in many challenging settings from secure facilities to high security children’s services, where violence and aggression is all too familiar. Colin’s training focuses upon ensuring that the knowledge and skills imparted are fit for purpose and heavily rooted in the realism to match the challenge frontline workers often face on a daily basis. Colin is authorised under the RRN certification scheme to deliver approved programmes across multiple sectors and settings.
From an Education and Behaviour Support background, Jeaninne first trained as a teacher in the mid-80s starting out as a teacher in a London Borough Secondary School. Jeaninne began to specialise in the area of Behaviour Support, gaining a Masters in Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, with a particular interest in School Policy and Practice Development around the use of Physical Intervention. Jeaninne has a respected expertise in the design, development and delivery of physical techniques. She has experience of a range of intervention systems and prior to joining PRICE Training, Jeaninne spent 20 years with Team Teach as a Principal Tutor.
Joining the team in early 2019 as a Trainer, George is a former professional cricketer, playing 1st class cricket for Warwickshire for 6 years. His role has now developed to support all the PRICE Trainers in their training, as well as deliver training himself.
Alongside training social care and education sectors, George supports our sport and leisure customers. With so many inner-city youth activities and country wide junior sporting clubs bringing young people together, equipping staff and volunteers with the right skills to appropriately respond to potential disruption and conflict is essential to the smooth-running events.
“It is important to me that learners come away from my courses with confidence in what they have been taught and that the training is enjoyable and thought provoking”
Before joining the PRICE Training team, Gareth worked in a setting offering residential care, education and fostering services since 1998. Starting as a Residential Care Worker, Gareth progressed to managing a number of children’s homes and, after becoming an in-house PRICE Trainer in 2005, led on reducing restrictive practices.
Gareth was also responsible for Quality Assurance and policy development and implemented several innovations including a bespoke Model of Care focussing on the importance of developing safe, reparative relationships with children and young people. Gareth has been committed to his own development and in 2019 achieved a distinction in an MSc in Psychology, conducting a research project into whether contact with looked after children affected people’s perceptions of them.
“PRICE training has been part of my professional life since starting as an RCW in 1998. During that time, I’ve seen the commitment and dedication everyone puts into supporting staff to improve the lives of the people they support and I’m proud to be part of that. I know that high quality training is a vital tool in reducing restrictive practices and that is what PRICE offers.”
With 10 years’ experience in the Health & Social Care sector, Elliot started his career in adolescent mental health in secure services, where Elliot was first introduced to PRICE training and saw an opportunity to become an in-house trainer in his setting. Upon completion, Elliot found his mindset changed completely. He felt inspired to change the way people viewed physical intervention and began assisting in development of improving practice. This increased the quality of training, with the fundamental goal of improving the lives of vulnerable adolescents. Elliot took these skills with him onto future roles in the prison service and in residential children’s care.
“It’s about the impact we have on the individuals we support. I’m excited to have the opportunity to work with such talented trainers and to have the opportunity to pass my passion & knowledge in supporting those that support individuals in crisis.”
