Catalyst Care Ltd is a private accommodation, care & support provider, led by a dedicated team with over 30 years of combined experience in social care including safeguarding and leaving care.
We offer a unique service with our accommodation offering different types of high spec, fully furnished properties accompanied by a highly qualified team committed to delivering excellent proven outcome based care & support services.
We employ qualified and experienced staff and management to deliver support services both onsite in supported accommodation (24hr cover) placements as well as offsite in self-contained properties. The offsite team provides outreach support, focusing on the needs of the individual and personalised support plans to achieve the best possible outcomes for the young person.
Staff have over 16 years experience in working with YP and their families.
View our staff qualifications
- Level 5 in leadership and management for residential childcare
- Cache NVQ level 3 in play work
- Cache level 3 0-18 in childcare and development
- Level 5 principles of management and leadership
- Level 4 managing communications at work
- Level 5 personal development
- Level 5 leadership in your organisation
- Level 5 management of change
- Level 5 management decision making
- Level 3 award in assessing vocationally related achievement
- Level 5 NVQ use of technology
- Level 4 develop and maintain professional networks
- Level 4 working relationships with stake holders
- Level 4 physical resources
- Level 4 health and safety in area of responsibility
- Level 5 NVQ management and leadership
- Level 5 contribute to the development of a strategic plan
- Level 5 business processes
- Level 5 strategic change
- Level 4 provide leadership and management
- Level 3 assessing competence in the work environment
- Level 3 principles and practices of assessment
- Level 3 occupational competence in the work environment
- Level 3 assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding
- Higher level apprenticeships in management and leadership
- Autism awareness
- Bullying and cyber bullying
- Emotional abuse
- Medication awareness and safe handling of Medicines
- Gangs and youth violence
- Fire safety awareness
- Child sexual exploitation level 1 and level 2
- Adult self neglect
- Abuse related to beliefs in witchcraft
- GDPR core
- County Lines 5 day course
- Diabetes awareness
- Safeguarding children level 1 and level 2
- Missing children
- Coronavirus awareness
- Epilepsy awareness
- Domestic abuse and intimate partner violence
- Equality and diversity
- Personal safety: Lone worker
- Safeguarding against radicalisation
- Safeguarding children for education level 1 & 2
- Female genital mutilation
- Understanding child development
- Paediatric first aid Level 2 Health and safety
- Level 2 food hygiene
- Sexual abuse and recognising grooming
- Certificate on self-harm training
- Loneliness and isolation training
- Suicide prevention, risks and awareness training
- Physical abuse training
- Safer recruitment training
- Child sexual exploitation and safeguarding training
- Medicine management training. Facilitating restorative process
- Prevent training
- Risk management training Induction to self-harm. Working with self-harm
- Assessment and treatment of adolescent self-harm
- Understanding and managing behaviour
- Child protection advanced course
- Deliberate self-harm training
- Administering medication in care homes training
- Team Teach positive behaviour management including de-escalation and safety in restraining, practical and assessment
Who we support
We offer a fully furnished shared semi-independent or supported living accommodation with on-site 24hr staff support and 24hr CCTV cover, for young people of all genders aged 16+ with different needs including:
- Young people over 16 leaving care (including LAC and Southwark Judgement)
- 16-18 year olds with learning disabilities
- Unaccompanied minors, refugees and/or asylum seekers
- Young people released from custody (YOS)
- Those with emotional and behaviourial challenges
