Reflective practice and clinical supervision are integral to professional standards in health, social care, and education. Regulatory bodies identify supervision and reflection as essential for staff wellbeing, professional accountability, learning, and service safety.

Objectives of the Training

• Strengthen understanding of clinical supervision and reflective practice.

• Provide staff with structured models and frameworks.

• Develop practical skills to engage in and facilitate supervision.

• Promote a culture of learning, emotional safety, and professional development.

• Improve supervision quality, consistency, and impact across teams.

Safeguarding training Level 1- 4 equips professionals with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to identify, respond to, and escalate safeguarding concerns in line with statutory duties and inter-agency protocols.Pamoja’s safeguarding training is aligned with national guidance including the National Prevention and Response Plan on Violence Against Children.

Objectives:

• Identify signs, indicators, and patterns of abuse and neglect.

• Understand your legal duties and thresholds for intervention.

• Work with safeguarding procedures across child and adult services

• Make appropriate referrals and record concerns.

• Manage complex or multi-agency safeguarding cases.

• Ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory safeguarding framework.

Consent and Confidentiality training is designed to enhance clinical decision-making, support best practice, and promote person-centred, rights-based care.

Consent – Adults and Children:

• Define informed, voluntary, and specific consent.

• Assess mental capacity under the Mental Health Act (Amended 2022).

• Navigate consent with children and young people (Gillick competence, Fraser guidelines).

• Address issues of coercion, distress, or fluctuating capacity.

• Respond to refusal of treatment and advance decisions.

Confidentiality:

• Understand confidentiality under Data Protection Act and Consitution of Kenya (Article 31).

• Apply thresholds for disclosure, including risk to self or others.

• Handle confidentiality when working with families, carers, and Multidisciplinary teams.

• Balance individual rights with public protection and safeguarding.

• Understand duty to disclose under Mental Health Act (Amended 2022).

Trauma Informed training equips mental health professionals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver trauma-informed care that is safe, compassionate, and person-centred.

Participants will learn how trauma impacts the brain, body, and behaviour and how to adapt mental health practice to avoid re-traumatisation, build trust, and promote recovery.

Objectives of the Training:

• Understand the neurobiology of trauma and its impact on mental health.

• Recognise signs of trauma in behaviour, communication, and relationships.

• Apply the core principles of trauma-informed care (safety, trust, choice, collaboration, empowerment).

• Adjust clinical interventions to avoid re-traumatisation.

• Promote emotional regulation and relational safety.

• Work sensitively with individuals who have experienced abuse, neglect, violence, or complex trauma.

• Foster a trauma-informed team and organisational culture.

This training bridges mental health care with criminal justice awareness, focusing on trauma, risk management, legal frameworks, and therapeutic relationships with people who have committed offences linked to a mental disorder.

Objectives of the Training:

• Understand the role and responsibilities of forensic mental health practitioners.

• Apply key legal frameworks including Mental Health Act.

• Assess and manage violence risk, self-harm, and offending behaviour.

• Work within secure environments (low, medium, high secure units).

• Build safe, respectful therapeutic relationships with forensic patients.

• Understand rehabilitation and community re-integration for forensic patients.

• Understand the impact of trauma, neurodiversity, and personality disorder in forensic settings.

• Navigate multi-agency working (e.g. criminal justice, probation, police, social care).