FACE Toolsets

Child & Adolescent Risk Assessment

The UK's only independently validated suite of risk assessment tools and outcome measures for use in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).

Ensuring your practitioners/clinical staff are trained effectively in how to record robust, high quality risk assessments is critical - to ensure that:

  • The likelihood of serious incidents occurring is minimised.
  • Your processes and practice stands up to scrutiny in the event that an incident does occur.

Imosphere provides a range of training courses for users of our Child & Adolescent Risk Assessment Suite which suit all types and sizes of organisations.

Remote learning

  • Course to upskill end users directly

    • £1,350 per course Maximum 15 delegates per course

    This course equips practitioners who will use the tool(s) with the relevant information to enable recording of high quality risk assessments.

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  • 4-day 'Train The Trainer' course

    • 1x £1,350 plus 3x £1,150 = £4,800 per course
      Maximum 4 internal trainers per course
    • ‘Double-up’: 1x £1,350 plus 6x £1,150 = £8,250 per course
      Maximum 8 internal trainers per course

    This course is designed for individuals without previous experience as trainers. It teaches the same material as the end user course whilst gradually upskilling the delegates through supervision/feedback to become confident trainers themselves. A key benefit is that a large number of end users are themselves trained as part of the same course.

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The different strategies used each step of the way to identify risk, understand the reasons behind it, and manage them, were very insightful.
The training session enabled the opportunity for rich discussion and reflection around our current practice, and the facilitators brought brilliant examples.
The training was really insightful, and really helped my understanding of Risk, Formulation and completing the FACE Risk Profile with more confidence.

On-site training

Upgrade to on-site training with the following options:

  • Level 1

    Location under 2 hours each way by car/train and no/low accommodation cost

    £350 per day on-site

  • Level 2

    Location 2-3 hours each way by car/train and/or moderate accommodation cost

    £475 per day on-site

  • Level 3

    Location 4-5 hours each way by car/train and/or high accommodation cost

    £600 per day on-site

  • Level 4

    Location 6+ hours each way by car/train or flights needed and/or very high accommodation cost

    £850 per day on-site

Meet the trainers

Read about our trainers' backgrounds:

Steve Weir

Steve is a Social Work Manager with over 25 years of experience in UK statutory services. He has worked primarily in Adult Social Care and Community Mental Health settings within England. As such, he brings a rich and diverse experience of Operational Management within Health and Social Care to the training that he now provides.

Steve project managed the development of a number of FACE Risk Tools whilst working for Imosphere. He has provided Clinical Risk Management training to a large number of organisations, both as direct training for clinical staff and on a “Train the Trainer” basis.

Andrew Wetherell

Andrew has worked in the Mental Health field and the UK Service User Movement since 1994 and his work has included developing self-help support initiatives and managing Advocacy Services. He was Chairperson of the United Kingdom Advocacy Network (1997 ~ 1998) and was a member of the Government’s Independent Reference Group.

Andrew was an Associate Trainer with The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health from 1997 to 2006, where he worked with Steve Morgan and specialised in delivering Clinical Risk Assessment workshops, including “Train the Practitioner Trainer” programmes.

Kelvin Frew

Kelvin has been a Mental Health Nurse since 1986 and has primarily worked in Crisis Management and Risk Assessment. His work has included establishing and managing Crisis and Unscheduled Care Services and developing Risk Assessment Training Programmes. Kelvin worked in the NHS for some 37 years and, at retirement, was Nurse Consultant for Clinical Risk with NHS Dumfries and Galloway. Kelvin has worked in senior and operational management and has a wealth of clinical experience with a background in designing and developing services.

Since 2022, he has worked extensively in delivering Clinical Risk Assessment training programmes across the UK with a wide range of organisations, offering direct training for a diverse group of staff, or on a “Training For Trainers” basis. He has delivered these options both on a face to face basis and remotely.

In 2017, Kelvin became the first community mental health nurse to be appointed as a Queens Nurse by the Queens Nursing Institute of Scotland.