Fit Person Interview Training
What the course covers:
- Defining the fit person interview
- Core business – what is always covered
- Preparation & reflection – considering how inspectors tailor the FPI to your application
- Sample questions & practice
- Holding your own and building confidence in your approach
optional coaching
To build directly on the learning from the course, participants are offered an optional one-to-one coaching session with the trainer.
This session is designed to:
Review Documentation: Participants are encouraged to share their SC1 document (and ideally their Fitness and Propriety Questionnaire – FPQ) beforehand for a half-hour desktop review by the trainer. This helps proactively identify and address potential gaps an inspector might question.
Build Confidence: A dedicated one-hour session focuses on coaching and building confidence in answering regulatory and inspection-style questions. (Please note: This is a coaching session, not a mock interview.)
Action Plan: Following the session, the trainer will dedicate a final half-hour for admin and write-up, providing a letter detailing the experience and offering specific feedback and actionable next steps.
the trainer
Anne-Marie Davies has over 30 years’ experience working in children’s social care. She was a social care regulatory inspector for Ofsted for 5 years, inspecting and regulating social care establishments and agencies that care for children, including children’s homes, independent fostering and adoption agencies, short-break settings, residential special schools, and local authorities.
Having both personal and professional experience of the learning disabled community, and the
challenges and triumphs children can experience, Anne-Marie has also completed post qualifying awards in practice education, and in ‘consolidation and preparation for specialist practice: childcare’, following studies that achieved a first-class honours in social work. Having previously worked in regulated children’s homes, Anne-Marie also holds professional qualifications in ‘caring for children and young people – residential care’ and the level 3 ‘modern apprenticeship in health and social care’.
Anne-Marie will regularly reflect on and explore how she communicates – how she uses and delivers the legislation and guidance to help improve things for children, and to influence change in a positive way.
booking and dates
This half-day course is delivered virtually via zoom for £132+VAT.
The optional coaching is a further £199+VAT.
If you have booked five places the sixth place is free.
ICHA, NAFP, SW Forum, and RI Network members receive a 25% discount – members price is £99+VAT
If you’re experiencing any problems with the booking form, feel free to send the participant details through to admin@dialogueltd.co.uk, or call us on 01803 493030 and we’ll be happy to help.