Only Accredited BUSS® Practitioners practising in the UK and Ireland can offer BUSS® as a therapeutic intervention, assessing and working with individual children, young people and their families. Further details of the accreditation process can be downloaded as a PDF here. While we are keen to train suitably experienced practitioners in BUSS®, we remain passionate about maintaining the highest standards for practise and fidelity to the model, thereby ensuring the best service and outcomes for children, young people and their families. Please note, BUSS® and the BUSS Model® are registered trademarks and must be used in line with the protocol below.
The register of Accredited BUSS® Practitioners is held by BUSS® Model Ltd. and is regularly updated. Accredited BUSS® Practitioners must be supervised by BUSS® Consultants and renew their registration every four years. A register of BUSS® Consultants is available here.
If you have been offered BUSS® by a practitioner who is not listed on this register, please inform us as soon as possible by emailing info@bussmodel.org or calling 01423 276203. They are not qualified to deliver this intervention and we would have concerns about the quality of outcomes for your child.
The training programme has been carefully designed at all levels so that training is appropriate for practitioners from a range of backgrounds, ensuring that the fundamental ethos of the intervention as well as its application, are taught and faithfully implemented by trained practitioners. Sarah Lloyd, the author of the model, leads the training team, which comprises Accredited BUSS® Practitioners and Consultants, BUSS® Parent Mentors and BUSS® Groupwork Practitioners.
Prerequisites:
To train to become an Accredited BUSS® Practitioner you must first have a core training in either Social Work, Clinical or Educational Psychology, Occupational Therapy or Child Psychotherapy. There may, on rare occasions, be an exception to this, e.g. a practitioner who is a Certified Theraplay® Practitioner working within a Multidisciplinary Team. In such circumstances, decisions will be made on a case by case basis, but the key factor will be that the person is working within an appropriate Multidisciplinary Team. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss eligibility to train with us.
It is recognised that a lot of skilled and experienced practitioners working with children who have experienced developmental trauma do not have a core clinical training. With this in mind, we have developed an arm of training that builds on Level One BUSS® training to support practitioners to deliver a manualised programme for a BUSS® preschool group (Training as a BUSS® Groupwork Practitioner). This group is designed for preschool children and their foster carers or adoptive parents but can also be adapted for use within an education setting. There are further details of the training and supervision requirements below.
Please see the training pathway here for more information.
“Thank you all for your amazing support all the way through – the training and supervision is fantastic and so thoughtful. Honestly the best training I have done!”
– Aeron, Senior Occupational Therapist & BUSS® Accredited Practitioner
It is necessary for there to have been some discussion with Sarah Lloyd about the feasibility of running a group within an organisation before attendance at this training. This allows for consideration of individual circumstances and the suitability of running the group in that particular setting. Generally, if it is an education setting, there needs to be evidence of a culture of trauma informed training and practise within the organisation. The therapy setting needs to be a multidisciplinary team.
This training builds on Level One training and comprises a one day training and subsequent supervision. At the one day training, practitioners will be given the resources needed to run this twelve week group. This will include detailed instructions about the content and running of each session, descriptions of activities and resources required, as well as weekly handouts for parents or carers.
Supervision for the group programme will be every two weeks for the first group and thereafter the frequency of supervision can be negotiated between the BUSS® supervisor and group facilitators, but will never be less than three sessions of supervision per programme.
Sessions must be videotaped and recordings sent to the BUSS® supervisor to watch before supervision. It is the responsibility of the organisation to obtain consent from parents / carers / Social Workers for this and it must be presented to BUSS Model® Ltd before commencement of the group. BUSS Model® Ltd uses a password protected Dropbox account for all of its clinical and supervision activities.
To ensure fidelity to the model and to use the title of Accredited BUSS® Practitioner, practitioners must maintain their accreditation. In order to do this, it is necessary for practitioners to:
If you wish to read more about the accreditation and renewal process, please download the PDF document here.
Fidelity to the model and standards of practise
Any Accredited BUSS® Practitioner whose practise is deemed to fall short of the standards required of a BUSS® Practitioner, or whose practise brings the model into disrepute, will be removed from the register of Accredited BUSS® Practitioners.
The BUSS® team is working hard to respond to the high demand for training. All information is correct at this time but may be subject to change in the future. Any queries about this process should be directed to Sarah Lloyd, Director of BUSS® Model Ltd: sarah.lloyd@bussmodel.org
Date: 21/08/2024
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