David McDermott

Experienced professional with 25 years experience in children's social care, recognised for enhancing service quality and achieving 'outstanding' Ofsted ratings. Proven ability to work collaboratively with staff teams and stakeholders to drive positive change. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills foster strong relationships with colleagues and young people. Focused on delivering impactful results that benefit young people's lives.

Registered with Social Work England

• Advanced Safeguarding for Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL)
• Emergency First Aid at Work
• Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB) Level 3 Hidden Harm
• Health and Safety
• Ncfe level 3 safer administration of medication
• Managing Medication training
• AIM2 assessment and interventions practitioner (YP with sexually harmful behaviours)
• Youth Justice Interactive Learning Space (YJILS) Young People who sexually abuse
• Appropriate Adult Training.
• Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT)
• YJILS Substance Misuse
• LSCB Domestic Abuse – impact on Children level 3
• Stop Smoking advisors level 2 (NHS).
• Ncfe level 2 Diversity and Equality
• LSCB Sexual exploitation Training
• YJILS Mental Health
• LSCB E-learning Safeguarding Children from abuse by sexual exploitation
• LSCB E-learning Awareness of Child Abuse and Neglect
• High Risk Assessment Team assessor training
• Self-harm and Suicide awareness training
• Risk Assessment and Management
• Protected Characteristics’ Lead training
• Safer Recruitment training
• Team Teach
• Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI)
• Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent (WRAP)
• Fire Safety
• Autism Awareness
• The Oliver McGowan training on Learning Disability and Autism