Leadership is one of the six core strategies essential in reducing restraint. The Level 5 BTEC Bild Diploma in Practice Leadership in Reducing Restrictive Practices helps practice leaders translate theory into practice, supporting services who are committed to restraint reduction achieve their goals.

The Diploma combines practice leadership with restraint reduction theory, allowing a direct transfer of learning into practice. Learners will gain key knowledge on service and organisational reduction strategies and develop an overall service reduction implementation plan.

This human rights focused qualification, co-designed and co-delivered by people with lived experience of restrictive practices, is an excellent fit with current policy across the UK and will have direct impact on improving services and people’s lives.

The qualification is designed for people who work in services providing direct support, who can shape the practice of colleagues, helping them to develop a culture of least restriction.

All Bild Diploma courses support learners to develop and deepen skills in Practice Leadership.

Units undertaken by learners

• Capable and supportive environments
• Practice leadership
• Working with people with lived experience to influence change
• Principles of reducing restrictive practice
• Organisational systems change to support reducing restrictive practice

Key information

• 35 credits
• 18 months commitment
• 350 learning hours
• Online, self-directed learning alongside practice-base activity, online groups and individual tutorials.
• Learners must have English skills equal to Level 2A as set out by the British Council in order to access, engage with and complete the qualification.
• Learners must work directly with service users.
• Learners at Diploma level must be in a position to practice lead and supervise others in practice.