Handle With Care Certified Jobs

The program is built for work where someone may escalate physically, and the vendor's own range runs from children as young as 3 to geriatric care. Its audience list covers schools, child welfare, group homes and residential care, developmental centers, nursing homes, juvenile justice, hospital emergency and psychiatric units, and school security. Read the setting in the posting and you know which end of that range you'd be working at.

They're two parts of one system, taught in that order. De-escalation and verbal intervention come first and physical technique is the last resort, with fewer restraints as the program's stated goal. Many states and accrediting bodies want documented training before staff use physical intervention, which is why an employer names a program by name instead of asking for de-escalation skills in general.

That's a separate tier, and a job on top of the job. Handle With Care certifies the instructor, so an agency has a few of its own people put through that and they run the training in-house. A posting at instructor level is asking you to teach the rest of the staff.