Experts in Care & Training
Welcome to Northbrook, where we provide expert, high-quality training and development, recruitment solutions, and business support tailored specifically to the care sector.
Our mission, guided by our core values, is to Support care organisations with training, recruitment, and other essential needs, Inspire individuals to achieve their full potential, and Succeed in delivering safe, compassionate, and high-quality care.
Colin Mackenzie
Owner / Founder
This is what Colin has to say:
"I started Northbrook as a means to make a difference across the Care Sector, I have seen first hand what good care looks like and what not so good care looks like, I know how it feels to be understaffed and under resourced as well as having a great team with you delivering amazing results for people.
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I have almost 25 years personal experience within the care sector with almost 15 of those years in a professional capacity. I have been and still am a unpaid carer for a family member and I strive to champion and advocate for quality professional care. Working in care I started out as a humble support worker supporting people with learning disabilities and autistic individuals. Soon after I quickly undertook qualifications and moved into more senior roles including Home Manager, Training Manager, Recruitment Manager Including Registered Manager.
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I have been on the forefront of delivering training for over 16 years delivering subjects such as First Aid, Leadership Skills and Military Skills.​"
With many years experience in the sector we specialise in training care professionals on a range of subjects including:
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Safeguarding
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MCA & DoLS
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Behaviour Support
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Epilepsy
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Buccal Midazolam
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Learning Disabilities
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Autism
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Oliver McGowan
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And much more.
We will work with you to achieve your training needs and even create bespoke programs for you and your teams.
Utilising many years experience in a leadership role both within organisations but also within the Armed Forces.
We support established managers with additional learning and development and we also love to see new and aspiring leaders succeed. We provide ongoing leadership training and coaching, in addition to this we also provide courses such as:
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Effective supervision
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Compassionate Leadership
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MCA & DoLS for Managers & Leaders
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Safeguarding for Managers and Leaders
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Bespoke courses to meet your needs.
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Teaching and training First Aid is something that we are extremely well versed with, not only within the care sector but also other sectors too, children services, warehouse employees solicitors, you name it! We regularly run open courses that anyone can join in Dorset and Somerset. We train:
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Basic Life Support
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1 Day First Aid
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2 Day First Aid at Work Refresher
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3 Day First Aid at Work
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Paediatric First Aid (Children)
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Management of Anaphylaxis
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Or a bespoke course to meet your needs.
Alongside our regular first aid we train people in becoming a Mental Health First Aider, these courses discuss in depth what is Mental Health and how we can support our own mental health as well as recognise and assist when someone is having poor mental health. We focus on enabling people to recognise the signs and provide signposting, this enables people to take control of their own Mental Health & remain in work. Courses include:
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2 Day Mental Health First Aid
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1 Day Mental Health First Aid
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Half Day Mental Health Awareness
Recruitment can be stressful and finding great candidates can be challenging, we understand how to effectively recruit colleagues, we use a combination of proven techniques to attract candidates and processes to ensure the candidate journey is smooth.
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We can support you and your business by
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Acting as a Recruitment Agency and handle all your recruitment efforts.
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Support and train your team in ways to effectively recruit colleagues.
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Set up and utilise Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to streamline your recruitment processes.
Just some of the organisations we've worked with
