What is Mental Health Secure Escort Training?
Zeb Glover, a senior trainer, talks through mental health secure escort work in this interview. It covers patient transport, sectioned and informal patients, why teams need aggression training, and what scenario practice adds.
Reducing Hospital Violence through Training
Jeff Mehring, who oversaw security across eight hospitals, describes moving his teams from reactive de-escalation to proactive non-escalation. Security contacts rose while physical interventions fell, because staff engaged earlier in situations.
Mental Health Escort Training: excellent Feedback from Frontline and Management
Dynamis describes training secure escort and patient transport teams across the UK in personal safety, restraint and communication, sets out the demands of that work, and reports feedback from frontline staff and managers.
Secure Escort: Courses for Mental Health Escort Teams
How a series of workshops was built for mental health escort teams transporting patients across the UK. The training focuses on flashpoints inside vehicles, with de-escalation first and restraint kept as a last resort.