Give your candidates a competitive edge
Your candidates need more than a certificate. They need training that makes them the preferred choice for NHS trusts and care providers who are serious about restraint reduction.
Differentiate your agency with candidates who do not just have PMVA certification: they have the skills to transform practice.
The national picture
restrictive interventions a month
CQC, 2024/25
vs the year before
CQC, 2024/25
involving women, 2017–2025
2026 study. No drop after Seni's Law
The trusts you place into are inspected against a rising national number. A tick-box PMVA cert is not enough.
Training that makes your candidates stand out
Premium candidate profile
Staff trained in restraint elimination are in higher demand than those with basic compliance training. Make your candidates the first choice.
Gold-standard certification
BILD ACT certification recognised by NHS trusts and CQC-registered providers. The certification that opens doors.
Reduced incident liability
Better-trained staff means fewer incidents, fewer complaints, and reduced agency liability. Protect your business.
Higher placement rates
Trusts actively seek candidates with #AimingForZero training. Your candidates get placed faster and retained longer.
Compliance confidence
Every candidate leaves with documentation that satisfies the most rigorous NHS and CQC compliance checks.
Bulk training packages
Flexible scheduling and group pricing to train cohorts of candidates without disrupting your pipeline.
A certificate is not a competitive edge
Most agency PMVA still trains people to restrain safely. Host trusts are being inspected against a rising national number. If your candidates arrive with the same tick-box cert as everyone else, you are not differentiating. You are exposing both the trust and your agency.
Incidents follow agency staff onto the ward. The host service carries the CQC question. Your agency carries the reputation. Training that only proves they can restrain is not enough.
A cert trusts do not trust
Tick-box PMVA still gets candidates through the door. It does not get them preferred when the host trust is under CQC pressure.
Incidents follow them onto shifts
If agency staff treat restraint as inevitable, the host service carries the incident, and your agency carries the reputation.
The national number is rising
The trusts you place into are being inspected against a rising national figure. Your candidates need more than a completion certificate.
Tick-box agency PMVA vs #AimingForZero
Typical agency PMVA
ProActive Healthcare
The uncomfortable question
If every agency offers the same cert, why would a trust prefer yours?
Closed training for your candidate cohorts
Dedicated sessions for your candidates, scheduled around recruitment cycles. Group pricing for regular cohorts.
- Pre-course online learning module for all candidates
- 3-day Foundation Course or 1-day Refresher
- BILD ACT certification for every participant
- 90-day post-training support for placed candidates
- Access to #AimingForZero practitioner network
- Candidate competency documentation for your records
- Flexible scheduling to suit your recruitment cycles
- Volume pricing for regular training cohorts
Individual agency staff who cannot wait for a cohort can book an open course.
What agencies say
“Trusts asked for more than a certificate. Once our candidates had this training, placement rates moved and we stopped losing people at onboarding.”
Operations Director
Healthcare staffing agency
“The documentation is what our NHS clients actually check. BILD ACT plus a reduction story is a different conversation at tender.”
Compliance Lead
National nursing agency
Questions agencies ask
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