Ethical Professional Consulting & Recruitment

How EPCR works for your organisation. We specialise in training and education packages to support resilient workplaces. We deliver tailored training packages and coaching in group and individual settings. We work alongside the social services industries, or any industry where team function is crucial to operations, to support safe workplaces, practice improvement, leadership mentoring, positive team dynamics and employee retention. Our most popular education packages are: Understanding and managing Vicarious Trauma/Compassion Fatigue/stress Conflict Resolution Understanding Team Dynamics Physiological Responses to Stress Leadership and Mentoring Skills We also offer professional supervision, complex case advise, mediation and group work to build, repair and maintain positive team dynamics to support effective service provision. And of course, we also have the capacity to create and facilitate training and education packages on topics upon request as need. Practice Framework EPCR is directed by two practitioners, Nikolina Purell and Kim Lock. We collectively hold over 40 years experience in the social services industry with expertise in the Child protection system, Aged Care, Disabilities, Leadership and Complex Case Work. Our business and practice framework is relational, solution focused and strength based principals. We are guided and informed by theories of social and intergenerational disadvantage, trauma, attachment and the impact these issues have on mental and physical wellbeing. Our leadership frameworks are informed by Druker's management theories, the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model, Tuckman's stages of Group Development and psycho-analytical models of contact styles in understanding team dynamics. Values Our values are central to our work and we live them; Confidentiality in all our dealings. Respect for all people. Always. Open, honest communication. Fair Dealings. Objectivity. Kindness. Inclusiveness. Delivering on our promises.