Thrive Advanced Practitioner
Ready to take the next step in your Thrive journey? Thrive Advanced Practitioner training empowers you to lead and embed Thrive across your setting or organisation. You’ll build the confidence, knowledge and influence to support colleagues, work with families and create lasting change.
On completion, you’ll gain a dual award as a Thrive Advanced Practitioner and Family Thrive Course Leader.
Duration
3 months
Format
Live online training and e-learning
Certification
Thrive Advanced Practitioner & Family Thrive Course Leader
Investment
£1,780 + VAT
CPD
10 CPD points
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Overview
This course is designed for Thrive Licensed Practitioners who are ready to take an active role in shaping how Thrive is understood and embedded across their setting.
You’ll explore how Thrive connects with SEND, mental health and wellbeing, curriculum, staff development and long-term implementation. You’ll also gain the skills, language and resources to deliver Family Thrive: Empowering parents and carers, so you can share Thrive with families in a way that feels practical and meaningful.
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Benefits
Completing Thrive Advanced Practitioner training has numerous benefits both for you and your setting, including:
- Build a clearer, more connected view of how Thrive fits across your setting.
- Feel more confident explaining your decisions and contributing to discussions.
- Use Thrive-Online data to track progress and show impact.
- Develop the skills to guide, support and coach colleagues.
- Strengthen your work with children and young people with more complex needs.
- Work more confidently with parents and carers.
- Grow your self-awareness and ability to stay thoughtful in challenging situations.
- Move from delivering Thrive to helping shape whole-setting practice.
- Create greater consistency in how staff understand and respond to behaviour.
- Build calmer, more predictable environments for children and young people.
- Strengthen how Thrive is used across classrooms and wider provision.
- Connect Thrive more effectively with SEND, wellbeing and wider support.
- Make better use of data to inform decisions and show impact.
- Support staff development through coaching and mentoring.
- Build stronger relationships with parents and carers.
- Align policies and everyday practice with Thrive principles.
- Develop long-term capacity so Thrive is embedded and sustainable.
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Programme details
What you'll learn
During the course, you will:
- Review your current Thrive practice and identify what to develop next.
- Use Thrive-Online data to understand progress and impact.
- Learn coaching, mentoring and supervision skills to support others.
- Navigate challenging conversations with confidence.
- Use Thrive as part of a joined-up SEND approach.
- Support children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
- Create a whole-setting approach alongside the curriculum.
- Evaluate outcomes and demonstrate impact clearly.
- Work in partnership with parents and carers.
- Embed Thrive in policies and procedures.
- Plan for long-term, sustainable implementation.
What you'll gain
By the end of the course, you will:
- Qualify as a Thrive Advanced Practitioner
- Qualify as a Family Thrive Course Leader
- Be able to deliver Familgive y Thrive: Empowering parents and carers in your setting
- Have experience reviewing and auditing your current Thrive practice
- Have started an action plan to support Thrive implementation in your setting
- Have practical tools to review progress and plan next steps
- Gain 10 CPD points
How the course works
The 3-month programme is delivered through a blend of live online sessions, mentoring, e-learning and practical application in your setting.
You'll take part in:
- 12 live, online sessions (3 hours each), delivered weekly
- 4 e-mentoring sessions (1.5 hours) to reflect, problem-solve and share practice
- E-learning between sessions, including practical tasks linked to each module and practical activities such as audits and action plans
We recommend allowing around 2 hours per week for e-learning activities and practical tasks.
Course duration: 3 months
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Who this course is for
This course is for Thrive Licensed Practitioners who want to deepen their expertise and help lead Thrive across their setting or organisation.
It is suitable for practitioners working across all phases, from early years through to post-16.
If your Thrive Licensed Practitioner status has lapsed, this course offers a way to re-engage with Thrive, refresh your knowledge and rebuild your confidence.
You will need an active Thrive-Online subscription to complete the course.
“I was a bit lost in my role and have found a new lease of life. My Thrive practice is better and I have more knowledge that I can pass onto my colleagues.”
Theresa Parsons | hrive Lead & Thrive Advanced Practitioner, Tudor Grange Academy Yew Tree
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Choose your start date
See the available dates and times for this course below. When you've found a session that works for you, you can book your place.
Our October 2026 start dates
PA9733 - Thrive Advanced Practitioner
Start date: 19th October 2026
End date: 1st March 2027
14 Sessions
8 Places left
£1,780 ex VAT
Session dates:
- Mon 19th October 2026 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 2nd November 2026 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 9th November 2026 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 23rd November 2026 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 30th November 2026 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 7th December 2026 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 14th December 2026 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 11th January 2027 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 18th January 2027 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 25th January 2027 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 1st February 2027 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 8th February 2027 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 22nd February 2027 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Mon 1st March 2027 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
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Fees & next steps
Course fee: £1,780 + VATChoose a start date above to view the schedule and book your place.
Includes full training and certification. On successful completion, results in Thrive Advanced Practitioner status and Family Thrive Course Leader.
Yes. This course builds on Thrive Licensed Practitioner training.
If your licence has lapsed, this training is a great way to re-engage with Thrive and refresh your knowledge. Please note: you'll need an active Thrive-Online subscription to complete the course.
Yes. You can still take part if your Thrive licence has lapsed. The course is a great way to re-engage with Thrive, refresh your knowledge and build your confidence.
Please note: that you will need an active Thrive-Online subscription to complete the course, as this is used throughout your learning.
The training includes 12 monthly online sessions (3 hours each) and 4 e-mentoring sessions (1.5 hours each).
Between sessions, you’ll complete e-learning activities and practical tasks designed to help you put your learning into practice. We recommend allocating around 2 hours per week to complete these activities.
Yes. This course goes much further, helping you lead and embed Thrive across your whole setting. If you completed Family Thrive some time ago, it’s especially valuable as the content has been updated.
You’ll refresh your knowledge and build the wider skills needed to support staff, families and long-term implementation.