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BSA virtual day seminar – What every Matron should know

24 February 2022 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

 


  • Date: February 24, 2022
  • Time: 10:30 – 15:30
  • Cost: Full Member – £135,  Affiliate Member – £205, Non-member – £270
  • Audience: Boarding staff, Matrons, Wellbeing managers.
  • Platform: Zoom (online)

Happy, healthy boarders thrive socially and academically in the school community. Pastoral staff, notably the traditional Matron role, are key to this. This seminar will help pastoral staff further their knowledge and understanding of mental health issues in boarding and will present strategies to apply in the boarding environment to help young people thrive.

The training will help delegates understand teenagers during puberty, what is important to the mental health of young people and give ideas on supporting them. It will also consider when mental health becomes a concern, and ‘unhealthy’ and makes suggestions for coping strategies to work through with boarders.

Training topics will include:

  • How the brain works – taking a look at the brain and comparing an adult and teenage brain, looking at the differences
  • 21st century teenagers – considering modern stressors for young people
  • Wellbeing – an overview of mental health considerations and conditions
  • Resilience building – suggested support strategies that could be implemented in school, and sharing ideas amongst the group.

Learning outcomes:

  • To have an understanding of how a teenage brain works and how this may look in the boarding environment
  • To be able to promote wellbeing in the boarding environment
  •  To support a child who is struggling with their behaviour.

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Trainer: Jane Graham, Director, HIEDA

Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has 27 years in nursing; 17 of them in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilize and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation, all medical conditions, and trauma.

She went on to teach these skills to student nurses, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She has been a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe, an awarding body approved by the HSE.

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Date:
24 February 2022
Time:
10:30 am - 3:30 pm
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