Health & Wellbeing Conference
🏷️ From 250
🎧 School nurses, health/medical centre leads, health/medical centre staff, pastoral leads, wellbeing leads
📍 In person – Haileybury, Hertford SG13 7NU
Course overview:
This will be the first in-person Health and Wellbeing Conference since HIEDA was established, marking a significant milestone in bringing together professionals dedicated to the care and development of young people. With a focus on nutrition, policy development, suicide prevention, and understandings of bereavement, the event offers expert-led sessions designed to provide both strategic insight and practical approaches to supporting young people in educational settings.
The conference will provide opportunities for knowledge exchange, interactive discussion, and reflective practice, ensuring that delegates leave with greater confidence and a refreshed toolkit for addressing emerging challenges in school communities.
Training Topics
- Nutrition and student wellbeing
Exploring the link between diet, mental health, and behaviour in young people. Practical approaches for schools to encourage positive nutrition choices and reduce inequalities. - Self-harm and harmful behaviours: Policy development in schools
Guidance on shaping effective, sensitive, and evidence-informed school policies to respond to self-harm and harmful behaviours. - Suicide prevention in educational settings
Best practices for early identification, intervention, and support. Strategies to build resilience and strengthen protective factors within school communities. - Bereavement and grief in schools: The overlooked dimensions
Examining the often-unspoken aspects of grief, including the ripple effects on peers, staff, and family systems. Considerations for long-term support beyond immediate response.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the conference, participants will:
- Develop a stronger understanding of how nutrition influences physical health, emotional wellbeing, and learning outcomes in adolescents.
- Gain practical insight into designing and implementing policies addressing self-harm and harmful behaviours in schools.
- Build confidence in identifying risk factors for suicide and applying effective prevention strategies within school environments.
- Broaden their awareness of grief and bereavement impacts, including overlooked challenges, and learn approaches to provide holistic and sustained support.
This event will be held jointly with:
Speaker:
Skyler Moulder, Senior Nurse Advisor, HIEDA
Skyler did her Adult Nursing BSc at Kings College London in 2011 and went straight into community nursing. After the birth of her first son she stumbled into community school nursing and never looked back. During her time as a community school nurse she covered primary and secondary schools all across Cambridgeshire. She completed training such as the CAMHS foundation module, Sexual Health and Contraception module and was trained in Safeguarding Children Level 3. She completed her PG Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing in 2016 when she was pregnant with her second son, which she later topped up to a full MSc in 2023 when she was pregnant with her daughter! This also included qualifying as a Nurse Prescriber. Skyler co-lead the development of a 0-19 Duty Desk and the introduction of the Chathealth text service in Cambridgeshire Community Services. In 2019 she became a Team Manager for the CCS Healthy Child Programme – managing a team of Nursery Nurses, Health Visitors and School Nurses during the pandemic. In 2020 she was recruited to be the Lead Nurse at The Leys in Cambridge, to lead a team covering 24 hour care for around 575 pupils (over half of which are boarders). This is where she is now and where her passion for independent school nursing started.
Rosie McManus, Nurse Advisor, HIEDA
Trained at Great Ormond Street, Rosie made the move to the independent sector in 2006. With an MA in Medical Ethics and Law and the Specialist Community Pubic Health Nurse qualification her passion remains promoting the Healthy Child Programme, and promoting the visibility of school nurses in the independent sector.
Harry Mansfield, The Awareness Key
Harry Mansfield is an award winning trainer and best-selling author, better known as “The MindPower Champion”. She teaches how to achieve a VIPMind®; a mind that is Victorious, Ignites and Protects the right way.
Coaching for 25 years, she and her licensees offer a trackable, training blueprint teaching you how to “Power Up Your Mind Before It Powers You Down®”, giving students and staff skills for todays’ fast paced, ever changing world of high expectations.
To date all qualifications in this country have been reactive. Harry, and her licensees, show you how to train your mind to achieve success and avoid daily suffering. She shows the only way forward is to not have our heads in the sand and how to address the root cause.
Dr Jody Walshe, Educational and Child Psychologist
Dr Jody Walshe is an Educational and Child Psychologist working in London borough. Jody completed her doctorate at the University of East London. She is also a Consultant Psychologist providing consultations for foster carers and supervising social workers. She is a registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council. Before commencing her training, Jody worked as a teacher, learning support assistant and tutor with young people from 5-19. The focus of much of her work looked at anxiety and mental health issues in school settings. Her doctoral research explored the experiences, perceptions and training needs of secondary school staff working with self-harm.
Tracey Boseley, Head of Education Sector Support at Child Bereavement UK
Tracey’s links with the education sector began early in her career as she developed an outreach programme for schools and universities. This led her to qualify as a teacher and she has taught across the primary phase. She specialised in supporting vulnerable pupils and their families, particularly young people with autism and sensory processing disorder. In 2018, Tracey joined Child Bereavement UK; her role includes raising the profile of bereavement across the education sector, research projects, supporting education professionals, developing resources and content for training courses. She has also designed online resources for education professionals in collaboration with London Grid for Learning.
