Sports Nutrition; Part of the Hieda Box Set

• Date: 21 March 2023
• Time: 13:00 – 14:00
• Cost: Hieda Full Member – £60, Hieda Additional Member – £20, Non-Member – £120
  This set will be £500 for a member series place.
• Audience: Healthcare professionals, medical providers and those with a responsibility for caring for a young person when involved in elite sport, young people who participate in sport, PE teachers
• Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Course outline

This training package comprises of 12 webinars on a variety of medical topics, the purpose of which is to provide updates on medical conditions and refresh skills. The aim is to support school nurses with their training and development needs; help them to raise the standards of care provided in schools, this could count as CPD as part of their revalidation. However, in the wider context this box set is suitable for all organisations who wish to further their knowledge with a view to supporting their employees within the work environment. Webinars will be recorded so that if you can not attend the day they can be available for you to view when convenient.

This set will be £500 for a member series place.

This course looks at the nutritional planning of a pupil who is involved in elite sport with a view to promote good health and maximise performance and growth. 

Training topics will include

• Preparing the pupil: a guide to encouraging independence
• Nutrition for growth
• Nutrition for elite sport
• Sports supplements and energy drinks

Learning outcomes

• To know how to support a student who wants to participate in elite sport 
• To be able to prepare them for the experience – encourage independence 
•  To understand what is healthy and unhealthy, what promotes growth and boosts performance

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Trainer: 

Dan Richardson, MSc, SENr

Dan Richardson is a performance and health nutrition expert, supporting schools and student athletes to develop and grow. He currently works with over 25 schools within the UK, supporting both health and sports nutrition programmes. Previously, he has worked as a nutritionist with professional teams such as Manchester City FC and Sale Sharks. He is also the nutrition columnist at The Hockey Paper providing nutrition advice to readers. His approach to nutrition is simple food-first and focuses on utilizing the latest nutrition research.

Jane Graham, Director, Hieda

Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has over 30 years of nursing background, Many 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 stabilise 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. She is currently the director of Hieda and director of health and wellbeing for the BSA Group.

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