Mental Health and Safeguarding

• Date: January 30, 2023
• Time: 13:00 – 14:00
• Cost: Sacpa Full Member – £60, Sacpa Member Additional Attendee – £20, Non-member – £120
• Audience: Delegates working in safeguarding roles or aspiring to safeguarding roles.
• Platform: Zoom (online) – Webinar

Mental health continues to be a top safeguarding concern for practitioners, children, young people and their families alike.

This webinar aims to look at key areas of managing mental health in house and developing effective responses where access to services remains challenging.

Training topics:

• Current challenges in managing mental health
• When does mental health become a safeguarding issue
• Mental health risk assessment
• Thresholds for mental health support and access to specialist services
• Practical case study on developing in-house services.

Learning outcomes:

• Delegates will be up to date with the latest challenges in managing mental health
• Delegates will have the opportunity to consider when mental health becomes a safeguarding issue
• Delegates will consider mental health risk assessment, thresholds to specialist services and managing in-house support through case study example.

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Speaker: 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.