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SACPA/HIEDA – Supporting mental ill-health: spotlight on healthy coping strategies

Name: SACPA/HIEDA – Supporting mental ill-health: spotlight on healthy coping strategies
Start: 2023-11-07T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2023-11-07T16:30:00+00:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

7 November 2023 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Date: November 07, 2023
Time: 09:30 – 16:30
Cost: SACPA/HIEDA Member Rate: £215, Additional Full Member Fee: £110, Non-member Rate: £430*
Audience: Healthcare professionals, mental health first aiders, Mental health leads and medical providers. Safeguarding teams.
Platform: Zoom (online) – conference

Course outline:

This conference focuses on mental health from a range of perspectives and with a particular focus on safeguarding and promoting coping strategies that are healthy and reduce vulnerability to escalation of risk.

SACPA and HIEDA promise to bring a day packed with expert speakers from a range of disciplines and perspectives who aim to inform, challenge, and invigorate on the subject of mental health and safeguarding.

SACPA and HIEDA will facilitate questions directly from members to our experts throughout the day and encourage delegates to come prepared with questions for our panels.

A post conference recording will be available for purchase for those unable to attend.

Training topics will include:

Mental health update: the scale of the crisis, what we know now
The role of adverse childhood experiences
Cultural competence and the challenge of international practice
The mental health impact for those who live with allergies and health conditions
Tools for managing anxiety: the benefits of prevention
Risk assessment and mental health
Adults under pressure: self-care mental health programmes and strategies.

Learning outcomes:

Delegates will have the latest update on the scale and prevalence of the mental health crisis
Delegates will have increased confidence in identifying individuals who may be more vulnerable to mental health episodes
Delegates will explore how cultural competence supports mental health practice when working in international contexts
Delegates will explore how health conditions and allergies impact emotional wellbeing and mental health
Delegates will explore a range of available tools to support and manage anxiety and mood disorders

Delegates will have increased confidence in risk assessing mental health incidents
Delegates will have information about best practice in mental health programmes and strategies in the workplace.

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Programme:

Session 1
09:30 – 10:15
Welcome and keynote – Mental health update: the scale of the crisis, what we know now  

Chair: Claire Dan, Director, SACPA
Speaker: Kenny Gibson, Deputy Director, NHS Safeguarding

Our awareness of the scale of the mental health crisis in adults and children cannot be ignored. This session provides an update about the scale, it’s implications for policy and practice and sets the scene for conference. Delegates will be updated on the latest national trends, policy, and practice responses.

Break 10:15 – 10:30  Session 2
10:30 – 11:30

The role of adverse childhood experiences (panel discussion) 

Chair: Claire Dan, Director, SACPA

Speakers: Bill Prior, Joint Principal, The International College – The Kings School, Canterbury

Helen Nellany, National Safeguarding and Standards Manager, Volunteer Police Cadets and Citizens in Policing

Rosie McManus, Nurse Advisor, HIEDA

In this session, our multi-disciplinary practice panel considers the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) and their impact on children and adults mental health and wellbeing. Our panel will consider brief practice case studies and answer questions from the chair and audience consider how ACE’s impacted vulnerability and positive outcomes.   

Delegates will be able to consider how knowledge of ACE’s and trauma-informed practice influence risk profiling and assessment for wellbeing and mental health needs.

Break 11:30 – 11:45  Session 3

11:45 – 12:30

Cultural competence and the challenge of international practice 

Chair: Bethan Waddington, Director, BAISIS and Programmes Director, BSA Group

Speakers: Jane Eldridge, Director of Guardianship Services, College Guardians
Declan Ennis, Director of Internationalisation, International School San Patricio Toledo (INSPIRED)

This session highlights the importance of culturally competent practice in safeguarding and mental health care practice when working with diverse communities and international contexts. 

Delegates will consider the range of ways in which wellbeing and mental health are understood and described and the challenges and achievements of working in diverse contexts and settings delivering positive mental health outcomes.

Lunch 12:30 – 13:30 Session 4

13:30 – 14:30

The mental health impact for those who live with allergies and health conditions

Chair: Lee Glaser, Director, HIEDA

Speakers: Sarah Knight, Founder and CEO, The Allergy Team

Although relatively common, allergies can interfere with a person’s ability to complete daily tasks and can result in them avoiding social situations. In some cases, the fear of a serious anaphylactic reaction can result in isolation. There is inevitably a potential impact on the mental health of those with allergies.

This session explores the possible impacts of allergies on mental health and suggests strategies to help people overcome some of their concerns.

Break 14:30 – 14:45 Session 5

14:45 – 15:30

Tools for managing anxiety: the benefits of prevention

Chair: Lee Glaser, Director, HIEDA

Speaker: Lisa Jones, Founder and Director, Headstrong

Anxiety can take many forms and is a very personal experience. Most of us experience anxiety at some point in our lives but for some it can become difficult to deal with and even debilitating. This session will consider common causes of anxiety, approaches to self-management and how to support those in need of help.

Break 15:30 – 15:45

Session 6

15:45 – 16:30

Risk assessment and mental health (panel discussion)

Chair: Lee Glaser, Director, HIEDA

Speakers: Phill Beisty, Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, Best Start Therapy

Skyler Moulder, Lead Nurse and Deputy DSL, The Leys

Cases of mental ill health are very much on the increase. We are more aware of it and there are more causes of it. In schools and workplaces, we must often consider the risks to an individual in need of support and also the risks to those around them.

Risk assessment is a common approach to providing support at the right time and to the right people. In this session we will cover the key components of a risk assessment which will be of benefit to those affected.

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Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding and Director, Sacpa

Claire is Director of Safeguarding and Director, Sacpa and leads on the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services. Claire is a safeguarding specialist and leader with a background in education welfare, youth justice, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative partnerships, professional development and supervision of front-line safeguarding colleagues, and leading multi-disciplinary teams and projects. Between 2006 and 2013 Claire was involved with Luton Safeguarding Children Board as a lead multi-agency safeguarding trainer, developing and delivering single and multi-agency safeguarding training, and since 2013 has delivered pieces of bespoke consultancy work, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis.

Lee Glaser, Director, Hieda and Group Services Director, BSA Group

Lee has extensive experience in pastoral care. Prior to becoming Headmaster and CEO at Taunton School in Somerset he was the School’s Deputy Head which involved leading the pastoral team and being the Designated Safeguarding Lead. Outstanding support for student and staff wellbeing has always been at the heart of his approach and the School was recently shortlisted for a TES Award for excellence in this area.

Lee has always worked closely with the School’s medical team which provided excellent support to the community, particularly during the COVID pandemic. He is excited to be supporting HIEDA members in delivering the highest quality of care in their own environments.

Bethan Waddington, Programmes Director – BSA Group, Director – BAISIS

Bethan Waddington joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme.

In her role, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars, Conferences, INSET and Consultancy, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide.

Kenny Gibson – Deputy Director – NHS Safeguarding

Rosie McManus RSCN, Dip HR (Child), BSc (Hons), MSc (Law), Nurse Advisor, HIEDA

Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children Rosie came to school nursing in the independent sector 16 years ago. With a passion for boarding pastoral and health care Rosie has developed an interest in the understanding and development of the health needs of boarding school students. Passionate about the nurse’s role in the delivery of the PSHE curriculum, Rosie is currently the Head of Boarding at St John’s College School, she has a Masters in Medical Ethics and Law, is a NUCO trainer and has a keen interest in the development of the school nurse role.

Bill Prior, Joint Principal of International College, The Kings School

Bill is founding Joint Principal at King’s International College in Canterbury. He has worked in China, Scotland, England and Germany in school management, development, teaching and qualifications. He has a First in Chinese from the University of Oxford, trained as a teacher at Edinburgh University and later returned to Oxford to complete a Masters in Education. He is a Scot and speaks fluent Mandarin and German.

Helen Nellany, National Safeguarding and Standards Manager at Volunteer Police Cadets

Helen has been a police officer for 22 years and is currently a serving police Inspector working in a National role as the Safeguarding and Standards Manager for the National Volunteer Police Cadets Team.

Having designed and created the Volunteer Police Cadet scheme for her home force in 2012, Helen joined the National Team in 2018 to overhaul safeguarding processes nationally, introducing mandatory safeguarding training and safeguarding standards for all police forces in England and Wales.

Helen is a Youth Mental Health First Aid Trainer, a Trauma Informed Practice Trainer and provides safeguarding advice and guidance on a daily basis to Police Officers, Police Staff, Volunteers, Young people and their parents.

Once a believer that naughty children should be dealt with firmly, punished and prosecuted when needed, Helen is now an advocate that ‘outside behaviour’ is often the result of an ‘inside story’ and this should be explored on every occasion first.

Sarah Knight, Founder and CEO, The Allergy Team

Sarah Knight is Founder and CEO of The Allergy Team, an organisation which supports schools, food businesses and families to manage food allergies. The company runs a programme for schools including training and consultancy to transform safety and inclusion. Before setting up The Allergy Team, Sarah was a senior TV executive working on prime-time BBC shows including Your Home Made Perfect and the flagship consumer show, Watchdog. Sarah has two children, both with food allergies.

Jane Eldridge, Director of Guardianship Services, College Guardians

Jane set up and has been running College Guardians for over 14 years. She has enjoyed watching the company grow and develop, supporting many students from all over the world.

Jane spent many years living and working overseas, in Europe and the Far East, and loves that there is always something new to learn about with all the different countries and cultures that our students are from.

Jane has a global MBA from Lancaster university, is a Mental Health First aider and is the Designated Safeguarding Lead for College Guardians.

Outside of work, Jane keeps herself busy with her two children and gorgeous cocker Spaniel called Betty!

Declan Ennis, Director of Internationalisation, International School San Patricio Toledo (INSPIRED)

Declan has been working in San Patricio School for 39 years. Declan started as an English teacher in the primary school for 9 years. He then moved to the Secondary school and taught secondary courses for about 10 years and then taught students in the final 2 years before university.

Declan saw that improvements could be made for the students and their learning of the English language so he became Coordinator of the English Department. He also introduced both French and German into the educational programme giving importance to languages in the centre. Declan introduced IGCSE ́subjects and official exams in Business and Economics in Secondary Education.

Declan then became Director of International affairs for the schools of San Patricio providing a full programme of studies abroad for our students and also teachers through Erasmus Plus projects.

As Director of International Affairs Declan also worked in Marketing and attended Agent Fairs and events and visited schools around the world to promote the Boarding House.

Declan was offered the position of Head of the Boarding House at ISSP Toledo where he has been for the last 5 years.

In all these years Declan has learnt many things, but the personal satisfaction was always to be in contact with children and the opportunity to see education and the difficulties students have from many parts of the world.

Lisa Jones, HeadStrong Training

Lisa Jones is a multi-award-winning, science driven, fact-based therapist, coach and passionate trainer who believes that prevention is better than intervention.

Lisa works in both the corporate and education sector teaching others the importance of brain health, resilience, stress management and emotional wellbeing as well as running a busy private practice.

Lisa is a fully qualified and insured Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Health Coach and Mental Health Consultant registered with The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She is also a senior accredited member of The National Counselling Society and The Association for Coaching.

After graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Counselling & Psychotherapy, Lisa went on to work with adults to overcome addiction and mental health issues. Having experienced chronic ill health for many years, Lisa developed a keen interest in brain health and the brain / mind/ body connection. Lisa was fascinated by how our minds can influence our wellbeing and vice versa. After overcoming her own health issues, she then specialised in the field of chronic ill health and stress. Lisa went on to certify in Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health, Applied Neuroscience and Coaching and Women’s Health and Neurobiology.

She also gained a NLP Practitioner Coaching Diploma and certified as a Life Coaching Practitioner, Youth Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, Hypnotherapy Practitioner, Mental Health First Aid and completed a BPS approved certificate in clinical supervision. The specific focus of her work addresses the mind-body connection and the impact our language (self-talk) and belief system has on all aspects of health and wellbeing as well as self-esteem and confidence. The principles of Neuroscience underpin the work Lisa does as she believes it is essential to educate people on how the brain works, how to influence mindset and to understand neuroplasticity (the ability of the brain to form and re-organise neural connections). By doing so, this enables us to build resilience, develop essential life skills and learn how to manage stress effectively.

Together with her business partner, Veronika Chidemo – a Teacher and School Mental Health Leadership Consultant, she co-founded HeadStrong Training in Education. Lisa and Veronika are passionate about an integrative approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education and believe that everyone should be equipped with essential skills to confidently manage the stresses in life.

Phillip Beisty, UKCP acc. Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, Best Start Therapy

Phill is a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor in private practice with previous experience of being a safeguarding lead for a corporate mental health company, currently working from his private practice just off Harley Street in London.

Phill’s background as a therapist includes working with vulnerable children within maintained and independent special schools and specialist units schools. Managing and delivering therapy services to a wide range of students with needs ranging from complex trauma and neurodiverse conditions involving leadership in safeguarding in the context of complex safeguarding and multi-agency arrangements.

Phill has a passion and strong belief that all children and young people should have the best start in life, and that they can access the appropriate therapy and safeguarding services to ensure this can happen.

Skyler Moulder, Lead Nurse and Deputy DSL, The Leys

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.