This guidance helps NHS organisations, line managers, and those working in the NHS understand more about the menopause, how they can support colleagues at work and those experiencing menopause symptoms.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/supporting-our-nhs-people-through-menopause-guidance-for-line-managers-and-colleagues/
We all bring our own histories, current contexts and difficult experiences to work and to our interactions with colleagues and service users. These include personal experiences of adversity and trauma which are frequently unspoken and yet so much more common than we think. They shape the lens through which we experience our work and our interactions with colleagues and service users.
By recognising the prevalence and far reaching impact of trauma, trauma informed organisational practice creates safe environments for service users and staff. Trauma informed organisations understand the risks of re-traumatisation and promote empowerment, collaboration and connection. Trauma informed practice is central to maintaining healthy organisational functioning and to staff wellbeing and retention.
Keeping well NCL is pleased to be able to offer introductory Trauma Informed Organisational Practice workshops to our NCL colleagues on the following dates.
To sign up for one of these workshops, click here.
These Intercultural Awareness workshops are a partnership between Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre and KeepingWell NCL. The 3-hour workshops will be facilitated by a Nafsiyat therapist and held online using Zoom.
Health and care organisations are becoming increasingly aware of the role they can play in responding to the specific needs and experiences of racially minoritized staff and patients. These workshops will support staff to promote intercultural awareness and practice, exploring issues such as:
Participants will be invited to share their own experiences to enrich the conversation and discover new contexts in which intercultural awareness can be applied in health and care settings. We will also consider external factors such as current political events in the UK and how they impact intercultural relationships.
These sessions are free and open to all health and social care staff in North Central London.
Kemi Omijeh is an MBACP Registered psychodynamic and CBT trained Therapist and Clinical Supervisor with over a decade of post qualification experience working in mental health as a Therapist, Clinical Supervisor, Trainer, and Speaker. Kemi works currently works in private practice as a supervisor, trainer and speaker as well as working in large school overseeing pupil well-being. Kemi passionately believes that prioritising and normalising looking after our mental health should be on everyone’s agenda, as well as addressing the barriers to receiving mental health support.
Monday 30th January 2023, 10am-1pm
Monday 13th February 2023, 10am-1pm
Monday 6th March 2023, 10am-1pm
Nafsiyat provides accessible psychotherapy and counselling to people from diverse religious, cultural and ethnic communities in London.
Nafsiyat’s team is made up of experienced psychotherapists and counsellors from diverse backgrounds who are sensitive to the particular therapeutic needs of cultural minority groups.
To support racially minoritized staff, KeepingWell NCL staff wellbeing Hub is providing dedicated reflective group sessions facilitated by therapists from Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre. These sessions are a safe, confidential space to process and reflect on difficult work situations, organisational issues, and the feelings they evoke.
Some of these sessions explore specific themes. Given the current climate and multiple pressures e.g. cost of living, other sessions are open for participants to explore any topic that feels present in a safe and confidential space.
These sessions are open to all health and social care staff who live or work in North Central London.
If your team would benefit from a reflective group space to discuss specific intercultural issues, KeepingWell NCL and Nafsiyat may be able to facilitate a bespoke event or group.
Please email keepingwell.ncl@nhs.net to discuss your team’s needs.
Nafsiyat provides accessible psychotherapy and counselling to people from diverse religious, cultural and ethnic communities in London.
Nafsiyat’s team is made up of experienced psychotherapists and counsellors from diverse backgrounds who are sensitive to the particular therapeutic needs of cultural minority groups.
To sign up for a themed session, click here.
To sign up for an open session, click here.
Have you supported staff or patients with Long Covid, or experienced it yourself? How can employers and managers best support you at work?
KeepingWell NCL are developing a support webinar and resources for health and social care staff managing different experiences of Long Covid – so we need our staff to help make sure we provide the support they need. Have you:
Help others like you get the support they need by participating in our Experience-Based support project.
“There’s so much we don’t know about Long Covid – people who have experienced it really are the experts. That’s why it’s vital that staff and managers themselves shape their Long Covid support, so that we support you as you want to be supported.’
Emily Kenworthy, Hub Practitioner and Occupational Therapist
To participate in the project, please sign up to join one of the following discussion groups:
Please note that you will only be able to join one of these groups, so please sign up for the group that you feel best fits your experience.
All attendees will be asked join us for a screening and discussion of the short touchpoint film created from your discussions on 24th November, 12:00-13:30. Please ensure you are available to join us for this session when you sign up to participate.
Please also ensure that you have read the ‘Information for participants’ booklet above before signing up.
If you have any questions, please ask our team via our health chat or email us at keepingwell.ncl@nhs.net.
Experience Based Co-Design is a type of research and design project that helps service users and practitioners design their support together, with both groups’ experience and expertise seen as equally important. This makes it an ideal method for creating support for conditions with varied experiences such as Long Covid.
Participating in an Experience Based support project includes attending a discussion group to share your experience with project practitioners and participants. During the discussion, we will ask to record some of your responses to create a touchpoint film. All participants then attend a screening of the touchpoint film and agree next steps for designing Long Covid staff support with the project practitioners.
This film will be used only within the project, and the project leaders will always ask you before recording a response or sharing any part of the recording beyond the discussion groups.
This is an adapted version of the Point of Care Foundation’s Experience Based Co-Design methodology. You can find out more about what the project entails in our ‘Information for participants’ digital booklet below:
ADHD UK – a charity set up to support those with ADHD or people close to them – have collated a number of helpful resources. These resources include:
You can view these resources on the ADHD UK website by clicking here
The University and College Union (UCU) have published this guidance for organisations about supporting neurodiverse staff in the workplace. The guidance sets out:
To access this resource, click here
In this podcast from ACAS, Dr Nancy Doyle, CEO and founder of Genius Within, Adrian Ward, head of disability partnerships at the Business Disability Forum and Erin Fulton-McAlister, Acas workplace adviser look at
You can listen to this podcast here
There are currently a number of pressures on the social care workforce in regards to financial wellbeing.
Skills for Care are putting on this webinar for registered social care managers to gather information, advice and guidance to support themselves and their teams.
As part of this webinar, you will hear from organisations including the Money and Pensions Service and the Care Workers Charity, HMRC, Credit Union and Citizens Advice Bureau. You will also hear about local initiatives and resources to support you and your staff.
This webinar will take place via Zoom on 29th September 2022 from 10:00-11:30am.
In this clip from our webinar, ‘Back to School After Lockdown’, family therapists Ola and Sam give advice for families undergoing transitions, such as the return to school after the summer holidays.
They discuss why communicating with children and young people may be a helpful tool when things feel difficult, and how guardians can create opportunities for communication in daily home life.
The slides discussed in this video suggest activities to open up communicating with children and young people. They also contain details of other support services you can access if you or a young person are struggling at home.
This clip is from a KeepingWell NCL webinar held in September 2021. This session invited staff to consider the transition back to school after Covid-19 related lockdowns.
Because the webinar focused on the impact of lockdown on family and school life, some of the discussion may feel less relevant now. However, we know that many of us are still managing the impact of the pandemic and lockdowns in our daily life. You can still watch the full webinar and access the resources via our website if you think this may be helpful.
Keeping Well NCL is a wellbeing and mental health project that connects and supports the North Central London health and social care workforce during the Coronavirus outbreak.
