Restoration & Recovery

About This Event

This masterclass is part of our restoration and recovery theme as we learn to live with Covid. The focus of the masterclass is to invest in the leadership role of participants: to support their own and their team’s mental health addressing issues that they face at work and enabling them to continue to engage with the mental health needs of their communities.

On a population-wide basis, the negative mental health effects of the pandemic are likely to last much longer than its physical health impacts. The effects of physical distancing, social isolation, and lockdown on individual mental wellbeing, as well as the loss of a loved one, increase the mental health challenges for the UK population. This event will enable you to pay attention to your own and your team’s mental health needs and to better engage with the mental health needs of the communities you work with. Mental health is largely determined by social determinants like poverty and discrimination, environmental factors like housing andgreen space and personal aspects including physical health and substance misuse.

The masterclass will explore how organisations and practitioners can improve these determinants as well as investing in their own and their team’s mental health as they do it.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the masterclass you will:

• Have the time to consider your own health and wellbeing needs
• Explore the health and wellbeing needs of your teams
• Consider the mental health needs of the communities you serve
• Explore how you can improve these determinants of health as we emerge from grip of the pandemic

About the Speakers

Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden

Senior registrar in Intensive Care Medicine and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine .

An intensive care doctor and freelance author. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Independent and Metro. She also hosts an online blog. Dr Batt-Rawden is the immediate past president of The Doctors' Association UK.

Councillor Ed Davie MPH - Policy and Public Affairs Lead, Centre for Mental Health

Ed has worked for over a decade as a senior councillor and professionally for the British Medical Association, Mental Health Foundation and the Royal College of Pathologists. Currently the Lambeth Council Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, having held the Health and Adult Social Care portfolio, Ed was a Local Government Innovation Unit award-winning scrutiny chair.

Joining the masterclass

Joining instructions will be sent 48 hours before the masterclass is about to start.

You can join Zoom via your laptop, tablet or smartphone. If you are joining by smartphone, you will need to download the free Zoom app first. You can join Zoom by telephone only but you will only be able to hear the audio (similar to a telephone conference call).

About the Collaborative

We are an influential partnership, formed from cross sector organisations in the North West. We represent the NHS, health and social care and local government to bring you a range of collaborative masterclasses.

By combining our unique specialisms, the collaboration explores innovative thinking with expert speakers, to provide cross sector knowledge sharing for leaders across the North West.

The collaborative is made up of the following organisations:

• Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA),
• Mersey Internal Audit Agency (MIAA)
• NHS North West Leadership Academy (NHS NWLA)
• North West Employers (NWE)
• North West Association of Directors of Adults Social Care Services (ADASS)
• Innovation Agency Coaching Academy