Working with Trauma: Help for the Helper - Part One

Working with Trauma: Help for the Helper - Part One

An overview of the trauma clinical and non-clinical healthcare staff face, how it might be affecting you and skills to aid your well-being.

By Notts Primary Care Training

Date and time

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

This is event is for staff working in Primary Care in Nottingham & Nottinghamshire

Aim of this Event

  • To provide an overview of the psychological impact of trauma.
  • To recognise the impact of working with trauma on ‘helpers’.
  • To develop skills to respond to the potential for vicarious trauma in ‘helpers’.

Target Audience

All health care staff from clinicians to non clinical who have dealt with emotional situations / trauma.

Objectives

  • To have an understanding of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • To have an understanding of complex trauma.
  • To develop an awareness of what makes a service ‘trauma informed’.
  • To develop an awareness of how working with trauma can lead to a range of responses such as burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and secondary trauma in health workers.
  • To be introduced to some techniques which can be protective against vicarious trauma.
  • To be introduced to some skills which can support ‘helpers’ who are experiencing the impact of vicarious trauma.

Cancellation Policy

If you cancel with more than 5 working days' notice, there will be no charge. If you cancel within 5 working days and we cannot fill the space, then you/your organisation will still be charged. If you do not attend then you/your organisation will be charged.

If you are leaving your organisation or you have a member of staff due to leave and you/they are booked onto a chargeable course with us, it is the organisations responsibility to inform NATH of this. This is to ensure that you/they are removed from any chargeable course with more than 5 working days before the event date and therefore will not incur any costs. If you/they are removed within 5 working days of the chargeable course then the cost of the place will be chargeable to the organisation.

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Registration Deadline

  • 3rd September at 23.30
  • Please register with your nhs.net email where possible. If the event is oversubscribed, priority may be given to those who have registered with NHS addresses.
  • You will receive a certificate for your attendance. Please allow two weeks for this to be delivered to your inbox. We would advise checking your junk mail before contacting NATH for your certificate at alliance.hub1@nhs.net

The meeting will be broadcast on the MS Teams platform. We recommend participants log on via a computer or laptop for an optimal experience.

This event is planned because respondents to the Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub (NATH) Primary Care Training Needs Analysis (TNA) 2024/25 suggested the topic as a local training need.

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Sep 24 · 04:30 PDT