A practical, half day masterclass designed to help you to improve staff mental health and wellbeing.
“School leaders’ pay has been cut by 15% in real terms since 2010, and this, in combination with high stakes accountability, crushing workload, long hours, and inadequate school funding, is driving leaders from the job they love.”
Paul Whiteman, NAHT General Secretary
The 2021 Teacher Wellbeing Index reported that 77% of education staff reported feeling stressed at work, with a huge 42% saying that their organisation’s culture was having a negative impact on their wellbeing. With continued reports of the retention and recruitment crisis worsening, its critical that you can take steps to prioritise staff wellbeing and mental health.
This half day Masterclass has been designed to give you the knowledge, resources, and tools you need to do just that. You’ll come away feeling empowered to make changes to improve your whole school culture, support staff as individual challenges arise and work strategically to improve wellbeing across your school.
You will also come away with a clearer understand of your legal obligations when situations of mental illhealth arise, to ensure that you are responding in a lawful manner.
Who Should Attend
Headteachers, Deputy Heads, Assistant Heads, School Business Managers, Heads of Year and other members of the SLT should attend.
Key Learning Objectives
This masterclass will enable you to:
Understand your legal responsibilities when it comes to staff wellbeing and mental health to ensure you are taking the right steps to support them
Be able to make reasonable adjustments where necessary to support smooth returns to work
Understand how boosting staff wellbeing can improve staff retention rates
Improve your organisation’s culture to ensure you are developing positive working practices
Develop a bank of resources and activities to support staff mental health
Identify and support staff who are struggling with their mental health
Offer positive support to staff who may be on absence due to their mental health or wellbeing
Have more informative conversations to ensure your staff feel heard
Signpost your staff to external support where needed
Work strategically with your team to tackle the staff wellbeing crisis
Facilitator
Sam is a renowned speaker, trainer and author specialising in mental health and SEN. She has been a SENCo in a large secondary school and is a qualified Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and a Child and Adolescent Counsellor. Sam also set up a company providing mental health CBT programmes for schools. She is in high demand to speak at conferences and events and provides in-house training for schools and companies, nationally and internationally. Lauded for her humour and ‘telling it like it is’ approach to mental health, Sam has had her book Mental Health in Education published by Routledge, and regularly writes for several publications with more books in the pipeline for publication.
