CPD and support for care home and VCSE staff

If you are the employee of a care home or in the voluntary, community or social enterprise sector in City & Hackney, you and your team are eligible for free support. There are several options: 

Team training (group of up to 15 people): 
Covid-19 Trauma Training – Peer Supporters 

Half day session, including comfort breaks

Part 1: Covid-19 experience, triggers, effects, trauma
Part 2: Wellbeing, Resilience and Support 

Mental Health at Work – Skills Training for Managers 

4 sessions of 2 hours per session, including comfort breaks 

Session 1: Managing Mental Health at Work
Session 2: Stress Management
Session 3: Resilience and Burnout
Session 4: Reflective Session 

Suicide Awareness Webinar: 

2 hour webinar 

Learn practical skills to improve confidence to provide support to someone who is feeling  suicidal. Highlights the importance of listening, offers basic do’s and don’ts, and creates a  rare and valuable opportunity to talk openly about suicide 

Therapeutic and Reflective Groups: 

Team reflective supervision (group of up to 6 people):   6 two hour sessions every fortnight. Reflective practice can increase our resilience, skillset and sense of workplace support. This is an open and supportive space to recognise the impact your work has on you. It aims to help you with new ways forward with colleagues and/or clients. A therapist will facilitate the session. 

Radical Self Care (group of up to 15 people):  8 two hour weekly sessions designed to  support us with the possibility of becoming more accepting, caring and reassuring in our  relationship to ourselves when life feels challenging. The theoretical underpinnings are  evidence-based approaches such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness Based Stress  Reduction and Compassion Focused Therapy.  

The content will support understanding of difficult emotions, for example anger and shame, and  supports participants in managing difficult emotions in more helpful ways. The course supports  understanding and enhancing emotion regulation through psychological education and  experientially through practices and reflections. The course will utilise psychological education,  mindfulness and compassion practices, exercises and reflections.  

Counselling (individual): 

1:1 Talking Therapy: up to 12 sessions of confidential counselling. You will have an initial assessment  to understand more about your needs and aims for therapy and depending on suitability will  be matched with a counsellor.