Hieda – Suicide awareness

Name: Hieda – Suicide awareness
Start: 2025-01-13T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-13T15:30:00+00:00
Location: Online – Zoom

13 January 2025 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Date: January 13, 2025
Time: 10:30 – 15:30
Cost: HIEDA Member Rate: £175, Non-member Rate: £350*
Audience: School Nurses, Matrons, Pastoral Staff, Houseparents
Platform: Zoom (online) – seminar

Course Outline Suicide is a coping strategy for severe mental illness that is challenging to manage. Following the pandemic, awareness around suicide has increased and more provision is now in place to support those struggling. This seminar aims to address suicide, explore preventative measures and identify the supportive strategies which can be implemented to help those we feel are at risk. Training topics will include:

What is suicide
What does suicide support look like
Resources and Strategies to support
Documentation and the process in the workplace.

Learning outcomes:

To understand and be knowledgeable about suicide
To be knowledgeable of how to support a young person or team member
To be able to advice and support others within the guidance.

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Speaker: Lisa Thomson, Charlie Waller Trust Lisa has had a long career in a variety of Mental Health settings within the NHS. She originally trained as a Mental Health Nurse in 1990 and subsequently worked in inpatient and community settings with adults, children, young people and their families. She completed a Masters in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and a post graduate diploma in Evidence Based Practice leading to qualifying as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist. Most of her career has been spent working directly with children, young people and families in NHS CAMHS and she now works part time in independent clinical practice. In addition, she works as a freelance trainer for the Charlie Waller Trust delivering training on Mental Health Issues to schools, primary care and a wide variety of organisations working with children and young people. As part of a nonprofit organisation called Brighter Futures Together, she trains NHS CAMHS clinicians to deliver evidence based training to the children’s workforce across the Thames Valley and the South of England.