Managing Mental Health in School

🏷️ £175-350
📍 Online

Course outline: 

This seminar offers a comprehensive and practical overview of managing mental health in schools, bringing together medical and pastoral expertise to support a whole-school approach. Through a blend of clinical oversight and wellbeing strategy, this training aims to equip practitioners to confidently recognise, respond to and support pupils experiencing mental health challenges. 

This course is suitable for those in boarding and day schools and encouraged a joined-up approach across pastoral, health and safeguarding teams. 

Training topics will include: 

• Pastoral perspective – strategic, whole-school approaches to mental health, mentally healthy school culture and inclusive practice
• Clinical perspectives – mental health assessments
• Pastoral perspective – Pastoral support, whole-school risk assessment
• Clinical perspectives – communication, referrals, engagement with the wider support framework and low-level interventions nurses can offer.

Learning outcomes: 

• Confidence to recognise, respond to and support mental health challenges 
• Understand the roles of different practitioners/departments in managing pupil mental health 
• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively across departments to support pupils. 

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Speakers:

M Jolly, Director of Wellbeing and Inclusion, Charter House School

M Jolly is the director of wellbeing and inclusion and senior leader at Charter House school. She is also a qualified therapist and clinical Supervisor. She has worked in schools with young people for over ten years and is creating real change within her school. M Jolly, harnesses student voice to bring awareness to the school community and beyond about important issues. The EDI vision between 2021-2023 has placed emphasis on allyship and anti-discrimination, culminating in pupil-led Charters for Anti-Racism, Anti-Sexism, LGBTQ+ and Anti-Bullying. Her school were recently awarded The Rainbow Flag Award, in recognition of their pro-active and whole School approach to the positive inclusion and visibility of LGBT+ people.

Skyler Moulder, Lead Nurse, The Leys School and Senior Nurse Advisor, HIEDA

Skyler did her Adult Nursing BSc at Kings College London in 2011 and went straight into community nursing. After the birth of her first son she stumbled into community school nursing and never looked back. During her time as a community school nurse she covered primary and secondary schools all across Cambridgeshire. She completed training such as the CAMHS foundation module, Sexual Health and Contraception module and was trained in Safeguarding Children Level 3. She completed her PG Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing in 2016 when she was pregnant with her second son, which she later topped up to a full MSc in 2023 when she was pregnant with her daughter! This also included qualifying as a Nurse Prescriber. Skyler co-lead the development of a 0-19 Duty Desk and the introduction of the Chathealth text service in Cambridgeshire Community Services. In 2019 she became a Team Manager for the CCS Healthy Child Programme – managing a team of Nursery Nurses, Health Visitors and School Nurses during the pandemic. In 2020 she was recruited to be the Lead Nurse at The Leys in Cambridge, to lead a team covering 24 hour care for around 575 pupils (over half of which are boarders). This is where she is now and where her passion for independent school nursing started.