Health & Wellbeing Conference
🏷️ From 250
🎧 School nurses, health/medical centre leads, health/medical centre staff, pastoral leads, wellbeing leads
📍 In person – venue TBC
🎥 Watch live or on catch up
Course overview:
This will be the first in-person Health and Wellbeing Conference since HIEDA was established, marking a significant milestone in bringing together professionals dedicated to the care and development of young people. With a focus on nutrition, policy development, suicide prevention, and understandings of bereavement, the event offers expert-led sessions designed to provide both strategic insight and practical approaches to supporting young people in educational settings.
The conference will provide opportunities for knowledge exchange, interactive discussion, and reflective practice, ensuring that delegates leave with greater confidence and a refreshed toolkit for addressing emerging challenges in school communities.
Training Topics:
- Nutrition and student wellbeing
Exploring the link between diet, mental health, and behaviour in young people. Practical approaches for schools to encourage positive nutrition choices and reduce inequalities. - Self-harm and harmful behaviours: Policy development in schools
Guidance on shaping effective, sensitive, and evidence-informed school policies to respond to self-harm and harmful behaviours. - Suicide prevention in educational settings
Best practices for early identification, intervention, and support. Strategies to build resilience and strengthen protective factors within school communities. - Bereavement and grief in schools: The overlooked dimensions
Examining the often-unspoken aspects of grief, including the ripple effects on peers, staff, and family systems. Considerations for long-term support beyond immediate response.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the conference, participants will:
- Develop a stronger understanding of how nutrition influences physical health, emotional wellbeing, and learning outcomes in adolescents.
- Gain practical insight into designing and implementing policies addressing self-harm and harmful behaviours in schools.
- Build confidence in identifying risk factors for suicide and applying effective prevention strategies within school environments.
- Broaden their awareness of grief and bereavement impacts, including overlooked challenges, and learn approaches to provide holistic and sustained support.
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This event will be held jointly with:
Speaker:
Rosie McManus, Nurse Advisor, HIEDA
Trained at Great Ormond Street, Rosie made the move to the independent sector in 2006. With an MA in Medical Ethics and Law and the Specialist Community Pubic Health Nurse qualification her passion remains promoting the Healthy Child Programme, and promoting the visibility of school nurses in the independent sector.
