Managing Stress and Anxiety in School
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🎧 All those involved in safeguarding
📍 Online
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Course outline:
School medical centres are often a key point of contact for pupils experiencing stress and anxiety. Recognising when physical symptoms may be linked to emotional wellbeing is an important part of providing effective support.
This webinar will explore how medical centre staff can identify and respond to pupils experiencing mental health difficulties, provide appropriate early support and work collaboratively with pastoral and safeguarding colleagues.
Training topics will include:
- Recognising signs of stress and anxiety
- Understanding how emotional distress can present as physical symptoms
- Responding to pupils seeking support through the medical centre
- Knowing when and how to escalate concerns
- Working with pastoral, safeguarding and mental health teams
- Supporting pupils while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries
Learning outcomes:
Delegates will:
- Recognise common presentations of stress and anxiety
- Understand the relationship between physical and emotional wellbeing
- Develop confidence in responding to pupils experiencing distress
- Understand when concerns may require further intervention or referral
- Consider how the medical centre can contribute to a whole-school approach to pupil wellbeing
Speaker: Skyler Moulder, Senior Nurse Advisor
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.
