Date: Tuesday 12th November 2024

Time: 10:am - 12:00pm

This PPN-SE session will focuses on Psychologically Informed Crisis Care and was the launch of the guidance developed by our PPN SE Crisis Care Leadership Fellows.

Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs) sit in a pivotal place in the urgent care pathway. They act as gatekeepers for acute inpatient beds, facilitate early hospital discharge and provide person centred interventions in a home environment. Many people accessing these services have experienced trauma and are dealing with current distress. It is crucial that CRHTTs are set up to offer compassionate evidence-based care and avoid traumatisation. 

At the beginning of the year the PPN-SE secured funding to look into how these teams could work in a psychologically informed way, and the outcomes which may follow from this. The remit of the work was to produce a paper and set up a community of practice in the South East of England around crisis team work. 

The paper is now complete, and recommends a psychologically informed model which is focussed on these teams, but is also generalisable to other mental health teams. The paper also acts as a toolkit for a variety of mental health professionals who want to think about teams in a psychologically informed way, and how to change cultures. The voice of the service user was key in this work, and aligns with the principles and factors proposed.

A Psychologically Informed Crisis Care Best Practice Guidance report is available on the PPN-SE Website in Resources-Publications. 

We will upload the recorded session which discusses this document on 6/01/2025. 

Time: 09:30 - 11:00

An insightful online session as part of Psychological Professions Week 2023 which features people with lived experience, and insight from psychological professionals. We will begin by hearing from people from the LGBTQIA+ communities and their experiences of healthcare, positive and negative.

During the session there will also be a recorded interview with Dr Jamie Willo. Dr Jamie Willo is the LGBTQ+ gender identity awareness and inclusion training lead for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. They will discuss their journey to developing and facilitating LGBTQ+ and Gender Identity awareness training and their views on how to foster an environment of positive and safe healthcare for people from the LGBTQIA+ communities.

Lastly, Professor Allàn Laville, Dean for Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Reading, will, in his session, explore what Psychological Professions can do to support the healthcare of LGBTQIA+ communities. Professor Allàn Laville has been the author of several publications including exploring the importance of awareness and understanding for the LGBT+ communities in clinical practice and exploring LGBT mental health and recommendations in clinical practice. He also won the 2019 Reading Student Union Award for Diverse and Inclusive Teaching Excellence.

Chair:

• Dr Bill Tiplady (PPN-SE Co-chair)

Speakers:

• Dr Jamie Willo
• Dr Allàn Laville

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Watch this session to hear from Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Education Mental Health Practitioners and Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners who tell their stories and their different entry routes including non-degree backgrounds. Also hear from supervisors and workplaces about impact and value of these roles.

Chair:

• Dr Bill Tiplady, Co-Chair, PPN South East

Speakers:

• Millie Boon, Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Sam Henson, Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Karen Veri, Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner Programme Learning and Development Lead, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Freya Waller, Education Mental Health Practitioner, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Lauren Easson, Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
• Sabahat Malik, Educational Mental Health Practitioner, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust"

EMBARGOED

For release 12^th November 2024

September 2024 FINAL

Keynote Speech by Byron Lee at the Inaugural Conference - 'Leading with Compassion: Putting Collective and Inclusive Leadership at the Heart of Policy and Practice.'

A summary video of the launch conference for the Psychological Professions Network: Kent, Surrey & Sussex.

We will begin by hearing from people from the LGBTQIA+ communities and their experiences of healthcare, positive and negative. During the session there will also be a recorded interview with Dr Jamie Willo. Dr Jamie Willo is the LGBTQ+ gender identity awareness and inclusion training lead for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. They will discuss their journey to developing and facilitating LGBTQ+ and Gender Identity awareness training and their views on how to foster an environment of positive and safe healthcare for people from the LGBTQIA+ communities.

Lastly, Professor Allàn Laville, Dean for Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Reading, will, in his session, explore what Psychological Professions can do to support the healthcare of LGBTQIA+ communities. Professor Allàn Laville has been the author of several publications including exploring the importance of awareness and understanding for the LGBT+ communities in clinical practice and exploring LGBT mental health and recommendations in clinical practice. He also won the 2019 Reading Student Union Award for Diverse and Inclusive Teaching Excellence. 

Chair: Dr Bill Tiplady (PPN-SE Co-chair).

Speakers: Dr Jamie Willo and Dr Allàn Laville.

This seminar includes talks from professionals in the field, as well as space for discussion on this important topic.

The event features: - Ryan Kemp (British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical Psychology Executive Climate and Environmental Champion) providing an overview of the organisational and systems level change that is already taking place within the psychological professions, and the ways that professionals can support this.

Mayya Gimalova (Trainee Counselling Psychologist) providing an overview of the emotional responses to climate change and suggestions for working with climate change in a clinical setting.

Michéal Connors (Natural Academy) providing an introduction to ecopsychology and nature based practice within the NHS.

To hear about future events, you can join the Psychological Professions Network using this link: https://www.ppn.nhs.uk/membership/register Membership is open to everyone, and it is free to join.

October 2022

Dr Ononaiye talked to PPN South East members about ongoing work to address barriers to inclusion whilst also reflecting on her own experiences as a Black Woman in an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Leadership position.