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Promoting Staff Wellbeing
- This session is aimed at supporting school staff to identify ways to maintain their own wellbeing and develop their personal resilience
Working with children can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience, however, meeting the complex demands of school staff who teach and support cyp can be emotional and stressful at times. Attendees will have the opportunity to think about the barriers and facilitators to managing stress within school settings and will be able to identify and share helpful strategies with colleagues.
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Heidi Mcdermott, Educational Psychology Service, Rochdale BC
Dr Heidi McDermott, Senior Educational Psychologist
I qualified as an Educational Psychologist in 2014. Before that I worked as a primary school teacher and a specialist teacher with children and young people with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs. As a senior Educational Psychologist, I carry out regular supervision with trainees and colleagues. I have strong beliefs about inclusion and social justice, I am very interested in SEMH, attachment, trauma and therapeutic approaches. My thesis was around the use of assessments with children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). I like to use dynamic assessment to understand what helps children and young people to learn and am always using and developing ways to make sure their voices are heard.
Hopwood Hall College
Free parking is available onsite - just press the buzzer at the barrier and say you're here for a REAL Trust event.
How to get here
By Road: The Rochdale campus is 2.6 miles from junction 20 off the M62. Follow the signs for Rochdale town centre
By Rail: Rochdale train station is a ten minute walk from the Rochdale Campus through the town centre. It is also a Metrolink station, Manchester’s light railway system, which links Rochdale with Oldham, Bury and Manchester City Centre.
By Bus: The Rochdale bus station is approximately 5 minutes’ walk from the Rochdale campus. There are frequent bus services throughout the borough which terminate in Rochdale.