Online Course | PWP National Networking Forum 2024

Online Course

Wed 24 Apr 2024

This exciting and interactive training conference provided the opportunity to gain practical insight into how to deliver clinically informed interventions when approaching complexity. Attendees raised their confidence in working with menopause and looked at how to improve outcomes for patients experiencing anxiety. Fellow PWPs reignited existing relationships and built new connections with others who are experiencing the same pressures. The day included thought-provoking discussions, motivational talks to help drive forward practices and innovative strategies to overcome common challenges.

With thanks to our industry partner:

Key learning outcomes

Participants become part of a wider network of professionals and entered into discussions about how to deliver the best possible care at Step 2. Attendees heard from other services on how to overcome common difficulties and explore new areas of development, plus:

Effective approaches for assessing complexity at Step 2
Developing your best practice assessment tools for working with menopause
Sustaining your wellbeing and creating support mechanisms to prevent burnout
Learn from first hand experiences of professional development
Proven examples to support you manage your workload, maximise supervision and reduce burnout
Exploring practical strategies to limit overtime in clinical work and admin-based data inputting

With thanks to our industry partner

SBK Healthcare would like to thank Limbic for sponsoring this unique forum.

9:00	Join, tech support and opportunity to network in your breakout room
9:30	Chair's opening remarks: The professional body of Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners Exploring career development opportunities for 2024: how can we empower our workforce? Dr Sarah Watts, Clinical Director, NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Talking Therapies Service
Career development for 2024
9:40	Enabling the role of senior PWPs to support career progression and promote best practice Career PWPs: Making the role of the senior PWP recognised and meaningful Developing the role of senior PWPs: balancing responsibilities and service target expectations Practical strategies to limit overtime in clinical work and admin-based data inputting Sophie Strange, Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, NHS Somerset Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression
10:20	Activating professional growth: Wellbeing, retention and career development How we can diversify further clinical training opportunities for PWPs Preventing burnout, tools to support your workforce and empower PWPs Practical skills we can put into place to support PWP wellbeing and open new opportunities Sian Sinnott, Step 2 Clinical Lead, WithYou - Surrey
11:00	Supporting Therapists: How AI Can Help You Become More Fulfilled, Effective, and Efficient in Your Day-to-Day Jessica Li, Customer Success / Programme Delivery Manager, Limbic
11:05	Questions and answers with your speakers
11:15	Screen break
Building wellbeing and resilience
11:25	Sustaining your wellbeing and creating support mechanisms to prevent burnout Methods to reduce emotional ‘triggering’ and creating personal emotional boundaries Utilising your supervision: the benefits of line management, case management and clinical skill time How to maximise all available support to promote your personal wellbeing Elizabeth Gray, Co-chair, National PWP Leads Network
12:05	Questions and answers with your speakers
12:15	Interactive discussion: Evaluating the lasting impact of preceptorships and champion roles Do you have any experiences of preceptorships? Have you been a PWP Champion? What impact did it have on your role? What would you hope that it would enable? How do you picture professional growth to look like? What key factors do you consider as an enabler?
12:35	Interactive feedback: Evaluating the lasting impact of preceptorships and champion roles
12:45	Lunchtime break
Advancing assessment skills
1:20	Making appropriate and effective assessments for complex presentations Understanding complexity and learning how to recognise presentations in your assessments Tools to decipher complexity presenting during your assessments against historic complexity Understanding the suitability of complexity at Step 2 Richard Stott, Doctor of Clinical Psychiatry, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
2:00	Questions and answers with your speakers
2:10	Interactive discussion: What are your experiences of working with complexity? What are the challenges that you face when you work with patients with complex needs? How do you recognise complexity? What assessment tools do you use to help inform your practice?
2:30	Discussion feedback: What are your experiences of working with complexity?
2:40	Screen break
Adapting assessment skills for menopause
2:50	Improving assessment skills for patients with menopause symptoms Recognising common symptoms of the menopause to support your assessments How to conduct effective conversations with patients about the menopause Understanding practical adaptations to support patients living with the menopause Sally Tribe, Lecturer in Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, University of East Anglia and Sarah Fairweather, Child and Adult Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Fairweather Therapy
3:30	Questions and answers with your speakers
3:40	Closing remarks
3:50	Close of conference

Dr Sarah Watts

Clinical Director

NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Talking Therapies Service

Sophie Strange

Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

NHS Somerset Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression

Sian Sinnott

Step 2 Clinical Lead

WithYou - Surrey

Elizabeth Gray

Co-chair

National PWP Leads Network

Biography

Richard Stott

Doctor of Clinical Psychiatry

King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience

Sally Tribe

Lecturer in Evidence Based Psychological Therapies

University of East Anglia

Sarah Fairweather

Child and Adult Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

Fairweather Therapy

Jessica Li

Customer Success / Programme Delivery Manager

Limbic

Biography

Dedicated learning and networking

We were joined by the likes of PWPs, Clinical Leads, Clinical Services Managers, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to gain a national overview for developing services and to build new connections with likeminded professionals.

Past attendee feedback

We having been delivering successful PWP events both online and in-person for many years now and have received excellent feedback. But don’t take our word for it, take a look at how attendees have described our events:

"It's been incredibly interesting to gain insight into how other services work and what they can offer to diversify the PWP role"

- Everyturn (NHS Nottinghamshire Talking Therapies), PWP National Networking Forum 2024

"Lovely to mix with services in each corner of the country and to hear suggestions for improving our working"

- Steps 2 Wellbeing - Dorset healthcare, PWP National Networking Forum 2024

"Very useful and recommended"

- NHS Talking Therapies Isle of Wight, PWP National Networking Forum 2024

"The presentations were really insightful and interesting. It was great to build my knowledge base"

- Barnsley Talking Therapies, PWP National Networking Forum 2024

"Very inspiring, great to have some time just to think about career direction, and not just about getting through the day and a long list of appointments"

- Nottingham Talking Therapies, PWP National Networking Forum 2024

"Professionally presented, well organised and interesting discussions/topics"

- NHS Talking Therapies Isle of Wight NHS Trust, PWP National Networking Forum 2024

"Really useful topics covered, great speakers who shared a lot of passion and insight"

- Blackpool Talking Therapies, PWP National Networking Forum 2024

"Great day talking about some of the hot topics"

- Steps 2 Wellbeing, PWP National Networking Forum 2024

"Well presented and informative forum providing lots of opportunity for reflection on the poignant parts of the PWP role"

- Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Talking Therapies Service, PWP Professional Development Forum 2023

"Really inspiring for PWPs to hear about the passion and possibilities in the role"

- Greenwich Time to Talk - NHS Talking Therapies, PWP Professional Development Forum 2023

"I found it really inspiring and it has made me feel more positive and empowered about my role as a PWP, and how as a SPWP I can pass these messages onto other PWPs"

- Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service, PWP Professional Development Forum 2023

"Really great event, so interesting, so much to take away and think about"

- Bedfordshire Talking Therapies, PWP Professional Development Forum 2023

"It was incredibly valuable to share, and witness my colleague present on, my experience as a Step 2 Clinical Lead and also hear from other leaders in services about what we can do to develop the PWP role"

- We Are With You, PWP Professional Development Forum 2023

"Really knowledgeable"

- Pennine Care NHS Talking Therapies, PWP Professional Development Forum 2023

With thanks to Limbic for sponsoring this forum

Limbic is the first UKCA-marked clinical assessment support tool for IAPT. Across 21 services, Limbic consistently frees up staff time, reduces costs, and improves patient experience and accessibility. Find out more from our founder, Dr Ross Harper on ross@limbic.ai.

Why sponsor a Talking Therapies National Networking Forum

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing diabetes delivery forums offering dedicated presentation, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be full immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact:
Sarah Kemm
Contact: 01732 897788
Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk