World Mental Health Day – Lived Experience in Education
To celebrate World Mental Health Day, our Buddy Scheme volunteers joined the Digital Education team and training leads for a 'Dragons' Den'-style lived experience away day.
Colleagues representing nursing and AHP students, preceptees, mandatory training, organisational development, digital education and apprenticeships spoke about their area of work and shared ideas about how they can work with our lived experience ambassadors to enrich our training offer with learning from lived experience.
Plans are already being made to take forward ideas and suggestions from the day, including educational videos with the Organisational Development team and 360-degree immersive scenarios and AI-driven 'virtual humans' with the Digital Education team.
One of our lived experience ambassadors who is a carer said: "This was a really interesting day. So much training goes on across the Trust and we're looking forward to getting involved."
Gemma Wood, Mandatory Training Manager, said: "Understanding the patient perspective and hearing their experience can enhance the training we deliver, in particular TASI training. This was such a great day
for ensuring we can continue our work with lived experience ambassadors."
Christine Cantello, Lived Experience Education Lead, said: "It was great to celebrate World Mental Health Day with our amazing Buddy Scheme volunteers and EPUT colleagues, sharing ideas for how we can work together to embed lived experience in training and education across the Trust."
AHP Workbook Review Day
Co-production is at the heart of the Buddy Scheme, and in June we were able to join together to review the AHP workbook, utilising the considerable knowledge & perspective of our team in doing so, to aid future staff by asking less 'clinically-minded' questions.
Our thanks to everyone involved in the process. Our new AHP workbook is almost ready for use!
CAHPO Conference
We were excited to be asked to present at the Chief Allied Health Professional Officer national conference in June 2022. One of our team, Carolyn, presented alongside one of our AHP colleagues and Buddy Scheme coordinator, Heidi Cox. Their presentation was amazing, with comments all over social media and the conference chat ‘room’ lighting up with comments from those in attendance praising the scheme and wanting to find out more. We’ve been told it was the most talked about element of the conference!
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Celebration Event
On 7 September 2022 we were finally able to come back together again, reconnect with friends and celebrate some of the teams recent achievements. It was great to see lots of the team, catch up, share stories, join in with the usual banter and share lunch together. We heard from Sarah Sprackling, AHP lead for MH & LD, who talked about the positive impact the scheme has on AHP students. And we were joined by Natalie Hammond, Executive Nurse, for the certificate presentation and a lot of laughing! Not to mention the cakes, courtesy of Carolyn… yum…
More photos will be available soon, watch this space!