Hieda – Managing Chronic Medical Conditions in Education Settings

• Date: March 3, 2023 
• Time: 10:30 – 15:30 
• Cost: Hieda Full Member – £145, Non-member rate – £290
• Audience: Healthcare professionals, medical providers and those with a responsibility for caring for a young person with a chronic medical condition in an educational setting. 
• Platform: Zoom (online) – Seminar

Course outline

Young people with chronic medical conditions should have the opportunity to be cared for in the education setting. Education settings have a duty of care to provide support to enable those who have a chronic condition to have a safe and fulfilling experience. This course identifies conditions, updates on managements and support strategies for each. 

Training topics will include

• Crohns/IBS/Coeliac 
• Epilepsy 
• Chronic fatigue/glandular fever 
• Migraines 
• Hormone disorders

Learning outcomes

• Update knowledge on chronic medical conditions 
• Develop ideas and support strategies for young people coping with these conditions 
• To be able to create individualised healthcare plans

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Speakers: 

Jane Graham, Director, Hieda

Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has over 30 years of nursing background, Many of them in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilise and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation, all medical conditions, and trauma.

She went on to teach these skills to student nurses, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She has been a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe, an awarding body approved by the HSE. She is currently the director of Hieda and director of health and wellbeing for the BSA Group.

June Massey, Epilepsy Action 

June Massey’s association with Epilepsy Action began in 1993 after her son’s diagnosis of epilepsy. She has been a Trustee of the charity since 1998 and has used her experiences of being the mother of a young person with epilepsy and her 25 years as a specialist teacher to work with parents, educators and staff at Epilepsy Action to raise awareness of the impact of epilepsy on learning.

June has been invited to speak on this topic at CPD days in school, Further Education and Higher Education settings and conferences for specialist teachers and other epilepsy charities.

Una Farrell, Migraine Trust

Una is Head of Communications at The Migraine Trust, where she has worked for the last four years. She has worked in communications roles in a range of charities including Victim Support and Turn2Us.

Nicky Bright, ISI Education Quality, Boarding and Compliance inspector 

Before setting up Bright Lead, Nicky was Headmistress of Bruton School for Girls for eight years, Chair of the Girls’ Schools Association’s Professional Development committee and a GSA Council member. Leadership at Bruton was described as ‘dynamic and visionary’ by the Independent Schools Inspectorate.

With over 30 years teaching experience, supporting professional development has been a key passion in all her leadership roles and from 2013 to 2019 she was the GSA national Independent Schools Teacher Induction Panel representative, which has oversight of the induction and development of newly qualified teachers. Nicky’s more recent work within the computer games, security and recruitment industries continue this passion for ‘people development’ within the context of business strategy.

Nicky believes in the power of professional and personal development to create change and is committed to enabling leadership development and coaching for leaders, in a wide variety of industries. She wants to support individuals and organisations in their quest to develop people to maximise their potential and be their ‘best selves’. In education this creates transformational learning experiences for the young people we serve, engendering a life-long love of learning, creativity and curiosity in this rapidly changing world. This development work has a similar positive impact upon productivity and profitability in other industries, as well as making them better places in which to work, engendering loyalty and commitment.

Nicky has been an ISI Education Quality, Boarding and Compliance inspector since 2005, is a member of the Boarding Schools Association expert panel, and a Fellow of the RSA and of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2014, she took Bruton School for Girls from ‘good with some excellent features’ to ‘excellent’ in every category inspected and, as she left in 2020 after leading the school through the COVID remote learning period, the school was shortlisted for the Small Independent School of the Year Award. Prior to that, Nicky was Deputy Head of St Mary’s Calne, and Second Deputy at Putney High School.

Brenda Cheer, Paediatric Specialist Continence Nurse & ERIC Nurse

Brenda started her nursing career in London in 1983. After her general training Brenda specialised in children’s nursing, and over the years has worked with adults and children, in London and Cardiff in both hospital and community settings. Since 2002 she has focussed on paediatric continence, working as Paediatric Specialist Continence Nurse at the University Hospital of Wales until summer 2018.

Brenda currently works two days a week as ERIC Nurse, the first person to take on this role, originally funded by the Department of Health. She works a further day a week as Paediatric Continence Nurse for Shine: Spina Bifida, Hydrocephalus Information, Networking and Equality.

The ERIC Nurse post was created to seek ways to improve early intervention into childhood continence problems. Brenda strives to increase awareness of children’s bladder and bowel health, by designing easy-to-understand information for parents and providing training for health care professionals and early year’s workers. She has produced a generic Children’s Continence Pathway, which ERIC is promoting as a model of best practice. The ERIC Nurse project won a prestigious Nursing Times Award in 2016, and has stimulated articles in the nursing press. Brenda has re-written many of the ERIC leaflets, and is enjoying working at the heart of the charity she supports.

When she is not busy with her regular jobs, Brenda is much in demand as a freelance trainer and speaker. In her rare moments of spare time she enjoys the company of her three children and her husband John, a musician and music therapist.