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Hieda – Supporting someone with cancer in the workplace
- Date: February 23, 2022
- Time: 09:30 – 12:30
- Cost: Hieda Full Member – £100, Non-member – £200
- Audience: Healthcare professionals, Pastoral teams, medical providers and those with a responsibility for caring for a young person with a cancer in a workplace.
- Platform: Zoom (online) – This training will be recorded
In any environment, work or school, you may not always feel confident to know how best to support someone with cancer. There are challenging times during diagnoses, treatment, the point of return to work and after cancer; this course reflects on this journey.
Training topics will include
- What can I do about work and cancer?
- What roles do employers play in cancer support
- Adjusting the routine to support their health
- My Cancer Story.
Learning outcomes
- To understand the journey of the cancer sufferer
- To identify support strategies available for someone returning to work
- To gain an understand of medical provisions in the workplace.
Programme
09:30 – 09:35 Welcome and introduction to the day
09:35 – 10:20 The practicalities of managing Cancer in the workplace
Jane Graham, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Hieda and BSA Group
10:20 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:30 Psychological support for the patient and workplace community: emotional support for peers and behaviour around the individual
Erika Crossley, School Counsellor and School Nurse, BBIS Berlin Brandenburg International School
11:30 – 11:35 Five-minute break
11:35 – 12:30 My journey with Cancer in the school setting: practical tools to support
William Goldsmith, Headmaster, St George’s School Windsor Castle
12:30 Close
Speaker: Jane Graham, Director, Hieda
Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has 31 years of nursing background; 17 of which is 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 stabilize 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.