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Training Available

The PSU delivers the following workshops and webinars to trainers and trainees. If you are interested in attending these, please visit our page on Eventbrite using the link or QR code below:

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Communication Skills & Strategies

1 hour webinar

 

Audience: Trainees

 

We are delighted to offer a one-hour online Communication Skills & Strategies clinic.

 

Description:

The Power of Effective Phrasing and Delivery.

Recognising and Using Idiomatic/Colloquial English and why it matters.

Saying ‘no’ effectively.

Voice attitude and Constructive Challenge.

Buzz Words for Appraisals and Interviews.

 

Aims & Objectives:

To look at and practice a range of everyday phrases that can enhance your interactions at work.

To explore phrases that can help to create your individual professional identity.

 

Delivered by Jo Hopkins, comms4Docs

https://comms4docs.com

 

GP Trainees:

 

  • Wednesday 07/09/2022 (14:00 - 15:00)

 

Hospital Trainees:

 

  • Monday 22/11/2022 (13:00 - 14:00)

 

Register via the QR code above

 

 

Supporting Trainees Through Training

2 hour webinar

 

Audience: Faculty

 

Description:

Interactive workshop approved by RCP and suitable for all faculty members and senior trainees involved in supervising medical or dental trainees. The workshop focuses on recognising and managing issues that may affect trainees’ progress.

Participants explore signs and triggers of support issues, learn pathways of referrals, and discuss techniques of supervising trainees with various support needs.

 

Aims and Objectives:

  • Describe issues that may have significant impact on training progression
  • Develop skills in understanding support issues and recognise triggers related to work performance
  • Develop skills in effective supervision of trainees with support needs
  • Develop skills in constructing specific educational plans with reasonable identifiable objectives and outcomes needed for satisfactory progression
  • Knowledge of how to support a trainee with ill health or disability in the workplace
  • Identify where to find information and resources
  • Role of Professional Support Lead and their responsibilities within the Specialty School
  • Increase networks and potentially create a community of support within Wales

 

Dates:

Please contact heiw.professionalsupport@wales.nhs.uk If you’d like us to deliver a session

 

Booking Information:

The PSU will also deliver this workshop by request from Postgraduate Centres or Specialties. To book please contact PSU on HEIW.ProfessionalSupport@wales.nhs.uk

 

Mentor and Mentee Training – Getting the Most out of Mentoring

Two 1 Hour Webinars

 

Audience: Faculty and Trainees

 

Description:

2 Part webinar or one face to face workshop.

Possible to run on separate days or together.

 

Aims and Objectives:

Part 1

•             Concepts of mentoring

•             Topics for mentoring in a healthcare setting

•             Mentor and mentee relationships, behaviours and responsibilities to each other

Part 2

•             Mentoring skills and tools

•             Core skills that both mentors and mentees should be familiar with.  Focus on tools for achieving goals such as setting the SMART objectives, using the GROW model and Johari Relationship Window to maximise successful outcome

 

Dates:

Please contact heiw.professionalsupport@wales.nhs.uk If you’d like us to deliver a session

 

Booking Information:

The PSU will also deliver this workshop by request from Postgraduate Centres or Specialties.        To book please contact PSU on HEIW.ProfessionalSupport@wales.nhs.uk

 

Active Bystander Training

2 Hour Webinar

 

Audience: Faculty and Trainees

 

Description:

Webinar or face to face teaching which considers why we need active bystanders, who they are and what they do.

Be an ally – learn how you can become an active bystander.

 

Aims and Objectives:

  • What does it mean to be an Active Bystander?
  • Difference between noticing behaviour and doing something about it
  • Barriers to intervention
  • How to intervene safely

 

Dates:

Wednesday 30/11/2022 at 7pm

Wednesday 19/04/2023 at 7pm

 

Register via the QR code above

 

Crucial Conversations

1 hour Webinar

 

Audience: Faculty and Trainees

 

Description:

Webinar or face to face teaching where we consider feedback conversations, and why they're crucial before moving on to the format and technique for success

 

Aims and Objectives:

  • An exploration of how crucial conversations are defined
  • Why feedback is important
  • Why we worry about feedback and the skills in receiving feedback.

 

Dates:

Tuesday 24/01/2023 at 7pm

Wednesday 21/06/2023 at 7pm

 

Register via the QR Code above

 

Minimising Imposter Syndrome

1 hour Webinar

 

Audience: Trainees

 

Description:

Imposter syndrome is the feeling of being a fraud, despite evidence to the contrary.

This webinar is aimed at anyone who identifies with impostor syndrome or who would like to understand more to support others.

 

Aims and Objectives:

  • Recognise signs of Imposter syndrome
  • Effects of Imposter syndrome
  • Risks Imposter syndrome
  • Steps to manage and overcome symptoms

 

Dates:

Wednesday 07/12/2022 at 7pm

Monday 06/02/2023 at 1pm

Wednesday 03/05/2023 at 1pm

Tuesday 18/07/2023 at 7pm

 

Register via the QR code above

 

PSU Service – An Introduction (for inductions & a reminder of support available)

10 – 30 minutes (tailored to need)

 

Audience: Faculty & Trainees

 

Description:

Webinar or Face to Face when possible

 

Aims and Objectives:

  • An overview of the PSU service
  • What to expect
  • How to contact us

 

Booking Information:

The PSU will deliver this workshop by request from Postgraduate Centres or Specialties. To book please contact PSU on HEIW.ProfessionalSupport@wales.nhs.uk

 

Maintaining your Strength & Wellbeing

1.5 hour Webinar

 

Audience: Trainees

 

Description:

An overview of the PSU team and service, observations on Certainty vs. Uncertainty and the 3 Step approach to dealing with Challenges.

 

Aims and Objectives:

Focusing on Tools and Resources to maintain and improve wellbeing including: ‘Reframing’ to recognise and appreciate positive aspects of situations, noticing energy levels by using an ‘Energy Log’ / keeping an energy ‘credit balance’ and a mindful breathing exercise to create opportunities for calm.

 

Dates:

Monday 16/01/2023 at 1pm

 

Register via the QR code above