Couple Conflict & Coping Training – “Relationship Champions” needed!

We are part of an exciting partnership project (with One Plus One and Best Beginnings) funded by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). With our partners we are creating an exciting new evidence-based digital programme which aims to give disadvantaged children the best start in life.

The programme is aimed at helping parents understand the impact of conflict on their babies, learn to cope with life’s stresses and improve communication within their relationships. The stress associated with the transition to parenthood can trigger a significant decline in relationship quality and increase low-level conflict at home. We know that this work fits with the agenda of many Local Authorities and this high-profile national project is a great opportunity for health visitors to further develop their therapeutic working skills alongside parents.

WE NEED YOU!

The programme is being run on a “test-learn-evaluate” strategy adapting an existing module. This is trialling a blended approach where parents will have access to a digital programme guided by health visitors across 3 sessions to maximise impact.

We are offering limited places for health visitors* to train with us as “Relationship Champions”, to be able to use this digital intervention with families in this guided method and share it onwards with their colleagues also. We have already confirmed a number of places but are looking to fill gaps in some areas, e.g. we have places remaining in the North of England currently. Note: we are working to DWP guidance on areas to prioritise in England.

*previous applicants need not apply.

SCHEDULE:

September 2019 – First training day – one day training in Leeds (17.9.19) or London (18.9.19)
Testing by participants with 3 families. Planning a date for cascade training in November 2019.
November 2019 – Second training day – one day training in Leeds (4.11.19) or London (7.11.19)
Following the second event, participants will begin cascading the training to 10 colleagues who will then also test with 3 families each.

Note:

The participant and their colleagues trained will be asked to provide data on the effectiveness of the innovative digital programme as feedback for the DWP project.
Support will be offered by iHV throughout the programme.

DON’T MISS OUT!

This is non-recurring funding, so it is a one-off offer of training as part of this wider programme with limited places available.

For more information and discussions about areas of priority please contact: [email protected] or 07539 117775.

How to apply

If you are interested in picking up a place on this interesting and innovative programme please:

complete an expression of interest form,
discuss with your line manager and ask for their signature
return the completed form to: [email protected]
*previous applicants need not apply.

Expressions of interest applications will close Friday 12 July 2019 – so don’t delay!

New dates – Multi-Agency PIMH Champions Training for individuals

New training date: 10 and 11 July 2019

Location: London

Following previous sell out events, we are offering a further rare opportunity to access a place to train as a Multi-Agency iHV Champion for Perinatal & Infant Mental Health via our highly acclaimed integrated programme.

The programme is an accredited 2 day course which will cover a wide and updated programme content supported by contemporaneous evidence and policy underpinning practice.

This training has been specifically designed to support an onward cascade across a multi-agency audience to ensure that all staff working alongside mothers and their families perinatally can access awareness training.

For more details and how to book

New date – Multi-Agency PIMH Champions Training for individuals

New training date: 29 and 30 April 2019

Location: London

The programme is an accredited 2 day course which will cover a wide and updated programme content supported by contemporaneous evidence and policy underpinning practice.

For more details and how to book

Your views are needed to help shape SLC training for health visitors

As part of the government’s commitment to reducing the word gap, the Department for Education (DfE) and Public Health England (PHE) are leading a joint programme of work as part of the Social Mobility Action Plan (SMAP). One element of this is that the Institute of Health Visiting has been commissioned by PHE to develop training for health visitors to:

promote a strengths-based approach to supporting parents and carers of pre-school children with their child’s speech, language and communication development;
to support early identification and appropriate signposting to speech language and communication services.

We need to establish a baseline in relation to health visitors’ current knowledge of speech, language and communication. This will help us to shape the planned training and the development of resources which we will be rolling out in 2019.

Your participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and this short survey will take no more than 10 minutes of your time.

Go to Speech, Language and Communication Survey

iHV delighted to support children’s early communication skills

The Institute is delighted to be part of an exciting multi-million investment to support children’s early communication skills as announced by the Department of Education this week – commissioned to deliver new training for health visitors in speech, language and communication.

The government announcement launched projects to improve children’s early language and literacy, and boost parents’ confidence with home learning. It will fund educational games, apps and text message ‘tips’ for parents and carers from disadvantaged backgrounds, helping them to interact with their children when at home or out and about, making everyday activities an opportunity for learning.

It also includes funding for additional training for health visitors which the Institute has been commissioned to deliver. The new speech, language and communication training for health visitors will help to identify speech, language and communication needs early on, helping to address and support concerns when they can have the most impact.

Read the full Department for Education press release

New! Multi-Professional PMH Awareness training for individuals – book now!

We are delighted to offer this rare opportunity to experience our one day PMH Awareness training alongside other practitioners from a variety of professional backgrounds – a wide range of the professional workforce working alongside women and their families perinatally e.g. Health Visitors, Midwives and Maternity Staff, Neonatal nurses, Early Years staff, Mental Health professionals.

Our programme is designed to enhance your own awareness of a wide range of issues associated with perinatal mental health and wellbeing.

Please note: this training is a different format of programme from our Champions training and does not equip participants with training resources to deliver further training does – so it does not support an onward cascade.

Date: Monday 10 December 2018, London

Costs: £80 iHV Members/ £95 Non-members – don’t miss out on this great opportunity!

For more details

Free professional development for HVs on speech, language and communication

Are you a health visitor looking for free professional development in speech language and communication? If so, look no further. The Communication Trust’s programme Early Voices offers a unique opportunity to health visitors to access free professional development and training to increase their knowledge in early speech language and communication development in order to achieve higher impact with the families that they work with.

This is recruitment for the second cohort of Communication Leaders – following the first cohort earlier this year.

The Early Voices programme seeks to recruit health visitors to take on the role of ‘Communication Leader’ in their locality. Communication Leaders will receive a fully-funded place on a Level 3 Award in speech, language and communication, and additional training from The Communication Trust (TCT).

TCT training will outline the expected levels of early speech language and communication development, advice on how to share this information and evidence-based strategies with parents, and where to signpost parents to access further support. To broaden the reach of this knowledge, Communication Leaders will cascade their learning via two TCT-designed sessions to their local early years networks.

Find out more & apply

Find out more here.

Applications for the second cohort are now open. To find out more and apply, please see:

the Communication Leader application pack and
Health Visitor Manager letter.
A Word version of the application pack can be accessed here.

Once both have been completed, please send via e-mail to [email protected].

The second round of recruitment of the Communication Leader role is open until 23 October.

New! Multi-Professional PMH Awareness training for individuals

Monday 10 December 2018, London

Our programme is designed to enhance your own awareness of a wide range of issues associated with perinatal mental health and wellbeing.

Please note: this training is a different format of programme from our Champions training and does not equip participants with training resources to deliver further training does – so it does not support an onward cascade.

Costs: £80 iHV Members/ £95 Non-members.

For more details

iHV wins first prize in International Perinatal Mental Health Education Awards

The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) is delighted to announce that it has won first prize in the White Swan Foundation and Marcé Society International Perinatal Mental Health Education Awards for its Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Champions training programme.

White Swan Foundation and Marcé Society say ‘the prize recognises the pioneering work of institutions that catalyse perinatal awareness through stakeholder education. It particularly focuses on models that have the potential to be scaled in low and middle-income (LAMI) countries where perinatal mental health issues are largely ignored and do not receive professional interventions.’

Dr Cheryll Adams CBE, Executive Director, Institute of Health Visiting said:

“This is a massive honour for the Institute and our perinatal and infant mental health training department. To win this award, with such internationally eminent judges, is significant recognition of the quality of the Institute’s training.

“Our training has evolved over many years, alongside the evidence base, changing policy and evolving national standards, and is unique in its capacity to reach large audiences through our highly developed cascade model which builds in sustainability for commissioners. The training and its quality assurance measures have been developed alongside experts by experience as well as perinatal mental health experts from the professions we commonly train, i.e. health visitors, midwives, obstetricians, general practitioners and psychiatrists and other mental health workers.”

The iHV Champions project has become a social movement of people and organisations who are committed to creating local health and social capital, and building a sustainable, community-based public health service. As of the NHS 70th birthday on 5 July 2018, the iHV had trained 1545 health and social care professionals as Champions – with numbers increasing all the time!

Dr Adams added:

“The Marcé scientific community is keen to see how the iHV model can be used across communities in LAMI countries and we are excited to think how lessons here in England can be used to reach even more families and communities globally!”

For more details of the iHV Champions training, please see https://ihv.org.uk/our-work/our-work-in-mental-health/mental-health-training/ or contact [email protected] , the Institute’s Training Lead.

For further details of other perinatal mental health activity undertaken by the Institute, please see https://ihv.org.uk/our-work/our-work-in-mental-health/ Or contact [email protected], the Institute’s Mental Health Lead.

Find out more: https://marcesociety.com/meetings/past-meetings/

Training on Delivering Different News to Families

Are you part of a team that delivers different news to parents? Do you work in Kent, Surrey or Sussex?

The expression “different news” is used in this study to describe the process of imparting unexpected, bad, sad or difficult information relating to an unborn or a newborn child having a condition associated with a learning disability.

The way different news is given to parents affects how parents receive, interpret, understand and adjust to the news – it can result in parental distress, fear, grief, depression, anxiety and chronic stress. This may impact on their parenting, the development of the child, and engagement with follow-on professional services.

As part of an ongoing study funded by Health Education England, the Institute of Health Visiting is piloting some training to support how healthcare professionals deliver different news – “Improving the Delivery of Different News to Families by Healthcare Professionals”.

Monday 10 September 2018 – Canterbury

Tuesday 11 September 2018 – Crawley

Please pass this information on to any colleagues who you think would benefit from attending the training pilot. At present we are seeking participants from the following staff groups to support this phase of the study: