Category: Health and Wellbeing

Fully funded places available on Open University Microcredentials

The OU in Scotland is currently offering some fully funded places on our Microcredential courses starting in June/July 2024. These courses run from 10 – 12 weeks and are designed for people looking to gain new skills to help advance their careers. The courses are delivered online via distance learning which allows you to fit in time for learning alongside work and life commitments. They can give you and your staff practical skills that can be immediately utilised in the workplace. Offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, the courses will also give you the chance to learn alongside people in a wide range of sectors and roles and share knowledge and experience.

The courses on offer are:

  • Agile Leadership and Management
  • Business Management: Marketing Principles and Practice
  • Business Management: Improving Organisational Practice
  • Business Management: People Management and Leadership
  • Business Management: Project Management
  • Business Management: Fundamentals of Management Accounting
  • Business Management: Financial Accounting for Non-Financial Roles
  • Climate Change: Transforming Your Organisation for Sustainability
  • Cyber Security Operations
  • Mental Health: Working with Children and Young People
  • Mentoring and Coaching in Professional Learning
  • Python Programming
  • Teacher Development: Embedding Mental Health in the Curriculum

More information about the courses and the application form can be found at https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/choose/scotland-micro. The deadline for applications is 19th May 2024.

SHINE Newsletter January 2024

Please find below the January 2024 edition of the SHINE newsletter. Please click on the link to read the newsletter:

https://createsend.com/t/d-89D5FCBA5D723A582540EF23F30FEDED

which includes:

  • Register for SHINE Webinar 11. Tues 19th Mar 2024 16.00 -17.00pm : “What Works in Responding to School Non-attendance: Examples from 2 Scottish local authorities”
  • Save the date!Thurs 2nd May 2024 SHINE National Network Conference 2024
  • New video resources on vaping and unhealthy food marketing co-produced with young people: ” Make Good Choices”
  • New resource for members now available : Sharing SHINE MH data with young people
  • Invitation to participate in SHINE affiliated research projects
    • Crowdsourcing for Adolescent Health (new)
    • AMBIENT-Teens sleep study
    • Clock off! – reducing night-time use of interactive electronic devices
    • National evaluation of the Equally Safe at School programme
  • Other events and research opportunities for school communities:
    • SOCITS: Socially Situated Systems approach to adolescent mental health
    • Purrble: an intervention for LGBTQi+ young people over 16 yrs experiencing emotional distress
    • Key stakeholders’ perceptions & attitudes of resistance training in Scottish secondary schools

The SHINE Team

Online Coaching for Wellbeing for Education Practitioners

Provided by the Scottish Government and delivered by Know You More. (Education Practitioners includes all staff that work in schools, CLD and ELC in Scotland)

This online coaching programme has been designed to support you with any of the challenges you are facing right now and focussing on your wellbeing. We have heard you and understand that work and life are not separate, so we are offering this space to talk about personal as well as professional challenges.

Read more about this opportunity and sign up following the link below:

This is open to all education practitioners with 2 x 1hours of coaching and is also open to anyone who has already benefitted from this offer previously.

Yvonne Wilson

ASN and Wellbeing Support Officer (Schools) | Mental Health First Aider

Yvonne.Wilson@scotborders.gov.uk

Health and Wellbeing Professional Learning Network – ELC and Primary – February 2024

This national network is for practitioners in early years and primary with a remit or interest in Health and Wellbeing. The network will meet virtually, with dates agreed and allocated in advance. Members will have opportunities to co-create agendas for each session based on current themes / challenges.

The network will:

  • provide opportunities to network / discuss current themes and challenges
  • share interesting and relevant practice
  • build a community of practice
  • hear about up-to-date policy and guidance
  • provide information on the work from other HWB networks (PSE, HE, PE)

Target audience

Please be aware that the target audience for this event is professionals within the education sector in Scotland. To register, please enter either a school, establishment, local authority or Glow email address. If you work in Scottish education and would like to attend but do not have a Glow or work email address, please email esevents@educationscotland.gov.scot with the name of your setting or service, to request a place.

Please follow this link to book a place:

https://education.gov.scot/events/health-and-wellbeing-professional-learning-network-elc-and-primary-february-2024/

 

Yvonne Wilson

ASN and Wellbeing Support Officer (Schools) | Mental Health First Aider

Yvonne.Wilson@scotborders.gov.uk

Mental Health Stigma and Discrimination

The programme consists of two sessions, delivered online, on Thursdays 16th and 30th November 2023 from 4.30 – 6pm.

Colleagues will:

  • Gain an increased understanding of mental health stigma and discrimination.
  • Develop a greater awareness of the impact of mental health stigma and discrimination.
  • Gain an increased knowledge of approaches to reduce mental health stigma and discrimination across various settings.
  • Know what actions you can take in your school that address stigma and discrimination.
  • Gain a better understanding of where you can access resources to continue your development.
  • Be able to embed a focus on mental health stigma and discrimination when adopting the whole school approach in your school.

If you’re interested in taking part, please contact: Yvonne Wilson, ASN and Wellbeing Support Officer (schools)

HWB as the Responsibility of All

This two part professional learning opportunity will explore the HWB curriculum as the Responsibility of All and will highlight the necessary culture and ethos required to embed this approach. It will provide practical suggestions for implementing it within your own context. Staff from across all sectors are welcome to come along and find out more.

Please register for both events:

Session 1 :31.10.23

Session 2: 14.11.23

Click here to book a place

SEEMiS Training

SEEMiS has very good training materials on their website (www.seemis.gov.scot )   Those who have a Click & Go login will be able to access this by entering a ‘b’ in front of their user name and using their normal password.

For Wellbeing app help, go to Training > Videos > Wellbeing App.

For Pastoral Notes help, go to Training > Videos > Latest Pastoral Notes

And of course for Bullying & Equalities go to Training > Videos > Bullying & Equalities.

There are also a number of webinars coming up.   Once you have logged into the website click this link Training Webinars – SEEMiS Group LLP .  These are useful because they can be viewed at a time to suit the user.   They are also live, so questions can be asked.

You can also see Click & Go under Help Pages.