Stress, Burnout and AMHPs’ Psychological Safety 25 March 2025

Aim: This one-day course gives Approved Mental Health Professionals an opportunity to engage with the stress, burnout and moral distress that are understood to be inherent aspects of the work. Participants will have an opportunity to hear about and discuss relevant research and practice issues, as well as exploring policy contexts and practice developments. Participants can address ways in which teams and services can develop supportive approaches to the work.

Learning outcomes: By the end of the day participants will:

 Be familiar with policy contexts and research evidence addressing psychological safety

• Be familiar with research evidence pressures affecting morale, recruitment and retention

• Understand burnout as personal, physical, emotional and relational

• Understand debrief and effective supervision approaches

• Understand concepts of moral distress/moral injury and their influence on relational practice

• Reflect on the use of self, teams and organisations

Programme

09.30 – 10.00           Introduction to the day and practical arrangements.

10.00  - 11.00            Session 1: Research and Policy Contexts

11.00 – 11.15              Break

11.15  - 12.30              Session 2: Research and Policy Contexts: Group discussions

12.30 – 1.30               Lunch

1.30  – 2.30                Session 3: Identifying stress and burnout

2.45 – 3.00                 Break

3.00 – 3.45                Session 4: Addressing moral distress and developing relational approaches

3.45 – 4.00                 Debrief, final questions, evaluations and close.

The course will be delivered by Dr Jill Hemmington

Jill is Course Leader for university qualifying and post-qualifying (CPD) AMHP education and training which are tailored according to workforce need. Jill’s background is in mental health social work and she has worked within mental health services for over thirty years in both in-patient and community settings. Jill qualified as an Approved Social Worker in 2000, acted as Practice Assessor and she continues to practice as an AMHP. She completed an MA in CBT With Individuals With Psychosis and Their Families. Jill is an external panel member for a Local Authority’s qualified AMHP reapproval panel and an Education and Quality Inspector for AMHP and BIA programmes for Social Work England. She has completed a PhD relating to the variables (organisational and environmental) influencing AMHP decision-making, with a particular focus on Shared Decision-Making (SDM), power and conversational dynamics. More recently, research and training interests have been in AMHPs’ experiences of moral distress and moral injury and how to manage this challenging aspect of practice. Jill is a founding member of the AMHP Research Group (ARG), a group co-opted to the national AMHP Leads Network, and she supports current national AMHP Workforce Development initiatives including the modernisation of AMHP programmes and ways in which universities can support the recruitment and retention agendas. Jill is a Specialist Member in the Mental Health Tribunal service. She also developed and maintains the Critical AMHP Blog https://www.the-critical-amhp.com/ along with colleagues.

Includes all course materials and a certificate. Course access details will be emailed direct to delegate(s) upon completion of your booking.  If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to email events@edgetraining.org.uk  or call 07341 277487.