Health and Wellbeing
Managing your Wellbeing as Support Staff
Stay steady and look after yourself when you work every day with a child whose big emotions spill over.
- 47 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Use a slow breath to get your thinking brain back before you respond
- Fit the five ways to wellbeing into a school day
- Record and debrief incidents in plain, factual language
- Look for the unmet need behind a child's behaviour
- Ask for support by owning your concerns and agreeing solutions that suit you
About this course
Working with a child who dysregulates often keeps your body on high alert. Each outburst floods you with stress, and without time to recover it builds until you're reacting rather than thinking.
You'll learn to catch that moment. A slow breath before you speak gets your thinking brain back, so you can help the child calm down. Small habits stop the stress stacking up: a mindful minute at the photocopier, writing incidents up quickly and factually, a proper debrief after a hard day, and three good things noticed before you go home.
The approach comes from a former headteacher who went on to support children with social, emotional and mental health needs. Be curious, not furious. Working out with the child what their behaviour is telling you can mean fewer incidents for both of you. And if it's still too much, you'll know how to ask for things to change.
- For support staff and teaching assistants. All phases.
Recording
- 47 min
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