Meeting your WHS obligations to manage psychosocial hazards at work
Australia’s Work Health and Safety Act has governed safe practices in workplaces since 2011, which have always encompassed physical and psychological safety. However, the release of the Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work Code of Practice 2022 along with amendments to the Work Health and Safety Regulation on 1 April 2023, have provided further clarity and certainty for duty holders about their obligations under the Act to ensure psychological health risks are eliminated or minimised.
Why an 'Induction' program into Humanising Healthcare?
The inspiration for the Humanised Healthcare training program came from the General Construction Induction Card (‘White Card’), which is required to enter and work on construction sites in Australia. It is an essential license for anyone looking to work in the construction industry. White Card holders must complete an accredited unit of competency referred to as ‘Prepare to work safely in the construction industry’.
Consider the ‘Humanised Healthcare Induction Program’ as the health practitioner’s metaphorical version of the White Card; a necessity for effectively managing the psychosocial hazards inherent in your important work.
This 2 day workshop comprises elements of competency required, preparing you to work safely in health care settings.
My name is Dr Martha Druery and I am the facilitator of the Humanised Healthcare Induction Program. I worked as a Social Work Specialist in critical care and trauma hospital settings for 18 years. I have run a group private practice providing adjustment to injury counselling and traumatic bereavement therapy for ten years at Lumos Trauma Institute and completed doctoral research in the field of post-injury Health-Related Quality of Life outcomes.
I am an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, currently investigating various aspects of post-injury recovery in collaboration with the Jamieson Trauma Institute.
I have provided both in-person and online training for several years on ‘Trauma-Informed Care’ and ‘Grief and Loss’ to social workers, counsellors, allied health staff and injury lawyers in Australia and internationally.
I began hosting in-person retreats in Brisbane for health professionals in 2022, focused on maximising wellbeing and preventing burnout in this post-COVID epoch.
I am on a mission to ‘Humanise Healthcare’, recognising that “real people heal people” and that your wellbeing lies at the very heart of healthcare. Your psychosocial safety at work provides the foundation for excellence in patient care.
“Martha has a warm, humorous and deeply human approach to creating a safe space for learning
in her highly inspiring, engaging presentation style”.
Social Work Team Leader
This program is for you if you are a health practitioner such as medical, nursing, and allied health service providers working in critical care, acute, sub-acute and community-based rehab settings with patients who have experienced injuries or other forms of trauma.
Whether you are:
- medical, nursing or part of a multidisciplinary team in an acute health care setting
- work in inpatient rehab
- or an outpatient environment.
Or whether you are:
- a sole provider in private practice
- a medical practitioner in primary care
- or any health service provider working with people in distress.
This program is for you if you find that your health practitioner training has equipped you well in your own discipline but has left you feeling like you’re ‘winging it’ when your patient shows signs of traumatic stress, grief and loss or their distress impacts on you in ways that make your work challenging.
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Perhaps you find it difficult to stop thinking about particular patients when you go home or there are some who you can’t face working with because of their psychological or social ‘issues’.
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Maybe you’re not quite sure how to steer some patients back to the focus of your work with them when they get ‘on a roll’ with expressing their stressors and struggles.
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Do you feel that some of your patients get ‘stuck’ due to the psychosocial toll of their injury?
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Do you feel helpless working with some people?
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Do some patients leave you feeling drained?
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Do you feel some 'push your buttons' or your fuse is getting a little short?
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Is this work taking its toll on you so that you have little left for yourself, your family and friends?
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Or do you just welcome the opportunity to hone your skills as a provider of excellent patient-centred care?
This workshop is for you.
“I found the workshop enhanced my understanding of the potential impact of trauma and loss on clients and myself, leaving me feeling more prepared to minimise psychosocial risk.
It was a bonus to connect with colleagues who face similar challenges.”
Intensive Care Unit Staff Member
Did you know research shows that health care professionals experience less burnout and stress in their work when they feel more confident in responding to their patients’ distress?
Did you know that patients experience better outcomes when they receive empathy and ‘emotional resonance’ from their health care professionals?
Developing your confidence and competence in responding to patient distress means that everyone wins.
You win because you increase your job satisfaction and wellbeing.
Patients win because they receive the care they need to have the best possible chance of post-injury recovery.
That’s why you do what you do, isn’t it?
This 2-day workshop offers you a practical, evidence-based toolkit necessary to build that confidence and competence. It has been designed to introduce you to the theory of trauma, grief and loss and professional resourcing for trauma resilience, offer practical strategies to implement the theory into your daily practice and an opportunity to apply them in small group work to practice new skills.
Not only is this content designed to help you meet your work health and safety obligations to manage psychosocial hazards at work, it is good for your health and wellbeing.
It is good for your patients too.
Invest in your practice.
Invest in your wellbeing.
Invest in your skillset and psychological safety.
You will benefit.
Your patients will benefit.
Book your place todayAt the conclusion of the workshop, you will be able to:
- recognise the empirical impacts that trauma work can have on clinician wellbeing
- develop a toolkit for optimised worker wellbeing and trauma resilience
- have a practical understanding of legislation relating to managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace and its relevance for clinical practice settings
- apply trauma-informed care principles in the ‘real world’ of contemporary healthcare challenges
- leave with a practical toolkit for ‘emotion handling’ skills, supporting patients experiencing grief and loss, and engaging patients presenting with challenging behaviours including agitation and 'treatment avoidance'.
Workshop Details
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June 13th and 14th 2024 - CLOSED
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Induction Program for Humanised Healthcare
(June 13-14th CLOSED), November 28-29th 2024
A two day in-person workshop, providing health practitioners with a toolkit for
trauma-informed care, emotion handling skills and
workplace wellbeing.
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