In this full day course, you'll learn the theory, try age and stage appropriate engagement tools and see how to use voice data in your quality improvement and service planning.
Venue TBC
Cardiff
United Kingdom
We are pleased to offer this course at a reduced rate for up to 50 delegates. The fees may be subject to change.
- RCPCH members - Trainees: £50
- RCPCH members - Consultants and SAS doctors: £65
- Non-RCPCH members: £75
Lunch and refreshments included.
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This course brings together our skills, expertise and knowledge from delivering child and youth engagement programmes with 16,000 under 25s over the past 10 years with RCPCH &Us. This programme is where children and young people have helped inform and shape health policy and practice on topics like mental health, sickle cell, diabetes, epilepsy, asthma, climate change, health inequalities, service design and more.
The full day will be a mix of theory and practical guidance on how to do engagement with children and young people from different ages, backgrounds, stages and experiences.
We’ll share resources and tips, and there will be plenty of opportunities for interactive learning.
It was so helpful to be able to think about how to do things differently, we don’t use surveys any more, but have other ways now to find out what our patients think about the service or what their service needs are.
Learning objectives
By the end of this course, you will:
- Feel confident in engagement planning
- Be aware of different types of engagement approaches and how to use them practically
- Be able to apply legal frameworks to engagement activity with children and young people.
Target audiences
- Paediatric trainees, SAS doctors and consultants in paediatrics
- Health professionals from other medical disciplines
- Voluntary sector staff working in health based settings
Course lead
Emma Sparrow has been the service lead for children and young people’s engagement at RCPCH since 2015, supporting the development of award winning programmes in RCPCH &Us with children, young people and families. Her background as a professionally qualified community development and youth worker, along with extensive experience of working in different sectors leading engagement or rights based work including local authority, the Police, health and the voluntary sector, brings a wealth of knowledge and useful practical skills to the course
Emma is passionate about accessible and inclusive approaches to working with people and communities and working in an strengths based way to empower children and young people.
If you have questions about this course or want to hear more about future courses, email the team at and_us@rcpch.ac.uk.