Deafness as a hidden disability – Deaf Awareness Week
This year’s Deaf Awareness Week theme is ‘Coming Through it Together’. In this blog we look at why deafness is such an invisible disability and what we can do to raise awareness.
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Six top tips to support children and young people returning to school for the summer term
Many parents and carers will be concerned about the impact of the pandemic on their children, and how they will cope now they have returned to school. Here, Cygnet’s National Head of Education Ed Hall, shares some advice to help parents support children’s wellbeing at home.
Vicky McNally – 25 years in mental health care
The mental health sector has transformed over the last two decades as mental ill health has become more accepted and the independent sector a more integral part of NHS delivery but age old issues around staffing remain, says Vicky McNally, Corporate Governance Director at Cygnet Health Care, as she looks back over 25 years in mental health.
Busting 5 Myths about Eating Disorders
This week (1st March – 7th March) marks Eating Disorders Awareness Week. In this blog Kathrin Gioia, Senior Occupational Therapist at Cygnet Hospital Ealing, looks at some of the many pervasive myths about eating disorders, and draws from her inpatient experiences to correct misinformation around this commonly misunderstood illness.
Self-Injury Awareness Day: The impact of Covid-19 on children’s mental health
Self-Injury Awareness Day is an annual global awareness day on March 1st and its purpose is to raise awareness about self-injury. This is an incredibly worrying issue in the current climate, with rising concern over the potential impact of lockdown on mental health. Many people have a hard time talking about self-injury. In this blog, we look at the potential impact of Covid-19 pandemic on children’s mental health and how you can help them.
Why becoming an apprentice nurse associate has changed my life – Mental Health Nurses Day
For Mental Health Nurses Day we’ve asked one of our Nurse Associate Apprentices, Chris Longshaw, to share his experience of his apprenticeship at Cygnet Health Care.
National Apprenticeship Week: Building our health and social care workers of the future
In our latest blog our Apprenticeship Manager, Suzanne Smith, and and Levi Kestle, Graduate of Cygnet’s Nurse Associate Apprenticeship Programme, look at how our apprenticeship pathways are building our health and social care workers of the future.
Children’s Mental Health Week: Express Yourself
It is Children’s Mental Health Week (1-7 February) this week and this year’s theme is ‘Express yourself'. In the February blog, we feature some of the many pieces of artwork and poems our Young People have created to mark this awareness week, and here, Ali Curtis, CAMHS Service Lead at Cygnet Hospital Sheffield, describes how the hospital embraces self-expression.