Presenters: Isabelle Ekdawi and Tresa Andrews

Fee: £149 for two days, £85 for individual days

As team practitioners and team leaders in older peoples’ services, we are struck by how recent Government guidance could invite exciting opportunities for systemic ideas and practices to be introduced into our workplace. Soon after ‘joined-up services’ was identified as an important principle underpinning the National Service Framework for Older People, ‘partnership working’ was recognised by the UK’s Department of Health as a critical ingredient in the recipe for care of older people. This spoke to us of the collaborative practices and foregrounding of relationships central to the systemic approach.

These two workshops will explore the many possibilities associated with using systemic theory and practice in older peoples’ care services. We will also consider how to nurture ‘partnership working’ in teams by introducing a systemic approach. ‘Team Practitioner as Partner’ will specifically focus on how to, as a team member, introduce systemic ideas and practice to older peoples’ care services where these Ideas may be unfamiliar. ‘Partnership Leadership’ will address how to augment knowledge and skills and ‘partnership working’ by introducing a systemic approach to leadership tasks and processes and team development.

New ideas for working with others in ‘partnership’ will be explored through small group discussions and activities. Examples from our practice will also help to illustrate how team practitioners and team leaders can further build various systemic ideas and practices into their daily work activity and further integrate the systemic approach with ‘partnership working’ in older peoples’ services.

Along with the excitement of having new work partners and the numerous opportunities for new creative practice, the emphasis on ‘joined-up working’ has also brought with it fresh challenges of working with new colleagues, services and agencies unfamiliar with systemic methods and techniques, which participants will be invited to explore in these workshops.

Who are the presenters? Workshop Facilitators:

Tresa Andrews is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working in Older People’s Health and Social Care Services in South London (SLAM NHS Foundation Trust). Since 2004, Tresa has been charged with developing and leading a multi-professional, multi-service and multi-agency project which aims to promote independence in older adults using care services. She has training in systemic family therapy and systemic leadership and is currently an honorary lecturer in Clinical Psychology (Institute of Psychiatry) and tutor in Systemic Leadership (KCCF).

Isabelle Ekdawi is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and systemic psychotherapist. She is the joint head of psychology for older people In Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust and manages and supervises clinical psychologists in the areas of physical health care and mental health care of older adults. She is an honorary lecturer in Clinical Psychology at UCL, is a trainer on the Intermediate systemic therapy course In Camden and Islington, and is also a freelance consultant and supervisor.

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