Maintaining professional distance

🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up

Course Outline:

In boarding settings, where staff often serve in loco parentis, safeguarding and pastoral care are at the heart of the role. Within this close-knit, home-from-home environment, maintaining professional distance is crucial for both staff wellbeing and pupil safety.

This webinar explores how to build strong, supportive relationships with pupils while upholding clear professional boundaries. It offers practical strategies to help staff navigate emotionally demanding situations and develop resilience—both for themselves and the boarders in their care.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the importance of healthy professional boundaries to support your own wellbeing
• Develop relationship management strategies that foster trust while maintaining appropriate distance
• Learn techniques to navigate challenging interactions and emotionally complex situations effectively.

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Speaker:

Louise Payne, Deputy Head Pastoral and DSL, Kent College

Louise Payne is Deputy Head Pastoral and DSL at Kent College Pembury, UK.  She has worked in education for 22 years working in both state and independent settings in the UK and abroad. Whilst completing an MBA in Educational Leadership with UCL, Louise also worked for a Local Authority as part of a school improvement service working to support senior leaderships in improving their safeguarding and pastoral practice. She has a wealth of experience in boarding care, having worked for over 10 years in and across different boarding settings. She has also worked as a Boarding, SEN and Safeguarding governor in schools across both sectors. Louise gained a Distinction in her MBA and returned to the boarding environment when taking up the post of Deputy Head at Kent College.