We’re excited to announce the Sexual Safety, Supporting Survivors and Changing Cultures: NHS South East Webinar Series.
Hosted by NHS England Staff Experience, Engagement and EDI team and delivered by Surviving in Scrubs, these sessions are open to all staff working in the NHS healthcare setting in the South East region.
Webinar Overviews
Webinar 1: Tuesday 19 May, 1pm-2pm
Sexism, sexual harassment and sexual assault in the healthcare workplace: An overview of the prevalence of sexual misconduct in healthcare across different healthcare professional groups. Lived experience stories are utilised to illustrate inappropriate behaviours with an explanation on the impact on survivors and workplaces. Followed by a review of work ongoing to tackle this issue with an emphasis at the end on what action individuals can take.
Webinar 2: Wednesday 3 June, 10am-11am
Supporting Survivors: An exploration of the challenges survivors face, and the specialist support that survivors need, with references to useful resources.
Webinar 3: Monday 15 June, 12pm-1pm
First Disclosure Training: A detailed look at how a survivor may present, what their needs are and how to meet these during a first disclosure. In groups we use a case to model this encounter and work through the steps, providing attendees with a structure to use with recommendations for language and phrases.
Webinar 4: Tuesday 7 July, 12pm-1pm
Responding to a report of sexual violence for managers: This is the next step on from first disclosure. We use cases to work through the options to support a survivor and the pathway to raise a concern in small groups. We equip attendees with knowledge of reporting systems, legal requirements for information sharing, how to provide support, identify risk, and support the survivor to make an informed decision about whether to progress a disclosure.
Webinar 5: Monday 20 July, 1pm-2pm
Changing the Healthcare Culture: A high-level discussion of the systems and strategies that need to be in place to prevent sexual misconduct in the healthcare workplace. Designed for managers, supervisors and leadership with group activities.
Webinar 6: Wednesday 5 August, 11am-12pm
Actions for healthcare leaders: An examination of the role of leaders in preventing sexual misconduct with group activities. We look at the new legal duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace and how this can be implemented in your organisation.
How to register
You can register using the Registration form.
About the trainers
Surviving in Scrubs was formed by co‑founders Dr Chelcie Jewitt and Dr Becky Cox in June 2022. It brings together their lived experiences of sexual misconduct while working in healthcare to campaign to end sexism, sexual harassment and sexual assault within the healthcare workforce.
Dr Chelcie Jewitt: Throughout her career, Chelcie has been a victim of, and witness to, sexual misconduct. This led her to founding the Sexism in Medicine Project, which led to the Sexism in Medicine report published by the BMA in August 2021. Clinically, she is a dual trainee in Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine. She has specialist interests in women’s and maternal health. Chelcie has completed a PGCert in Medical Management and Leadership. She has also completed a PGCert in Health Professionals Education and PGCert in Extreme Medicine.
Dr Becky Cox: Becky is a GP specialist working in gynaecology and an academic GP with an interest in violence against women. As a survivor of domestic abuse as well as sexual harassment and assault at work, she advocates and campaigns to end the culture of misogyny in healthcare. From lecturing at Oxford University to medical students on
domestic abuse, writing and publishing scientific papers, national and international speaking, and charitable work, she has worked to bring a focus to violence against women in the healthcare sector.
Support resources
The discussions in this session can be triggering for colleagues with lived experience of sexism, sexual harassment or sexual assault. The sessions will be trauma-informed, with content warnings. Facilitators will stay behind for 5 minutes after each webinar for immediate support. You can also access Support resources for – Surviving in Scrubs. You can also use your employer’s health and wellbeing offers, such as Employee Assistance Programme or Mental Health First Aiders.
Questions and reasonable adjustments
The webinars will run online on Microsoft Teams. If you need any adjustments, please email england.se.staffexperience@nhs.net.
