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How to handle stress without burning out

Are you feeling tired, stressed or demotivated? In this honest session, Sally and Nicola shared their personal experiences of resilience, and tips for how you can manage stress in a way that works for you.

Date Thursday, 01 May 2025 16:00 PM - 17:00 PM
Where Details Online Online - MS Teams
User Details Members: Free
Level Details Suitable for all levels
This event has already taken place, but you can watch the recording and download resources below.

Lead facilitators

Nicola Chandler

Nicola has over 30 years’ experience working in a variety of senior leadership and operational roles in the NHS. As a Director at NHS Elect, she supports teams to develop change management and quality improvement skills. Nicola has also been part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering national improvement programmes.

Nicola has been using coaching and mentoring skills throughout her professional career and holds the ILM Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring. Nicola has worked with a broad range of senior leaders from a variety of professional backgrounds in the NHS. Her empathic style quickly enables her to create a safe space in which clients share their issues. Nicola uses a broad range of coaching interventions to support her clients through professionally challenging situations enabling them to analyse, reflect, plan and achieve their potential and career objectives, using their own resourcefulness.

Nicola has an MBA and is a member of the Association for Coaching.

Sally Vaughan

Sally started her career as an NHS General Management Trainee in 2006, gaining an MSc in Healthcare Leadership and Management as part of this programme. She has worked in various operational management roles across mental health and acute services since then, mainly in London teaching hospitals. More recently she was the Associate Director for Surgery, Theatres, Anaesthetics and Critical Care at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, successfully leading those services through the Covid pandemic surges and elective recovery phases. Sally is a qualified coach and has training in Quality Improvement methodology.

Sally supported the opening of the Heatherwood Hospital as a state of the art orthopaedic and opthalmology elective centre at Frimley Health and increased Critical Care capacity permanently as part of the post-Covid response. Her leadership and coordination of surgical services at Frimley saw some of the first 'green pathway' elective patients treated outside of London in a Covid-safe environment against a backdrop of her Trust treating the 4th highest level of Covid patients in the country.

Sally has completed the Nye Bevan Programme and she is a MBTI Step I and Step II qualified facilitator. She also has a Post-Grad Diploma in Organisational Development Practice.

Help us raise money for four amazing charities

This session is part of our special charity webathon, offering 24 hours of free learning for NHS staff as a thank you for everything you do.

If you’re able to, we kindly ask for a small voluntary donation. All the funds will go directly to four incredible charities supporting people through life’s toughest moments.

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