leaders, says childcare charity chief Fiona Vacher. Hannah Crown
reports.
Fiona Vacher is executive director of Jersey Child Care Trust, a charity providing continuing professional development training to childcare practitioners across Jersey. She applied for funding to run the Resilience Advantage Programme for 18 nursery managers on the island.
She says, 'The word "pressure" comes up a lot when people work with children. Some of the nurseries here have 130 children.
Managers are often put in a difficult positions - dealing with parents or safeguarding issues. After the course people were saying they felt more able to deal with whatever was thrown at them.'
The Resilience Advantage Programme was devised by Emma Ogilvie, a trained counsellor who sits on the Jersey government's mental health review, and her businessman husband David. Mrs Ogilvie describes the course as a mixture of psychology, neuroscience, leadership and management theory. It consists of seven 90-minute modules across seven weeks and uses group work and self-reflection.
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