28/03/2025
Ward Spotlight: Empowering staff to offer trauma-informed care
Ruby Ward from the South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust have done some amazing work developing bespoke training for their staff team to enhance their knowledge and confidence around trauma-informed care.
Trauma can have a key role to play in people's mental ill-health and how they respond to the care and treatment provided in a ward environment. Empowering staff to feel confident in discussion past trauma with patients and providing care in a more trauma-informed way not only helps build a sense of trust and safety between patients and staff, but can also improve patients' engagement with their treatment and long-term outcomes. In the video below, Lydia Cook from Ruby Ward presents the amazing work that their project team did to design and deliver bespoke training to staff on trauma-informed care: