Winter‘10-’11

In this issue: Imagine Your Goals // What is Non-Medical Prescribing? // Staff News
// Coffee Morning // Christmas Party

Imagine Your Goals

Imagine Your Goals is a weekly football group set up and run
by Portsmouth Football Club.

Headspace have been involved from the beginning as we

strongly believe in the benefit physical activity, and building
friendships has towards recovery. Imagine Your Goals pro-
vides these opportunities, as well as great extra perks such as
free tickets to Pompey matches.

We caught up with project co-ordinator Alex Cawley to tell us

more about this fantastic project:

Q: What is Imagine Your Goals?

A: The Imagine your Goals project is currently running through
Portsmouth football club as one of our many health intuitive
programs to help the community. This project is aimed at peo-
ple suffering or recovering from mild-moderate mental health
issues, and a session is running once a week every Monday.
The 'Imagine Your Goals' was initially set up by Everton foun-
dation (Everton in the Community), The project has been run-
ning very successfully for several years. It was then was
changed to nationwide project linking all the Current Premier
League Clubs into the project. As Portsmouth FC were part of
the Premier League we were able to be part of the Project.
Which is currently running and being very successful with
around 12-18 participants each week, and we hope to con-
tinue the project further by opening up more sessions around
the city.
Q: How could playing football improve my health and
wellbeing?
A: Using the hook of the football club to create a social envi-
ronment for all our players on the project meant it could be
more accessible. It creates a chance to keep fit, have fun,
meet others and also find out new things you might not have
heard of before or gain access to with the help of our coaches
and health trainers.

Q: What are the future plans for the project?

A: Future plans for the project are to set up potential 5 a side
teams, have tournaments against other clubs. Hopefully
bringing some of the participants on to doing coaching qualifi-
cations and signposting them onto other local teams.

Q: How do I get involved?

A: If you want to get involved, speak to a doctor or a care
worker that you're interested in the project. They will be able
to give you more information or if you want you can contact
me directly at the study centre at 02392 752587 or
alex.cawley@pompeystudycentre.org.uk
Alex (far left) and some of the Imagine Your Goals squad
 What is ‘Non-Medical Prescribing?’
Jackie Ball, Mental Health Practitioner
with Headspace: I have recently qualified as
a non medical prescriber and thought it might
be helpful to explain what this means for
Headspace clients.
As I am a nurse by background becoming
qualified to prescribe medication involved
undertaking a course to learn about pharma-
cology and the way that medication works
within the body, as well as how the body
processes medication. I have been lucky
enough to have the opportunity to gain vari-
ous qualifications in addition to my registra-
tion as a mental health nurse, however I can
say without hesitation that this was the most
challenging thing I have done personally or
professionally! Perseverance paid off and I
firmly believe that now I am qualified my
newly acquired skills will really enhance the
care provided by the Headspace team.
It is the philosophy of Early Intervention in
Psychosis Services to work as flexibly as
possible when collaborating with clients in
Staff News
Here’s the low-down of the latest goings on amongst the
Headspace team:
 Jo Tedbury, Senior Practitioner, will be starting her Thorn
(psychosocial interventions in psychosis) course this
January. She will be the 4th Headspace practitioner to have
undertaken, or be in the process of obtaining this
comprehensive qualification. Good luck, Jo!
 Welcome to Sally Bolland, OT Student, who started her
placement at Headspace last month. She’ll be with the
team until the end of March. We hope you enjoy your time
with us!
 Linda Medlow, Tutor with Highbury College at our Back on
Track supported college course has moved on to pastures
new. A big welcome to Caroline Marlow who has stepped
in as her replacement. We’re sure she’s going to do a
fantastic job. Good luck to both Linda, in her future
endeavours, and Caroline in her new role.
Coffee Morning
The Headspace Women’s Coffee Morning is now to be held
monthly in a Central/ South of the city location to make it con-
venient for those who currently attend. Our last get-together
was at Snookies Café, and with no shortage of cafes in the
Southsea/ Gunwharf/ City Centre locality, we’re spoilt for
choice for upcoming meeting places!
The next Coffee Morning is at 12pm on Thursday 17th Febru-
ary at ‘Like A Tea-tray in the Sky’ on Obsourne Road, South-
sea (near the Queens Hotel). All ladies under the Headspace
of
team welcome. For more information or to be kept informed
future meetings, contact Leah on 023 92737106
or talk to your keyworker.
terms of deciding on treatment options. We
know that medication plays an important part
in helping people to recover from first epi-
sode psychosis but we also know that start-
ing new medication can be anxiety provoking
for any of us.
As a non medical prescriber I hope to be able
to offer a quick response to clients in terms of
prescribing medication, and also to provide
support in terms of monitoring the effects of
medication (including side effects) so that
medication can be tapered to an individuals
needs. The aim is for prescribed medication
to fit around the life of the individual, not the
other way round!
The role of non medical prescribing within the
team continues to be developed but even at
this early stage we are seeing an improved
ability to respond quickly to the medication
management needs of clients we work with.
I am very happy for any Headspace clients to
contact me should they have any queries or
concerns about their prescribed medication.
Christmas Party
Thanks to all those who came to the Headspace Christmas
Party at Southsea’s Slug and Lettuce on Thursday 16th De-
cember. We had a brilliant turn out of around 20 people, who
came to join in the festive fun (and to eat the enormous buffet
we ordered!) A great time was had by all and we look forward
to seeing you all at future social events.
If you had a good time and fancy helping out with organising
Headspace events like our Christmas Party, or the successful
An Audience with Headspace gig we had at the Wedgewood
Rooms, have a chat to your keyworker about Friends of Head-
space, which we hope can be set up to help us fundraise and
promote the service.
Or perhaps come along to our Monday Social Group: every
Monday afternoon we go out to take part in various fun activi-
ties such as badminton, cinema trips, tennis, swimming and
bowling. All Headspace service users welcome. Ask your key-
worker for more details!
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