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JUNE 2007 Caledonian Challenge 2007
APRIL 2007 Caledonian Challenge 2007 A team of staff from The Keil Centre are currently in training
to take part in the Caledonian Challenge on 16-17 June. This event
involves over 1500 participants walking 54 miles non-stop along
the West Highland Way, with all walkers raising money for the Scottish
Community Foundation. SCF is a charity which supports local
community groups throughout Scotland, and works with a range of
individuals, companies, charitable trusts, as well as voluntary
and government agencies. If you would like to sponsor our team, or offer corporate sponsorship, please either contact Joanne or click here to donate online. Thank you.
Vacancy at The Keil Centre - Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Part Time - 3 Days Per Week Competitive salary + benefits Are you looking for an opportunity to use your experience in adult mental health to help individuals, and the organisations they work for, to improve their effectiveness and well-being? The Keil Centre works with organisations to achieve excellence through their people by providing innovative applied psychology solutions. With a strong reputation built over 23 years, we offer expertise in the areas of wellbeing and stress prevention, assessment and development and human factors in health & safety. This part-time job will involve 3 days per week (negotiable) providing assessment and treatment for adults with a variety of mental health problems as well as liaison with their referrers. There are also opportunities to design and deliver workshops for organisations on mental health and well-being issues. If you have the ability to deliver medico-legal assessments or consultancy projects in stress prevention, coaching or team effectiveness as well, the role could develop in the longer term. If you are Chartered, enjoy autonomy as well as being a part of a professional, friendly team and want to contribute to a growing, successful commercial business please email your cv with a covering letter to amanda@keilcentre.co.uk Ergonomics Society Registered Consultancy
FEBRUARY 2007 Fed up of stress? Many organisations find that the focus on stress is too negative
and too reactive. The Keil Centre now runs courses on psychological
wellbeing at work that focus on building optimal performance and
resilience, using your strengths and improving motivation and satisfaction.
Sharing our knowledge It has been confirmed that three separate papers on human factors
in health and safety will be presented by The Keil Centre's consultants
at Loss Prevention 2007. This triennial event in Edinburgh, Scotland,
organised by the Institition of Chemical Engineers, is one of Europe's
top health and safety conferences for the process industries. Please
click here
for more information.
JANUARY 2007
DECEMBER 2006 HSE research project The Keil Centre has recently completed a research project, jointly funded by the UK Health and Safety Executive, investigating the links between psychological ill-health at work and safety. The report answers questions such as: - how can stress at work affect safety? Please click here to find a copy of the report and contact Chiara Amati for more information.
NOVEMBER 2006 Beth Mackay & Johnny Mitchell The Keil Centre is pleased to welcome Beth Mackay & Johnny Mitchell to our team of Occupational Psychologists.
European Ergonomist Richard Scaife has been registered as a European Ergonomist - a professional qualification issued by the Centre for Registration of European Ergonomists (CREE), which is an officially recognised certification body of the International Ergonomics Association. To obtain his certification, Richard's training and experience was peer-reviewed by fellow professionals in Europe, who have agreed that Richard meets the required levels of expertise and professionalism.
AUGUST 2006
Human Factors Methods of Improving Performance in the Process Industries A 2 year project for one of our team is about to come to an end. Phil Joyner has been the chairman of the human factors sub-committee of CCPS, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Center for Chemical Process Safety. The committee, made up of staff from industry and consultancies, has been busy writing a new concept book 'Human Factors Methods of Improving Performance in the Process Industries', something Phil has a very keen interest in. It has been written as a comprehensive but simple to understand guidance book for designers, plant staff and managers. The book is currently being prepared for printing and should be available to purchase from the AIChE website in late autumn.
OCTOBER 2005 Best Practice Series The Keil Centre are organising a series of 1/2 day workshops on key people-management issues for March & April 2006. The workshops are on the following topics: -
The workshops will provide delegates with up-to-date knowledge
of the theory and best practice approaches in tackling common people-management
problems. Road Safety Award Lothian and Borders Police have awarded The Keil Centre a prestigious Fleetsure award, in recognition of our efforts to manage the health and safety risks arising from occupational driving. Positive Psychology The Keil Centre has been taking part in the Vanguard Programme - a high profile intervention to improve maximise Scotland's human potential. Through this programme, our psychologists have learnt more about Positive Psychology and how this can be applied in organisations to increase wellbeing and performance. For more information, please contact Chiara. SEPTEMBER 2005 Scottish Ergonomics Forum Richard Scaife has recently taken on the role of Co-ordinator for the Scottish Ergonomics Forum (SEF), a group of people in Scotland actively involved in, or interested in, ergonomics. The SEF represents the Scottish region of The Ergonomics Society and organises an annual programme of events for ergonomists and non-ergonomists alike. If you are based in Scotland and you have an interest in ergonomics, please contact Richard so that we can keep you up to date with forthcoming events that may be of interest. Richard is also keen to hear from anyone who has suggestions about what they feel The Ergonomics Society should be doing in Scotland. JULY 2005 Career Resilience The Keil Centre has launched a new Building Career Resilience Programme - the programme is designed to provide participants with techniques to enhance their ability to take control of their own careers and retain focus on their contribution, in a context of increasing organisational complexity and ambiguity. For more details of how this programme could help your organisation in this key aspect of talent management, contact Louise Clarkson at louise@keilcentre.co.uk Ergonomics The Keil Centre is pleased to announce that Richard Scaife, one of our Chartered Occupational Psychologists, became a Registered Ergonomist with the UK Ergonomics Society in July 2005. Becoming a Registered Ergonomist has similar requirements to becoming a Chartered Psychologist, in that the applicant is required to demonstrate to the UK Ergonomics Society that they have reached a specified level of competence in professional practice. Contact Richard for help with:
Managing Traumatic Experiences - Article in People Management As a result of the recent bombings in London, The Keil Centre, in conjunction with the Office of Public Management, was asked to write an article on the psychological effects such traumatic events can cause. The article focuses on ways in which employers and employees can provide support to those who are suffering either directly or indirectly from trauma and resulting anxiety. To view this article, please click here: How To Manage Trauma The article is focused on techniques to manage symptoms that are relatively mild and short lived. If symptoms are severe or persist it is best to advise individuals to see their GP, and be offered counselling for support. In cases where the individual has witnessed a terrible event it is likely that they may experience symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). There are a variety of methods to reduce symptoms, of which EMDR is one of most effective. For more information on how to support individuals please contact Alicia Peña at alicia@keilcentre.co.ukMAY 2005 Going For Gold On Safety Following a Safety Culture Maturity® assessment by The Keil Centre, and a great deal of hard work by their staff, Unilever's Purfleet manufacturing site has won a RoSPA Gold Award for safety improvement. Over a two-year period the site, led by Neil Grocock and his team, have taken steps to strengthen the site's safety culture, and have seen a dramatic reduction in accidents and injuries. APRIL 2005 Returning to work We have developed our services to help organisations manage absence effectively. When staff are absent from work due to stress, anxiety or depression, employers need to help them make a safe return to work. Individuals may need support to restore their health and to manage their concerns about how to return to work and stay well. Our approach: In addition to providing individuals with psychological support to develop effective coping strategies, we also provide a facilitation process to help employers and employees manage the return to work process safely and confidently. We maintain employees' confidentiality while managing communication with managers, health professionals, HR and Occupational Health. Employers and employees benefit from a positive communication process that increases the potential for successful reintegration to work. For more information contact Alicia Peña at Alicia@keilcentre.co.uk MARCH 2005 Vacancy - Project Co-ordinator/Administrator Are you able and willing to … Provide daily project and administrative support to our professional staff? · Plan, prioritise and coordinate around changing project requirements? · Build and maintain telephone relationships with customers? · Manage key suppliers on behalf of Directors? · Maximise use of our networked IT system, and liaise with our IT contractor on a day-to-day basis? · Learn and develop as part of a flexible team of support staff? You'll be based in Edinburgh, and working for Scotland's leading firm of Chartered Psychologists. Contact us for further details on 0131 667 8059 or email mary@keilcentre.co.uk. An assessment day is scheduled for Tuesday 12 April 2005. DOP-Scotland The 28th January 2005 saw the formal inauguration of DOP-Scotland, a regional group of the British Psychological Society's Division of Occupational Psychology. DOP-Scotland will provide an essential resource for Occupational Psychologists in Scotland, enabling better communication with each other, with employers and significant representative bodies, such as the Scottish Parliament. The Keil Centre is proud to have been able to contribute to the formation of this new group and Chiara Amati is currently serving as DOP-Scotland Secretary. For any information on DOP-Scotland and their activities, contact Chiara at chiara@keilcentre.co.uk January 2005 - Conference Update As promised, a quick update from the BPS Division of Occupational Psychology annual conference. In the stress field, research has started to examine in detail which management behaviours help their employees prevent and manage stress at work and how these can be built into a competency framework to help managers develop their skills in this area. This is reassuring, as at The Keil Centre we have been focusing on management development as an effective stress intervention with some of our key clients - the research backs us up here! In the field of management assessment some research indicates that highly motivated candidates are more likely to be judged as being competent. This brings us to question: how many panels pick the more motivated candidate rather than the more competent one? At The Keil Centre we have developed a simple Information Pack with tips for assessment panels to use when interviewing - this is one way to ensure the candidate selected really is the 'best person for the job'. JANUARY 2005 Phil Joyner The Keil Centre is pleased to welcome Phil Joyner as a Human Factors Advisor working with Ronny, Richard and Chiara. Phil is a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers who joins us after a career spanning 28 years with BP. He has recently specialised in Human Factors at work and has extensive practical experience of interventions to improve safe behaviour at work. If you would like to contact Phil please email Phil or telephone 00 44 (0)131 667 8059 Division of Occupational Psychology Conference The Keil Centre is always looking out for relevant research that will help us improve the service we provide to our customers. Every January the British Psychological Society Divison of Occupational Psychology organises a conference for academics and practitioners to learn and share best practice. This year one of the key areas is stress at work - a field The Keil Centre specialises in - watch this space for updates from the conference! NOVEMBER 2004 StressTools The Health and Safety Executive has published its new updated stress management standards. This is a call to all organisations to review how they are tackling stress. Using StressTools (www.stresstools.com) helps organisations to comply with the current Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance on work-related stress in a straightforward manner with targeted action and minimal repetition of effort. SEPTEMBER 2004 StressTools - Demos The Keil Centre has been busy organising free demos of their new updated comprehensive stress risk assessment toolkit - StressTools. Demos have included a chance to quiz our psychologists about their experience in helping organisations tackle stress as well as free trials of the risk assessments. Delegates have also found this a valuable networking opportunity. To arrange a demo for you and your colleagues or your sector, please email Chiara Amati or telephone 00 44 (0)131 667 8059. JULY 2004 Catriona Young The Keil Centre is pleased to welcome Catriona Young to our team of Occupational Psychologists. Catriona has expertise in a wide range of learning and development areas and has experience of working with individuals and groups to develop their effectiveness in both personal and professional contexts. Recent work includes design of performance management systems, providing career and educational guidance, providing coaching to develop personal effectiveness, design and delivery of training in soft-skills for managers. If you would like to contact Catriona please email Catriona or telephone 00 44 (0)131 667 8059 Richard Scaife Congratulations to Richard on achieving Chartered Psychologist status. Richard is now a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and is applying for similar recognition with The Ergonomics Society and the Centre for Registration of European Ergonomists. Richard specialises in Human Factors in health and safety. For more information email Richard or telephone 00 44 (0)131 667 8059. SUMMER 2004 StressTools - Tackling work-related stress
The Keil Centre has extensive experience in advising and assisting organisations in their efforts to tackle stress at work. We have now translated this experience into a simple to use, comprehensive stress toolkit - StressTools™ - available on-line at www.stresstools.com StressTools includes:
The key to StressTools' success lies in its ability to be used successfully at two levels:
StressTools allows a key organisational user to create users of the system with differing access privileges. In addition, stress risk assessment results can be amalgamated and trends monitored over time.
StressTools allows the creation and implementation of effective, organisationally-tailored stress risk assessments. Actions will then be taken reviewing both staff suggestions and best practice recommendations in the management standards. The Keil Centre is organising demonstrations of StressTools over the coming months. If you are interested in more information on StressTools or in attending one of the demonstrations, please contact Chiara Amati on 0131 667 8059 or email chiara@keilcentre.co.uk Click here for past news |
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