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When Work Hurts
Doctors, nurses and allied health professionals are experiencing unprecedented levels of distress due to their work. Join clinical psychologist Dr Paula Redmond as she talks to inspiring clinicians and thought leaders about the stories behind the mental health statistics, and how compassion, connec...
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Navigating Fitness to Practise Complaints
What should do you do if you get a fitness to practise complaint? What can you expect from the process? How long does it take, what are the possible o...

The impact of complaints on Clinical Psychologists Part 2: Early career experiences
This conversation delves into the research conducted by Dr Naomi Hogben on the impact of formal complaints on early career Clinical Psychologists in t...

The impact of complaints on Clinical Psychologists Part 1: Evidence and insights
In this conversation Clinical Psychologist Professor Noelle Robertson discusses the profound impact of fitness to practice complaints on psychologists...

When Work Hurts: Season 7 Trailer
Dr Paula Redmond, Clinical Psychologist, announces that Season 7 of the When Work Hurts podcast is on its way, with a special focus on surviving compl...

ADHD and Burnout
In this final episode of the ADHD miniseries Paula discusses ADHD and burnout with Dr Floriana Reinikis, a Clinical Psychologist specialising in neuro...

Being a healthcare professional with ADHD
This conversation explores the personal journeys of 3 NHS clinicians diagnosed with ADHD as adults, focusing on their experiences with diagnosis, the...

ADHD in adulthood - complexities, challenges and opportunities
Paula speaks with Clinical Psychologist Dr Lauren Breese about some of the complexities, controversies and opportunities around ADHD diagnosis, partic...

When Work Hurts: Season 6 Trailer
Dr Paula Redmond, Clinical Psychologist, announces that Season Six of the When Work Hurts podcast is on its way, with a special focus on ADHD.
T...

Professional Tree of Life - with Dr Julie Fraser & Dr Liz Matias
The Tree of Life is a narrative therapy approach that helps people to tell stories about themselves in ways that make them stronger. It uses the metap...

The Heads and Hearts Model of Reflective Practice - with Dr Arabella Kurtz
Reflective practice groups are a subject that has come up a few times on the podcast as being an important way of supporting both staff wellbeing and...

take heART: how art and creativity can enhance staff wellbeing - with Dr Rachel Chater
Art and creativity are good for the soul, both in and out of work.
In this episode Paula is joined by clinical psychologist Dr Rachel Chater, d...

Group Psychological Debriefs following distressing events at work - with Dr Sadie Thomas-Unsworth
So far this series has talked a lot about the impact of traumatic experiences on us as individuals. But working in healthcare usually means working in...

Using EMDR to support healthcare workers - with Dr Michael Paterson OBE
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, or EMDR, is a NICE recommended psychological treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, and is also...

Coping with trauma as a health professional - with Dr Yvonne Waft
Health professionals are not immune to trauma. In fact, many are motivated to become healthcare professionals as a way of understanding and even heali...

When Work Hurts: Season 5 Trailer
Dr Paula Redmond, clinical psychologist, is back for season five of the When Work Hurts podcast. On this show, she explores the stories behind the sta...

Emotional support swims with Newfoundland dogs - with Pete Lewin
Pete Lewin is a paramedic and director of Pete Lewin Newfoundlands.
Pete and his pack of beautiful emotional support dogs take people out to swi...

Vicarious traumatisation in healthcare - with Anne McKechnie
Health and social care professionals who work with people who've suffered traumatic experiences are themselves at risk of vicarious traumatisation.

Creative enquiry and flourishing in medical education - with Dr Louise Younie
The ways in which we relate to work are often shaped by our training experiences, and this is particularly true in medical education.
Today Paul...

Internal Family Systems and working in healthcare - with Wendy Kendall
Internal Family Systems, or IFS, is a relatively new model of psychotherapy with a growing evidence base.
In this episode Dr Paula Redmond takes...

Burnout In Healthcare - with Dr Julie Highfield
Burnout is a really hot topic in healthcare.
Every day there are new reports about NHS staff hitting higher and higher levels of burnout.

"The NHS as Death Mother" - a conversation with Dr Libby Nugent
To understand how and why we get caught up in unhelpful dynamics with our work we need to consider the role of the unconscious.
Dr Libby Nugen...

"Surviving suicide" - a conversation with Dr Rachel Gibbons
This episode contains discussion of suicide and its impact
Losing a patient or colleague to suicide can be devastating. In this episode Dr Rache...

"Knitting for wellbeing" - a conversation with Dr Mia Hobbs
Dr Mia Hobbs is a Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about the mental health benefits of knitting.
She also hosts the podcast Why I Knit. <...

"Tackling racial inequalities in the NHS workforce" - A conversation with Owen Chinembiri
Racism and racial inequality continues to plague the NHS - with negative outcomes for individual staff, but also for organisations and patients.
...

"Being a Doctor-Patient" - A conversation with Dr Claire Davies
Being a doctor and a patient can be a challenge.
Not only do you have to deal with your illness, but you also need to deal with the identity co...

"Civility saves lives" - A conversation with Dr Chris Turner
Being treated rudely at work can have a horrible impact on us. Unfortunately it's an all too common experience if you work in healthcare. And the con...

A Compassion Warm Up - An exercise with Dr Chris Irons
If you were running a marathon or doing any kind of athletic training it's unlikely you'd start without a warm up or end without cooling down. And it'...

"How To Do Compassion" - A conversation with Dr Chris Irons
Compassion is a big buzzword right now in healthcare, but what does it really mean and how can you actually be more compassionate?
This week Pau...

"The Whole Yoga Thing" - A conversation with Dr Peter Donnelly
Staff wellbeing initiatives - like yoga classes - can feel like a cynical move by employers to paper over the cracks of the very serious issues affect...

"Something Shiny Just For Me" - A conversation with Megan Tjasink
Art therapy in healthcare settings has traditionally been used to support patients.
But it's also a practice being used with doctors struggling...

Passengers On The Bus - An exercise with Ross McIntosh
In this bonus episode Work Psychologist Ross McIntosh takes Dr Paula Redmond and you through an ACT exercise called "Passengers On The Bus" to help id...

"Disconnecting from work" - A conversation with Ross McIntosh
Disconnecting from work can be a real struggle for many people working in healthcare -which can have a huge impact on our mental health.
In this...

"I need to be well" - A conversation with Emily Moorhouse
Emily Moorhouse is a public health nurse. But in March 2020 she was working in nurse. At the time she thought it was her dream job, but as the pandemi...

"A world that should be but isn't" - A conversation with Dr Esther Murray
Welcome to Season 2 of the When Work Hurts podcast.
We start this second series of conversations with a look at moral injury.
It's a term...

“Who’s holding the hope?" A conversation with Dame Clare Gerada
Dame Clare Gerada is known as the Doctor's Doctor. She's the medical director and founder of Practitioner Health and as well as chair of the charity D...

“The Power of Us” A conversation with Jan Bostock
Jan Bostock is a consultant clinical psychologist who works in the Northeast and Cumbria Wellbeing Hub for health and social care staff.
She's...

“We want to be seen as whole people” A conversation with Dr Heidi Edmundson
Dr. Heidi Edmundson is a consultant in emergency medicine at the Whittington Hospital in London.
She actively campaigns to "make wellbeing a thi...

"Nobody Is OK" A conversation with Claire Goodwin-Fee
When work and life hurts being able to talk about how we feel and have those feelings heard and validated can make a huge difference to how we navigat...

"Finding Our Values In Our Pain" A conversation with Dr Joe Oliver
Over the last couple of years many people have been reflecting on how closely our working lives are aligned with our values. For health professionals...

"What A Time To Be Alive" A conversation with Dr Rosie Baruah
Staff in intensive care have found themselves right at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this episode I speak to Dr Rosie Baruah, a consult...