Return with Resilience - Tools for a confident and compassionate return to clinical practice (RTT25SEP26)

Booking courses

Please ensure that you check your availability before booking a place and add the booking to your diary / calendar. Please ensure that you also book the relevant study leave in advance with your employer.

Please refrain from booking multiple instances of the same course or course type to ensure that places are available to your colleagues. If a course is full, please add yourself to the waiting list and you will receive a notification if a place becomes available.

Multiday courses

This is a multiday course. The attendance requirements for multiday courses are:

You must secure rota coordinator agreement for the time off for all course days before booking and follow the study leave process

Attendance at all sessions is required in order to complete the course and be awarded a participation certificate

If your availability changes before the course and you know that you will be unable to attend one or more sessions, you must cancel your place as soon as possible

If you are absent from day 1 of the course, you will be withdrawn from the remainder of the course

Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

Booking cancellation

Participants must make every effort to attend courses they have booked. If your availability changes after booking, please cancel your place through Maxcourse as soon as possible. This will release the place for colleagues on the waiting list.

If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies.

This course is restricted to trainee doctors and dentists who are taking time out of training or who have returned to training within the last 3 months. IMG trainee doctors may also attend within their first 6 months of working within the NHS. (IMG = International Medical Graduate.) Please only book if you meet these criteria.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

To support Doctors who are returning to clinical practice after a career break, sabbatical, parental leave, or reduced work, by building psychological, emotional and practical strength enabling a smooth, confident and sustainable return to work.

By the end of this two-day course participants will be able to:

- Reflect on their personal and professional journey to understand how the break has affected them mentally, emotionally and clinically.

- Recognise common challenges faced by returners (e.g., self-doubt, anxiety, boundary uncertainty, workload stress).

- Learn and practise evidence-based strategies to manage stress, regulate emotions, and maintain work–life balance.

- Rebuild confidence in their clinical identity and develop a resilient mindset

- Reintegrate into practice with clarity: define personal values, boundaries, and communication style.

- Develop a tailored “Return Toolkit” including self-care habits, boundary-setting plans, and reflective practices

- Create a personal action plan for the first 3–6 months back in work, including resilience strategies and support network mapping.

On completion of the course participants will:

• Understand the psychological and emotional impact of career breaks and return to practice including self-doubt, change anxiety, and identity shifts.
• Have learned and practised practical self-regulation techniques (mindfulness, breathing exercises, grounding, stress-management) to carry into clinical work.
• Be able to recognise signs of burnout, compassion fatigue, and overwhelm, and know how to respond proactively.
• Have tools to rebuild professional identity and confidence in clinical competence and decision-making after time away.
• Possess strategies to set healthy boundaries and manage workload effectively protecting patient care, personal wellbeing, and long-term career sustainability.
• Have created a bespoke “Return-to-Practice Plan” combining personal values, professional goals, self-care routines, peer or mentor support, and practical steps for re-integrating into work.
• Feel supported and connected via peer discussion and shared experiences with others returning to practice.
• By Implementing these skills, participants will experience: - Increased confidence - Reduced anxiety - Enhanced communication and consultation skills - Healthy processing skills - A resilient mindset