Health and Wellbeing Model
We have made good progress with supporting staff to maintain and improve their health and wellbeing including:
- Providing health MOTs for staff to provide advice on ways to maintain and improve physical health.
- Raising awareness of access to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to support mental health and wellbeing.
- Further integration of the Centre for Health and Wellbeing as a Board-wide resource including increased staff access and support through fitness challenges, classes, activities and other opportunities.
- Occupational Health Physiotherapists delivering a person-centred approach in their work with staff to help them achieve the goals or aims that are most important to them (‘what matters toyou?’)
- Promoting healthy eating habits by providing healthy living options in our dining facilities and promoting the importance of good nutrition.
- Equality and Diversity training for all staff that includes raising awareness and understanding of health inequalities and the impact on health and wellbeing of both staff and patients.
- Supporting Schwartz Rounds which give staff from all disciplines the opportunity to reflect on the emotional aspects of their work.
- Values Based Reflective Practice (VBRP) led by two qualified trainers to provide a structured tool to reflect on both work, and the impact of that work upon staff. VBRP also offers tools to consider values in action; what personal and professional motives drive employees; whose needs are being met by our actions and working practices; and where employee derive personal resilience.
- Further development of the Caring Behaviours Assurance System programme which promotes self-care for staff as a key component of the methodology.
- This strategy details our framework for building on this strong foundation and the key priorities for developing our approach to health and wellbeing.
