On the 1st Day of Christmas - Workforce Wellbeing

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The last nine months has highlighted and amplified the need to ensure NHS and Social Care Staff are supported and valued. The wellbeing of staff is key.

The NHS has historically downplayed the need for staff wellbeing services and full organisational acknowledgement and investment hasn’t been recognised until now  - it took a pandemic.

The first of our shares today explores the system wide approach to staff wellbeing and you can watch the team presenting their work in this YouTube video.

In Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust they have developed their ‘Gateshead Guardian’ initiative to give long-serving nurses an opportunity to share their experiences and advice with newly qualified nurses.#OurCannyStories - ‘Gateshead Guardians’ – supporting new starters and valuing the experienced workforce. The guardians, who all have many years of experience in the NHS, provide support, advice and knowledge to the new nurses joining the organisation for the first time. By doing this, Gateshead Health has made new staff feel more welcomed and supported in their new role, while also ensuring their more experienced workforce feel more valued. You can read about this great initiative HERE

At Frimley Park, they have a developed Woodland Wellbeing Days, allowing exhausted staff to decompress, enjoy the space and challenge themselves with new experiences. You can read more and get inspired HERE

The ‘Compassionate Connection’ Model emphasises the importance of personally engaging and connecting with staff by bringing the service to them to reduce the stigma and shame for healthcare staff of seeking help when they need it. Compassion involves the development of qualities of warmth and kindness; empathy and sympathy; care for wellbeing; wisdom, strength and courage as well as awareness of distress, the ability to tolerate it and act to reduce or alleviate it. Our need for support and connection and our ability to soothe ourselves are also central to the approach. The Compassionate Connection ethos is adopted by the team in their thinking, intentions, interactions and actions at all time in their work with all staff. They encourage staff at all levels, particularly managers, to adopt this approach in order to increase wellbeing and reduce emotional distress of team members. You can read  how a Staff Support Team utilised the model in a hospital where patients with Covid19 were being cared for as well as activity and outcome of the interventions offered and what the team learned HERE

Where's your wobble room? The Impact of creating 'safe space' for staff during Covid and beyond You can watch an inspiring presentation 

 and you can listen to staff reflections on the benefits of having a safe space HERE

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