Taking Care of Wellbeing at Work
On this page you will find advice, resources and supports that are designed to help you to look after your own wellbeing at work, and protect the wellbeing of people who work in the teams or services that you manage. There is also information about Psychological First Aid, which will help you respond effectively to the psychological needs of anyone showing distress in the aftermath of any sort of crisis.
The page contains 3 sections:
- Taking care of myself [You can also access it on this page : https://learn.nes.nhs.scot/29700]
- Taking care of your staff [You can also access it on this page: https://learn.nes.nhs.scot/29715]
- Taking care of others [You can also access it on this page: https://learn.nes.nhs.scot/29711]
TAKING CARE OF MYSELF
At times, the demands of our work can impact how we are feeling. This page offers evidence-based information and resources that can protect and enhance our wellbeing, particularly during periods of pressure.
Tools to Support Your Wellbeing
Your Personal Wellbeing Plan
When we are busy taking care of others in our work, we can forget to pay attention to our own needs. To be able to look after others safely and effectively, we first have to take care of ourselves. You can use this video, wellbeing planning tool and e-module to help you create your own unique plan for looking after yourself and protecting your wellbeing.
Staff Wellbeing & Self-Care Video
Staff Wellbeing and Self-Care Video
This Self-Care Video introduces the ABCs of self care, and takes you through using the wellbeing planning tool as a way to proactively protect your own wellbeing. (6.26 minutes)
Wellbeing Planning Tool
Wellbeing Planning Tool
You can download and use this Wellbeing Planning Tool to help you identify your own personal early warning signs that your wellbeing may be at risk, and to make a plan to for how to respond to keep yourself well.
“Staff wellbeing: taking care of yourself” TURAS Module
Taking Care of Yourself
This Taking Care of Yourself module provides the ABCs of taking care of yourself and the active steps we can all take to protect and sustain our wellbeing.
How to Access the Module
This module is how to protect and sustain our wellbeing.
- Already registered with Turas Learn? Simply log in and access Taking Care of Yourself.
- New to Turas Learn? It is simple and free to register.
- Note: Your Turas Learn account is the same as your Turas Appraisal account.
Some Additional Resources to Support Your Wellbeing
Going Home Checklist
Having clear boundaries between work and home can help improve your wellbeing. The ‘Going Home Checklist' encourages reflection and mindfulness at the end of your working day.
National Wellbeing Hub
The National Wellbeing Hub offers access to a range of helpful tools, including apps and online programmes to support your mental health and wellbeing. These include tools to help with stress, low mood, anxiety, and sleep. Each app or tool is explained clearly so you can choose the one that best fits your needs. It also includes the MAP Planner – a behaviour change planner that can help you turn the decision to do something to support your wellbeing into action.
Intensive Care Society: Thriving at Work
The Intensive Care Society’s “Thriving at Work” hub focuses on staff wellbeing in critical care by exploring individual, team, and systemic factors. It outlines preventative and responsive strategies to help staff function optimally and maintain resilience.
TAKING CARE OF YOUR STAFF
Managers, leaders, and planners of teams play a significant role in supporting wellbeing at work. These resources can help you to protect the wellbeing of people who work in the teams or services that you manage.
Protecting the Psychological Wellbeing of Staff and Teams
Wellbeing of Staff
This Protecting the Psychological Wellbeing of Staff and Teams module is designed to support managers and team leaders to effectively and proactively protect the resilience of the workforce.
(30 to 60-minutes)
How to Access the Module
This module is for managers and leaders of teams and services, particularly those working in high-pressure or crisis-affected environments.
- Already registered with Turas Learn? Simply log in and access Protecting the Psychological Wellbeing of Staff and Teams for Managers and Team Leaders.
- New to Turas Learn? It is simple and free to register.
- Note: Your Turas Learn account is the same as your Turas Appraisal account.
Preventing and Responding to Staff Distress
Responding to staff distress
This handout presents a stepped care model for responding to staff distress. It is designed to help managers and teams think about a stepped care model for proactively supporting wellbeing in the workplace and responding to distress. It outlines the universal factors that will protect the wellbeing of staff and reduce the need for intervention, as well as the hierarchy of responses where more tailored interventions may be required.
Responding to the Impact of Bereavement in the Workplace
When working in health and social care, we may come across bereavement related situations. This might be encountering a colleague who is bereaved and / or following the death of a patient or client. You can find helpful resources to help you and your team support individuals, colleagues and teams in the workplace at http://www.sad.scot.nhs.uk/bereavement/ | Support Around Death
We may also during our working life experience the death of a colleague. There are five modules available to help you respond as a team if you experience the death of a colleague here: Death of a colleague e-Learning modules | Turas | Learn
TAKING CARE OF OTHER PEOPLE
General Principles: Psychological First Aid e-Module
Whatever your role, international research supports using the principles of ‘Psychological First Aid’ in the aftermath of any sort of crisis to improve longer-term psychosocial outcomes and effective recovery for everyone.
Psychological First Aid involves offering humane, supportive and practical help, paying attention to the factors that seem to be most helpful to people’s long-term recovery (according to various studies and the consensus of many crisis helpers).
Key Components
Psychological First Aid (General)
This Psychological First Aid module is designed to support the workforce to deliver effective Psychological First Aid to in order to help those in distress in the immediate aftermath of a crisis
(45 minutes)
How to Access the Module
This module is how to support the workforce.
- Already registered with Turas Learn? Simply log in and access Psychological First Aid.
- New to Turas Learn? It is simple and free to register.
- Note: Your Turas Learn account is the same as your Turas Appraisal account.