Psychosocial mental health and wellbeing support

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 animation, wellbeing planning tool and emodule to help you create your own unique plan for looking after yourself and protecting your wellbeing.

If you are a member of the health and social care workforce and feel that you would benefit from some extra help in managing your wellbeing, you can access resources to help you with:

Sleepio is a clinically-evidenced sleep improvement programme that is fully automated and highly personalised, using cognitive behavioural techniques to help improve poor sleep.

Daylight is a smartphone-based app that provides help to people experiencing symptoms of worry and anxiety, using evidence-based cognitive behavioural techniques, voice, and animation.

Managing stress, sleep and building resilience evidence based online CBT programmes from SilverCloud (access code: Scotland2020).

 Parts of your work are likely to have changed significantly, or it may be that you are doing a similar job but the intensity and volume of work has increased. You can use the wellbeing plan above to help you to recognise when these changes are affecting you negatively and plan how to respond in ways that are helpful for your own wellbeing.  In addition, the following offer helpful information about the factors that can support or challenge your wellbeing:

•    Evidence-based tools to support your health and wellbeing leaflet, Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders & Trauma.
   
•    Evidence-based tools for frontline staff infographic, Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders & Trauma.
   
•    Intensive Care Society : wellbeing resource library.
   
•    Going Home Checklist to help act as a psychological barrier between home and work.

eLearning module:

•    If you already have an account with Turas Learn, login and access the Psychological first aid module.

•    If you do not have an account, it is simple and free to register with Turas Learn.

•    Note this account is the same as your Turas Appraisal account.

•    A PowerPoint version is also available : Psychological first aid.

In these uncertain times, our usual ways of doing things (our habits) have been interrupted; we are all being asked to change how we live and look after ourselves and others, how we interact with people and how we work, which can leave us feeling stressed and under pressure. Making the changes suggested in these and other websites will help our wellbeing, but we know that making changes is difficult. Research shows that making a detailed plan, thinking about barriers and how you will overcome them and keeping an eye on your progress, makes change easier.

Once you have committed to do something to support your wellbeing, use the MAP Planner to help you make a detailed plan of how you will put that commitment into action.