Wellbeing

Staff well being and resilience are essential. Staff should be actively involved in selecting, planning and evaluating  well being initiatives with a promotion on a good work and life balance. The health of staff should be assessed with the implementation of health initiatives implemented as a result.  Nurse leaders foster a culture of day to day recognition, and benefits can be seen through high staff retention rates.

Work in this standard workstream is aimed at ensuring:
 

• The organisation assesses the health of its employees, and have developed health initiatives as a result of this assessment
• Senior leadership integrates employee wellbeing and resilience into strategic planning
• The trust asks nurses for suggestions re wellbeing initiatives 
• The trust involves nurses in planning and evaluation of well-being initiatives selected for implementation.
• The trust provides opportunities for nurses to create work schedules that supports their well-being.
• Nurses are encouraged to undertake and recognised for community voluntary activities.
• Nurse leadership fosters  a culture of day to day recognition
• There are support opportunities offered to address well-being of staff who have experienced adverse work related situation
• The trust has a strategy to address physical fatigue experienced by health care team
• The trust has a strategy to address compassion fatigue experienced by health care team
   

Get involved  

If you want to know more about this important piece of work  or to create or join a council, please contact: 

• Sharon McDowell - sharon.mcdowell2@nhs.net