National Wellbeing Hub
There are several factors that can influence our overall wellbeing. The National Wellbeing Hub offers a range of information and support on everything from financial worries, to support for carers, ways to support staff wellbeing, sleep, Menopause, burnout, and men’s health. For more information please click here. National Wellbeing Helpline for everyone working in health and social care services 24/7. Phone 0800 111 4191.
Staff in Distress Sheet
This is an information sheet (pdf) on the range of support available, both internally and through outside agencies, to you or any colleague if you are experiencing distress or are in crisis. This includes supports available for those experiencing mental health concerns.
OHS
NHS Grampian’s Occupational Health Service (Go Health) provide a wide range of services and comprises a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and counsellors. For referrals or to view the Policy please click here: Information can be found on My Healthy Workplace Website here or via the Occupational Health Service page of the intranet here.
(Please note that intranet links can only be accessed on NHS Grampian computers, if you need further information please speak to your manager)
Menopause Awareness in the Workplace
Roughly 9,500 of NHS Grampian employees are women, all of whom will experience the menopause at some stage. There are also currently over 2,500 women employees aged between 45 – 54, which is almost 28% of the NHS Grampian female workforce. For many women, menopause causes a great deal of stress, and being at work can make it worse. Although it is rarely discussed at work, the menopause is a natural stage of life that millions of women workers are either going through now or will experience in the future. The aim is to make people aware of the issues that women who go through the menopause can face, and how these can affect the way they work. The course is aimed at line managers, team leaders, supervisors, HR personnel and all other employees to find out how they can support women at work who go through this phase in their lives, and to women employees themselves, to make them aware of the fact that they can seek support if required. For more information or to book onto a session, please click here. You can also contact gram.wecare@nhs.scot.
Spaces for Listening
#SpacesForListening are open to all staff in health and social care. The sixty-minute sessions are formed by a simple, structured process that creates a space in which everyone in the group has an equal opportunity to experience a level of listening and sharing within a spirit of appreciation and confidentiality. There are no more than eight people in each session. The host is part of the group and guides three prompted rounds. Each person takes a turn to share their thoughts, feelings, and reflections in response to the prompt questions - and it’s always okay to pass in any particular round. The core principles of the approach are to stick to the timings and a set running order, thereby ensuring the equality of space and safety each person experiences. To find out when places are available and to book a place please visit the Turas Page.
Promoting Resilience
Individuals, line managers and supervisors attending this 2.5 hour workshop will be support to learn and apply resilience knowledge and skills with learning outcomes that will help individuals understand the link between pressure, stress, performance and health, measure personal resilience, measure emotional intelligence and identify actions you can take to build self-resilience. For more information or to book onto a session, please click here.
Guided Journaling
Journaling is recognised as being helpful in reducing anxiety through: providing clarity; identifying patterns; revealing emotions, and processing decisions. It can help us become more flexible and accepting in our thinking. Strengthened self-discipline and achievement of goals and are also attributed to journaling. These 30-minute guided journaling sessions provide us with an opportunity
to pause and reflect; to observe and understand what’s happening around us and inside of ourselves. For more information and to book onto a session please visit the Turas Page here.
Recovery in Mental Health
The course explores recovery and helps individuals understand how recovery is both possible and likely in mental health. The course has been developed for those wishing to learn how recovery can support mental health illness. For more information or to book onto a session, please click here
Relaxation Workshop
A mainly practical workshop (80%) allowing participants to experience a range of relaxation methods. The stress/relaxation response, human performance curve and benefits of practice are also highlighted. A variety of relaxation techniques are provided in the form of handouts along with a relaxation practice CD. For more information or to book onto a session, please click here.
Stress Awareness
The Stress Awareness session is designed to provide participants with increased knowledge regarding stress, assess their current stress producing factors and learn practical methods to increase health and wellbeing. For more information or to book onto a session, please click here.
Focus on your Finances
This course is designed to help employees identify the key financial issues that can arise during their working life and assist them with making key decisions and those who wish to take control of their finances. For more information or to book onto a session, please click here.
Psychological Safety
The Psychological Safety course runs for 2-hours and is suitable for those who have no knowledge of psychological safety as well as those who would like to refresh their existing knowledge. The course focuses on what psychological safety is and why it is important, things that undermine psychological safety, i.e., why people might be unwilling to speak up. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on what drives psychological safety, so what makes people feel comfortable to speak up. For more information or to book onto a session, please click here.
Understanding, Developing and Maintaining Personal Resilience
Resilience is a person’s ability to adapt – to reshape in response to situations encountered. The measure of resilience is the measure of their capacity for change. Resilience underpins all sustainable performance and wellbeing. Being resilient creates capacity for navigating uncertainty in healthy and effective ways. At the heart of resilience is agency – the individual owning their own resilience levels and implications – plus learning. For more information or to book onto a session, please click here.
Spiritual Care
In accordance with the Spiritual Care Policy of NHS Grampian the Chaplaincy department has always offered staff support to NHS Grampian and its partners at any time. The support is confidential and independent of line management structures. Chaplains are skilled listeners who can assist you in reflecting on the circumstances you have found yourself in, change how you see things and help you with coping strategies. Religion will not be spoken about, unless raised by you. For more information please visit the Spiritual Care pages on the My Healthy Workplace site available here or via the intranet here.
(Please note that intranet links can only be accessed on NHS Grampian computers, if you need further information please speak to your manager)
Coaching
Coaching is a solution-focussed development intervention that supports people to achieve improved personal contribution, performance and operational effectiveness. The coaching, provided through the Coaching Bank, is for development and performance in the organisational context; it is not ‘life’ coaching. For more information on coaching please visit the intranet page available here or view the Coaching Bank Leaflet here
Level Up is a strengths-based coaching, free personal leadership programme. Its intention is to help you be the best version of yourself, with the confidence to share your unique skills and perspectives in creating a better world for yourself, for others, and for the environment that we all share.
(Please note that intranet links can only be accessed on NHS Grampian computers, if you need further information please speak to your manager)
Mentoring
Within NHS Grampian we have access to Mentors from within the organisatoin and also to Mentors on the North East Learning Collaborative (NELC) Mentoring Bank. For more information visit the intranet page here or view the Mentoring Bank Leaflet here
(Please note that intranet links can only be accessed on NHS Grampian computers, if you need further information please speak to your manager)
Equality and Diversity
Equality and Diversity is simply about treating people fairly, both in the services we provide and within NHS Grampian. As well as being common sense, this is also a legal duty. NHS Grampian provides a comprehensive programme of training for staff. For more information you can either visit the Equality and Diversity page on MY Healthy Workplace here or via the Intranet page available here.
(Please note that intranet links can only be accessed on NHS Grampian computers, if you need further information please speak to your manager)