A healthy team leads to a great experience for all your team members, and ultimately better care for our patients. This guide is designed to help you and your team explore what being part of a healthy team means for you, and to embark on a collaborative journey where you are ‘in the driving seat’ to improve things, together.
We know that being healthy and well is different, for different people, at different times and that one size does not fit all. This guide recognises this by empowering you and your team to create a wellbeing culture that is right for your team, in your local setting, and at your own pace. It has been designed so that you and your team:
- will experience a flexible journey to create a personalised culture of team wellbeing
- are supported to explore health and wellbeing holistically, including aspects of environmental, physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing
- have an engaging experience, by offering practical insights, quick ideas, experiences, and exercises to recognise and bring about the very best in wellbeing in your team
- can flexibly benefit from the guide in your context, by supporting teams across our diverse range of health and care organisations both large and small, having been co-designed collaboratively with colleagues across healthcare, primary care, social care, and voluntary sectors
- are introduced to the existing evidence base around team wellbeing in a simple and engaging way, having been inspired by the NHS health and wellbeing framework, Healthy leadership framework and NHS people promise
- have access to resources that are designed to grow over time, by continually adding inspiring content, resources, links, and case studies for you to use that will support you on your ongoing journey of improvement.
Check out each section below or go straight to NHS England » Looking after your team’s health and wellbeing guide to find out loads more about the guide and the resources they have available to help you and your team thrive.
- Identify your team’s wellbeing goals – this is where you can start your journey and find help to support you in understanding your team’s wellbeing needs.
- Creating a safe and inclusive space to talk about wellbeing – this section will help team members to think about leadership behaviours in a team.
- Looking after your emotional, physical and mental health – this section will help team members to think about leadership behaviours in a team.
- Ensuring you have a safe working environment – this section will help you to review your physical workspaces and the facilities available to rest, recover and succeed. It also explores safety at work and dealing with aggression in the workplace.
- Collaborative and supportive relationships that promote social wellbeing – this section will help team members to reflect on the ways the team works together to boost civility, respect and build compassion.
- Finding meaning in the work you do and bringing your whole self to work – this section will help team members to connect with the wider purpose of the team and encourage each team member to tap into their full potential and bring their ‘whole self’ to work.
- Knowing where to go when you need wellbeing support – this section will help team members to gain a shared understanding of the workload within the team and the services available to support team members to look after their health and wellbeing.
- Review and revisit your team’s wellbeing culture and goals – this section will help team members revisit and review their wellbeing culture and goals.
Support For Our NHS People
The NHS achieves extraordinary things for patients, but this is only possible if the safety, health and wellbeing of our people is recognised as a key priority. If we don’t look after ourselves and our colleagues, we cannot deliver safe, high quality patient care. The national health and wellbeing programme was set up prior to the pandemic in 2019 to specifically support the wellbeing of our NHS people and is split into a number of key areas. Read more about each programme and access nationally published guidance by clicking here.
From here you will find information and e-learning about topics such as ‘Violence Prevention & Reduction’, ‘Wellbeing Conversations’ and support for sexual misconduct, menopause and financial wellbeing to name a few. The pandemic has had a significant physical, mental and psychological impact on our people – and this will continue for some time to come. Their varied support offers are here to stay, and they will remain here for you to access when needed and support you on your wellbeing journey, or to seek further help at the point at which it is needed.
The Wellbeing Collective offers individuals, organisations and communities simple solutions to complex issues. Providing a wide range of flexible people development services and products, they are an established and trusted national partner, working across all sectors. Their values contribute to the health and wellbeing of those they work with. This includes our golden thread – positive psychology. By using positive psychology they ensure their values are embedded into every conversation.
Click the link Free Resources – Wellbeing Collective to find even more resources