Each and every Wednesday we will be sharing upcoming events, tips, activities and more to help support you to look after your mental health and wellbeing!
*Event Today*
ICS Women’s Network Celebrating Inspirational Women in Black History Month
Let’s talk about Race
To mark Black History Month 2022 in the Midlands, the Regional EDI Team are promoting a series of video resources as part of their “Let’s talk about Race” campaign launched in 2021
The videos aim to share lived experiences and the series of stories aims to show how changes in culture and thinking improves everyone’s lives.
The right fit: Mwamba Bennett
Mwamba Bennett, a Senior Contract Manager, explains how equality of opportunity can be misunderstood and that we need to do better to involve people with lived experience of racism to improve policy and practices.
Mwamba believes that Black Lives Matter movement has created some positive shift.
The Cultural Ambassador: Suresh Packiam
Suresh Packiam, a trained cultural ambassador and a BME leader, talks about the positive impact cultural ambassadors have in addressing racism.
This short video also highlights one of the biggest obstacles we face in moving the race equality agenda forward.
The Advocate: Jennifer Pearson
Jennifer Pearson, an experienced leader and a Lead Nurse in the Midlands speaks about the power of staff voice.
Jennifer believes that we have made some positive shift in creating space for minority staff to be heard and have their say but the pace of change in achieving fairness and equality is too slow.
Vivup – Employee Benefits Platform
On Monday 3rd October we launched our employee assistance program, provided by Vivup.
This program is open to all General Practice, PCN, Federation, and Alliance employees.
Vivup has an exciting range of free employee benefits to offer; including discounts on days out, grocery shopping, and travel.
Also, Vivup offers access to a 24/7, 365 days a year telephone helpline. This service allows staff to access free, impartial, and confidential advice from qualified counsellors by phoning 03303 800 658.
We’re aware that some users may have had issues whilst attempting to register their details with Vivup. We are working with Vivup to address this. In the meantime, if you would like to register your own account, please follow the steps below:
1. Visit vivup.co.uk and start the registration process by clicking ‘Register Here’
2. Select ‘Coventry and Warwickshire – General Practice, PCN, Federation and Alliance Staff (CWIPC)’ as your organisation and complete the rest of the form
3. For your employee number, please enter the number ‘123456’ to proceed
4. You will receive a verification email to your work address, please click ‘Confirm my account’ to finish the registration process.
