Welcome
Welcome to this weeks Wellbeing Wednesday!
Read on to find out:
- how you can access the Body Coach app for free
- where and when the Sky Blues MENtalk sessions are
- how you can get involved in the Peer wellbeing sessions
- details on the Kings Fund ‘Leading well for staff health and wellbeing‘ course
- how you can access tips and tools to support your Health and Wellbeing via your Employee Assistance Programme – Vivup
If you have any ideas on themes or topics for future editions, or if you’d like to share a good news story, please do get in touch with us via cw.traininghub@nhs.net
We hope you find the tips, tools and resources useful.
The Body Coach app: free access for NHS Workers
NHS employees work tirelessly each day to look after the health of our nation. To say a little thank I want to offer all NHS employees free access to The Body Coach App for three months.
Regular exercise and eating nutritious meals can provide huge benefits for our physical and mental health.
Through giving free app access to NHS employees, I hope I can help them to improve their health and happiness, while they’re working hard to support us
Joe Wicks
For free access to The Body Coach app, just click the button below and complete the form using your registered NHS.net or NHS.uk email address to get strated.
Peer Wellbeing Sessions
As part of the Looking After You coaching service, NHS England is planning to run a series of facilitated peer wellbeing sessions for the primary care workforce.
The aim of these sessions is to bring people together with a trained coach to discuss and plan how to improve and maintain wellbeing. Each peer wellbeing group will be made up of six-eight people that will meet fortnightly for four weeks.
Groups will include one for men, men/women from an ethnically diverse background, people living with a disability, and a group open to anyone from any background. Please complete this expression of interest by Friday 10 March.
MENtalk session
Sky Blues are due to start a new MENtalk session in Coventry every Saturday morning to reach out to men who are unable to attend sessions during the week
Sessions will be held at Bluecoat School, Terry Road, Coventry, CV1 2BA from 11am till 1pm.
For more information on weekend sessions and other sessions running across Coventry and Warwickshire please click here
Leading well for staff health and wellbeing
It is essential that managers and leaders in the NHS know how to better support their teams during unprecedented pressures on the health care workforce.
The health and wellbeing of staff affects the quality of care they provide to patients, service users and communities.
Who is it for?
Leaders, at all levels, working in the NHS
What will you achieve?
- understand the role of unacknowledged dynamics and systemic forces in shaping health outcomes for staff
- identify the various human needs that must be met in the workplace to support and promote staff health and wellbeing
- recognise the skills and qualities central to leadership that is humane, compassionate and effective, in the current context of health and care.
Book on to our free, online, three-week course here
Health and Wellbeing support for you
Confidential support when you need it the most
Whatever mental health, physical, financial or personal issue you are facing, access expert help and support for life’s ups and downs, 24/7, 365 days a year.
Below, you’ll find a wide range of care and support specialists waiting to hear from you. You can use this service as many or as few times as you like, there’s no limit on the support you can receive.
