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Starting Well With Working Well

What is Starting Well with Working Well?

Starting Well with Working Well is part of the health and wellbeing support offered to all new colleagues within the first 4 weeks of starting their new role with our Trust. The support is made up of 2 interactive virtual sessions plus a face to face consultation. Whilst attendance is completely optional – you can even pick and choose which ones you would like to attend – we really hope you will join all 3 sessions!

The aims of the programme are:

  1. To introduce new colleagues to the wide range of resources available to support health and wellbeing.
  2. To raise awareness of common and sometimes hidden health issues and the support available to colleagues.
  3. To ensure colleagues know where to go for help and support if they need to access the Staff Physiotherapy Service.
  4. To ensure colleagues know where to go for help and support if they need to access psychological support.
  5. To start the Wellness Action Plan which you might like to use during health and wellbeing conversations with your Line Manager in the future.

Why do we offer Starting Well with Working Well?

We know that healthy, happy staff are more compassionate, provide safer care and are more likely to be productive, so looking after your health is paramount to supporting your success in your new role. We also know that our colleagues are often confronted with the extremes of frustration, sadness and despair whilst at work and this can sometimes profoundly impact upon wellbeing. We think that Starting Well with Working Well will help us all to work together to provide outstanding care to each other as well as our service users, and will support our Trust to be a great place to work.

What is involved?

Starting Well with Working Well is made up of 3 parts

  • Know Your Numbers
  • Musculoskeletal health and wellbeing
  • Psychological health and wellbeing

KNOW YOUR NUMBERS

Cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose levels can give an indication of your overall health and it is, therefore, important to keep an eye on them. If you would like to know more, you can meet with our Occupational Health and Wellbeing Technician who will offer to:

  • test each of your vital numbers so you know what they are
  • answer any queries you might have about your vital numbers
  • talk about any aspects of healthy lifestyles you may be interested in and which might impact your vital numbers
  • offer further help and support or signposting

Want to book? Just email: Working Well@ghc.nhs.uk

MUSCULOSKELETAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Here you will join a virtual event run by our Occupational Health Physiotherapist Specialist and one of the Staff Physiotherapists. The events are run twice every month and will cover topics such as:

  • how to protect yourself from aches and pains whilst at work
  • the recommended guidelines for activities to keep you well
  • warning signs to look out for
  • how to join Health&Hustle
  • how to get help quickly
  • your Wellness Action Plan

Want to book? Just email: workingwell@ghc.nhs.uk

PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Here you will join a virtual event run by members of the Working Well Counselling Service. The events are run twice every month and cover topics such as:

  • how mental health impacts us at work and at home
  • what is stress and how it can affect you
  • what can you do to keep yourself psychologically well
  • what support is available and how do you access it
  • your Wellness Action Plan

Want to book? Just email: workingwell@ghc.nhs.uk

MY WELLNESS ACTION PLAN

Click here to download your Wellness Action Plan. The notes you make here will remind you what you need to do to stay well and will help you to develop an awareness of your physical and psychological triggers and responses. You could use it with your Line Manager to agree together how to support you practically in your role when you discuss your health and wellbeing.

CONFIDENTIALITY

All information given to Working Well as part of this health and wellbeing support will be treated in line with our strict confidentiality and consent rules. Our full Privacy Notice can be found here. 

How to contact Working Well

Telephone: 01452 894480          Email: workingwell@ghc.nhs.uk

Our headquarters are at Rikenel, Montpellier, Gloucester GL1 1LY

We are open from 8.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday