This marketplace session gave delegates the opportunity to hear from four different organisations that have successfully delivered a diverse range of staff health and well-being programmes.
Chair: Dr Sally Coomber, clinical lead, SEQOHS
Speakers:
- Kim Jenkins and Helen Lovatt, NHS Gloucestershire
- Maggie Bell, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS FT
- Joanne Twist and Amanda Oates, The Walton Centre
- Dr Ursula Ferriday, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- John Harrison, NHS Plus
- Dr Tamsin Radford, consultant and head of occupational health & well-being service, Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.
Representatives from each organisation were located in four areas of the room and had 15 minutes to present their experiences, successes and challenges to delegates and to answer any questions. Delegates then rotated between the speakers each 15 minutes.
NHS Gloucestershire
Kim Jenkins and Helen Lovatt from NHS Gloucestershire asserted to delegates the case for embedding health and well-being and shared their experiences of developing and delivering a learning programme to help staff to better deal with and manage stress and improve feelings of well-being. Consisting of five training modules, the programme included making changes, healthy lifestyles and transforming your thinking and targeted particularly staff returning from long-term absence as well as those with numerous periods of short-term absence.
Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
The impending requirement for the accreditation of NHS occupational health services set the backdrop for a presentation from John Harrison of NHS Plus and Dr Tamsin Radford from Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals’ occupational health department. Following an overview of the process towards accreditation from John, Dr Radford, whose trust has completed the accreditation process, recommended some top tips including ensuring board engagement in the process, partnership working and good organisation and planning.
South West Yorkshire Partnership FT
An overview of a leadership learning programme to support individual and team resilience during significant organisational change was set out by Maggie Bell from South West Yorkshire Partnership FT. Titled ‘middleground’ events, the learning sessions were delivered over two days and provided staff in band six and above with a strategic overview of the trust’s objectives and practical skills for managing through change.
The Walton Centre FT
Joanne Twist and Amanda Oates from The Walton Centre FT shared their experiences of developing and delivering their trust’s health and well-being programme – ‘Work well the Walton way’. Central to this, was the coordination of the first NHS North West Corporate Games working in partnership to promote among staff, the benefits of physical exercise. A range of other physical activity services are available which include Zumba, a running club and cycle scheme.
Key to their success was both board engagement and visibility of the executive team, as well as proactive staff engagement.