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The Workplace
The United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) is the fifth largest employer in the world, comprising over 5% of the entire UK working population and employing twice as many people as the top 100 UK private sector employers combined. Looking after the wellbeing of healthcare workers, and all those they care for,  is a huge issue of importance to society.

Current Challenges
  • Financial pressure
  • Staffing
  • Low morale
  • High demand
  • Ageing population
  • Competing priorities
How does this affect us?
  • Level of sickness absence
  • Numbers of leavers
  • Number and cost of new recruits
  • Proportion of leavers due to ill-health or low morale
  • Level of agency spand
​WORKING IN CRITICAL CARE
Critical care offers challenges to personal balance and wellbeing which include, but not exclusive to, prolonged engagement with patients and their carers, potential for poor outcomes, need for complex decision making, a 24/7 workload and the ubiquity of moral distress. However, on the other hand there can be substantial rewards. These include teamwork and peer support, predictable duties, a defined area of work, the privilege and challenge of working with seriously ill patients, and sometimes great treatment success.

Critical care also encompasses a complex mixed workforce, some in close knit teams, while others work in disparate groups and across multiple areas with less supportive mechanisms. Each area provided challenges and opportunities.

It is widely acknowledged that there are complex dynamic factors that influence workforce wellbeing and resilience.

Management strategies often focus upon the healthcare professional managing their stress at work, but there is growing acknowledgement that the nature of work and how an individual can be impacted by their team, their environment and the larger healthcare system. Wellbeing can only be achieved if we address the larger system.
​WORK AND HEALTH
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  • Work offers opportunities to promote health and wellbeing
  • Works can be good for your health
  • Work can be bad for your health
  • Is there a correct balance between preventing work related ill health and managing absence?
  • What does your organisation do to promote work life balance?


HOW DOES YOUR ORGANISATION PROMOTE WORK-LIFE BALANCE?
  • Positive work environment
  • Development opportunities
  • Flexible working
  • Well structured teams
  • Good quality appraisals
  • Supportive managers
  • Visible Board
  • Staff feel like they make a difference
  • Involved in decision making
  • Reduced work pressures
  • Clear job role
  • Staff feel heard
  • Inclusive

Reboot Coaching Programme

We are delighted to be working with Yorkshire & Humber Patient Safety Transformational Leadership Research Centre and Bradford Teaching Hospitals to introduce you to the Reboot Coaching Programme. The (free) Reboot Coaching Programme is funded by the Burdett Trust and aims to prepare Critical Care Nurses for highly stressful clinical events and aid recovery.

If you are a Critical Care Nurse in West Yorkshire find out more by visiting the YSQR website here >>> or by clicking on the flyer below.
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ICS Health & Wellbeing Resources

The Intensive Care Society has released a wellbeing resource pack developed with Dr Julie Highfield, Clinical Psychologist. The poster series aims to improve our understanding of psychological wellbeing at work, the impact reduced wellbeing can have and what we can do in response, and includes tips for dealing with extraordinary situations such as COVID-19 and everyday working in critical care. 

​Follow the links to access the ICS Wellbeing resources :


ICS Wellbeing Hub

Intensive care as a positive place to work: Workforce Wellbeing Best Practice Framework & Self Assurance and Improvement Tool.
NHSE/I ​Critical Care Health and Wellbeing Support Postcard
NHS People Website
This website is supporting NHS staff, helping you manage your own health and wellbeing whilst looking after others. There are lots of really useful resources including links to helplines and free apps.
To access the website click here >>>>

​Civility Saves Lives – Improving workplace culture

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Staff Wellbeing

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Feel Free to download and display the Going Home Checklist that can be used to encourage reflection and mindfulness at the end of a working day. 
​Adapted from Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals. 

Coping with stress after a major incident ​
NHS - Coping with stress following a major incident.pdf
File Size: 51 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Royal College of Nursing Tool kits
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​Second Victim Support Website

​Supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, the website: www.secondvictim.co.uk​ aims to help second victims identify the types of support they may need and signpost them towards that help. It also features some powerful personal stories of how incidents have affected staff emotionally and professionally.

Based on evidence gathered from many studies into the impact of patient safety incidents on the staff involved, and their personal experiences, the website also encourages a safety culture where such incidents are managed in a way that enables learning and improves systems.

​The research team hopes the website will be used by healthcare professionals who are second victims themselves, their managers and other teams including HR, risk management, occupational health and organisational development. 
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  • Home
  • About the Network
    • Critical Care Units >
      • Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
      • Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
      • Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
      • Mid Yorkshire NHS Hospital Trust
      • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust >
        • Leeds General Infirmary
        • St James's Hospital
      • Harrogate & District Hospital
    • Clinical Advisory Board
    • Network Team
    • Stakeholders
    • Contact us
  • Network Forums
    • Meeting Dates
    • Clinical Advisory Board Members Area
    • Senior Nurses Forum Members Area
    • Transfer >
      • Transfer Training Faculty Area
    • Rehabilitation Forum >
      • RF Members area
      • Rehabilitation Package
    • Education >
      • COVID 19 Educational Resorces
      • Post Registration Critical Care Courses
      • Nursing Leadership Programme
      • Ventilation
      • EF Members area
    • Outreach >
      • OF Members area
    • SILS >
      • Global Measures
      • Best Practice Education Tools
      • Medication Safety
      • Delirium
      • VAP Care Bundle
      • Proning
      • SILS Members area
      • Regional Benchmarking Group
  • Patient Information
  • Guidelines
    • Recent Publications
    • Standards
    • Clinical Guidelines
    • Operational Guidelines
    • Emergency Planning Resources
    • Transfer
    • Spinal Referrals
    • Burns Referrals
    • Paediatric Resources
    • Procedure Checklists
    • Useful Links
  • LTHT Course
    • Meet the Team
    • Useful Links
    • Pre Course Learning Zone
    • Student Information
    • Study Day Timetable
    • Fundamental Module >
      • Module Information
      • Intro & Respiratory Study Day
      • Cardiovascular Study Day
      • Acute Kidney Injury Study Day
      • Essay & MCQ Prep (Formative)
      • IC, Gastro & Nutrition Study Day
      • Pain Study Day
      • Assignment
      • Sedation Study Day
    • Advancing Module >
      • Module Information
      • Respiratory & Cardiovasular Study Day
      • Renal Study Day
      • Gastr & Neuro Study Day
      • Formative
      • Rehabilitation Study Day
      • Transfer Study Day
      • End of Life Study Day
      • Maternal
      • Multiple Organ Failure Study Day
  • Staff Wellbeing
  • Professional Nurse Advocate
  • DOS