Health and Wellbeing

Having a leadership culture, where health and wellbeing are encouraged and supported, is key to ensuring staff are able to enhance and prioritise their own wellbeing. Embracing cultures of wellbeing improves staff experience and staff engagement as well as reducing sickness and absences and improving staff retention.

Health and Wellbeing Support

Healthy Leadership Framework

The Healthy Leadership Framework is a behavioural framework that can be used to support healthy leadership development. You can self-assess your leadership against the 15 behaviours of this framework and use the action plan to identify a range of actions you can take to become a healthier leader.

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Looking after your team’s health and wellbeing guide

This guide, ‘Looking After Your Team’s Health and Wellbeing’, has been designed to help you and your team explore what being a part of a healthy team means for you. It is a practical guide with activities and resources that can be delivered in a team setting.

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Leadership Live

This on-demand series discusses leadership with experts from health and care to stimulate new thinking, fresh perspectives, and share best practice. The following episodes deal directly with building wellbeing cultures:

Public Sector Self-Compassion at Work Programme

This interactive programme has been designed to significantly improve leaders’ health, wellbeing, and resilience and will enable you turn self-compassion into a positive behaviour at home and work. This is a four week programme accessed online at users discretion.

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Wellbeing and Attendance Management Policy Implementation Toolkit

This toolkit has been designed to support any organisation that wants to implement a holistic person-centred wellbeing and attendance management policy. It contains:

  • A background and rationale for change.
  • 8 steps to successfully implement the policy.
  • Links and resources to support implementation.
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Leadership Learning Zone

The LLZ features a range of key topics that can be accessed via e-learning, designed to make learning flexible and readily available at a time that suits you. The following modules can help develop the wellbeing of you and your team.

  • Coaching Skills
  • Stress Management
  • Understanding Yourself
  • Managing People
  • Managing Through Change
  • Unconscious Bias
  • Equality & Diversity
  • Resilience
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Kindness in Leadership
  • How to give Effective Feedback
  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Leading in Complexity
  • Working with Tensions
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Further health and wellbeing support is available through NHS England and NHS Employers. Their support includes health and wellbeing programmes, workshops and guides as well as support for right now, such as staff health services, apps and employee finance and wellbeing schemes. To find out more about The NHS North West Leadership Academy’s health and wellbeing offers or to contact the team please email us: nwla.leadership@nhs.net