Listen to Paul Farmer, chief executive of Mind, speaking to Helen Bogan, programme lead for health and wellbeing at NHS Employers, about the importance of mental health in the workplace. They discuss Paul's presentation to delegates at the NHS Confederation's 2018 annual conference, where he spoke about mental health being everyone's business. 
Download now for a range of actions that employers can take to improve staff mental health and help NHS employees thrive at work. 
This podcast also includes top tips on promoting good mental health as part of a successful health and wellbeing strategy.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a new Talking Toolkit to help employers prevent work related stress. 
Developed to mark National Stress Awareness Day the toolkit encourages conversations between managers and employees about the causes of work related stress. Six conversation templates have been designed to support managers and employees to talk about issues which may be causing work related stress or which could have potential to become future causes if not managed properly.

Not only does the law require employers to tackle work related stress, taking action on stress has positive benefits for an organisation including, reducing sickness absence, boosting morale and helping to improve productivity.
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To start a conversation download the Talking Toolkit.

You can find more information on supporting staff with stress in the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Partnership Groups guidance on the prevention and management of stress in the workplace and our free emotional wellbeing toolkit.

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Earlier this year HEE launched a Commission on the wellbeing and mental health of staff and learners in the NHS. In its first phase, the Commission has reviewed the published literature around workplace wellbeing for students, apprentices and trainees who will form the future NHS workforce, and for the people who are already part of that workforce.

The Commission wants to hear directly from individuals and organisations with the knowledge and experience to inform our thinking and to help us develop recommendations for improvement that will be published as part of the Commission report.
We want to hear from the whole range of stakeholders in the NHS workforce including students and learners, staff, educational and professional bodies, employers, patients and the public about the challenges within the system and find examples of good practice.

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With flu vaccination season approaching and trusts getting ready to start their local campaigns to promote the flu jab, here’s a reminder of the facts behind flu and how being vaccinated helps protect staff and patients.

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Take a look at the new framework from Acas, designed to help organisations promote positive mental health in the workplace. The resource includes manager guidance for supporting work-life balance, managing mental health at work and handling difficult conversations. 

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NHS England has released a framework to improve the health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce. With a focus on effective line management, the framework provides guidance to help you support your staff to feel well, healthy and happy at work. 

​Read more here 

Building Resilience: Supporting Senior Leaders undertaking
Transformation across Systems
 
In our recent work to understand system leadership behaviours for public sector leaders, resilience was one of the most prominent themes.  Across 17-18 the NHS NWLA expanded the range of offers available for our members to take an in-depth look at their levels of resilience and the impact of this for leadership and cultures of high performance.
  
Following on from the success of our previous Building and Sustaining Personal and Organisational Resilience workshops, the NHS NWLA are delighted to confirm a new set of dates for these sessions across the Autumn 2018.  Workshops are aimed at executive leads and senior leaders working at a system level and further details and booking information can be seen below:
    
What do we really mean by resilience? Is it something anyone can develop? And how does resilience affect performance, wellbeing and happiness?
Personal resilience is arguably the most important resource for coping well during challenging times. During a one day masterclass we will be supporting senior leaders working at a system level across the North West to explore skills that will increase confidence in their ability to bounce back from the many pressures senior leaders encounter in today’s workplace and daily lives.  In addition participants will focus on reviewing the leadership required to build effective performance and wellbeing within their teams, both within organisations and across localities and systems. We will: 

• Learn about the leadership characteristics which help build and sustain team resilience and thriving
  
• Explore the links between psychological and physical wellbeing, productivity and engagement
• Explore the concept of Engaging Leadership and undertake a personal leadership audit
• Develop leadership behaviours and examine how to create healthy followership

We will be holding three full day sessions at the end of September and throughout October across the North West to help ensure availability for all. To attend any of the sessions please book your place at the relevant links.  Further information is available on our website: 

• Thursday 27th September 2018 - Park Inn by Radisson, Manchester - book here
  
• Tuesday 9th October 2018 - Radisson Blu Hotel, Liverpool - book here
• Thursday 18th October 2018 - Macdonald Tickled Trout Hotel, Preston - book here

For any queries or further information please contact nwla.info@nhs.net or give us a call on 0161 625 7348.
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NHS North West Leadership Academy

Access a new report from the Mental Health Foundation that highlights ten key actions for helping employees manage, reduce and prevent workplace-related stress. 

​Read more here 

Access Head first, a new mental wellness resource designed for the ambulance service. The tool provides supportive and reliable information to promote positive mental wellbeing, resilience and recovery for individuals, teams and organisations.  

Read more here

What do we really mean by resilience, is it something anyone can develop? And how does resilience affect performance and wellbeing?

Personal resilience is arguably the most important resource for coping well during challenging times. During a one day masterclass we will be supporting senior leaders from across the North West currently undertaking transformation across their systems and localities to explore skills that will increase confidence in your ability to bounce back from the many pressures senior leaders encounter in today’s workplace and daily lives.  In addition you will focus on reviewing the leadership required to build effective performance and wellbeing within your teams, both within organisations and across localities and systems.
You will:
• Learn about the leadership characteristics which help build and sustain team resilience
• Explore the links between psychological and physical wellbeing, productivity and engagement
• Develop leadership behaviours and examine how to create healthy followership
We will be holding three full day sessions at the end of January and beginning of February across the North West and booking links are available below. Further information is available on our website here.

Monday 29th January 2018 - Park Inn by Radisson, Manchester - Book Here
 
Tuesday 30th January 2018 - Radisson Blu Hotel, Liverpool - Book Here
 
Wednesday 7th February 2018 - Macdonald Tickled Trout Hotel, Preston - Book Here