Organisation
Health and wellbeing support for staff and managers (inc. OH & EAP services)
Working across all of our organisations and at place, the SEL ICS has access to range of assets including internationally renowned hospice provision, an academic health science centre and health innovation network, education & learning and some of the largest teaching hospitals in the country. We will take full advantage of all the SEL ICS has to offer when supporting staff in health and social care.
We are committed to the principle that our programme of work should be inclusive and accessible for all staff working in health and social care, regardless of employer. The SHWB Committee will also ensure that we link this strategy into the other areas of work (workstreams) across the ICS, to join up our support to you and simplify where we can. In delivery, we will leverage the support of our wider system partners and organisations to work through progressing outcomes.
System working and its benefits
- In its purest sense, system working will enable collaboration across our organisations, fostering the ‘one workforce’ ethos. We are hopeful to see many benefits including:
- Achieving our Integrated Care aim of improving health and care together across our sector
- Continuously checking in with staff so we can improve and adapt our offer to meet the changing needs of staff
- Being a leading example of providing health and wellbeing support
- Happy, healthy, workforce –South East London becomes a more attractive place to work and develop a career.
The role of the SHWB committee and SEL People Board
As a sub-committee of the SEL People Board, we will ensure that our programme of work aligns with the wider SEL People Strategy and wider SEL ICS aims. The SHWB committee also play an influencing role in ensuring that all of our People Programme takes into account fundamental wellbeing principles.
Working together identifying and developing opportunities for ‘once for SEL’ offers and programmes of work
Place
Place based activities and support and working together as teams across health and social care
Integrated Care System
Supporting collaboration on health and wellbeing support in learning and sharing across the ICS
Conclusion – our ongoing commitment
At the heart of our strategy lies our unwavering commitment to the wellbeing of our diverse workforce. We recognise that by their very nature, our jobs continue to be extremely demanding, especially as the population needs continue to change and become increasingly complex. We acknowledge that stress and burnout are an ongoing challenge for the health and social care workforce and therefore we are dedicated to hearing from you and understanding the causes of this, as it relates to our ways of working, and what we can do as organisation to prevent this from happening.
Addressing violence, abuse and aggression from public and service users is also an integral part of our commitment to fostering a safe and supportive work environment. No one who works with us should have to feel unsafe whilst providing care. Our strategy shares how we want to come together as a system to begin tackling these issues.
Finally, it is our commitment to wellbeing support for all, which leads us to focused efforts on levelling up access to wellbeing resources for those areas which are underserved. These underlying principles will guide the implementation of this strategy and as we continue in our pursuit of ensuring South East London looks after its staff and is a great place to work. We will use the best evidence available to us to ensure we continue to ensure our staff health and wellbeing services are at the forefront of support available to staff in the NHS, social care, voluntary, charity and third sector.
Further reading
Strategy, policy and information
- SEL ICS People Strategy (2023)
- NHS Long Term Workforce plan (2023)
- NHS People Promise (2021)
- SEL ICS People Programme
- SEL ICS Strategic Priorities
- Integrated Care Systems
Violence, abuse and aggression
- World report on violence and health, WHO (2002)
- Violence Prevention and Reduction Strategy 2025, Sussex Health & Care
- Violence prevention and reduction standard (2020)
Mental health
- Learning from NHS Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing hubs, The British Psychological Society (2023)
- Mental health and employers, the case for investment – pandemic and beyond, Deloitte (2022)
- Employee well-being outcomes from individual-level mental health interventions: Cross-sectional evidence from the United Kingdom, Fleming (2024)
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