Looking after your health and wellbeing
There are numerous resources available both locally and nationally to support you to look after your health and wellbeing at work. This includes support for your mental, physical, and emotional health. This directory is by no means an exhaustive list but can hopefully point you in the right direction to find help and support should you or a colleague need it.
Health and Wellbeing Support, Services and Training – all ICS Partners
Here you’ll find tools, presentations and resources to support workforce health and wellbeing. This includes the guidance framework to assess how you and your team are feeling and suggestions for how to improve or where to find support.
https://leicesterleicestershireandrutlandhwp.uk/workforce-support-tools-presentations-and-resources/
Working in partnership with the NHS, Vita provides talking therapy services, known as IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) and can provide advice and guidance on the best options for you. Talking Therapies offer a broad range of services to suit a variety of circumstances, including self-referral for a psychological assessment, so your journey with them will be unique to you.
https://www.vitahealthgroup.co.uk/nhs-services/nhs-mental-health/leicester-leicestershire-rutland/
Other support sessions from Vita
There are training sessions on a host of topics each month and these are free to book. Visit the eventbrite booking page to have look at what’s on offer: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/vita-health-group-89308674013
They also provide free sessions CPD UK Accredited Mental Health Advocacy Training for all professionals in
the health, social or voluntary care sectors across LLR. Take a look at the brochure here:
https://leicesterleicestershireandrutlandhwp.uk/staff-room/llr-academy/
The LLR Academy is a team of dedicated health and social care representatives working together across the Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR) system to improve outcomes and experiences for our patients and employees, creating ‘more good days’. Visit our webpage to view our Learning and Development offers open to all staff working across the ICS.
Public Health have put together a Self-Help Hub to help you find avenues of health and wellbeing support that are available in the area that you live.
https://www.healthyworkplacesleicestershire.co.uk/self-help-hub.
Making Every Contact Count enables organisations and individuals to alter how they interact with people through learning how to recognise opportunities to talk to people about their wellbeing. It’s about ‘what matters to Sarah’ instead of ‘what is the matter with Sarah’. There are different levels of training available, including an eLearning package.
The webpage also provides guidance for supporting improvements in health and wellbeing, and resources to support the promotion and delivery of Making Every Contact Count.
To view services offering support to individuals in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland on a number of health and wellbeing matters visit the signposting and resources section where you will find useful information when considering healthy conversations.
https://www.startaconversation.co.uk/
Start a Conversation is committed to building a community that supports the mental health and wellbeing of people across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.
Every life lost to suicide can affect the mental health of so many people within the community.
The campaign is led by Leicestershire County Council working in partnership with a number of organisations, from a variety of sectors from the community, that have come together with a commitment to prevent suicide.
The #StartAConversation campaign would like residents and communities across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland to be more aware of the warning signs of suicidal behaviour and to have an open and honest approach to conversations about suicide. In this way we can work together to prevent suicide.
https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/mental-health/
Available all residents of Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, find information and support for your mental health, including how to explore how you might be feeling, ways to prioritise self-care, and how to download helpful resources, as well as support if you need it right now.
The Providing Care website has been designed to support care providers and carers in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR), by providing rapid access to a wide range of useful and practical information and resources.
https://leicesterleicestershireandrutlandhwp.uk/staff-room/llr-academy/llr-menopause-hub/
Menopause can affect people differently and for those who experience symptoms, it can be a huge relief to know their employer will support them. Take a look at what is available within LLR to help you understand more about menopause, how to support colleagues and services available for those experiencing menopause.
Physical Health and Wellbeing
https://www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk/
Choose How You Move is a partnership project between Leicester City Council and Leicestershire County Council, funded by the Department for Transport.
Their website is a one-stop shop for travel information in Leicester & Leicestershire. Use the journey planner to help you explore the different travel options that are available in Leicestershire.
Active Together Webpage
https://www.active-together.org/
Active Together are the local Active Partnership for Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland, and work collaboratively with a range of partners who share the ambition to reduce inequalities in physical activity and to help our communities realise the benefits of a more physically active life. Use the Active Together website to clubs, groups, parks and open spaces to be active in and around your local area.
Physical Activity Clinical Champions (PACC)
https://www.active-together.org/activemedicine
Active Together offer free physical activity training to all healthcare professionals, from hospital consultants through to community based practitioners, as part of the national ‘PACC’ programme. Training can be bespoke to the organisation and delivered at a time/ date that suits them.
https://livewell.leicester.gov.uk/
Live Well Leicester are fully committed to supporting local communities in Leicester City to become, happier, healthier and fitter by offering access to a wide range of support services including access to stop smoking support, managing your alcohol intake, weight management and healthy eating, and physical activity referral and walking programmes. Their friendly team of hub advisors will help determine what FREE services are available to you, to find out more please call on 0116 454 4000 or visit the website.
https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/health-and-wellbeing
This webpage serves as a central hub providing advice and support for healthier living across Leicestershire, including mental health, physical activity, healthy weight, smoking cessation, and seasonal health.
https://www.leicester.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/sport-and-leisure/
Active Leicester encompasses all sports in the city. We have seven leisure centres with swimming pools and gyms; one climbing wall; one athletics track; one golf facility and several dedicated football pitches.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeNM5donJpJ8jvp25HSBaEfIvNzQCxPq
Since launching in April 2022 the Move, Breathe, Achieve team have created over 70 videos/ podcasts available to support your wellbeing. These short, bite-size, virtual health and wellbeing led videos are available in a playlist.
All staff are able to access the wellbeing resources whenever they want, at their own pace; videos and podcasts tend to be no longer than 15 mins and are themed around movement, breathing and recognising our achievements – promoting ways to better your physical and mental health and wellbeing.
Support and Services Directories
https://services.thejoyapp.com/
Joy connects people with local services in their communities creating an innovative approach to improve social health. From physical/ mental wellness, support groups and even educational workshops, take a look at what is available in your area and easily find all the details needed to get involved.
https://firstcontactplus.org.uk/
First Contact Plus is an online tool which helps adults in Leicestershire find information about a range of services all in one place.
The initiative allows residents who require help with one or a number of issues to access a catalogue of information, advice, help and support. Information and resources on housing, health, living independently, money advice, work, security and other topics that assist the county’s residents can be found on this site.
First Contact Plus is delivered by Leicestershire County Council in partnership with GPs, the police, health organisations, voluntary groups and social care departments, district & borough councils who are helping adults across the county by working together to make access to services much easier.
https://mychoice.leicester.gov.uk/
MyChoice is a directory for care and support services for people living within the Leicester City area.
You can find products and services that can help you to live as independently as possible. Search by key word, distance or categories to find the services you need. Use this site to also find Local Offer Leicester services.
Whilst we list details of some services outside Leicester city boundaries, if your local authority is not Leicester City Council you may need to contact your own local authority to access some of these services.
Health and Wellbeing Support in your Organisations
For staff working at Leicestershire Partnership Trust, see the full Health & Wellbeing offer here on Staff.Net: https://staffnet.leicspart.nhs.uk/your-working-life/health-and-wellbeing/ or email the team: lpt.hwb@nhs.net.
Well-being at Work offer discounted and free activities and therapies to UHL staff to help you achieve a healthier lifestyle.
For details, please access the UHL intranet (“INsite”) and type “Well-being at Work” into the search bar or email wellbeing@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
https://www.inspiredtocare.co.uk/wellbeing-at-work
Developing strategies to support and protect your own and your staff members’ wellbeing should be a central part of your work life. People who feel supported, listened to, and valued by their others are more likely to stay within the sector.
Supporting the health and wellbeing of the social care workforce is essential in making sure that people with care and support needs, and their families, receive good quality care so they can live as independently as possible.
For home care workers, personal assistants and those working in isolated services, the nature of their work may mean that you already feel isolated. Skills for Care provides guidance on how to support staff who regularly work alone. It includes a section on supporting mental health and wellbeing and on communication and support.
There is a network of over 800 Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in England within NHS and independent sector organisations, national bodies and elsewhere that ensure workers can speak up about any issues impacting on their ability to do their job. To find your Freedom to Speak Up Guardian, visit: https://nationalguardian.org.uk/speaking-up/find-my-ftsu-guardian/
Amica Staff Counselling and Psychological support services are an NHS-based staff counselling service. The service is open to those employed within a service who have an EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) contract with Amica. The service is free to the user and is completely confidential, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you need support, phone 0116 254 4388 or visit www.amica-counselling.uk
Occupational health services provide specialist advice on all aspects of the relationship between work and health. Contact your manager, local HR or your occupational health service directly to find out more.
National Services and Offers
https://www.england.nhs.uk/supporting-our-nhs-people/support-now/
NHS England offer a range of support offers in place for NHS colleagues which suit a range of different health and wellbeing needs. Take a look to find the one that works best for you.
https://www.nhsemployers.org/health-and-wellbeing
Delivered by NHS Employers, the health and wellbeing programme is commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and works alongside NHS healthcare provider organisations e.g. University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicestershire Partnership Trust, to help them best support the health and wellbeing of their employees.
They promote physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing at work, with advice, guidance and information on a variety of health and wellbeing themes including stress, sickness absence and financial wellbeing.
https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/
Healthy changes start with little changes. Whether you want to lose weight, get active or quit smoking, Better Health is here with lots of free tools and support. You can also find simple ways to lift your mood with Every Mind Matters.
From their branch in Leicester, Samaritans provide confidential, emotional support to those in need of a safe space to talk over problems, feelings, stress, or anything that maybe worrying them, especially those in extreme despair.
Their trained volunteers respond to support by phone, email, and face to face visits in the branch.
Contact 116 123 free from any phone or 0330 094 5717 (local call charges apply)
NHS advice about healthy living, including eating a balanced diet, healthy weight, exercise, quitting smoking and drinking less alcohol.
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