Wellbeing in the workplace

When speaking with professionals, it was often felt that their own well-being, particularly within the working environment, may not always be a priority.

Whilst it was appreciated that limited resources and prioritising caseloads often impacted on the feasibility of this, in the long run, it was felt that establishing specific well-being activities and events would be particularly helpful in reducing burn out amongst staff. The majority of professionals felt that they were in need of a break, and were often very overwhelmed within their current working environments.

As a result, we have put together some key ideas that professionals suggested as helpful within their own services, or ideas that they felt would be good to introduce in their own workplace. Please do share these with managers, service leads etc if you think this may be helpful to consider how these could be introduced within your working environment to help support our key workers/professionals on the frontline of student support. We have also put together some top tips for staying well at work.