NWICB Workforce Health & Wellbeing

Norfolk and Waveney Workforce Health & Wellbeing has sent information about the upcoming training course to develop a Workforce Health & Wellbeing Champion in your Pharmacy.

The training is:

• Fully funded
• 2 x half-day online live training
• One space per Pharmacy
• To book, simply email: l.holder@nhs.net

This training is appropriate for any member of staff who has an interest in the health and well-being of their colleagues. It is open to all staff, both clinical and non-clinical.

This training aims to educate and empower the Champions so that they can become a safe, confidential, and trusted person for staff members to go to for signposting to health and wellbeing resources and support. They will learn how to coach rather than rescue their colleagues and how to access counselling, career coaching, support services, and tools. They will learn about how to support with aspects of wellbeing, including financial health, physical health, mental health, social issues, etc.

The Champion role will be voluntary. The level of support/amount of time taken in the role is likely to be sporadic and responsive support, not a certain fixed number of hours each week. The ideal candidate will be someone who has a genuine passion for wanting to help and supporting their colleagues and learn more about health and wellbeing. It is also great for their CV, career development, and confidence.

For your pharmacy, having a Workforce Health & Wellbeing Champion in post is great for:

• increasing wellbeing in the whole team
• having someone other than management able to responsibly signpost staff to wellbeing resources
• recruitment & retention of staff
• reducing sickness rates
• empowering staff with an interest in wellbeing

Please cascade this training opportunity to your team and display the poster in staff rooms etc.

You can train one Champion per pharmacy. Please ask your prospective Champion to email l.holder@nhs.net to book a place on the training course.

Also attached is some information about the “Habits for Health” programme. This fully funded programme is available completely free of charge to anyone working in Primary Care (GP, Dentistry, Optometry & Pharmacy) in Norfolk and Waveney. Each individual can register for their own personal access to the programme and support materials by simply clicking on this unique link.

Habits for Health is an online programme that helps you to feel the best you can. It includes 12 bite-sized videos with integrated coach guidance and support materials. The programme can be completed as a 12-week course or in bite-sized individual chunks (20-minute videos) on topics that are of particular interest to you. The videos could also be played as part of team meetings / away days, etc.

There was an introductory webinar to launch this programme: this is the link to watch the recording, the Passcode: SOA02554-1.