Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub pre-event

The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub for staff is now live. The Hub aims to enhance the delivery of mental health and wellbeing support for everyone working in the NHS, local authorities and councils, ambulance service staff, care home workers, those working in social care and community workers, including staff who work in voluntary and community sector organisations within West Yorkshire and Harrogate.

The Hub does not replace all your local health and wellbeing offers, it is in place to supplement the offers already available, to help us meet the additional needs and demands of our workforce both during and following this pandemic.

Additional funding to continue the work of the Hub into 2021/22 has been received, but it is not clear whether this funding will continue into future years. It is therefore essential that we allocate these funds to focus on providing services that meet the requirements for your staff at this time.

To do this, we are holding a Summit Event on 26 May to:

give you as leaders and managers an opportunity to share the H&WB offers currently being provided
identify future areas of focused support at a local and ICS level
identify support required by you for your organisation from the Hub.

Please can you complete this short survey so we can build an agenda for the day that is beneficial for everyone.

1. Please give your name, organisation and team/service in the space below:

2. What are the immediate and short-term (next 12 months) staff mental health issues facing your organisation?

3. What action are you taking or planning in order to embed a culture of mental health support?

4. What can the Hub do, while it exists, to help you build a culture of mental health over the next 12 months?

5. During the event we are looking to hold some break-out sessions to discuss and share ideas on key focus areas, below are some options for topic areas, please tick as many topics that would be of interested to you:

a. Health inequalities – how we better engage staff groups disproportionately impacted
b. Staff furloughed/shielding – how do we bring people back into the workplace and look after them, and support staff whilst not in the workplace?
c. Experienced loss – how do we better support those who have experienced personal loss or who are trying to cope with increased death in the workplace?
d. Compassionate Leadership – how do we empower our leaders to focus on their staff, and reach out for help if they feel unable to support their staff?
e. Communication - how do we better communicate the H&WB offer so it is more widely known and easily accessible for individuals’ managers?
f. Staff recovery - managing the waiting lists whilst enabling staff to rest and recover, what additional support do our line managers require?
If there are any additional topics not mentioned above you would like the opportunity to discuss, please add below

6. Would you be willing to share your experiences during any of the breakout sessions?

Yes
No

If yes, which topic would you like to cover? Please add your contact details into the text box so we can follow up with you.