Supporting practitioner wellbeing: Practice Guide (2022)
This guide aims to support you, as a social care practitioner, to repair, maintain, grow and sustain your mental health and wellbeing, to allow you to flourish and continue to support others effectively in your professional practice. Drawing on up-to-date research and resources this guide will help you develop a self-care action plan and assemble a personalised toolbox of strategies that will support your physical, mental and social wellbeing.
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Organisational context | Organisational context
CQC - Caring | Safe
PCF - Contexts and organisations
RCOT - Health and safety
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Supporting wellbeing remotely: Leaders' Briefing (2021)
This briefing aims to provide evidence-informed guidance to help social care organisations support the wellbeing of practitioners and teams who are working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. It is designed to support sector leaders with responsibility for children and families and adults in making decisions which support wellbeing for practitioners in frontline roles.
Recovery, work-life balance, wellbeing: how to switch off
This webinar highlights the importance of detachment from work worries and concerns and highlights some strategies to help people develop healthy boundaries between their work and personal life.
The Social Work Organisational Resilience Diagnostic (SWORD): Video learning resource
The Social Work Organisational Resilience Diagnostic (SWORD), is a survey and online workbook designed for use across the whole social work and broader social care profession. Five key foundational principles (KFPs) or domains provide the structure for the survey and workbook. These five videos discuss each of these domains and highlight some of the tasks and strategies in the workbook to help leaders to create the conditions that enable workers to sustain and develop resilience.