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Our commitment to educational settings

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Our commitment to Wellbeing

Welcome to the Health and Wellbeing Hub.  The content has kindly been shared by Gloucestershire County Council who are committed to helping educational settings provide a healthy working environment to their staff.

We aim to do this by providing information, advice, and guidance from the council’s relevant stakeholder business areas that come together as an Education Staff Health and Wellbeing Group. The group meets regularly to promote good practice, monitor health and wellbeing trends, share ideas and coordinate services.

A core ambition is to provide this Wellbeing Hub so that educational settings can find all related health and wellbeing information in one place.

 

Approach to Health & Wellbeing

The County Council encourages educational setting within the County to take an approach to health and wellbeing that is:

  • Proactive – Head Teachers and Leaders should actively monitor the wellbeing of their people.
  • Holistic – Educational settings should be environments that help people thrive all year round.
  • Preventative – By investing in programmes aimed at maintaining wellbeing and making early use of support services.

Education Staff Wellbeing Group

Aims

The Education Staff Wellbeing group enables schools to easily access the range of health and wellbeing resources available to support their staff.

The group will work with school leaders to better understand their needs and help them to look after and maintain a healthy, resilient team where colleagues feel happy and supported.

Coordinating GCC’s response to make sure schools have the right information, at the right time about existing support, and developing new initiatives to help schools identify and respond to emerging trends or specific issues which impact wellbeing

The group aim to support and facilitate the wellbeing of staff within educational settings by:

  • Promoting and raising awareness among educational settings of existing support programmes
  • Monitoring health and wellbeing trends among educational setting staff and suggesting solutions.
  • Coordinating the activities of the council’s different service areas that support educational settings.
  • Providing a central point of contact

Group representatives

To see how each of these service areas support Health and Wellbeing please click the links above.

If you have ideas on how to improve staff wellbeing or would like to contact the Education Staff Health and Wellbeing Group, please email Teresa.Cross@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Organisations that can Support Educational Settings

GHLL Mental Health Champions Award -

The Mental Health Champions Award has been created to acknowledge the high quality provision that some schools and colleges make to support the mental health and wellbeing of their school community. Good educational settings have always understood the link between good mental health and achievement. Great educational settings have also understood the importance of staff mental health and wellbeing in this equation.  As we are becoming more aware of, and open about mental health issues we are seeing greater prominence of support for this increasingly significant health priority.  This FREE award gives educational settings the opportunity to showcase good practice and to help them identify areas in their provision that would benefit from further development.

PDF version of the Mental Health Champions Award

10 step guide to the Mental Health Champions Award

For more information click https://www.ghll.org.uk/ghll-review/mental-health-award/or email ghll@gloucestershire.gov.uk 

Healthy Workplaces Gloucestershire 

  • The Healthy Workplaces team would love to come and meet you to explore how you can work with your employees to make your workplace a healthier place to work - and how you can be recognised for the great work you are doing. Call us for free today on 0800 122 3788
  • For more information Healthy Workplaces - Home (hwglos.org)
  • The Healthy Workplaces Gloucestershire Award recognises local employers for the work they do to support their employees’ health and well-being. The award is FREE and open to all Gloucestershire organisations, large and small, read more here.

Glow Gloucestershire Wellbeing

Positive actions for better mental health GloW - Gloucestershire Wellbeing

Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing Board's commitment for better mental health. Named GloW, for Gloucestershire Wellbeing, the commitment sets out what it takes to promote good mental health and wellbeing and help prevent mental illness. Organisations that sign up to GloW are asked to take action to promote positive change. The aim is to create a countywide movement promoting good mental health for all, by focusing on all the contributing factors and taking actions that will make a difference. Many things can have an impact on a person's mental wellbeing; including housing, employment, food and social life. Health and wellbeing board members and partners have pledged their actions in support of the commitment.

The GloW commitment is the local response to Public Health England’s Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health which has been rolled out across the country.  For more information click here

Mindful Employer -  is a national initiative supporting employers to take a positive approach towards mental health at work. By signing the Mindful Employer charter employers can make a public declaration of their ambition to support the mental wellbeing of their staff. Read more about the national Mindful Employer initiative here.  The Mindful Employer Ten Steps Toolkit has been created by Leeds Mindful Employer Network. It provides a series of ten steps to help employers (either in Leeds or across the UK) develop and embed good practice in workplace mental health.

Whether you are interested in signing the Mindful Employer Charter or have recently signed it, the Mindful Employer 10 Steps are a fantastic tool to get you started. Some of these steps might not be new to your organisation – it’s important to recognise what you’re doing well already.