Our wellbeing and workshop services support NHS staff to maintain their resilience through times of difficulty, stress, loss, or ill-health. We also help to enhance the quality of working relationships, enabling teams to work better together and find positive ways forward after difficult incidents.
You may have been experiencing signs of stress, low mood and anxiety and are finding it difficult to cope with your feelings and are struggling to find your way through. We offer health and social care staff across NHS Tayside 50 minute staff support sessions with a member of our team in venues across Dundee, Angus and Perth & Kinross, or over the phone or MS Teams.
We provide space to reflect whether the situation is about:
- Struggling emotionally
- Workplace problems
- Home life or family difficulties
- Ill health
- Loss and bereavement
- Relationship problems
- Disciplinary issues
- Victim of crime etc.
These sessions are a safe place to be heard, understood and valued, to explore possibilities, to identify sources of support, to find direction, to realise your choices and come to decisions.
Book an appointment
Contact The Wellbeing Centre on 01382 423110, x40806 or Tay.wellbeing@nhs.scot.
Urgent Out of Hours
In case staff find themselves in emergencies or great distress out of hours we have a member of our team available by phone 24-hours a day. Call 07917183804 to create a pager message.
Our team comprises skilled facilitators and trainers who are available to provide a number of different workshops and training programmes in support of staff across Tayside:
‘Self-Care & Wellbeing' Workshop - 60-75 minutesThis is our most popular workshop and allows a group of staff the time and space to explore what ‘wellbeing’ looks like in their lives individually and to identify the things that drain their wellbeing and those things in their lives that can ‘fill the tank’ back up. We use the ‘3-Levels of Seeing’ from Values Based Reflective Practice (VBRP), to help you notice, wonder and realise how you can look after your own wellbeing more effectively. This is a helpful and practical space that supports staff to be more compassionate to themselves and to recognise ways in which they can rebalance their lives.
'Becoming a Values-Based Team - Part 1' - 60-minutesUsing the MAP Tool from Values Based Reflective Practice (VBRP), we explore together your core motivations as practitioners, what your Actual Practice looks like, and then how you can reconnect to your core motivations and develop the Potential Practice of your team practice. This session is a useful way for team members to all have a voice in how they want their team to be with one another, developing a healthy team culture.
‘Becoming a Values-Based Team - Part 2' - 60-minutes
We look at how we can use the ‘NAVVY Tool’ from Values Based Reflective Practice (VBRP), to help you reflect in practice while you are working with colleagues, patients and families, in order get through to what is really important. ‘NAVVY’ helps us take a values-based path by noticing and exploring Needs, Abilities, Voices, Values, You… in our work.
'Values Based Reflective Practice (VBRP) Taster Session' - 90-minutesThe session introduces you to the tools and experience of the VBRP group process that allows the team to reflect together in the present on their past and recent practice in order to shape their future practice whilst at the same time taking seriously the values that underpin our work.
Regular 'Values Based Reflective Practice' (VBRP) Sessions - 60-minutes
After the taster session if you would like to pursue VBRP sessions together as a team we would normally look at one-hour sessions each month facilitated by a member of our team, or you can have some of your team attend VBRP facilitator training so that you can facilitate groups yourselves.
Essential Toolkit Training for Values Based Reflective Practice' (VBRP) – 1 Day
This is a course developed by NHS Education for Scotland as the first day of the VBRP facilitators’ training, but it can also be experienced as a standalone day to learn more about the main reflective tools you can use in your daily practice.
Dynamics & Processes Training for Values Based Reflective Practice' (VBRP) – 2 Days
These two-days, as a follow-up to the Essential Toolkit training, complete the overall three-day VBRP facilitators’ training for those interested in facilitating Values Based Reflective Practice groups in their own or other teams.
Bespoke WorkshopsMembers of our team based across Tayside are also available to offer other bespoke wellbeing workshops for your team. Please get in touch to have a chat about your needs and we can look at what we would be able to provide.
To book a workshop or for more information contact
tay.wellbeingworkshops@nhs.scot.
