Staff Health and Wellbeing
What is Health and Wellbeing?
Our health and wellbeing impacts all aspects of our day to day life, which is why it’s really important to look after it and look after ourselves. Being healthy is about supporting your physical, mental, financial, social and spiritual wellbeing. This page is full of information to help you find the support and resources that are right for you.
For more detailed information, please visit the Staff Health and Wellbeing hub on the intranet. If you are a member of staff and have any questions about the Health and Wellbeing support on offer at GMMH, or would like to know more about the resources and information available, then please email: healthandwellbeing@gmmh.nhs.uk.
Looking After Yourself
Looking After Yourself
At work, we focus so much on delivering care for our service users that we can sometimes forget to take care of ourselves. The foundations of good health and wellbeing come from looking after yourself, physically, mentally and practically first. Looking after yourself helps you to be at your physical and mental best, and we’ve got lots of ideas and resources to support you to do this.
Employee Assistance Programme - PAM Wellness
PAM Wellness is a confidential support service provided to GMMH employees. You can access support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year via their app or through calling their support line.
PAM Wellness offers support in a range of areas including: mindfulness, telephone counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), nutritional advice, financial wellbeing, family and relationship support, support for managers, addiction support and domestic abuse.
Financial Wellbeing
We have a range of recommendations, resources and guidance to help support your financial wellbeing. This includes: support for the cost of living crisis, financial planning tools and advice as well as a range of discounts and benefits available to you as a GMMH employee.
Spiritual Wellbeing
The Spiritual Care Hub provides for the spiritual needs of GMMH staff, carers, site visitors and accompanied service users.
The Hub offers a setting, activities and support to meet your mind, body and spiritual needs. Whether it’s yoga sessions, prayer or meditation there is lots on offer at the Spiritual Care Hub to improve your spiritual wellbeing.
Staff Networks
We are all part of one GMMH community, but our experiences at work may differ depending on other communities we belong to, which can impact our wellbeing. GMMH have well-established Staff Support Networks focusing on race equality, disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community and neurodiversity.
Check out the Staff Support Networks page on the GMMH intranet
Supporting Others
Supporting Others
Once we learn more about our own health and wellbeing and how to support this, we are in a better position to be able to support our colleagues with their health and wellbeing. Whether you’re a manager, a Champion or a trusted peer, you can have a positive impact on the wellbeing of your colleagues.
Health and Wellbeing Champions
Health and Wellbeing Champion is a voluntary role aimed at helping to improve staff health and wellbeing in the area you work in. The main purpose of the Health and Wellbeing Champion is to promote relevant resources and support available.
If you would like help to understand what support is available to you, speak to your local Health and Wellbeing Champion. If you don’t have a local Health and Wellbeing Champion and would be interested in becoming one, then head to the Health and Wellbeing Champions page on the GMMH Intranet.
Health and Wellbeing conversations
Every NHS employee is supposed to have health and wellbeing conversations with their manager or another trusted colleague. These discussions are confidential and will be different for each person in terms of what format they take and what topics are covered.
Health and Wellbeing Conversations are a great way to help people to better understand what good wellbeing looks like for them, the support they need to get there and what to do if they are struggling with this.
Training and Resources
Whether it’s a short Skill Booster video, a workshop or a workbook, there are lots of resources available to help you support health and wellbeing in your team.
Getting Support When You Need It
Getting Support When You Need It
Sometimes we might need a bit more support for our health and wellbeing. Whether you are struggling to focus, feeling stressed about things that wouldn’t ordinarily bother you, or if you, (or those around you) can see a difference in your behaviour, it may be the right time for ask for help.
Greater Manchester Health Hub
Greater Manchester Health Hub provides free online tools, advice and courses for all Greater Manchester residents covering low mood, stress, smoking, drinking, eating and sexual wellbeing.
Crisis helplines in Greater Manchester
If you feel you need mental health support please contact one of these 24/7 helplines (freephone). They’re available to anyone of any age.
Bolton, Manchester, Salford, Trafford and Wigan: 0800 953 0285
Bury, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Oldham, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop: 0800 014 9995
If there’s an immediate risk of danger to life, you should ring 999.
Greater Manchester Bereavement Service
Local support is available for anyone in Greater Manchester who has been bereaved or affected by a death. This free, confidential bereavement support line is open from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week for all NHS care sector staff.
A team of fully qualified and trained bereavement specialists provide support for bereavement and wellbeing issues relating to loss experienced through work. To speak to a trained specialist, please call: 0300 303 4434
Financial Advice
Money Helper provides a range of money guides, tools and calculators to improve personal finances. Whatever your circumstances or plans, they offer clear guidance online, over the phone and face-to-face. They can also point you to trusted services, if you need more support.
To speak to someone using the Money Helper phoneline, please contact: 0800 138 7777
Visit the Money Helper website by clicking here
Samaritans
Samaritans provide a confidential support line – day or night – for anyone who needs someone to listen. This support line is here for when you’ve had a tough day, are feeling worried, or overwhelmed by what’s on your mind and need to talk it through. Call: 116 123 (freephone)
Useful Contacts
Useful Contacts
Occupational Health
Managers can use the secure online system called OHIO to make Occupational Health referrals. You can use the ‘forgotten password’ option on the OHIO website if you can’t remember your log in details. Once managers log-in they should see a list of the staff they are responsible for and can begin the referral process.
Freedom to Speak Up
Our Freedom to Speak Up service gives you the space to speak up about anything that you feel might be getting in the way of patient care. This can include safety issues, wrongdoing, cultures of bullying, staffing levels, discrimination, our policies / processes or anything else that you think has gone wrong or could be improved. If in doubt, please speak up anyway.
Click here to find out more about Freedom to Speak Up
Post Incident Debrief Support (PIDS)
The PIDS team works across GMMH, offering Post Incident Debrief Support to groups of staff following serious incidents. All level 3 or 4 incidents across the Trust should be considered for a PIDS however managers can refer for a PIDS for incidents of lesser severity, if they feel that the response required sits outside what can be offered within the usual debriefing processes within the service.
Professional Nurse Advocates
The Professional Nurse Advocates (PNA) focus on wellbeing and support for nursing teams in what can be a challenging environment.
As a service user, relative or carer using our services, sometimes you may need to turn to someone for help, advice, and support.
Find resources for carers and service users Contact the Trust