Workforce wellbeing
you reduce stress in your team – especially if they know they will not be criticised for getting things wrong.
Checking the boxes To improve your workplace’s wellbeing and help you to understand what is going to work for each member of your team, use this checklist as a starting point to test out how happy and well your team is: n What do you value most about your job? n What makes your job harder? n What makes your job easier? n Do you feel able to look at your mistakes and the mistakes of your team and talk about them together?
n If you were telling a friend about your job, how would you explain it, and what would you say were the good bits and bad bits?
n What is the one piece of training and education that would help you do your best at work?
n What makes you physically ill or mentally ill when you think about your job?
n What makes you happy at work? n Why do you stay in this job?
You can use this checklist with people on a one-to-one basis, get people to think it
through on their own, or look at it together as a team. There are no right or wrong answers. The checklist is about helping each other improve your health and happiness together. What you can then do is use Skills for
Care’s wellbeing resource finder to take action. The finder will put you in touch with wellbeing resources from trusted national
Jim Thomas
Jim Thomas is head of workforce capacity and transformation at Skills for Care, the workforce development lead organisation for adult social care in England. He is also a member of the leadership team for the UK Social Care Impact Centre. Jim’s work has included leading national programmes on workforce redesign, the development of principles for workforce integration, skills-led approaches to community development, safeguarding, workforce commissioning, commissioning qualifications, personalisation, exploring workforce wellbeing, workforce productivity and workforce outcome
partners that are relevant to the social care sector, and which have been grouped into topics to reduce time spent searching. Putting time and energy into the
happiness and healthiness of your team is never wasted time. If your team feels well looked after, they are more likely to look after others with the same level of care and attention.
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measurement, developing the workforce supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people, exploring workforce issues on digital working, AI, and robotics.
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