Institutions are increasingly observing critical indicators suggesting significant challenges with staff wellbeing. Their internal data reveals troubling upward trends in staff sickness, absenteeism, and resignation rates. Reports from across higher education consistently highlight growing staff concerns about escalating workloads, primarily driven by reduced staffing levels and heightened expectations for student support.
These pressures are further intensified by financial constraints and widespread staff anxieties regarding potential structural changes that might threaten job security or lead to substantial role modifications.
Our Staff Wellbeing Change Impact Programme offers a proactive approach to addressing these challenges. By providing a structured method to understand institutional issues and develop targeted interventions. The programme aims to engage leadership and create meaningful, context-specific strategies for improving workplace conditions.
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Programme benefits
- Address and mitigate the decline in staff mental health within your institution.
- Foster systemic institutional change to support a culture of mental health and wellbeing, aligning with European and international frameworks.
- Equip your institution with practical strategies and tools to create sustainable change.
- Engage staff, leadership, and stakeholders in co-designing and implementing wellbeing initiatives.
Structure of the programme
The programme integrates evidence-based interventions, institutional capacity building, and a shift towards a holistic mental health culture.
Assessing Institutional Mental Health and Wellbeing Needs
Incorporating surveys and focus groups, benchmarking against the NESET Report and international comparison, this part of the programme aims to understand the unique mental health challenges staff face in each institution and identify gaps in current wellbeing initiatives.
Leadership Engagement and Capacity Building
Through leadership workshops and providing international perspectives, this phase will equip institutional leadership with the skills and understanding to lead cultural and structural changes in support of staff wellbeing.
Co-Designing Wellbeing Interventions
Informed by evidence and using collaborative workshops and international case studies, this phase aims to develop targeted interventions co-created with staff to ensure relevance and sustainability.
Institutional Policy and Structural Change
By reviewing current policies and supporting the establishment of systems to monitor wellbeing, this phase aims to ensure the long-term sustainability of integrating wellbeing, ensuring policies reflect global standards and frameworks for wellbeing.
Evaluation and Continuous Improvement
Developing key performance indicators and annual reporting mechanisms, this phase aims to measure the impact of wellbeing initiatives and continuously refine approaches.
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