DGT People Strategy 2020 - 2025

Healthy

Joy at work: Healthy Outcome: We will provide holistic health and wellbeing support to all staff to promote healthy living and provide emotional support during challenging times. There are five key delivery programmes that support the achievement of the Healthy outcome. Each delivery programme comprises of a number of initiatives that will be progressed over the course of the strategy.

Occupational Health

• Enhance security provision on sites to ensure security and safety of colleagues • Review and implement action plans to reduce violence against colleagues • Training for reporting concerns, managing challenging behavious and conflict resolution • Colleagues feedback to be used to improve safety and security offered • Increase the use of data insights to measure perception of psychological and physical safety • Develop and implement mediation service to reduce conflict at individual level to ensure is delivers value for colleagues • Ensure policy is in place for Covid-19 risk assessment, testing and psychological support • Establish commercial relationships that support the health and wellbeing aspects of colleagues working across all sites • Review and update health and safety policy and procedure • Ensure data insights to improve health and wellbeing Safety and Security of Staff • Physical and mental health support for all staff and managers, including partner organisations • Review employee assistance provider support

Wellbeing

• Develop and articulate the health and wellbeing strategy and recovery plan • Holistic offering of wellbeing covering physical, mental, spiritual, financial, belonging, practical psychological and physical health support • Provide active listening and incident support through the Time2Talk Team • Provide opportunities for reflective practice so that staff may grow using innovative solutions • Expand the range of wellbeing spaces • Resilience support through managing your mind • Effective management of sickness absence • Engagement with community and faith groups, local businesses, charities as well as schools and colleges in designing services and how best to ensure social distancing • Explore opportunities for pre-employment support • Re-invigorate No Excuse For Abuse Campaign • Develop and implement volunteering strategy, to foster links with the community • Community engagement sessions to support the Trust’s aspiration of being an Anchor Organisation Community Engagement

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People Strategy Summary