Darent Valley hospital - DGT - People Strategy

Healthy

Joy at work: Healthy Lead: Director of Wellbeing

Occupational Health

• Security provision on sites • Training for reporting concerns, managing challenging behaviour and conflict resolution • Staff feedback to be used to improve safety and security offered • Community Engagement • Engagement with community groups, faith groups, local businesses and 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 • Physical and mental health support for all staff and managers, including partner organisations such as Serco • Reviewing employee assistance provider support • COVID-19 testing and support • Commercial relationships that support the health and wellbeing of aspects of staff working across all sites Safety and Security of Staff

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 next five years. Progress against each of these will be monitored by the Workforce Committee.

Wellbeing

• Holistic offering of practical, psychological and physical health support • Time2Talk team – active listening and incident support

• Inspirational speakers • Wellbeing / staff spaces • Resilience support • Staff recognition and awards

Community Engagement

• Engagement with community groups, faith groups, local businesses and 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

Celebration of Diversity

• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Council • Awareness campaign weeks promoted • Broad range of cultural and religious events celebrated • Reverse mentoring • Education offering focused on increasing understanding and acceptance

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