To ensure that staff health and wellbeing is front and centre of all the decision making, there needs to be Board accountability and responsibility at all levels. It is still important that we provide staff health and wellbeing resources as interventions and prevention, however, this approach alone will not sustain the workforce. Every decision we make, must centre on the health and wellbeing of the staff that are delivering the service for our patients and communities we serve in Wales.
Key Strategic Documents
Social Care Wales Framework
Your well-being matters: workforce health and well-being framework for social care staff in Wales to help social care, early years and childcare organisations create workplaces that support well-being for the people who work for them.
The framework contains information organised and presented as four commitments:
- Create safe working environments which are continuously improving and support health and well-being
- Fair treatment, dignity and respect for all
- Establish workplace cultures where everyone is involved and informed
- Prioritise a culture of continuous learning and development
Public Health Wales Workplace Guidance
The conditions in which people live and work has a significant impact on their health and wellbeing. Good quality, fair work can positively affect employee health and wellbeing which can in turn positively affect productivity and staff retention. Public Health Wales provides health and wellbeing workplace guidance is designed to enable employers to think about and review the health and wellbeing of all aspects of their organisation (staff, culture and practice) to help them take action.
