Staff wellbeing

Make staff health and wellbeing a priority in your school by using these resources. Reduce workload, seek staff views and build resilience.

  • Staff workload audit
    Do you know how staff feel about their workload? Share this audit with them to identify potential issues and determine ways to improve their wellbeing, productivity, and efficiency
  • Video: What creates a welcoming and positive working environment for staff?
    Kimberley Evans and Sam Garner discuss staff wellbeing, and small acts of kindness that can make a difference in someone's day. Listen to this webinar to learn how you can create a positive environment in your school
  • Workload impact assessment form
    Ensuring your staff have capacity to take on a new task is vital to its success and their wellbeing. Josephine Smith provides a checklist to use before a new or revised initiative is introduced
  • A-Z of mental health: poster
    Positive mental health and wellbeing makes us feel content, peaceful and valued. Use and share this poster to improve your mental health one letter at a time
  • Identifying and avoiding burnout
    Feeling stressed or emotionally exhausted? Mike Crossley describes the warning signs of burnout and offers ways to prevent it
  • What is self-compassion, and why do we need it?
    Practicing self-compassion can improve wellbeing and resilience, as well as reducing the risk of stress and burnout. Julie Johnson explains how
  • Feeling overwhelmed? Seven tactics to try
    The stresses and workload of Covid-19 have hit school business management staff hard. Nickii Messer shares approaches to try when things seem unmanageable
  • Webinar: Stress reduction for senior leaders
    The health and wellbeing of a school leader is crucial to a successful school. Viv Grant explores how to maintain strong school leadership while ensuring a healthy work-life balance
  • Self-regulation for staff and pupils
    Staff members need to consider their own self-regulation before understanding that of their pupils. Adele Bates identifies key places to start to help you regulate yourself and model it to your pupils
  • Supporting staff mental health and wellbeing: guidance and resources
    These links and resources are a starting point to help you recognise potential issues in yourself and others, and to put steps in place to make staff health and wellbeing a priority in your school

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