Staff Wellbeing Support

In the aftermath of the Covid pandemic and ongoing economic and wider challenges, the pressure on health and care staff has never been greater. Reports consistently illustrate the low morale, burnout, moral injury and exhaustion among the workforce. Even in difficult circumstances, we know that staff working in well supported teams can still thrive and provide good care for their patients.

WholeCare not only provides Chaplaincy services to patients but also supports primary healthcare staff teams. Our Chaplains are supported by experienced clinical supervisors to enable them to offer the best support they can whether that is caring for individuals or a staff team.

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If you’d like to explore how WholeCare can support you and your team foster a more holistic, compassionate healthcare environment, we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch via our Contact Us page.

Professionals Together

Professionals Together was an innovative scheme in the West Midlands, provided by WholeCare, which supported doctors in their first year of professional life.

Professionals Together was started in 2018 by Dr Mike Blaber (Palliative Care doctor and Trust Wellbeing Lead) and Dr Ross Bryson (General Practitioner and Medical School Tutor). It gained an award for innovation in 2019 from the Royal College of General Practitioners and was given the Royal College of Physician’s Wellbeing and Welfare winning award in 2020.

The scheme involved 6 sessions spread out over the academic year. This included a short, focussed talk covering an aspect of professional wellbeing, small group discussions facilitated by senior clinicians and some top tips from doctors in their second year of their foundation programme. Those who attended the scheme found it beneficial at a personal and professional level.

The scheme covered three broad areas: being human, being carers and being together. As a result of the impact that the scheme, the West Midland Deanery found a way to introduce these three themes, combined with facilitated small group work, into their hospital-based training for junior doctors. This is known as ‘Thrive into Medicine’ and it is being further developed across the West Midlands. The separate scheme, Professionals Together, was not continued beyond summer 2023.