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The mental health and wellbeing of healthcare staff have been significantly affected by the demands resulting from the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Restorative supervision is a type of clinical supervision that supports reflective practice that can help build practitioners' resilience by focusing on the individual's experience, aiming to sustain their wellbeing and their motivation at work. This model has been shown to reduce stress and burnout and increase compassion satisfaction. This article discusses the implementation of a restorative clinical supervision programme used to support staff wellbeing in nursing, midwifery and allied health professional teams in a large London-based NHS trust.
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Burnout, Professional , COVID-19 , Midwifery , Pregnancy , Humans , Female , Preceptorship , Pandemics , Burnout, Professional/prevention & control , Burnout, Professional/psychology , Allied Health PersonnelABSTRACT
The health visiting workforce, along with healthcare staff from other sectors, have reported increased rates of stress, anxiety and burnout following the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the Institute of Health Visiting developed an Emotional Wellbeing at Work (EWW) programme in 2020. Following the successful implementation and evaluation of the original programme, a Champions cascade delivery model was adopted to increase the reach of the programme and build greater capacity to enhance the emotional wellbeing of the health visiting workforce. This article discusses the evaluation, learning and reflections from the EWW programme, developed specifically for the health visiting workforce in the UK.
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Why you should read this article:• To understand the effect of COVID-19 on the emotional well-being of health visiting teams• To learn about an online programme that could support the emotional well-being of health visiting teams• To develop ideas for how you can support the emotional well-being of your team membersThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had and continues to have a huge effect on the health and well-being of children and families in the UK. Health visitors have been at the forefront of providing support and care to these families, which has been challenging and has resulted in increased levels of stress among the workforce. For health visitors to have the capacity to support families adequately it is important that they focus on their own well-being.This article describes the Emotional Wellbeing at Work virtual programme for health visitors developed by the Institute of Health Visiting and funded by the RCN Foundation. It also discusses the early evaluation findings and learning points, and considers how the programme has developed.
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Novel coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan City, China and was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) in China on 31 December, 2019. On 30 January, WHO declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a ‘public health emergency of international concern’. Since then, the virus has spread rapidly across the world, with the WHO declaring it a pandemic on 11 March 2020. This article describes a case study where two health visitors were able to adapt and use their wide-ranging skills to support frontline health professionals in acute settings to meet the demands placed on them during these unprecedented times.