Health and Wellbeing
Staff Wellbeing Policies and Charters, What Works, What Doesn’t? What Next?
Draw up a staff wellbeing policy or charter that answers what your own staff say they need.
- 59 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Decide whether your school needs a wellbeing policy, a charter, or both
- Adapt a model policy or the DfE charter to fit your own staff
- Use a regular staff survey to find priorities and track progress
- Tackle specific pressures such as email, data entry and deadlines
- Set up a staff working party that shares ownership of wellbeing
About this course
Most schools have a wellbeing policy somewhere. Far fewer have one staff could quote, or one that's changed anything about their week.
The advice comes from an assistant head and mental health lead who helped schools across a whole local authority agree a shared staff charter and survey. A policy is a formal document you'll be held to, so promise only what you can deliver. A charter is a one-page poster that people sign and see every day. Either way, start with a staff survey and repeat it two or three times a year, so you can tell whether things are getting better. In his school the answers pointed at data entry, email and unclear deadlines, so that's what the charter tackles.
You'll also see why the work belongs with a working party that includes cleaners, caretakers and office staff, not only senior leaders.
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