Alert Coronavirus / COVID-19

If you have a new continuous cough, a high temperature, or a loss or change to your sense of taste or smell, do not come to our hospitals. Follow the national advice on coronavirus (COVID-19).

Please find information on our services and visiting restrictions in our COVID-19 section.

Patients and visitors must wear a face covering in our hospitals.

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Guide to health and wellness

Many of us have been adapting to living and working in different ways as a result of COVID-19.

We have both enhanced our focus on, and further developed, our health and wellbeing offer to support you, your team and your family during this challenging time.

We understand that the nature of the work done by us in the caring profession can be challenging to our wellbeing. To effectively care for others, we must first be able to care for ourselves; and this has become ever more important since COVID-19.

We have listened to your feedback and created this comprehensive guide to:

bring together our diverse health and wellbeing offer that is available to you, your team and your family
help you easily navigate through the information and identify the most appropriate support to meet your individual health and wellbeing needs.

You will find a mix of information here, some specific to supporting ourselves and each other, some broader offers of support that will help us as we start to resume, retain and reshape how we work the Trust; building on the learning from COVID-19.

Visit the 'Your Wellness Matters' Yammer page for more resources and discussion:

Join the conversation on Yammer - Your Wellness Matters

Our 'Your Wellness Matters' winter staff wellbeing campaign ran throughout the winter months of 2020-21, to enable our staff to access wellbeing support more easily at a time of unprecedented challenges for #OneTeamOneOUH.

Six dimensions of wellness

We understand that building and maintaining your personal sense of wellness takes time, the support of yourself and others, and a combination of six key dimensions:

Growing Stronger Together - Rest, Reflect, Recover programme

The aim of our Growing Stronger Together - Rest, Reflect, Recover Programme is to look after the wellbeing of our people and teams and enable our recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic and transition into a 'new normal'.